Whatever happened.......... Pubs

the club on the corner was the AEIU. YOU ALL MISSED THE I...........lol

was in the palentine on the last day it was open, stripper on and the police raided it!
worked behind the bar at the langs when brian and gail hoole ran it,its a dieing trade due to rent rises,beer prices,and dvds,videos and sky tv.
 
staggeringman said:
the club on the corner was the AEIU. YOU ALL MISSED THE I...........lol

was in the palentine on the last day it was open, stripper on and the police raided it!
worked behind the bar at the langs when brian and gail hoole ran it,its a dieing trade due to rent rises,beer prices,and dvds,videos and sky tv.
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your quite correct about the i staggeringman but everybody called it the aeu p.s who was last landlord of the palatine? was it D.H.
 
cashman said:
your quite correct about the i staggeringman but everybody called it the aeu p.s who was last landlord of the palatine? was it D.H.
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cant remember at this moment but will let you know.yes it was a bloke called dave h...t
 
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staggeringman said:
cant remember at this moment but will let you know.yes it was a bloke called dave h...t
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thought so used to go in very occasionally knew him and his brother E H long time ago.
 
Although don't drink beer, there used to be a saying, Duttons for gluttons, Thwaites for mates and one other but cannot think of this ? Anyone know ?
 
don't remember that katex but the other local brew was Mathew Brown which became Lions. p.s. i don't drink beer either,but not by choice.lol
 
When I was a teenager just about the only beer you could get on tap in the Burnley area was Thwaites, Dutton or Massey (Burnley brewery). Remember the brewery and pub/beer loyalty (the local) people used to have in those days? One uncle of mine would only drink Dutton's and his favorite pub was the "General Havelock" (Manchester Rd., Burnley) while another would only drink Thwaites and his favorite pub was "The Junction" in Rosegrove. Neither one would drink Massey's no matter what! My father liked Massey's or Thwaites but not Dutton's -- he had two "locals" on Manchester Rd. -- the "Rose & Crown" and the "Bull & Butcher".

The only beer/ale which seemed to be universally acceptable to my father's generation was "Bass" in bottle -- that is what they would bring home from the pubs when they had late night parties.

Of course, my pals and me drank any brand of beer from any pub at hand wherever we were, such as "John Smith" at Todmorden when we followed Burnley during Cricket matches -- I don't remember it being available "across the border" in Lancashire in those days.
 
I am resurrecting this thread because me and my old feller were in dispute last night about where the Australian pub was….i said it was over by Bull Bridge…(and was knocked down to make way for the Arndale) he said it was on the Ritz corner.
I remember the pub at the Ritz corner…..one of the girls I went to school with lived there(Susan Denwood), but I cannot for the life of me remember what it was called.
So…please will one of the older drinkers on here settle this for me?
Thank you in advance.
 
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According to the Lost Pubs Project: The Australian Inn was situated on Weir Street, closing in 1964 after being declared an unsafe structure.
 
Hi Ryewolf,
The Australian Inn was situated over Bull Bridge. The pub just further down from the Ritz cinema was I think called the Crown (not sure), but it was a Massey's house. Not sure whether the brewery is still active. Across the road was the Bridge pub.
Cheers
Phil Kenyon
Late Belfield Rd.
 
Yes, Thank you Philip.

I did a bit more researching yesterday and found that answer.

Weir St would be roughly where the back of the current vets practice is now.
And my other query about the little pub on Ritz corner….it was as you say….The Crown….dubbed the ‘little’ Crown because of course there was another Crown pub close the the viaduct in Accrington(now a hairdressers and a beauty shop).
 
it was on the corner of castle street and what we used to call it the bottom of what we used to call the PLECK some one said it was WEIR STREET. but at that age i didnt know that.
 
I think that the pub on Ritz corner was the Crown. It was usually called the Little Crown to distinguish it from the Crown next to railway arch on Blackburn Road. The Australian was next to Bull Bridge opposite side to the Black Bull.
 
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