[Politics] Tim Martin - what goes around.....

[Weststander]

1.20 a pint of Lowenbrau in the Red Cross in Reigate when I started out. Could get staircased for a tenner and get a bab on the way home. Last pint I had in a boozer cost me 6.80

£20 for a night out with mates in 1981.

Pubs in the Lanes - 8 pints x 90p.
Night club entry - £2.
Cloakroom - 50p.
A belly full of lager and Pernod’s or Vodka/Orange in the club - £?
Large kebab at 3am - £?
Shared taxi - £2?

We sometimes blew the taxi money, resulting in a 7 mile stagger home.

 

[The Clamp]

Forgot about night clubs. Didn’t go that often but cheap, easy to get into and easy to pull. Worth every penny.

 

[franks brother]

Wait till the winter and there's no one to grit the roads

 

[vegster]

Wait till the winter and there's no one to grit the roads

The roads rarely get gritted these days anyway.

 

[Weststander]

Forgot about night clubs. Didn’t go that often but cheap, easy to get into and easy to pull. Worth every penny.

They were the reason we went out, pubs a means to an end. Spoilt for choice in Brighton.

I got that bug at 16, I’ve never really been just a long sessions in pub person, it seemed an anticlimax without dance music and females.

 

[Weststander]

The roads rarely get gritted these days anyway.

Climate change. Trump, the Chinese and Indians ended snow for us.

 

[The Clamp]

They were the reason we went out, pubs a means to an end. Spoilt for choice in Brighton.

I got that bug at 16, I’ve never really been just a long sessions in pub person, it seemed an anticlimax without dance music and females.

Yeah, I got into clubs more in my 20’s. I’ve always loved a pub evening but always enjoyed a dance and ladies. Good times around Brighton. I moved here when I was 19 so that would be whin I started clubbing regularly .
There wasn’t much near Reigate. Millionaires in Redhill or Cinderella’s in Guildford.
Was such a treat to be able to go to a club in Brighton, a choice of clubs, then walk home via cheeky chicken or a bab shop.

 

[Bodian]

£20 for a night out with mates in 1981.

Pubs in the Lanes - 8 pints x 90p.
Night club entry - £2.
Cloakroom - 50p.
A belly full of lager and Pernod’s or Vodka/Orange in the club - £?
Large kebab at 3am - £?
Shared taxi - £2?

We sometimes blew the taxi money, resulting in a 7 mile stagger home.

Cloakroom?? - what was wrong with hiding your coats behind the speakers like the rest of us?

 

[Weststander]

Yeah, I got into clubs more in my 20’s. I’ve always loved a pub evening but always enjoyed a dance and ladies. Good times around Brighton. I moved here when I was 19 so that would be whin I started clubbing regularly .
There wasn’t much near Reigate. Millionaires in Redhill or Cinderella’s in Guildford.
Was such a treat to be able to go to a club in Brighton, a choice of clubs, then walk home via cheeky chicken or a bab shop.

I read a book that covered your neck of the woods in the 80’s. Not much choice, Busby’s Redhill and Martine’s East Grinstead were popular.

 

[Weststander]

Cloakroom?? - what was wrong with hiding your coats behind the speakers like the rest of us?

Leather jacket my pride and joy, and needed on cold winter nights staggering home.

For most of the year no jacket at all, teens/20’s just don’t feel the cold.

 

[The Clamp]

Cloakroom?? - what was wrong with hiding your coats behind the speakers like the rest of us?

I had 24 hr access to the office I worked in on Middle St, used to dump all our coats and bags etc and call a cab from there after. I think it was Jazz Rooms near there, or Casablancas maybe? Two floors one with live music, one with a DJ. Always a nice vibe in there.

 

[The Clamp]

I read a book that covered your neck of the woods in the 80’s. Not much choice, Busby’s Redhill and Martine’s East Grinstead were popular.

Think Busby’s must have become Millionaires then The Embassy around ‘94/95.
Didn’t get to E. Grinstead.
Those places were like small versions of the Event, not great but good enough for a dance and all that. Especially as all pubs closed at 11:30 back then.

 

[beorhthelm]

stoopid question i expect, why have they ran out of beer?

they havent, just cant get Carling or Coors.

 

[Weststander]

I had 24 hr access to the office I worked in on Middle St, used to dump all our coats and bags etc and call a cab from there after. I think it was Jazz Rooms near there, or Casablancas maybe? Two floors one with live music, one with a DJ. Always a nice vibe in there.

Went to a crazy firm’s do (a mates firm) on the top floor there, great night.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

I read a book that covered your neck of the woods in the 80’s. Not much choice, Busby’s Redhill and Martine’s East Grinstead were popular.

Used to go to Cinderella's at Hickstead

 

[Biscuit Barrel]

It’s not all down to Brexit but anyone who thinks 24,000 less delivery drivers in the U.K. is helping, is just being silly.

30,000 HGV driving tests cancelled since the pandemic also did not help.

 

[rogersix]

they havent, just cant get Carling or Coors.

ah, no panics then, that's not beer. why can't they get their staple diet pish then?

 

[rogersix]

Heineken have been on strike

have they?

 

[The Clamp]

30,000 HGV driving tests cancelled since the pandemic also did not help.

Yep, as I posted earlier. And almost 60,000 short due to lack of interest in the job.

 

[The Clamp]

Went to a crazy firm’s do (a mates firm) on the top floor there, great night.

I really liked the place. Good size and never any aggro.