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How much did your first (legal) pint cost?

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  • SouthallAddick
    SouthallAddick Posts: 140
    1981 60p in the Lord Northbrook, Lee.  Which was really a quid as the change always went on asteroids.
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,621
    SouthallAddick said:
    1981 60p in the Lord Northbrook, Lee.  Which was really a quid as the change always went on asteroids.
    That’s another reason why you should stand when drinking, sitting on those cold steps causes the old farmers....
  • PemburyAddick
    PemburyAddick Posts: 506
    25p circa 1976. Amazing how you can tell the age of Charlton Lifers from what they paid from their first pint!
  • KettsJohn
    KettsJohn Posts: 1,210
    Pretty sure I used to pay 60p for a pint of Harp in the Fox & Hounds in Chislehurst in 1981. I was 16 and it was the only pub that would serve us then.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,008
    1 groat.
  • ExiledinManchester
    ExiledinManchester Posts: 508
    I moved up to Manchester In 1971 just after decimalisation. A pint of Boddingtons Mild in the Riflemans Arms tap room (men only) was 10.5p, Bitter 11.5p. The lounge was an extra 1.5p. My first legal pint was in the Woodman, Otford circa 1966 and I’m pretty sure a pint of Bitter was around 10 old pence. 

  • paulbaconsarnie
    paulbaconsarnie Posts: 9,423
    Honestly can’t remember.
    would’ve been 1988 and been either a carlsberg hof or Holstein export in the borough club or a lowenbrau or if they still did it then, a long life in the Yorkshire grey.
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    Difficult one to answer as a lot of my drinking was done after playing sport in club bars which were (maybe still are) cheaper.

    12p a pint comes to mind but whether that was club or pub no idea.
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651

    KettsJohn said:
    Pretty sure I used to pay 60p for a pint of Harp in the Fox & Hounds in Chislehurst in 1981. I was 16 and it was the only pub that would serve us then.
    The Fox and Hounds Chislehurst used to run a Sunday rugby side I occasionally played for.

    Most of us were ringers.
  • CafcWest
    CafcWest Posts: 6,170
    Approx 1972.  The Dolphin in Sydenham (became my regular for many years).  I seem to remember 19p for a Light and mild...week as water.
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  • Indianaaddick
    Indianaaddick Posts: 2,965
    About 20p in either the Dover Patrol or Rochester Way Social club, not sure which was first.
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    Indianaaddick said:
    About 20p in either the Dover Patrol or Rochester Way Social club, not sure which was first.

    When I first drank in the Dover Patrol, it was 10d for a bottle of light ale in the public, and a shilling in the saloon. Chas was the landlord then.
  • CAFCspooney
    CAFCspooney Posts: 562
    1s/8d  (about 8p in todays money)  in 1967
  • Indianaaddick
    Indianaaddick Posts: 2,965
    man_at_milletts said:
    Indianaaddick said:
    About 20p in either the Dover Patrol or Rochester Way Social club, not sure which was first.

    When I first drank in the Dover Patrol, it was 10d for a bottle of light ale in the public, and a shilling in the saloon. Chas was the landlord then.
    Can't remember the landlords name but the name Chas rings a bell especially at closing time.
  • SomervilleAddick
    SomervilleAddick Posts: 3,575
    1975, and it would have been about 31p for a pint of lager. I know the prices because I was working as an underage bartender. The price of Harp lager is permanently etch in my brain, as is 25p for Courage Best. 
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    Indianaaddick said:
    man_at_milletts said:
    Indianaaddick said:
    About 20p in either the Dover Patrol or Rochester Way Social club, not sure which was first.

    When I first drank in the Dover Patrol, it was 10d for a bottle of light ale in the public, and a shilling in the saloon. Chas was the landlord then.
    Can't remember the landlords name but the name Chas rings a bell especially at closing time.

    Charley Lanning, if I remember correctly. Wife had a purple rinse.
  • Charlton_Stu
    Charlton_Stu Posts: 3,868
    I think it was £1.05p in 1985 although the ciu clubs were probably about 80p then.
  • stockportaddick
    stockportaddick Posts: 1,135
    ExiledinManchester said:
    I moved up to Manchester In 1971 just after decimalisation. A pint of Boddingtons Mild in the Riflemans Arms tap room (men only) was 10.5p, Bitter 11.5p. The lounge was an extra 1.5p. My first legal pint was in the Woodman, Otford circa 1966 and I’m pretty sure a pint of Bitter was around 10 old pence. 

    The riflemans wasn't in Wilmslow by any chance @ExiledinManchester ?
  • Dippenhall
    Dippenhall Posts: 3,919
    First legal and illegal pint when at Shooters Hill school from the Eagle at the top of Red Lion Lane used to serve a pint for just over a shilling I think.
  • fat man on a moped
    fat man on a moped Posts: 932
    edited September 2020
    Wasn't legal but remember the first pint I bought was in the Blue Anchor, a light and bitter 27p, probably 1975
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  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    About 20p I think.
  • rananegra
    rananegra Posts: 3,689
    I seem to remember my first pint costing about 85p, would have been 1981, Ye Olde Black Horse Sidcup. 

    My first legal pint was probably about 90p or 95p. 
  • KettsJohn
    KettsJohn Posts: 1,210
    LenGlover said:

    KettsJohn said:
    Pretty sure I used to pay 60p for a pint of Harp in the Fox & Hounds in Chislehurst in 1981. I was 16 and it was the only pub that would serve us then.
    The Fox and Hounds Chislehurst used to run a Sunday rugby side I occasionally played for.

    Most of us were ringers.
    Used to drink in the front bar before it became a beefeater or one of them type chains. Sure the guvoner was called Peter. 
  • ExiledinManchester
    ExiledinManchester Posts: 508
    @stockportaddick it was. I lived 200 metres away until 1980. When we hosted parties we would order a firkin of Boddingtons, delivered on a Thursday by the brewery, who aerated It with a slow bleeder and then came back on the Saturday morning with a dispensing tap. Moving up from London I couldn’t believe how cheap everything was. 
  • Cordoban Addick
    Cordoban Addick Posts: 5,448
    18p Scrumpy Rough, Rick Hotel, Weymouth 

    I was under age 13? But drunk so long under age couldn’t say when it changed and as an anarchist (at the time) I rejected all laws that i didn’t agree with.
  • usetobunkin
    usetobunkin Posts: 2,184
    Regular haunts, in order of haunting them 1972-1980,
    The Valley (Pub)
    Lord Raglan, Plumstead, (Nearest my home)
    Barge Pole Thamesmead, Worked in Nathan Way. got mates with a few travellers.
    Gordon Arms Chislehurst Played in the Football team.

    Now only drink tea!
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,840
    First drink I bought at a bar was probably at the banger racing in Crayford, for some reason we used to buy bottles of light ale, someone obviously thought it was lower profile than a pint (!). That would be 1975-76, 18p rings a bell. When I started going in pubs a bit later it was about 30-35p a pint.
  • BR7_addick
    BR7_addick Posts: 10,212
    I remember going out in Bromley (It was lively once) when I was about 17, so 2004.  Would take a score out and have enough for a kebab and a 162 bus back to BR7.  I think it was about £2 for a lager, 3 for a fiver for shots.
  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,476
    About 1991, sneaking in a year or so too early and a pint was £1.60 from memory.
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 16,929
    £2.50 Rochester Whetherspoons 2013

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