| 1st Pint & what pub 16:56 - Aug 21 with 9486 views | paulparker |
Ok to lift the gloom of Left vs Right, Beheadings and everyone getting on at each other t*ts
I thought I would start a thread on the one thing we all have in common
Beer & Alcohol
so how old was you when you had your 1st pint & where was it
ok 1st Pint was with the old man in the Turks Head in Hillingdon I was 14 and I think the old man needed a drinking partner as my Mum had left him, 4 pints later I was zig Zagging home , thinking this was the best feeling in the world & oblivious to the fact the old man & old girl were getting divorced
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That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles
Brian Moore
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| 1st Pint & what pub on 12:24 - Aug 22 with 1650 views | Holser |
Christmas day 1978 aged 14 in The British Volunteer Latimer rd |  |
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| 1st Pint & what pub on 12:44 - Aug 22 with 1632 views | hovehoop |
Was about 14. School trip to Phalsbourg France. Think the bar owners expected us to be sensible. Instead, I woke up covered in my own puke. There were weekend parties around Ladbrooke Grove too when we'd get stuck into party 7's - Skol anyone? It took us ages working out you had to pierce the lid each side for the beer to properly flow. Hofmeister was popular too.
Pub wise I recall a cheeky one in a pub that used to be opposite Hammersmith Odeon (the name escapes me). Though began regularly chancing my arm in the Walmer Castle in Westbourne Park. Would get served some days and some days not. Though eventually I think the bar man gave up challenging me. Then moved on to the nearby Pembridge Castle that used to be run by a couple called Jim and Betty. Was a regular a couple of years and they gave me a bottle of champagne for my 18th!! In those days we did the Raj/Mitre a lot too. We'd get tanked up and then don shirts and trousers for the Galtymore and sometimes the National. Though always someone would forget to wear a top with collar. So we'd go inside then recycle our shirts out of the Galty window until everyone was in. We were chucked out for being topless a few times too. Got a feeling we were only 15 or 16. Never really drank with my dad as a youngster though do these days. Some familiar pubs already mentioned. Visited the Spotted Dog in Willesden a lot and the one on Hammersmith Bridge too.
There was also a little pub on Kilburn High Road and I kid you not it was a half mile between the lounge and the saloon bars - figure that one out. And the Brent and Camden boundary ran down the middle of Kilburn High Road. Pubs in Brent closed at 10.30 so there used to be a mad rush across the road for an extra 30 minutes drinking in Camden! |  | | |
| 1st Pint & what pub on 12:50 - Aug 22 with 1618 views | rrrspricey |
double post [Post edited 22 Aug 2014 12:51]
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| 1st Pint & what pub on 12:53 - Aug 22 with 1606 views | headhoops |
way back in 1976 was 15 and went with 'dad'to play darts in the Barley Mow, Shepperton.
Some long discontinued lager - Skol i think.
Prior to that at aged 10 when we all used to play footie in the street, no fuc£ing FIFA for us - blistering hot day so we stop for a drinks break - only can I could find was a large tin of Newcastle Brown Ale. Naturally everyone did the drink it in one so I did. Ten minutes into the second half and 'Rodney' found himself running for a cross and vomiting all over the jumpers for goalposts - never touched the stuff since. |  |
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| 1st Pint & what pub on 16:19 - Aug 22 with 1557 views | ScubaHoop |
| 1st Pint & what pub on 18:48 - Aug 21 by DWQPR |
15 years old on the day Chas & Di got married, up the Paddington British Legion with my dear old Dad, drunk the same as him, light and bitter, as you got more than a pint with that old combo! |
me too, not the day Di got hitched mind you!! I was thinking my first pint must have been Angies on Woodfield rd but nope it was with me mum and dad in the legion. The Guinness in Angies is a step up from the Paddington Legion I'll tell you that. I was 14ish. [Post edited 22 Aug 2014 16:20]
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| 1st Pint & what pub on 16:21 - Aug 22 with 1553 views | MrSheen |
Looking at my kids' experience it's clear that I grew up in the golden age of underage drinking. Though I grew up in Willesden I went to secondary School in Ealing and would go all over for a drink - Ealing, Acton, Hammersmith, Kilburn, Wembley, Chiswick. It might be heresy here, but though most of my group were Rangers fans once in a while we would go to Griffin Park then have an ESB in each of the Fullers pubs on the way back to Ealing Broadway. If I was lucky I was shaken awake by the 266 conductor at Cricklewood Garage. If I missed the last bus home I would have to stagger home through Harlesden. Amazingly, nothing bad ever happened. |  | | |
| 1st Pint & what pub on 16:52 - Aug 22 with 1538 views | robith |
great thread.
My first ever pint was a Guinness in Old Abbotstonians (now Hillingdon Abbots) club house aged 17 having won man of the match. I started necking it, but it was so disgusting I couldn't. I was told I had to finish it or wear it, so I quite happily just chucked it over my head. Funnily enough I now drink Guinness like water.
First drink in a pub was an orange reef in the good yarn in uxbridge. They were 69p, so had like 10. That didn't do me in, it was my double kebab choice (one from uxbridge kebabs then again from hillingdon best kebab) left me with proper bad guts. Ugh.
Good Yarn was great - would go in there on a Friday night and every sixth form in a 3 mile radius was in there. It was like an underage Cheers |  | | |
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| 1st Pint & what pub on 16:53 - Aug 22 with 1535 views | batmanhoop |
| 1st Pint & what pub on 09:30 - Aug 22 by ballbag |
First real pint was outside The Raj on Holland Park Road circa 1994...I was about 14 at the time and was hanging out with my brother and his mates who bought me a couple of pints as long as I didn't go inside.
Spending every Summer in Spain since I was born meant that I sampled the delights of the amber nectar at an even earlier age as my older cousins thought watching a 13 year old get hammered on Estrella Galicia and kalimotxo would be a laugh. Mind you, they weren't much older and were in just a bad a state. |
formerly The Mitre and if not mistaken returned to it's former name. Remember a rather boisterous Xmas do where the sausages didn't agree with me. As I had the gorgeous Irish barmaid entwined in a slow dance, I unfortunately dropped one. I will bring to my grave those immortal words she uttered, ''Dave, someone has let off a stink bomb''  | | | |
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