The Vaults bar aged 16 it was that dark in there it didn't matter how old you were
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Most liked posts in thread: First Pub you ever bought your own drink in (and related tales)
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Idlebantam Squad PlayerP.L.22/23 Entrant P.L.23/24 Entrant P.L. 20/21 Top 10
Great Northern, Thackley. Aged 16 years old.
I dont know how I got served, as I dont think I looked 18 then. But the Northern had a reputation amongst the Idle boys at that time of being able to get served.
If memory serves me rightly, in those days you would get the police popping in checking out under age drinkers. We used to buy our pints of 'mixed' and sit in a corner away from the doors
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White Horse in Bingley, aged 16.
96p for a pint of 'Blue'.
Drank in there for about a year and a half, until one Friday, about a month before my 18th birthday they wouldn't serve me. I had been seen in a school uniform apparently. Hadn't worn for nearly two years.
Out fairness to the rest of the sixth form, who were also in the pub every Friday night, I refrained from pointing out that I was older than at least half the people in their full pub.
Age eighteen I showed them my passport and then started drinking in the Brown Cow. More mature in there and better beer.Stop hovering to collapse... Click to collapse... Hover to expand... Click to expand... -
Lord Clyde when I was 14, My mate knew the landlord
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That is not as bad as going into a Webster's pub and asking for a pint of Tetleys which i did at fifteen.
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Royal Standard Manningham Lane-aged 15/16 IIRC- before City games. Games of pool and 2 pints.... then onto the Belle Vue for the *ahem* beer. Then down VP at 2.55 into the Paddock.
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It took me a while to pluck up the courage to order my own drink and I got taller, older looking mates to do it for me for a good while. First drink I ever bought for myself was a snakebite in Spiders below the old Express bar. It was Christmas eve and I was 15. Happy days.
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About 16 years old stood in the vestibule of the Malt Kiln at Undercliffe daring each other to go in and buy a beer, amazing sense of satisfaction when we went in and got served.
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Bingley Workingmen's Club. I was about15/16. Bloke running it at the time knew full well we were underage but did a runner 6 moths later so was happy to take the cash before he did. Actually showed us which door to go out of in case the Police came in.
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Beer gardens were so rare then, I can't think of many other places that had one.Bronco likes this. -
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Back in the day Bold Privateer Wrose was my first pint aged 16
No problem getting served in there or the Crimshaw which was the best pint for miles around -
wasnt posh enough to go in the "Bull" !!!
Never noticed whether it was Bitter or Mild that when in first it all tasted the same to me
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