Post subject: Re: O/T Old Wakefield pubs/ memories.
Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2015 12:16 pm
chissitt
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lampyboy wrote:Does anyone remember the bridge Inn down Kirgate It's now got Halford on the land. It was just before the bridge and the landlord was Donald whitiker It was my first ever pint on a Saturday morning I was still at school the 4th year and it was full of kids from school. Donald knew the pub was to be demolished and didn't care , he must have been about 65 then. The juke box was brilliant . Started later to venture in on a Thursday after school but had to take our ties off.
Friday night into the grey Horse then across the road into the bridge and then up Kirkgate, mid sixties the landlord then was called Jack.
Post subject: Re: O/T Old Wakefield pubs/ memories.
Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2015 1:54 pm
JINJER
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In the late 70's we used to Go to the home games, we used to stand in the old South stand, a couple of half time beers in the West stand bar, it used to stink of wintergreen. After the game went to the cafe opposite the ABC cinema, a pot of tea till six, then up to the Roundabout, knock on the door to get in before legal opening at seven, then up to the Mitre to mix with the players (I was only 17).
Post subject: Re: O/T Old Wakefield pubs/ memories.
Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2015 5:16 pm
Red, White and Blue
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Where Donny Road and Barnsley road separate there was a pub called the Ship. In the late 70's the Wemblet team used to frequent it particularly in a Sunday evening. Can always remember Alan McCurrie nodding to me one evening and I felt like God had acknowledged my presence. The beer was decent too, I think it was Wilsons.
Post subject: Re: O/T Old Wakefield pubs/ memories.
Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2015 5:58 pm
Big lads mate
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chissitt wrote:Friday night into the grey Horse then across the road into the bridge and then up Kirkgate, mid sixties the landlord then was called Jack.
Post subject: Re: O/T Old Wakefield pubs/ memories.
Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2015 6:43 pm
John Willy Higson
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I was a fitter at Neddy Greens in the late 60's when we had to work nights occasionally we would go like the clappers til about half ten then sneak out over the wall into Crystal Springs yard and over to the bridge into the back room room for a few Then fish and chips from the Seagull chippy Then back over the wall without the gate knowing we!d been out
Post subject: Re: O/T Old Wakefield pubs/ memories.
Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2015 8:42 pm
chissitt
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Big lads mate wrote:Bit of a rough oil if I remember was the Bridge.
Nah it was a tap room pub, the juke box was in the back room where you got your beer through a serving hatch and never got that busy, the real fun started when you went into the Crown and Anchor, especially if the Crofton lads were in town
Post subject: Re: O/T Old Wakefield pubs/ memories.
Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2015 10:45 pm
Big lads mate
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chissitt wrote:Nah it was a tap room pub, the juke box was in the back room where you got your beer through a serving hatch and never got that busy, the real fun started when you went into the Crown and Anchor, especially if the Crofton lads were in town
A bit like the Strafford when the Streethouse lot came in,god knows how many pool cues were replaced upstairs.
Post subject: Re: O/T Old Wakefield pubs/ memories.
Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2015 11:40 pm
KevW60349
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Big lads mate wrote:A bit like the Strafford when the Streethouse lot came in,god knows how many pool cues were replaced upstairs.
Never mind the pool cues I remember one night the Streethouse lot had pool balls in socks. Quite a few cracked skulls that night. The police came and arrested all those with only one sock on.
Post subject: Re: O/T Old Wakefield pubs/ memories.
Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2015 9:07 am
Trinity1315
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Red, White and Blue wrote:Where Donny Road and Barnsley road separate there was a pub called the Ship. In the late 70's the Wemblet team used to frequent it particularly in a Sunday evening. Can always remember Alan McCurrie nodding to me one evening and I felt like God had acknowledged my presence. The beer was decent too, I think it was Wilsons.
Great pub the ship - it was indeed Wilson beer - used to be Beverley's. Just got used to supping that and it changed! Sure they had 'Watneys Red Barrell' at one time too. God that was awful stuff. Hosts were Herbert and Doris.
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