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First Pubs Drinking Legally (or otherwise)

The Prince-e-Paul
The Prince-e-Paul Posts: 6,713
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Just wondered which Pub(s) was the first people drank in as a teenager. 

Mine was a pub called Hallamshire Hotel (aka The Madhouse) in Crosspool, Sheffield. No longer standing. It was a rough arsed pub in leafy suburbia. 
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  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,264
    The Crown & Princess of Wales Blackheath.
  • 1905
    1905 Posts: 2,766
    Crook Log Bexleyheath - when it was a proper pub.
  • Arsenetatters
    Arsenetatters Posts: 6,056
    Ye Olde Black Horse, Sidcup. Underage but if I could get served I'd go for a Barley wine or tripple vodka.
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    Mine was the Kings Arms and The Castle (both no longer) in Eltham. We would get served in there at the age of 15, not only at night, but during school lunch breaks.  Often our form tutor would be in there and completely turn a blind eye to our £1 pints of Hoffmeister. 
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,707
    The Roupell
  • InspectorSands
    InspectorSands Posts: 5,208
    Cutty Sark, then the Gipsy Moth in Greenwich. Used to go in the Studio Bar underneath the cinema a lot too. Lowenbrau was my tipple - that's a very rare sight now!
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,870
    I can answer this one.

    Bull and Vic in Dartford. In 1991.

    I went back a couple of years ago and it was like a scummy disco.
  • AppyAddick
    AppyAddick Posts: 1,475
    The Yew tree Inn, Cliffords Mesne in Gloucestershire...

    1981 i was 14, followed that with getting entry to the Regal in Gloucester to watch American Werewolf in London :)
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,962
    Park Tavern Eltham
    Newbridge WMC Blackheath
    The Valley Pub

    my 3 regular early drinking haunts
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,563
    The Kings Head, Horley or The Cage, Reigate in Probably 2005? 

    Can't remember which was first!

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  • Arsenetatters
    Arsenetatters Posts: 6,056
    ricky_otto said:
    Mine was the Kings Arms and The Castle (both no longer) in Eltham. We would get served in there at the age of 15, not only at night, but during school lunch breaks.  Often our form tutor would be in there and completely turn a blind eye to our £1 pints of Hoffmeister. 

    UGH - you've reminded me of a dreadful boyfriend who turned into a right weirdo when I ended the relationship. Our first date was in the Castle.
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    The George, Kingsman Street, Woolwich. Started when I was 15 as I looked a lot older and knocked around  with older friends.
  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,125
    The Forresters Arms on the Welling/Plumstead Border on Wickham Lane with a good few people on here.

    At football, The British Queen on Love Lane and the Bell and Hare on Tottenham High Road.
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,451
    The Bugle, a light and bitter.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,264
    eaststandmike said:
    The George, Kingsman Street, Woolwich. Started when I was 15 as I looked a lot older and knocked around  with older friends.
    20 yards from where my girlfriend/wife lived in St Mary Street.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,292
    Not expecting many here to know them as out of the Charlton area but for me:

    The Oysterfleet, Canvey Island:  In the day a wonderful shack of a building where we'd sit and drink Abbot & St Edmund* all day whilst the old guy at the piano would delight us with timeless classics like Sweet Georgia Brown. Now, a completely rebuilt soul-less chain restaurant thing.

    The Grand Hotel, Leigh-on-Sea: Three different bars downstairs. Large concert space upstairs.  I've seen some great acts in there over the years.  Now, empty and decaying. It's not been open for at least ten, maybe twenty years.

    The Queens Hotel, Westcliff: Huge drinking space with live music in the bar.  Closed down following a drugs bust and after a couple of years derelict, this once magnificent building was bulldozed to make granny flats.


    *Proper St Edmund, not the over-hopped low-alcohol rebranded muck that Greene King now think is worthy of the name.
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 34,307
    As per the first pint thread, from the age of 16 ;

    The Hercules Pillars,  WC1 (work)

    The Railway Tavern, Bexley (my local)
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,074
    The Montagu Arms in Slough. From when I was 15.
    Drank in the public bar as the teachers drank in the saloon. My school was opposite.
  • leftbehind
    leftbehind Posts: 8,581
    Ship -  Plumstead Common
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,450
    Yorkshire Grey... now a @#$%!!&£€ McDs of course.

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  • Killarahales
    Killarahales Posts: 1,083
    The Beehive, New Eltham (age 16)
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    edited September 2020
    Arsenetatters said:
    ricky_otto said:
    Mine was the Kings Arms and The Castle (both no longer) in Eltham. We would get served in there at the age of 15, not only at night, but during school lunch breaks.  Often our form tutor would be in there and completely turn a blind eye to our £1 pints of Hoffmeister. 

    UGH - you've reminded me of a dreadful boyfriend who turned into a right weirdo when I ended the relationship. Our first date was in the Castle.
    The Castle was a hell hole. Used to go in there on a Thursday night and sink as many pints of tennants pilsner as I could. 

    Sorry for being such a bad boyfriend btw! I’ll make it you to you. 
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    soapy_jones said:
    Yorkshire Grey... now a @#$%!!&£€ McDs of course.
    I used to play football for them. 
  • happyvalley
    happyvalley Posts: 8,996
    The Crossways New Eltham, now a Burger King.
  • rananegra
    rananegra Posts: 3,714
    Another one for Ye Olde Black Horse in Sidcup
    Also The Iron Horse in Sidcup
    And the Cellar Bar, Thames Poly, Woolwich 

    In 1981/2 so I'd have been 15/16. 

    I lived in Erith but never drank there. 
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,747
    The Woodman Blackfen
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,147
    The welcome Inn
    three Tuns Blackheath
    Dover Patrol
    The Standard
  • CheshireAddick
    CheshireAddick Posts: 1,318
    The Elephant and Castle and then most of the pubs in the Old Kent Road with the dirty Millwall roughnecks.
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,147
    happyvalley said:
    The Crossways New Eltham, now a Burger King.
    Not anymore. It’s now a Premier Inn. Thomas stays there when he’s over 
  • EastStand
    EastStand Posts: 4,111
    Probably either Yates's in the Sham or Greenwich spoons. 16 year olds have no taste.

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