[Drinking] Where did you go for an Underage Drink ?

[WATFORD zero]

Off the back of a post in the 'Parenting in Pubs' thread

The three that come to mind,

As a 13 year old, you could get served in the 'other' pavilion at Hove dogs. What is now and has been for some years, Alliance and Leicester.

Similar age 'The Cliftonville' outside Hove Station. 'Pint of Lager and Lime, Honestly I'm 18 mister'

And the first nightclub I ever got into, Sherry's a few weeks after my 14th Birthday. My mates, who were older, used the line 'He's Jimmy Clitheroe's younger brother' to get me in. There was a fight, someone went over the balcony and I remember the pile of rifled handbags in the corner of the Gents. I was so impressed

(Obviously this is an old gits thread, for those long, long before ID was invented )

 

[Wardy's twin]

Bath arms ...I guess it depends how 'under age' are you talking about . I would have been 16 .

 

[The Optimist]

The Witch in Lindfield. This was 1997 and Gerry Ryan was running it.

 

[Badger]

Hector's House in Brighton

The Top House in Burgess Hill. I think the average age in there was about 17 at the time.

 

[Baker lite]

The County Oak, The Snipe locally, in town, the Golden Fleece, Pav Tav, cricketers, Druids head. Also sneaked into Coasters and Busbys if the wind didn’t blow the bum fluff off my face.

 

[Mackenzie]

Hove greyhound track, the cheap side.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Hove greyhound track, the cheap side.

That's the place, early 70s

 

[DJ NOBO]

Swiss Cottage.
Snakebite black.

 

[KZNSeagull]

Sergison Arms, Haywards Heath. The place was teeming with underage drinkers!

 

[Eeyore]

Swiss Cottage.
Snakebite black.

Yes, bad memories.

I was drinking from 15. The Martha Gunn was my first venture. I went to the bar and asked for a 'pint'. What of ? was the reply. I quickly said 'Guinness, of course'

I hated it.

 

[dazzer6666]

Had three pubs in my little (mid Devon) village - got served from age 15 in 2 of them (positively encouraged, landlord/barman knew exactly who we were - my mum actually worked in one of them ), but old Doris in the London Inn wouldn’t have any of it - still used to go in there though because she had the best fruit machine and pool table. There was also a Working Men’s Club that more or less stuck to the rules but sometimes ‘missed’ one of the guys buying a pint for a lad (particularly at darts matches as I started playing when I was 16). Only one of the pubs is still open now sadly but the club is still going strong.

 

[Whoislloydy]

The only place I was ever served alcohol underage was the news agents on Clifton Road in Worthing

 

[Biscuit Barrel]

East Slope bar at the Uni. Easy to blend in as the average age was very young.

 

[Mackenzie]

That's the place, early 70s

Late 80s for me.

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

Thatched Inn in Hassocks, in 1962 when I left school at 16, drinking halves of mild. Smoking a panatella if I had any paper round money left.

The landlord was Robin Hood, I never did find out if that was his real name!

 

[Trevor]

Albatross Club, Bexhill (My grandad wanted his son and his grandson drinking Guinness together)

 

[drew]

Sergison Arms, Haywards Heath. The place was teeming with underage drinkers!

Same here, and prior to that, the Market bar at the Hayworthe.

 

[Bodian]

Probably at one of these very tables.



Ship Inn, Southwick. Mild & Bitter almost certainly.

 

[pasty]

Sergison Arms, Haywards Heath. The place was teeming with underage drinkers!

Yup, this one.

 

[Weststander]

Assorted pubs in Newhaven - Newfield, The Sheffield, The Ark.

Royal Pav Tav/Shades, Golden Fleece, The Star, Carpenters Arms, Hennekies.
Then Sherry’s, Top Rank Suite or the original Savannah (under the Queens Hotel)

All well under age, full blown pubbing and clubbing by age 16, on 8 to 12 pints.

You could get away with blue murder in the 80’s, my older brothers/their mates were clubbing by age 14.

Didn’t do us any harm


At the very most you were asked your DOB, deducting x number of years to miraculously be 18.