I was 14 and we used to drink Black velvet stout and cider in a little pub called The Lamb down by the Medway in Maidstone town centre. It was more like a youth club, had pinball tables and bar billiards etc to keep us ammused and it kept us off the streets. Would wobble home after two pints of that stuff (some things never change!).
1974 I was 14, I think the pub was called the Forresters Arms in Upper Wickham Lane Welling/Plumstead borders.....had two pints of bitter....22p a pint. I used to go in their regularly with Clive Smith....we even went in on one occasion with our school jackets on....those were the days. Did all the Welling Pubs...Nags Head, Guy, Glenmore Arms...the trendy pub down Wrotham Road on a Saturday night, hoping one of your mates was a bit flush and would buy you a drink... :-)
15 - Station Hotel Sidcup 1972 (The old building was knocked down years ago)
Place was run by an old couple called Jack and Vi. God what a shit hole. Fray Bentos tins for ashtrays. Light and Bitter at about 12p. I distinctly remember buying a round of 7 pints and getting change from a £1 note. Mind you my mate had just started work and was earning £11 per week. Got a visit from the Police one day, literally everybody in the bar was underage. You could hear a pin drop as they walked in,strolled around a bit and then walked out again without a word being said.
15 - Somewhere in the sticks in Yorkshire on a Duke of Edinburgh trip.
A couple of weeks later got over confident and tried to get a pint in the punch n judy in Covent Garden on a school trip and literally got laughed out of the pub.
14- Coach and horses somewhere on the Monmouth and Breacon canal. My Dad bought me a pint and then said "It's your round sunshine" off I nervously went to perchase 2 pints of Wadworths 6X. Ahh the look of pride on the old mans face.
Think mine was Captain Morgans in Bexleyheath when I was about 16, still get I.D.'d now 8 years later. I actually got I.D.'s buying a pint in the ground at the Valley, don't think I've ever been more embarrassed!
I got asked for ID two weeks ago in M&S in Bexleyheath trying to buy a bottle of Bellini and a Bucks fizz.
the woman behind me in the queue thought jeremy beadle was about to pop out it was such a joke, and the woman who wouldn't sell me it said that ALL persons buying alcohol had to show id. even my 86 yr old nan. how ridiculous. if i went into a shop and asked for an ID card as i had to prove i was 27 i'd be laughed out of the shop!
The Salutation, Gump, was down where Lower Heath lane meets Highfield Road by theroundabout and school.It was a shitehole and got knocked down a few years back.Dont know what it is now,probably flats, have not been back for a while.
The first I remember was around 15 on a Cricket tour of East Anglia. We were in a Bar in a Sports Centre in Cambridge. A pint of Carlsberg and Lime. Pretty nonsey eh?
I get asked for id a lot in the States - and it is not unusual for anyone looking under 40 to get carded. They take the whole under-age drinking thing a bit more seriously here.
[cite]Posted By: Sir John Humphrey[/cite]The Salutation, Gump, was down where Lower Heath lane meets Highfield Road by theroundabout and school.It was a shitehole and got knocked down a few years back.Dont know what it is now,probably flats, have not been back for a while.
It is indeed, used to be owned by a close family friend, Jonny Harvey.
He now owns The Rose in Bexleyheath, his son Simon works in there who is married to my aunt!
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I guess you was drinking imaginary beer last night then....
Would wobble home after two pints of that stuff (some things never change!).
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Place was run by an old couple called Jack and Vi. God what a shit hole. Fray Bentos tins for ashtrays. Light and Bitter at about 12p. I distinctly remember buying a round of 7 pints and getting change from a £1 note. Mind you my mate had just started work and was earning £11 per week. Got a visit from the Police one day, literally everybody in the bar was underage. You could hear a pin drop as they walked in,strolled around a bit and then walked out again without a word being said.
I still get asked my age now.
A couple of weeks later got over confident and tried to get a pint in the punch n judy in Covent Garden on a school trip and literally got laughed out of the pub.
they think you should have a free bus pass that's why
It was probably a Hofmeister, Skol or some piss like that, so it was probably all over in seconds and I didnt feel a thing.
the woman behind me in the queue thought jeremy beadle was about to pop out it was such a joke, and the woman who wouldn't sell me it said that ALL persons buying alcohol had to show id. even my 86 yr old nan. how ridiculous. if i went into a shop and asked for an ID card as i had to prove i was 27 i'd be laughed out of the shop!
in england around 15, regularly by 16
To be fair Barts, they could probably only see the top of your head!!
He now owns The Rose in Bexleyheath, his son Simon works in there who is married to my aunt!