Con club - Page 2

Eric · 11-12-2009, 00:56

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Originally Posted by cashman

jeez ya musta bin well pished.

Yeh ... I had just won a quid on the one armed bandit ... forty lovely tanners ... and I didn't waste a penny of it

Eric · 11-12-2009, 00:59

I must be getting old ... oh for the days when thirty bob would get you peed as a rat, get some fags, and fish and six for the way home.

Wynonie Harris · 11-12-2009, 08:03

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Originally Posted by cashman

Perhaps thats why we never met back then?

I'd say definitely, as most of these "individuals" were your mates!

jaysay · 11-12-2009, 09:14

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Originally Posted by Eric

I must be getting old ... oh for the days when thirty bob would get you peed as a rat, get some fags, and fish and six for the way home.

Your not wrong there Eric, for thirty bob and they'd take you to hospital with alcohol poisoning. I can remember back in the early 70s going into our local (White Bull New Lane) and the landlord say the beer had gone up a penny, I just said it wouldn't be long before we wouldn't be able to get 10 pints for a pound

Eric · 11-12-2009, 17:03

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Originally Posted by jaysay

Your not wrong there Eric, for thirty bob and they'd take you to hospital with alcohol poisoning. I can remember back in the early 70s going into our local (White Bull New Lane) and the landlord say the beer had gone up a penny, I just said it wouldn't be long before we wouldn't be able to get 10 pints for a pound

10 pints is a good start to the night

Strange that there was a time in my life that an increase of a penny a pint was considered outrageous gouging

Barrie Yates · 11-12-2009, 17:42

I seem to remember drinking Scrumpy in the NAAFI at RAF Locking in 1961 at 11d a pint because it was 2d a pint cheaper than the bitter - Ushers, if my memory still serves

jaysay · 12-12-2009, 09:45

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Originally Posted by Eric

10 pints is a good start to the night

Strange that there was a time in my life that an increase of a penny a pint was considered outrageous gouging

Well it was in those days Eric, now they think nothing of putting 5 or 6 pence on a pint which would have been over 20 old pence

and the beers not half as good either

Atarah · 17-12-2009, 19:37

Looks like the work is about to start on our Con Club. Scaffolding almost completed.

BERNADETTE · 17-12-2009, 20:33

They were power washing the front of the building when I walked past today.

US Angel · 19-12-2009, 04:31

Dont think I ever went there

jaysay · 19-12-2009, 08:48

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Originally Posted by US Angel

Dont think I ever went there

Must not have, would never have forgot it if you had

joaner3 · 19-12-2009, 18:56

I know this is not in this 'topic' but is the Old Clinic still on Cannon Street?

BERNADETTE · 19-12-2009, 19:07

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Originally Posted by joaner3

I know this is not in this 'topic' but is the Old Clinic still on Cannon Street?

It is a nursery now

'erindoors · 19-12-2009, 20:33

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Originally Posted by US Angel

Dont think I ever went there

My step mum used to be the stewardess there, years back! When I was a teenager.
Started my first job there at the age of 13, bottling up and cleaning and stuff. (Not on the books of course, just earning a bit of pocket money).
Then at 16, started glass collecting, then progressed to behind the bar!

It's no wonder I work at Clayton Con, (My dad was steward there for 16/18 years until retirement almost 4 years ago)

I now have my own Personal License and do relief for Hazel (Clayton Con) if and when!

Accy Con was so much fun, and that ballroom... WOW!!!

memories! xx

jaysay · 20-12-2009, 09:03

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Originally Posted by 'erindoors

My step mum used to be the stewardess there, years back! When I was a teenager.
Started my first job there at the age of 13, bottling up and cleaning and stuff. (Not on the books of course, just earning a bit of pocket money).
Then at 16, started glass collecting, then progressed to behind the bar!

It's no wonder I work at Clayton Con, (My dad was steward there for 16/18 years until retirement almost 4 years ago)

I now have my own Personal License and do relief for Hazel (Clayton Con) if and when!

Accy Con was so much fun, and that ballroom... WOW!!!

memories! xx

I can remember your Mum at Accy Con, but can't remember her name for the life in me, its my age

and your dad at clayton Con too