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Topic Originator: Jeffery
Date: Fri 16 Feb 22:53
Probably the same from the same place, about the same price.
Had to hide in the pool room while that one mate who could actually grow facial hair was sent to the bar.
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Topic Originator: widtink
Date: Sat 17 Feb 02:40
The green tree in Bruce street.
Newcastle brown ale.
Think I was 15 or 16.
Walked home to cairneyhill that night as I spent all my paper round money on beer.
Good times
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Topic Originator: Dave_1885
Date: Sat 17 Feb 05:40
Montys at about 17 - got away with it for 3/4 weeks till we went in and got the “now lads, I know youve been in here the last few weeks, but Im going to have to see some ID” - claimed we forgot it, walked to the Watering Hole and got served there 😂
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Topic Originator: Roger Daltrey
Date: Sat 17 Feb 06:00
Watering Hole. 14 years old. 1991. My pal got served.
Maybe Carlsberg. Maybe Tennents or Forsters. Can`t remember.
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Topic Originator: GG4
Date: Sat 17 Feb 09:21
Watering hole for me and pals. I couldnt believe i got served at 14. Yeah you had to hide but remember old man Trotter? and the barman Lindsay?
Sound as feck. They knew we were underage lol.
Guttered on pints of XXXX.
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Topic Originator: veteraneastender
Date: Sat 17 Feb 09:22
Tennents Lager back in the Middle Ages - before I knew any better.
Been an ale man since working in Maclays of blessed memory as a student.
That was where I learned that a barrel was actually a legal measure of 36 Imperial gallons rather than a generic name for bulk beer which it had become in common usage.
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Topic Originator: Buspasspar
Date: Sat 17 Feb 09:37
Best 2 under age pubs back in the day were Crams (upstairs} and the Prim in Alloa(back room)
My first legal pub was the Royal Oak in Clacks I also worked there part time
10 pints of heavy (Diamond export) or 8 pints of Skol lager for £1 aye £1
You could leave the house with £1 have 6 pints and a few games of 3 card brag
Fish supper 1/6d on the way home skint but happy
The County Hotel across the road only sold heavy and it was the superb Maclays that vee mentioned .. It really was a special beer .. brewed in Alloa next to the Thistle pub
We are forever shaped by the Children we once were
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Topic Originator: AdamAntsParsStripe
Date: Sat 17 Feb 13:22
Palace, Rosyth £1.78 a pint.
Zwei Pints Bier und ein Päckchen Chips bitte
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Topic Originator: LochgellyAlbert
Date: Sat 17 Feb 15:01
Working Xmas School holidays 1967 for Woodrows, delivering through Methil way.
Every delivery "Would you like a pint?"
Hard work that day!🍻🍻🍻🍻
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Topic Originator: Andrew283
Date: Sat 17 Feb 18:27
Rockers bar before the 2006 final. 14 at the time and still have some hearing loss
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Topic Originator: GG Riva
Date: Sun 18 Feb 07:52
A classmate with a provisional licence "borrowed" his dad`s car,picked up 3 of us and we headed to the Halfway House in Kingseat. We sat with our pints of lager at the far end from the bar. Five minutes later, two cops in uniform came in. One had a good look around and the other bought a packet of fags. We tried to melt into the background and not wet ourselves. Four huge sighs of relief when they left. I hadn`t known we were going for a pint and had grabbed my school blazer, complete with braid and prefects badge.
My pal scratched his dad`s car when he drove it back into the garage. 😁
Not your average Sunday League player.
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Topic Originator: ZiggyB
Date: Sun 18 Feb 21:06
GG lol do pubs ever get raided these days by the Polis?? My first was the Tap Goth which doesn`t exist now but would now be part of the Kingsgate
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Topic Originator: OzPar
Date: Mon 19 Feb 02:18
Great story, GG.
I was tall at 16 and looked 18. My first pint was with my grandfather in a pub on Byers Road in Glasgow called The Curlers. My Grandad thrived on a wee bit of mischief...
:)
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Topic Originator: evo!
Date: Tue 20 Feb 12:49
I was also a Hole (Watering hole first pinter) like many others.
Carslberg was £2.00, export £2.20. Aftershock i think was £2 as well, began with this pattern i think age 16.
Great pub, pool tables, music, good crowd, and a beer garden. Miss the old place.
BEAST!
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Topic Originator: KirklistonPar
Date: Tue 20 Feb 19:35
Buying my first pint would have been from the east port bar or the old inn back in ‘93. Had many a great night in the east port and was lucky enough to enjoy a lock in with super Johnny Watson in the little library bar through the back. He even let us attempt to pour our own pints. I do remember being refused entry to sinky’s on my 18th even though I’d been drinking in there a few times.
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Topic Originator: veteraneastender
Date: Wed 21 Feb 09:14
The Old Inn was where the club was originally formed I believe ?
I discovered recently that my great grandfather was publican for around 5 years about the turn of the 1900s.
Maybe an early Pars fan !!!
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Topic Originator: red-star-par
Date: Wed 21 Feb 10:16
Quote:
veteraneastender, Wed 21 Feb 09:14
The Old Inn was where the club was originally formed I believe ?
I discovered recently that my great grandfather was publican for around 5 years about the turn of the 1900s.
Maybe an early Pars fan !!!
If only he had passed on why we were called The Pars.
That`s still a bit of a mystery, despite the great thread we had on it. You would think if there was one definitive answer even in the early days, then that would have been consistently the story told. You would also think someone would have written it down somewhere, get it noted, set in stone as it were
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Topic Originator: Parboiled
Date: Wed 21 Feb 13:58
1966 Old Inn, window table, aged 16. Three of us lunch time escapees from day release at Lauder Tech.
Pint of light, horrible.
Barman had a moustache. The pie was so old it was growing one.
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Topic Originator: Luxembourg Par
Date: Wed 21 Feb 16:17
First pint in a bar was the Penny Farthing on Kdy High St
16 year old, working part time at Safeway, directly across the road, for the princely sum of £1.05 per hour.
My new best mate (work colleague) took me and my first wage packet of £8.50 over the road for one, then up to Bentleys - Thursday was pay day.
Got absolutely wasted - sure it was something mental like 50p a pint and 50p a Southern Comfort and lemonade - £5 worth purchased in the happy hour.
Next day at school wasn’t fun…
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Topic Originator: buffy
Date: Wed 21 Feb 19:24
I’ve clearly led a sheltered life.
21st birthday, first tipple in Monty’s, a Bacardi breezer. Cannae mind what flavour but by the end of the night I’d tried them all.
”Buffy’s Buns are the finest in Fife”, J. Spence 2019”
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Topic Originator: PARrot
Date: Thu 22 Feb 14:06
Oh jings, I think I was about 12 when we got someone to buy us Tennents Lager and McEwans Export from The Thistle in Baldridgeburn. It was a Lorimers pub then.
Lager was 14p, and Export was 16p
It went up to 16p and 18p, and we were sure the guy was ripping us off.
I started working in the Headwell Bowling club when I was 15. Just washing glasses ;)
A pint if ordinary was 24p. Heavy was 28.
I didn`t drink during the shift but got a staff drink on closing. 10pm back then.
16 year old (1978) I was working in The Well just collecting glasses ;))
Mental fights every weekend there.
I remember the relief when I turned 18 and didn`t need to worry about getting caught.
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Topic Originator: wee eck
Date: Thu 22 Feb 15:11
I remember coming into `The Toon` to meet up with schoolmates for a pint but I can`t remember which pub we went to or how I explained the trip to my folks. By the time I went to Edinburgh University I was still only 17 and remember the feeling of security drinking in the Men`s Union without the threat of being challenged about my age because everyone was assumed to be at least 18 there.
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Topic Originator: Ghoulz
Date: Fri 15 Mar 22:26
Glen Tavern 1977.
Pint of 60/-
29p
The barman sniggered.
Your friendly neighbourhood Ghoulz.
The Whole Story of The Famous Kinema Ballroom
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