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Ya but that wouldn't be future education would it:rolleyes::)

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Thay are always telling you what's gonna@ happen ;).. As WW used to say "A womans mind is like her hand bag, you never know what's in it and what's gonna pop out" :rolleyes:

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Shared memories apparently, DtheP47, made him thirsty thinking about it. Now this next bit has nothing to do with Accrington but definitely to do with the amber liquid. With the cost of beer going up and up, a few years ago himself decided to go down the home brew track. Assured me that the initial outlay would soon pay for itself, home brews being but a fraction of the retail price of beer.
Working on the premise that the more you drink the more you save, he was very enthusiastic and by the time he’d done the last brew he had filled some 4,200 stubbies (Aussie bottles of 375 mls). He gave a lot away to friends as he needed the bottles and even he couldn’t drink the stuff fast enough to keep up the supply of empties. It was so successful that it became like an addiction but he eventually gave the game away a while ago – still have a few bottles of Stout left which are about 7 years old. Not game to try them….
…and I might add that I’m still waiting for the savings.

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I've started drinking natural beers at home usually 5% or above, last week Joan cam up with two from Aldi, from a Scottish brewing company, think they were specials, although not 5% they were very tasty. Robbie Burns 4.2% and William Wallace 4.5% burns is a darker beer Wallace is a blond, the trouble with Aldi is they only get so many and when that's gone there's no more, Joan managed to pick me up 12 of each on Monday had a Wallace last night

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Home brewing had (has) its followers back in the 70's and 80's for sure :) There used to be a cracking Homebrew Supplies shop on Cross Street just round the corner from the Warners. I never really got used to the smell but as most people know you could tweak the strengths and that was the attraction for sure. The current Mrs P was never happy with the big fermenting jars under the stairs or me taking over the kitchen when bottling.
Truth be told now though there is such a range of good bottled beers on offer everywhere as Mr J says, it's not worth the faff these days.;)

And if you are a people person (like me :cool: **)it's much more convivial propping up a bar engaging in intelligent conversations ("some not so intelligent if last night in the Forts was anything to go by" shouts Mrs P)
Well I blame the 5 pints of Kelham Island Tin Can ;). Good job they didn't have Thornbridges Jaipur on !!

** No heckling from the back thank you :D

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These are the Badgers Jay

Scottish brewery wins contract to sell ales throughout UK | Deadline News

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That's the one Dave, they do some great beers, for the discerning home drinker:D

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One of my sons does home brewing when he has the time but not the straight-forward, run-of-the-mill brews. He adds a bit of this and a bit of that with great results. Enjoys brewing – think he takes after me for that, though my brewing is more like an eye of a toad, leg of a frog, with the odd newt thrown in sort of brew……

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Home drinking is great - relaxing and enjoying with no worries about donating to the Government coffers through being caught by the boys in blue, should a person be foolish enough to drink and drive. Personally I don't like beer (dare I say that on this thread) - think it's horrible stuff, but do enjoy other liquid 'refreshments'. Cheers!!!!

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I don't like beer dotti:eek::eek::eek::eek:You'll have Less and Mick frothing at the mouth with a statement like that, and a few more not far behind, including me:D

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On the subject of Cheers (the TV series) Norm Peterson my hero :D

Woody: Pour you a beer, Mr. Peterson?
Norm: Alright, but stop me at one. Make that one-thirty.

"Cheers" (1982) - Memorable quotes

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Thats a bit like saying to the wife I'm just nipping to the local for an odd pint love. Nine or eleven:D

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What in the sam hell is a discerning home home drinker:confused: Someone who sips on a brewskie and, instead of belching, discusses its flavor, its bucket, (I love that show, particularly Hyacinth), its discreet hint of smokiness and all that horse manure?

Or is more like how I interpret it. Everything is :cool: as long as you can discern the fridge through a haze of alcohol and fragrant smoke:theband:

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Well somat like that without the smoke Eric:D

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Well blow me down with a feather Mog.. I went to Dennis Cook's funeral yesterday (See Accy Stanley thread) and afterwards at Enfield CC... young Mr Moores was there. :) I was completely thrown at first because he was with Barbara (Haining)...I thought I had fallen through a worm hole and gone back in time and space :-)
Well some ales were supped and some reminiscing I can tell you.....
He is still living down Church and reckons Bob B is back in Accy living back at his mums up Spring Hill.
Anyroad he has asked me to ask you can you remember you and him locking Wayne Fontana in the bogs at the Con.....?;)
I'll let you share that with the forum :D
I'll pm you his e-mail and I've told him to get on here.

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Used to play football after school wi Gerald on owd Broadway car park.;)

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oops sorry Mr C...you got a mention too :) Barbara say's last time she saw you was int' Plough DJocking... ;)

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Yes I do remember it well. Wayne was drinking in the bar before hand. Dont know why we done it though but he tried to autograph my hand and I wasnt having any of that. Are you sure about Bob, I was told he had passed away a few years ago. You sure because he would be 67 just before this coming christmas. Living with his mam sounds a bit unusal mate.

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Jezz reckons that about Bob...did question it with him because I too (and Connie) had heard he has passed ???
Truth be told I reckon I would have heard from Dennis Entwistle if he was back in town ???
I'll do some checking with all the usual suspects.

Hey and Jezz reckons you fell down the Con stairs showing off Wayne Fontana's autograph and not looking where you were going ;)

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I lived next door to Gerry Moores in Church from 1995 to 2002.

So he has got himself yet another woman. His 2nd wife left him and a rowdy girlfriend moved in during those years.

Any woman will be an improvement on that rowdy female - they battled on the street as well as in the house (police were called often).

She was the main reason I moved.

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If I ever did fall down the Con stairs, it would have been down to the copious amounts of ale that i had consumed and not a poxy autograph, but I did have a bit of a chat with him. Thought Wayne was a bit odd walking through the park um um um um um um um.

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mmmm Jezz did say one of his relationships was err? tempestuous MargaretR ;)

The Barbara I referred to was wifey #1 they are still friends :DDennis Cook was a neighbour when they were together.

He has indeed remarried and seems/sounds settled.

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Hell I ain't heard of Dennis Entwistle for many a year Mr D

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Den's alive and well living down Hazel Grove Clayton... creature of habit can usually be found Sat/Sunday afternoon in the Greyhound.:)
He's missing out on this years "Lads n Dads" to Benidorm, reckon's he's too old. ;)

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I have also had a few wives of my own, I have also had a few of others wives as well, but I am now Happily single again. I have never had a tempestrous lady. I have been with a few mad ones though. I cant remember Dennis Cook though D.

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Dennis Cook originally from Blackburn moved to Huncoat next door to Jezz 30+years ago, he worked at Lucas in Burnley and after managing Accy Stanley got involved in Junior Football Coaching and Enfield Cricket Club. I guess you had moved South then Mog.

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Ist pint Bridge Inn Accy about 1966

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First pint tramway inn 1966. Didn't know my dad was in tap room. Got a belt when he got home, not for drinking, but for going in a pub wearing my cadet nurses uniform!!!!!

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The Pickwick on Broadway did have a bar upatairs didn't it :confused::confused::confused:

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yeh yeh could eat up yon.

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In the days when it was still the cinema they had a function room upstairs, my auntie held her wedding reception there

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J, are we talking about the old Odeon. Sorry mate don't know what the Pickwick was/is

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Prawn Cocktail, Steak and Chips or Chicken in a Basket....Gourmet food for the time, eh?:cool:
Susie Scientist posted some pics of her 21st at the Astronaut on here somewhere, think they did Chicken in a Basket too?

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Yeh mog twas the owd Odeon.;)

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It was part of our "run" on a night out down town. Very busy for a couple of years, had to go out one door, down the pavement and back in the other door to use the gents, it was that busy, mind you it was the same in the Bridge at the time! Happy daze.

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You were lucky if your feet didn't stick to the carpet:D

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my first pint was in the tinker

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Handle or schooner? Can you still get a handle served in Accy? :confused:

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Rarely see barrels these days, they still have some in Ossy Con or did have, but you had to ask for one or you'd get a schooner

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I always thought a schooner was a large sherry glass. Never heard the term used for what I would call a straight pint glass.

Oh dear I'm getting thirsty!

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Yeh been away too long susie, always been called schooners around here, never liked em meself.:)

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I always used to use a barrel when I started drinking back in nineteencanteen, but always use a schooner now, even at home:thepint:

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Schooners, Barrels, Straight glass, piffle, blag a Stein (1 ltr) you lightweights! :D

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Use to have one Dave, but when I started filling my glass just as many times in a night, I thought I might be getting a drinking problem so I reverted back to a pint:D

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Yeh but they need big glasses oer yon, it helps forget.:D

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Actually Cashy, it makes them more bearable! ;)

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Wrong Dave it makes outsiders more bearable:p :p:p:D:tongueout

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Let's face it, Ale makes lots of things more bearable. :)

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Got to agree, I think though, the only thing it doesn't make bearable is bad ale.

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Well I was always fotched up to believing there are no bad ales Less, some are better than others though:rolleyes::D

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Anybody try the old having a drink in every pub from the Railway to the Commercial in Church? I don't think I ever got past the bottom of Willows Lane! Any idea how many pubs there were at it's peak? :confused::confused::confused:

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Easy done it a few times from Commercial to Commercial. until me or the mate got banned from some.:D in my time after Willows Lane was only Miners/Hyndburn/ Antley/Oak Tree. then yeh were at the Comic in Church.:D

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The hard leg was Church Commercial To Black Dog Ossy, many more pubs on that un n never managed a pint in each.:eek: Was only 7 as i recall from Railway to Willows lane. Sorry 8 i forgot the A.E.U.

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Tried on many occasion to do a pub crawl from many places in Acc, Church, Ossy, Clayton. Never managed to complete any of them. I would start at the Globe and Royal at bottom of Scaitcliffe st and got as far as Willows lane, but had to make my way home to Crown st because I was to wrecked to continue.

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Yeh Mog, but the idea was have a pint in each,not a gallon.:D;)

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So that's where me and Bob Burnside went wrong. Did the same going up to Fern Gore. Got to Willow Mount club and had to roll down again at shut tap.

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if ya have a pint in the last orders then walk to the next pub then nowadays its a long walk to the next in ossy!

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Aye,if yeh don't nip in Platts club yer knackered.:D

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its a long time since I went down Union road in Ossy but I'm just wondering how many pubs are still open, the Foxill's a undertakers I believe, Bay horse and Tinker were still open as were the Black Dog and Rose and Crown, Royal Oak? Printers? Golden Cross? any updates please

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Golden Cross has been boarded up fer a good while now, Foxhills gone as yeh say, others yeh mention still batting, but below foxhill, The Prince of Wales, Horseshoe, Royal, Station,Rosebud, Church Con, The little Thwaites pub whos name i cant recall.:confused:, n Commercial, are all consigned to history n ruined what was a great pub crawl.:(

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Royal Oak and Printers still going Jaysay also now Tiger lounge !!! Didnt one of our members take over Royal Oak ?

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Bay Horse jay :D

Used to have the best juke box in Ossy back in the day.

Blockade had the best in Accy with the New Brewery following close behind.

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Before those the "Derby" in Ians day took some beating.;) as did the Broadway.;)

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Bay Horse only one that had "You Know My Name" by the Fab Four on Ol' ;)

I've put it on the AW jukebox

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Yes, ChurchFCRules did,
http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...dly-63831.html

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My post #565

What a dunderhead... I posted on the wrong thread..
..

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Remember on bank holiday in 1965. Think the pubs in Clayton or great Harewood were open all day for some reason.Whit walk maybe. Bob Burnside, Chris Meredew, Ian Entwistle and loads more of us from the Bridge decided we were going to walk the route to Harrod and have a pint in every pub. What clowns we were in them days. Started at the Greyhound in Altham or Clayton or wherever it is. Had a bit of a barny with Enti, nothing serious then got rat ars**d. Can't remember moving from there. Think that was the last of my pub crawls.

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Nice one Mog, who of us started out with a plan and got no further than the 1st pub??? ONE pint in the pub on Christmas lunchtime while the wife is doin the Turkey springs to mind (and more than once!!!!)

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Bay Horse is where I served my time Dave, Bill was the landlord at the time, it was a meeting place for lots of teenagers most under 18:D We all used to use the little tap room on the right of the bar, a local football team ran from there too Surf United were a very good team in their day

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The Derby Cashy I can remember the landlord, think he was called Ted, his daughter was a real little cracker all the usual suspects were after sticking a tail on her:D

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The kids find it harder these day needing to steal some form of ID, though I do find it remarkable that the landlords didn't question you when you were 7!
;)

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He was a big lad for his age Less:rolleyes:;)

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Used the Railway 1964/65. Used to go in there before going up Con. Used to go out with a nice gal at the time. Drank with a couple of older pit lads now and again in there Adam Sinetti and Doug. Can't think of his last name. He used the pop club quite a bit. Can't remember the landlord but barmaid was Jessie Kenyon from Haslinden. Good posh pub at the time.

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Railway on Blackburn road.

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Jean is my grandma xx

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Who is Jean then Jayneydan.

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I know this is an old one cashy but the mention of the Oak Tree bought back some memories. Dave Radcliffes mam and dad kept that place late fifties early sixties. Nelly was his mams name. Use to be a bit of a singer. Opportunity knocks rings a bell. They took over the pub going up Manchester road on the right hand side past police/fire station. Dave was at St Christopher's left in 60, nice chap. second cousin of mine or something. last time I heard he was a brickie. Younger brother called Eddie

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Does anyone know who was the landlord of the Kings head in Lee St. back in the late 60's and did he used to be a coalman called Daniels??

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Yeh Frank Daniels was landlord then,used to deliver our coal, in later years one of his sons was Landlord.;)

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Thanks for that Cash, Phil and Graham if I remember. Same class at school with Phil. Wonder what happened to him?

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Phil was in Bold St Club,last i heard.which was a couple of years back.;) Think he was the Steward, I used to pop in occasionally wi me younger brother before he he croaked. it was our kids local.

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Not a pub question but on that theme. What is the oldest working men's club in Accy and which was the first one?

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I see the Kings Arms is listed for auction tomorrow, guide price £75K according to the Lancashire Telegraph.

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mine was in the tinker and buget

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my first pint was in the pub next to the empire dance hall [ ossie ]1959 i cant remember its name

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Two bottles of strong ale Half way house, on the trip to watch Acc Stanley play Liverpool, was a good 16 years old [Didn't see much of the game]

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The Royal a thwaites house, long gone now.;)

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Are there any pubs with their own micro brewery in the Accrington area???

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tinker

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Grants formerly the Hargreaves on Manchester Road, home of the Big Clock Brewery.
The copper fermenting vessels can be seen behind the bar.
Try the Pals at 4.0% or the100 weighing in at 5.3%

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Anyone tell me the name of the bar/pub on Union St. back in the early 70's and if you can where was the bar in there. I remember it as one large room but can't for the life remember where the bar was situated.

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If the pub was well designed the bar was next to the toilets, these days it seems with the modern pub the toilets are always two floors up.

Who thought of that one?
Extra plumbing for it to flow into the drain we used to stand over downstairs.

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Do you mean The Astronaut, it's the only one I can remember on there except for a working mens club at the top end roundabout where the Halfax is now?

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Tried my first pint in the "Black Bull" in Huncoat when I was 14 years old, now at the age of 69 I will never be able to recreate the memory, as I believe the pub has been sold to a builder of asian descent.

Nothing wrong there but as alcohol is against the Muslim religion it obviously will never be a place of quiet contemplation over a pint of ale in order to put the world to rights.

Aah well, the pub has been going downhill for many years, so not really a loss.

Your's Taddy.

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That was it the Astronaut, do you remember where the bar was?

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Probably where you ordered your ale,:alright::alright:

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I knew how to find it but trying to describe it now I'm struggling a bit :) it was kind of at the back of the room if you know what I mean? There were two entrance doors into the pub, one at either side of the downstairs area &
there was also the Apollo nightclub upstairs - had one of the smallest of dancefloors I've seen but had some good times up there

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Used to pop in there after doing afternoon shift at Huncoat Pit. Remember it being damn good ale. The one by the Railway was ok too.

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My 1st pint was in December 1993 for my works Xmas do, think the pub was shoulder and mutton it was right at the top of fielding lane in ossy, just around the s bend, it was turned into a house years ago now but used to be a good boozer.