First Pub

[Goring Gull]

You ever bought a beer in?


Mine would be the Fountain (now the Assembly) in Worthing.

 

[Beach Hut]

Spanish Lady - Saltdean

 

[the full harris]

Queens Head, Icklesham.





where?

 

[sully]

Like everything else in my life, it's been demolished and the site redeveloped - The Royal George in Burgess Hill

Went the same way of :
The hospital I was born in
My first school
My first "local"

bastard developers

 

[Raphael Meade]

the albert when it was a lovely little dive

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

the palmeira cos its easy to get served at 15
now i drink at trendy bars in the lanes (well ones i get in to)

 

[Lord Bracknell]

The bar of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre at Stratford upon Avon. School trip. Pint of Flowers. Called the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in those days.

 

[whitelion]

The Downsman in Hangleton. Now called the Inn on the Downs. Used to pile up there from school in an old cortina.

 

[just_bhafc]

The Free Butt - tucked away in the back streets on the Level in Brighton - easy underage drinking!?!

 

[Northstander]

The Sportsman as is was then known outside Hove station prior to going to Goldstone!!

But I also started drinking in Worthing "The fountain & Thieves kitchen" (as it was also then known)

 

[The Orange Seagull]

The 'Disco Pub Idea' in San Antonio,Ibiza 1985...

 

[Sorrel]

The Rose & Crown in Eastbourne for me.

 

[Brovion]

Oooh, not sure. Would have been one of:

Crown and Anchor - Shoreham
Crabtree - Lancing
Kings Head - Shoreham (Now demolished)
Crab - Shoreham (By the station, now called the Crabtree I think)
Lady Jane - Shoreham (Now the Riverside/Waterside Inn)
The Ferry - Shoreham
The Burrell Arms - Shoreham.

I THINK it was the Kings Head, but it's a long time since I was 14.

 

[Jambo Seagull]

The Wilmington (now known as the Long Man I think) was my first local. My stepdad used to drink in there so I suspect that was the first place I bought a drink. I was certainly drinking there long before my 18th birthday.

The first place I can remember buying a drink on my own in town was Fagans underneath the ABC cinema in East Street. Long gone I believe.

 

[Safeway]

The Rose & Crown in Eastbourne for me.

Didn't realise you were Liverpulian.

Think mine was The Wheatsheef in Ashford Road near Eastbourne Station. Always popular for underage drinking.

 

[Dandyman]

First places I bought a pint were the kiosk that used to exist in the north west corner of the North Stand (tell that to kids, today...) and at the Top Rank when I used to go and see groups play there.

First pub was probably The Swan in Lewes.

 

[Northstander]

God I forgot about Toprank!! I remember we used to go there whilst at school to see groups that appeared there!!

 

[Marshy]

Top House in Burgess Hill i think, happy days

 

[Gazwag]

Queens Head, Icklesham

Nice pub looking over the marshes to Rye, been there a few times

 

[Gazwag]

I think mine was either the Castle or Devonshire in Bexhill