The Pound Note

[Pudsey Bear]

 

[Tezza33]

2/6 for a pint, that must be southern prices, I bought my first pint in 1967 when was only 16, it cost 1/10, I never had a problem getting served either, although I dare not try in our village, everyone knew my Dad

 

[marchie]

2/6 for a pint, that must be southern prices, I bought my first pint in 1967 when was only 16, it cost 1/10, I never had a problem getting served either, although I dare not try in our village, everyone knew my Dad

But, 1967, I obtained a Summer Holiday job at the local foundry [I played in goal for the works football team, and MD said, 'If anyone asks, you're 16'] - £10pw for 40 hours, so 25p per hour - 4 hours work for £1 ... That compared favourably with my pay for having the longest & largest Paper Round in the Newsagents - 26s/10d [£1.34] per week

Steve

 

[Pudsey Bear]

2/6 for a pint, that must be southern prices, I bought my first pint in 1967 when was only 16, it cost 1/10, I never had a problem getting served either, although I dare not try in our village, everyone knew my Dad

10p a pint in Bradford 1971, Lord Clyde, Thornton Road.

 

[HurricaneSmith]

Funny how blokes remember their first legal pint. Mine was one and tenpence halfpenny in 1964 in a public bar in Surrey. The pub was pulled down long ago.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

I don't recall having a pint before I was legal tbh, maybe I had a few and that's why

 

[HurricaneSmith]

I don't recall having a pint before I was legal tbh, maybe I had a few and that's why

I regularly did Kev - I think it was fairly normal and effectively a right of passage back then.

 

[wildebus]

Funny how blokes remember their first legal pint. Mine was one and tenpence halfpenny in 1964 in a public bar in Surrey. The pub was pulled down long ago.

I remember going to "The Ship" in Wokingham on my 21st Birthday and they refused to serve me as they decided I was underage!
The daft thing was that that pub was renowned for not really caring about age and I used to go there when I was under 18 and get a drink

I worked a part-time job in an entertainment venue - It was primarily Bingo Hall but also had a Pool Room and Video Games plus a cinema as well as a Video Rental shop in the early 80's. Straight £1/hour. Not sure how good a rate that was considering I did so many different roles in there including checking the Bingo cards, working the Licensed Bar, cashing up at the end of the night, and even working as 'security' in the cinema on a Friday evening.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

I do remember going to the off sales in the local pub to get a couple of bottles of brown ale for my dad once or twice a week, I'll have been around 10 then.

 

[wildebus]

I do remember going to the off sales in the local pub to get a couple of bottles of brown ale for my dad once or twice a week, I'll have been around 10 then.

Can you imagine doing that now?! I used to go to our local corner shop to get my mum her Rothmans Kingsize fags when I was probably around 10 or so as well.

 

[HurricaneSmith]

I did exactly the same in the same pub for my father. It had a tiny box 'snug' where you could stand on the bar rail and look left into the saloon, or right into the public bar.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

Yup, I used to to get the cigarettes too, and collect his pension.

 

[Tezza33]

I remember going to "The Ship" in Wokingham on my 21st Birthday and they refused to serve me as they decided I was underage!
The daft thing was that that pub was renowned for not really caring about age and I used to go there when I was under 18 and get a drink

The pub that became my loca at 16 was in Barnsley, my Brother was 18 months older than me but had a 'baby face', on his 18th birthday I took him to my local but the landlord wouldn't serve him, he said you can have a pint Terry but he will not get served.
My explanation that he was my older brother and it was his 18th birthday didn't go down as well as I expected, I had to find a new pub and a different darts team

 

[wildebus]

The pub that became my local at 16 was in Barnsley, my Brother was 18 months older than me but had a 'baby face', on his 18th birthday I took him to my local but the landlord wouldn't serve him, he said you can have a pint Terry but he will not get served.
My explanation that he was my older brother and it was his 18th birthday didn't go down as well as I expected, I had to find a new pub and a different darts team

That would not have been the best explanation in hindsight

I remember me and a schoolmate did a cycling tour around the coast of Devon and Cornwall in the Summer Holidays between either 5th & 6th years or Lower & Upper 6th at school, so we would have been 16 or 17. He was a few months younger than me but was the one who had to get the pints from the bar as they wouldn't serve me

 

[Pudsey Bear]

Aw!!