O'Neill's Blackheath

ElfsborgAddick said:

soapy_jones said:

Summer time outside the Hare and Billet,  16 years old gawping at the crumpet, without the faintest of hopes of pulling...  1979, those were the days!

You could have been the bit of rough for the posh totty.

iaitch said:

ElfsborgAddick said:

i_b_b_o_r_g said:

Always prefered Princess, Railway (Furkin) and Hare and Billet. Never personally got on with O'neills or the Crown, but my mates seemed to like em though

The Railway is filthy, plus littered with beers regularly 'off'.

Hare n Billet is the best by a mile.

Is that Italian manageress still there? Covered in tattoos and massive chest.

Vincenzo said:

KBslittlesis said:

Vincenzo said:

Natalia. Yes, I believe she is. 

Still the best pub in Blackheath but is nowhere near as good as it was a few years back. Used to be one of the best pubs in London for the quality and variety of beer. Was run by a really nice bunch too. Sadly the manager was kicked out for having lock-ins (which may have clouded my judgement of the place.)

No! That’s very sad to hear.

Yeah. Still some good people there though. Natalia runs a tight ship. I like a loose ship personally, especially when it comes to pubs.

Daarrzzetbum said:

O'Neill's was great on a Friday back in the Premieship days, Youds was a regular

Vincenzo said:

SoundAsa£ said:

_MrDick said:

Covered End said:

Lincsaddick said:

used to be the Three Tuns  .. great pub .. 40 years ago

Really ?
I lived in Blackheath 40 years ago and it was the worst. Full of old men.

Ahem ... I was an underage drinker in the mid-70’s and was a frequent visitor (4 nights a week) until Olive and Charlie retired in 1988. It was not long after that it became O’Neills. You must’ve gone in on a night me and my mates, the two football teams, Squeeze, Jools Holland and various others weren’t in there.

Kate Bush was a regular back in the day.

Is that true @SoundAsa£? Did you ever see her there, or did you hear that?

Covered End said:

SoundAsa£ said:

Vincenzo said:

SoundAsa£ said:

_MrDick said:

Covered End said:

Lincsaddick said:

used to be the Three Tuns  .. great pub .. 40 years ago

Really ?
I lived in Blackheath 40 years ago and it was the worst. Full of old men.

Ahem ... I was an underage drinker in the mid-70’s and was a frequent visitor (4 nights a week) until Olive and Charlie retired in 1988. It was not long after that it became O’Neills. You must’ve gone in on a night me and my mates, the two football teams, Squeeze, Jools Holland and various others weren’t in there.

Kate Bush was a regular back in the day.

Is that true @SoundAsa£? Did you ever see her there, or did you hear that?

Absolutely true.....at that time I wasn’t often there and didn’t ‘knowingly’ see her myself but it was common knowledge that she was or had been a regular. Though whether it was before, during or after her rise to fame I’m not sure..........probably before she really hit the big time I’d say.
She and her crowd knocked around in the village for quite a while and were well known faces on the Blackheath scene.

I lived in Blackheath up until 1987 and was out drinking over Blackheath Village 3 or 4 nights a week, for 10 years, between 78 & 87.

Our group of up to 20 were pretty much all music fans.
I never heard Kate Bush mentioned, which seems a bit strange if it was common knowledge.

Mind you, as you say, Wuthering Heights charted in January 78, so she could have stopped going, about the time I started.
However, if she stopped going at age 19, she couldn't have knocked around for much more than a year or two.

(I don't disbelieve what someone told you).

Covered End said:

SoundAsa£ said:

Vincenzo said:

SoundAsa£ said:

_MrDick said:

Covered End said:

Lincsaddick said:

used to be the Three Tuns  .. great pub .. 40 years ago

Really ?
I lived in Blackheath 40 years ago and it was the worst. Full of old men.

Ahem ... I was an underage drinker in the mid-70’s and was a frequent visitor (4 nights a week) until Olive and Charlie retired in 1988. It was not long after that it became O’Neills. You must’ve gone in on a night me and my mates, the two football teams, Squeeze, Jools Holland and various others weren’t in there.

Kate Bush was a regular back in the day.

Is that true @SoundAsa£? Did you ever see her there, or did you hear that?

Absolutely true.....at that time I wasn’t often there and didn’t ‘knowingly’ see her myself but it was common knowledge that she was or had been a regular. Though whether it was before, during or after her rise to fame I’m not sure..........probably before she really hit the big time I’d say.
She and her crowd knocked around in the village for quite a while and were well known faces on the Blackheath scene.

I lived in Blackheath up until 1987 and was out drinking over Blackheath Village 3 or 4 nights a week, for 10 years, between 78 & 87.

Our group of up to 20 were pretty much all music fans.
I never heard Kate Bush mentioned, which seems a bit strange if it was common knowledge.

Mind you, as you say, Wuthering Heights charted in January 78, so she could have stopped going, about the time I started.
However, if she stopped going at age 19, she couldn't have knocked around for much more than a year or two.

(I don't disbelieve what someone told you).

Covered End said:

I used to live next door but one to Chris Difford & Chris & Glen Tilbrook used to drink in the village, although I never saw them. I was on nodding terms with Jool's younger twin brothers Christopher & Richard who went to Invicta infants.

Jools lived above the barbers at Westcombe Hill, The Standard, in those days.

Covered End said:

ElfsborgAddick said:

Covered End said:

SoundAsa£ said:

Vincenzo said:

SoundAsa£ said:

_MrDick said:

Covered End said:

Lincsaddick said:

used to be the Three Tuns  .. great pub .. 40 years ago

Really ?
I lived in Blackheath 40 years ago and it was the worst. Full of old men.

Ahem ... I was an underage drinker in the mid-70’s and was a frequent visitor (4 nights a week) until Olive and Charlie retired in 1988. It was not long after that it became O’Neills. You must’ve gone in on a night me and my mates, the two football teams, Squeeze, Jools Holland and various others weren’t in there.

Kate Bush was a regular back in the day.

Is that true @SoundAsa£? Did you ever see her there, or did you hear that?

Absolutely true.....at that time I wasn’t often there and didn’t ‘knowingly’ see her myself but it was common knowledge that she was or had been a regular. Though whether it was before, during or after her rise to fame I’m not sure..........probably before she really hit the big time I’d say.
She and her crowd knocked around in the village for quite a while and were well known faces on the Blackheath scene.

I lived in Blackheath up until 1987 and was out drinking over Blackheath Village 3 or 4 nights a week, for 10 years, between 78 & 87.

Our group of up to 20 were pretty much all music fans.
I never heard Kate Bush mentioned, which seems a bit strange if it was common knowledge.

Mind you, as you say, Wuthering Heights charted in January 78, so she could have stopped going, about the time I started.
However, if she stopped going at age 19, she couldn't have knocked around for much more than a year or two.

(I don't disbelieve what someone told you).

She might have seen you in there mate and walked straight back out.

Well at least she would have seen me :-)