Mine was the Kings Arms and The Castle (both no longer) in Eltham. We would get served in there at the age of 15, not only at night, but during school lunch breaks. Often our form tutor would be in there and completely turn a blind eye to our £1 pints of Hoffmeister.
Cutty Sark, then the Gipsy Moth in Greenwich. Used to go in the Studio Bar underneath the cinema a lot too. Lowenbrau was my tipple - that's a very rare sight now!
Mine was the Kings Arms and The Castle (both no longer) in Eltham. We would get served in there at the age of 15, not only at night, but during school lunch breaks. Often our form tutor would be in there and completely turn a blind eye to our £1 pints of Hoffmeister.
UGH - you've reminded me of a dreadful boyfriend who turned into a right weirdo when I ended the relationship. Our first date was in the Castle.
Not expecting many here to know them as out of the Charlton area but for me:
The Oysterfleet, Canvey Island: In the day a wonderful shack of a building where we'd sit and drink Abbot & St Edmund* all day whilst the old guy at the piano would delight us with timeless classics like Sweet Georgia Brown. Now, a completely rebuilt soul-less chain restaurant thing.
The Grand Hotel, Leigh-on-Sea: Three different bars downstairs. Large concert space upstairs. I've seen some great acts in there over the years. Now, empty and decaying. It's not been open for at least ten, maybe twenty years.
The Queens Hotel, Westcliff: Huge drinking space with live music in the bar. Closed down following a drugs bust and after a couple of years derelict, this once magnificent building was bulldozed to make granny flats.
*Proper St Edmund, not the over-hopped low-alcohol rebranded muck that Greene King now think is worthy of the name.
Mine was the Kings Arms and The Castle (both no longer) in Eltham. We would get served in there at the age of 15, not only at night, but during school lunch breaks. Often our form tutor would be in there and completely turn a blind eye to our £1 pints of Hoffmeister.
UGH - you've reminded me of a dreadful boyfriend who turned into a right weirdo when I ended the relationship. Our first date was in the Castle.
The Castle was a hell hole. Used to go in there on a Thursday night and sink as many pints of tennants pilsner as I could.
Sorry for being such a bad boyfriend btw! I’ll make it you to you.
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Bull and Vic in Dartford. In 1991.
I went back a couple of years ago and it was like a scummy disco.
1981 i was 14, followed that with getting entry to the Regal in Gloucester to watch American Werewolf in London
Newbridge WMC Blackheath
The Valley Pub
my 3 regular early drinking haunts
Can't remember which was first!
UGH - you've reminded me of a dreadful boyfriend who turned into a right weirdo when I ended the relationship. Our first date was in the Castle.
At football, The British Queen on Love Lane and the Bell and Hare on Tottenham High Road.
The Oysterfleet, Canvey Island: In the day a wonderful shack of a building where we'd sit and drink Abbot & St Edmund* all day whilst the old guy at the piano would delight us with timeless classics like Sweet Georgia Brown. Now, a completely rebuilt soul-less chain restaurant thing.
The Grand Hotel, Leigh-on-Sea: Three different bars downstairs. Large concert space upstairs. I've seen some great acts in there over the years. Now, empty and decaying. It's not been open for at least ten, maybe twenty years.
The Queens Hotel, Westcliff: Huge drinking space with live music in the bar. Closed down following a drugs bust and after a couple of years derelict, this once magnificent building was bulldozed to make granny flats.
*Proper St Edmund, not the over-hopped low-alcohol rebranded muck that Greene King now think is worthy of the name.
The Hercules Pillars, WC1 (work)
The Railway Tavern, Bexley (my local)
Drank in the public bar as the teachers drank in the saloon. My school was opposite.
Also The Iron Horse in Sidcup
And the Cellar Bar, Thames Poly, Woolwich
In 1981/2 so I'd have been 15/16.
I lived in Erith but never drank there.
three Tuns Blackheath
Dover Patrol
The Standard