Day: 27 December 2022

photo © Malcolm McDonald

Malcolm McDonald… Me and two mates in The Anchor pub after a Saturday job in The Neptune Cafe.I walked up to the bar and said 3 halves of larger and when I said,and 3 packets of Ox crisps,my voice went all” high” out of nervousness but got served aged…..14.

Carol Acott… 15

Pete Prescott… 16

Ian Johnson… 11

Sue Young… Wow, you must have looked mature for your age!

Alan Esdaile… Probably 14 but could have been 13. Otherwise it was cheap scrumpy cider from the off licence.

Billy Hammill… 14

Iris Feighan… Life was good then

Sue Young… 14. – ‘vodka and lime with lots of lime, please’ (hated the taste!) At weekly village hall disco – downstairs bar. Landlord knew a lot of us were underage but on the odd occasion police turned up, the upstairs bouncer would bellow out a warning and we would all scarper up the back stairs.

Graham White… 5

Stephen Milner… 16

Judy Atkinson… Probably 14, remember going to Bonitas (nightclub under Queens Hotel) aged 15. Babycham perhaps

Ann Hogg… 14 – cider!

Martin Waghorne… 16

Margaret Trowell… 15, my first boyfriend bought me a gin and orange…only because my mum drank it at Christmas and I didn’t know what else to ask for…it was horrible. And, as a by the by, it was in The Princes pub (now Pisarros), Hastings where 7 years later I met my husband and last week we celebrated 43 years together!

Steve Thorpe… A pint of Watneys Red Barrel in the Silverhill Tavern when I was the ripe old age of 14.

Dennis Torrance… 16 old town pub a secret lol

Paul Crimin… 16

Janet Rennie… 15. Vodka and lime . Saw Kilburn and the Highroads at the Gransary. South Harrow

Donna Torrance… That picture is how I remember pubs in the 70’s, no fancy food menus. Instead the fish man would come in selling prawns, mussels etc, after a few drinks you would eat them lol, health and safety? Noooo

Liane Carroll… 13

Colin Bell… 14, before going to see an ‘X’ film rated for over 16’s then, no prizes for guessing the film was at The Orion!

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