Barbary Coast - Page 9

Tealeaf · 03-08-2010, 18:48

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Originally Posted by jaysay

I'm surprised nobody as mentioned Yates Wine Lodge, the old one, what a den of iniquity that place was, two docs of Australian white please love, who are you calling love WHACK

I think I managed to get one in there before they pulled it down..must have been about '71, I think.

Funnily enough, one of my first drinking joints in London - back in late '79/80 - was a Yate's Wine Lodge, in Mayfair of all places. It was just off Bond Street. You could spend three hours getting totally ****faced on Aussie wines, then buy a loaf of bread, a can of sardines and a pint of milk from behind the bar to go home and sober up with.

jaysay · 03-08-2010, 18:52

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Originally Posted by Tealeaf

I think I managed to get one in there before they pulled it down..must have been about '71, I think.

Funnily enough, one of my first drinking joints in London - back in late '79/80 - was a Yates Wine Lodge, in Mayfair of all places. It was just off Bond Street. You could spend three hours getting totally ****faced on Aussie wines, then buy a loaf of bread, a can of sardines and a pint of milk from behind the bar to go home and sober up with.

Was still open in 75/6 Tealeaf, all the bouncers from the Cav used to meet there before going on duty at 8-30

Tealeaf · 03-08-2010, 19:05

You sure about that, Jaysay? i did quite a bit of drinking around Blackburn about 73/4 before I left for pastures anew and I seem to remember Yate's was in the old arcade, which got pulled down a few years before. Or am I, through the past mists of alcoholic inhebriance, getting confused with another location?

jaysay · 04-08-2010, 11:14

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Originally Posted by Tealeaf

You sure about that, Jaysay? i did quite a bit of drinking around Blackburn about 73/4 before I left for pastures anew and I seem to remember Yate's was in the old arcade, which got pulled down a few years before. Or am I, through the past mists of alcoholic inhebriance, getting confused with another location?

No was down a side street Tealeaf, I worked at the Cav 74/5 When it shut they opened a brand new place nearer the town centre. The place we went to was really dank inside dark wood and you had to queue up for your drinks, the queue was roped off with brass upstands with red ropes between

Taggy · 04-08-2010, 13:27

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Originally Posted by jaysay

No was down a side street Tealeaf, I worked at the Cav 74/5 When it shut they opened a brand new place nearer the town centre. The place we went to was really dank inside dark wood and you had to queue up for your drinks, the queue was roped off with brass upstands with red ropes between

I cant remember exactly where that was Jaysay...was it further up on Church Street than where the newer one was but perhaps on the other side? My Dad once got a part time job there, but he's not with us anymore, and i never saw it at that time. I know he used to say there were some real characters in there, and they used to throw sawdust down on the floor, to help soak up the spilt ale etc etc!!

Best Regards - Taggy

Taggy · 04-08-2010, 13:37

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Originally Posted by wadey

Here's the barbers if that's any help

I've been in Blackburn today and had a wander over there. Yes thats definitely what was The Dunn Horse, there used to be 2 entrances, the one on the corner has now been blocked in, and has advertising on it, whilst the other entrance on Market Street Lane is still there!

The other Pub diagonally opposite, which now has the name Clitheroe Kates on the side is definitely what was The Old Bank, as far as i recall it was in a row of terraced property at some point, which will have altered how people remember it! Age does funny things to the mind, and i worked near there in the 70's early 80's and i think that there were buildings on both sides of what you see now, cant remember, what was on the corner next to it, where the grass is now. But i think at the other side, where there is the Car Park and Grass verge in front of the Co-Op Funeral Service, was a small row of terraces which might still have been a Funeral Parlour but a smaller concern than it is now!

Best Regards - Taggy

jaysay · 04-08-2010, 17:51

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Originally Posted by Taggy

I cant remember exactly where that was Jaysay...was it further up on Church Street than where the newer one was but perhaps on the other side? My Dad once got a part time job there, but he's not with us anymore, and i never saw it at that time. I know he used to say there were some real characters in there, and they used to throw sawdust down on the floor, to help soak up the spilt ale etc etc!!

Best Regards - Taggy

The street it was on Taggy was at right angles to Church Street if I remember rightly, I know it wasn't fare from the Cav.

jaysay · 04-08-2010, 17:56

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Originally Posted by Taggy

I've been in Blackburn today and had a wander over there. Yes that's definitely what was The Dunn Horse, there used to be 2 entrances, the one on the corner has now been blocked in, and has advertising on it, whilst the other entrance on Market Street Lane is still there!

The other Pub diagonally opposite, which now has the name Clitheroe Kates on the side is definitely what was The Old Bank, as far as i recall it was in a row of terraced property at some point, which will have altered how people remember it! Age does funny things to the mind, and i worked near there in the 70's early 80's and i think that there were buildings on both sides of what you see now, cant remember, what was on the corner next to it, where the grass is now. But i think at the other side, where there is the Car Park and Grass verge in front of the Co-Op Funeral Service, was a small row of terraces which might still have been a Funeral Parlour but a smaller concern than it is now!

Best Regards - Taggy

Your right about the Old Bank, Taggy it was in the middle of row of terrace properties, went in quite often when Geoff Edwardson was the Landlord, he was on the committee of the Lancashire County Pool Association, when I was chairman

wadey · 04-08-2010, 21:07

Thanks for all the help

"Liquid Envy Blackburn" St Peter's Close (Street) Blackburn, Lancs BB2 2HB-Olympia Cinema

Taggy · 05-08-2010, 07:22

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Originally Posted by wadey

Thanks for all the help

"Liquid Envy Blackburn" St Peter's Close (Street) Blackburn, Lancs BB2 2HB-Olympia Cinema

Ah yes....The Golden Palms!!

Best Regards - Taggy

jaysay · 05-08-2010, 09:25

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Originally Posted by Taggy

Ah yes....The Golden Palms!!

Best Regards - Taggy

With the twinkling star ceiling and the revolving stage

cashman · 05-08-2010, 09:39

i was a bit of a celebrity yon, they had me photo in the pay booth.

jaysay · 05-08-2010, 10:05

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Originally Posted by cashman

i was a bit of a celebrity yon, they had me photo in the pay booth.

Was it that one with all the numbers across the bottom

JEFF · 05-08-2010, 11:41

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Originally Posted by Taggy

I cant remember exactly where that was Jaysay...was it further up on Church Street than where the newer one was but perhaps on the other side? My Dad once got a part time job there, but he's not with us anymore, and i never saw it at that time. I know he used to say there were some real characters in there, and they used to throw sawdust down on the floor, to help soak up the spilt ale etc etc!!

Best Regards - Taggy

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