1995 pint of Fosters 98p. Used to always be an old fella in the pub everytime I went. When the price of a pint went above a £1 he was never seen again
Back in the day, all pubs were obliged, by law, to have an 'old fella' in permanent residence.
He would always sit in a specified place, never varied his drink, and knew everyone (past and present).
Although his repertoire of topics was limited, other customers would revel in his use of specific phrases ... and it would often be the highlight of our evening/lunchtime/weekend drinking session when he produced a particular favourite:
"They'll 'ave to pull this facking place down around me. I ain't never leaving."
"200 grand a week (insert sum as appropriate)? I ain't earnt that in my lifetime. Spent most of it in 'ere anyway (pause for laughter)."
"This place used to be the bollocks. Diana came in 'ere once. Not many people believe that, but I shook 'er 'and."
1968, 2/1d in the Guy, Earl of Warwick for a Light a Bitter.If you were a bit flush a JC and Bitter would cost 2/3d. About 11p in old money. God, I am getting on a bit!
Can’t remember how much but a legal one would have been in 79. However, I do remember one landmark. The day I ordered two pints and didn’t get change out of a pound, I felt robbed!
I first started going into pubs and managing to get served when I was 15. A light and Bitter was 16p. Used to go up to the Dover Patrol at lunchtime when I was still at school with a well known Charlton face from the 70’s and 80’s. One day they’d put the price up by 1p and we didn’t have enough to cover the increase ... sussed. The landlord let us off but told us not to come back for a couple of years. By the time it was legal to drink, a pint was 25p.
First ever would have been in The Oak and £1.05 or £1.15 rings a bell.
I know around the same time it was £2 a pint in Stars of Greenwich, coz I'd save a fiver and that would pay for 2 beers and chips in pitta on walk home
Cannot remember exactly. But (and don't laugh) when I started work at The Bank of England in 1970, a pint of lager in the Bank's bar was 1s 10d. A vodka and tonic was 2s 4d. 2s for the vodka and 4d for the mixer. But I was only earning £16 a week. Post decimalisation on 15th February 1971, it became 10p for the pint, 10p for the vodka and 2p for the mixer.
Oh the joys of everyone thinking it was entirely normal for your employer to subsidise you getting hammered at lunchtime.
lunchtime in the old Green Man In QVS...perhaps not the first legal pint, beer edging closer to 18-20p by the time I was 18, though I seem to recall it was an extra 1p if you drunk in the saloon bar and not the public, loads of inflation, I think I had 3 pay rises that year because of it.
First pint I bought was in the Union Tavern, Woolwich, in 1973 when I was 16 - light and bitter - 15p or thereabouts. The Union was my local (Woolwich Poly!).
My first legal pint in 1975 (again light and bitter) was around 20p - Rose of Denmark!
If i remember rightly quite a few of the teachers use to go in their. My first pint Royal Oak, 1972, about 25p (5s) in real money. First legal Royal Standard Blackheath.
Legal £2.02 for a pint of Fosters or £2.20 for Guinness in my local the regulars would all have 2 pound coins and 2 pence pieces lined up for their nights consumption
There is a very shitty but thriving pub in Chatham that for years did John Smiths for 99p and always has something very cheap in there. The White Lion.
If anyone had the pleasure of Southampton Uni, then Monday night in Clowns and Jesters was an initiation into legal drinking. in 1993 it was 50p a pint on Mondays. I understand it is still 50p a pint on Mondays, albeit now with a £5 entry..
First pint I bought was in the Union Tavern, Woolwich, in 1973 when I was 16 - light and bitter - 15p or thereabouts. The Union was my local (Woolwich Poly!).
My first legal pint in 1975 (again light and bitter) was around 20p - Rose of Denmark!
If i remember rightly quite a few of the teachers use to go in their. My first pint Royal Oak, 1972, about 25p (5s) in real money. First legal Royal Standard Blackheath.
They did. In fact after the prize giving night for my 'O' level year after I had gone into the lower 6th - around November 1973 - the then deputy Head who later became the Head, Cecil Roberts, took pretty much the whole of the sixth form to The Union and paid for our drinks!
My favourite hunting ground was a place in Gillingham that was originally the central then became the Avenue before finally becoming Bar Rio
They had a very lax attitude towards binge drinking, in fact in the early 2000s it was positively encouraged.
On a Sunday it was 50p any drink from 6 until 7, then rising to a pound before 9pm came and saw the prices go to £1.50
By then, every single flat surface in the place would be covered in pints going slowly flat and waiting for someone so skint they couldn't stretch to 1.50 for a beer to minesweep them
I first started going into pubs and managing to get served when I was 15. A light and Bitter was 16p. Used to go up to the Dover Patrol at lunchtime when I was still at school with a well known Charlton face from the 70’s and 80’s. One day they’d put the price up by 1p and we didn’t have enough to cover the increase ... sussed. The landlord let us off but told us not to come back for a couple of years. By the time it was legal to drink, a pint was 25p.
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£1.75, pint of Fosters, three pints knocked me bandy, shameful beer, but at 18 I lapped it up.
He would always sit in a specified place, never varied his drink, and knew everyone (past and present).
Although his repertoire of topics was limited, other customers would revel in his use of specific phrases ... and it would often be the highlight of our evening/lunchtime/weekend drinking session when he produced a particular favourite:
"They'll 'ave to pull this facking place down around me. I ain't never leaving."
"200 grand a week (insert sum as appropriate)? I ain't earnt that in my lifetime. Spent most of it in 'ere anyway (pause for laughter)."
"This place used to be the bollocks. Diana came in 'ere once. Not many people believe that, but I shook 'er 'and."
About 11p in old money. God, I am getting on a bit!
I know around the same time it was £2 a pint in Stars of Greenwich, coz I'd save a fiver and that would pay for 2 beers and chips in pitta on walk home
Oh the joys of everyone thinking it was entirely normal for your employer to subsidise you getting hammered at lunchtime.
lunchtime in the old Green Man In QVS...perhaps not the first legal pint, beer edging closer to 18-20p by the time I was 18, though I seem to recall it was an extra 1p if you drunk in the saloon bar and not the public, loads of inflation, I think I had 3 pay rises that year because of it.
Average price of a pint in most pubs near my house is now about £6 (actually, one pub starts at £6.20 I noticed the other day).
There is a very shitty but thriving pub in Chatham that for years did John Smiths for 99p and always has something very cheap in there. The White Lion.
They did. In fact after the prize giving night for my 'O' level year after I had gone into the lower 6th - around November 1973 - the then deputy Head who later became the Head, Cecil Roberts, took pretty much the whole of the sixth form to The Union and paid for our drinks!
They had a very lax attitude towards binge drinking, in fact in the early 2000s it was positively encouraged.
On a Sunday it was 50p any drink from 6 until 7, then rising to a pound before 9pm came and saw the prices go to £1.50
By then, every single flat surface in the place would be covered in pints going slowly flat and waiting for someone so skint they couldn't stretch to 1.50 for a beer to minesweep them
Under age £2.25 Carling.
I don't know how any of you remember. One pint back then would have led to short term memory loss. I used to get a high from blackcurrant juice.