Tag Archive | beer
A Bloody Good Night Out, Aged 17
It seems like such a long time ago now and yet in my mind its only a very short time indeed, it seems like just a few years have passed since I left school on a Wednesday afternoon in July1974, well, when I say “left” it sounds like it was a mutual consent sort of [...]
The Highland and its bar snacks
A backstreet pub, literally on a back street, you’d trip up over it before you saw it and if you had to explain to anyone where it was then you wouldn’t know where to start, “Behind the fire station” would be a good place to start, “Within dog shit sniffing distance of the RSPCA kennels” [...]
Of parties and drinky-poos…
Following the Friday night fun at The Old Ball Suzanne and I walked down the hill to The Fox for a little Saturday night celebration of our silver wedding anniversary with some specially selected friends – ie those who we knew would bring presents and buy beer. Amazingly I managed four pints of cooking lager, [...]
The Turkey Inn
Once upon a time, many, many years ago when the world and I were much younger than now, there existed in the city of Leeds a plethora of pubs serving crap beer. For centuries brewers had produced ales that were stored in wooden casks and which had to be manually pumped out of the barrel [...]
The Woodman
Our foremost choice of public house during our younger years, thats it on the far left of the drawing. From the age of 16 years (or so), (maybe less), we would gather in The Woodman, most of our sixth form from Lawnswood would meet in there of a Saturday night to collectively get completely blathered [...]
School disco, part two…
So the school hall was ready for the onslaught, the theatrical society’s lighting rig was up and working, the unpowerful 50watt public address amplifier had a couple of weedy speakers and an old record deck plugged into it and you could just about hear it at the other end of the hall when no-one else [...]
