How much did your first ever beer cost you?

[chez]

£1.40 for a pint of Fosters in The Boulevard at the bottom of West St.

 

[ferring seagull]

I remember paying 1s 4d for a pint of cider at the Alliance in Edward Street. That was when a pint of Tamplins Sussex Bitter was 1s 10d.

Post decimalisation, the lowest price I remember is 13p a pint - in Barnsley.

Ed That's around the figure I remember when I first 'started', and BTW a gallon of petrol was around 4/10 (Lsd) which is in today's currency is 24p., a newspaper was 1.5p etc. - happy days !

 

[el punal]

Nothing!! My Dad was a pub landlord and as a reward for helping him with restocking the bottle beers he would give me a baby Guinness.

I was eight years old! Perfect education.

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

Was that the place with the strippers on Sunday lunch time? Late 70's?

Indeed it was. Our Sunday League team would frequent on a regular basis. One of our throng got pulled up on stage and got stripped down to his muddy pants!!!

 

[pipkin112]

I paid for my first pint in The Pilot, Southwick, in 1979, and i'm guessing that it cost me about 50p.

 

[brakespear]

£1.05 for a litre bottle of Grunhalle in.....1986 I think.

 

[fisons]

15p for a pint of Heineken in The Stadium

 

[el punal]

15p for a pint of Heineken in The Stadium

Was that the early bird special offer on Friday night?!!

 

[TKC]

£4 I stupidly just paid!! #tapwaterforme

 

[Falkor]

£1.50 and on paddys day Guinness used to be 50p

 

[Glawstergull]

68p

 

[Cesar Chavez]

38p, pint of Bass Charrington IPA, circa 1977.

At Uni in Brum could go to the pub (Brew X1 50p, so a good few of those, then a club, then a (poor) curry, taxi home - all for around 15.00!!

 

[BINNEYS BOOTS]

32p, pint 'Black Label'. In the Dolphin in Eastbourne. I was 15 or there abouts.

 

[Albion_Dave]

98p for a pint of Tennants Extra. The Ocean Wave in Eastbourne 1985.

 

[half time scores]

My sence of balance!

12 p for a pint of Taunton Cloudy at the Full Moon in Boyces Street.

I had three and found it difficult enough to stand let alone walk.

 

[Pevenseagull]

58p Courage Mild, British Queen Willingdon 1984

funny the things you remember. A fair proportion of the following 20,000 (very low estimate) have been a bit of a blur

 

[Gullys Cats]

£4.70p, I only started drinking last weekend......

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

... which has set me thinking ...

What was the price of a packet of fags when you first started smoking? Two bob for twenty Number 6, if I remember rightly. Or was it four bob? I can't remember what I first paid for five Woodbines, though.

Around the mid seventies you could buy 10 No 6 from the fag vending machine outside Oakhill Stores in Horsham for two bob.

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

Ah, fag vending machines outside closed shops, a school boys dream now!

 

[DarrenFreemansPerm]

About £1 to £1.20