The pubs we have lost

[crawshawbooth]

So , a new football season almost upon us , fixture lists out . 

Do any not rights out there think of the pubs that were an integral part of Saturday football at Burnden park?

There are very few left at all , and the axe has already fallen around our "New" home 

Greenwood , Bonnie Lasses, Barnstormers unable to trade even with a football ground nearby.

Thinking about the Tanners , Cattle Market , Rose Hill Tavern, Farmers in Darcy Lever.Trotters on Manchester road.

And of course our dear King William IV , the Holy Grail of lunacy on big match days

Mad memories and even photos eagerly accepted

[Dr Faustus]

The Billy was as much a formative part of my youth as Britpop and mutual masturbation.

[royal white]

15 minutes ago, crawshawbooth said:

So , a new football season almost upon us , fixture lists out . 

Do any not rights out there think of the pubs that were an integral part of Saturday football at Burnden park?

There are very few left at all , and the axe has already fallen around our "New" home 

Greenwood , Bonnie Lasses, Barnstormers unable to trade even with a football ground nearby.

Thinking about the Tanners , Cattle Market , Rose Hill Tavern, Farmers in Darcy Lever.Trotters on Manchester road.

And of course our dear King William IV , the Holy Grail of lunacy on big match days

Mad memories and even photos eagerly accepted

Even with a ground nearby it’s only 20 odd days a year where they’re getting additional customers. Unfortunately match day for many isn’t what it was 20 years ago. 

[gonzo]

Remember them putting a chalk board up in the toilets of The King Bill to combat graffiti. 

Visionary.

We got to know the landlady and her Brother Ray who owned Lancashire Pride in Tenerife. They'd take £20k on a big match day. 

[freds dad]

59 minutes ago, Dr Faustus said:

The Billy was as much a formative part of my youth as Britpop and mutual masturbation.

All at the same time?

[Dr Faustus]

9 minutes ago, freds dad said:

All at the same time?

those were hazy, crazy days

[BobyBrno]

Went in the King Bill the day we played Wolves. Full of their fans. A load of Bolton’s ‘not rights’ walked in and into the pool room. Big Nick on the door ( who I knew from the Sweet Green) said “ I would get out now if I were you” He shut the door behind me.

Next thing, pool balls, glass ash trays and other bits of detritus came flying through the windows. The door then opened with the Wolves fans scrambling to get out with the odd pool ball and cue winging past or off their heads. 
Anyone on here played pool that day?😊

Yep, I’ve told this story before. 

[Whitestar]

Can't remember who we were playing but it wasn't someone with a reputation or some rivalry but as i was walking past the Wagon & Horses on Manny Rd a smallish firm crossed the road and were immediately met with Bolton rushing out of the pub to get into them, i was under pub age and stepped in there just to avoid being in the centre of it all, suddenly its just me in the centre of the bar to the left of the front door, bloke behind the bar says "yes mate?" And as some random word fell out of my mouth he says "Mixed?" And i say yeah please.

First and last time I've had mixed, bet you couldn't even get that now?.

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[ianofcleveleys]

3 minutes ago, Whitestar said:

Can't remember who we were playing but it wasn't someone with a reputation or some rivalry but as i was walking past the Wagon & Horses on Manny Rd a smallish firm crossed the road and were immediately met with Bolton rushing out of the pub to get into them, i was under pub age and stepped in there just to avoid being in the centre of it all, suddenly its just me in the centre of the bar to the left of the front door, bloke behind the bar says "yes mate?" And as some random word fell out of my mouth he says "Mixed?" And i say yeah please.

First and last time I've had mixed, bet you couldn't even get that now?.

Pints of mixed used to be very popular when I started supping at the turn of the 70s/80s, pretty much died out now, apart from maybe in the odd working men's club round my way, where there are hundreds of age 70+ customers

[Whitestar]

1 minute ago, ianofcleveleys said:

Pints of mixed used to be very popular when I started supping at the turn of the 70s/80s, pretty much died out now, apart from maybe in the odd working men's club round my way, where there are hundreds of age 70+ customers

Exactly,   and you don't tend to see Bitter & Mild tattoos above blokes nipples these days either.

 

[FrancisFogarty]

For years I used to walk down from the Brooklyn to Tanners to Cattle Market then when it was freezing the home leg was just back to the Cattle Market and home. Especially when they had that massive fire outside. I think it's regular stoker wasa postman. With a singed fringe.

[Tonge moor green jacket]

5 hours ago, crawshawbooth said:

So , a new football season almost upon us , fixture lists out . 

Do any not rights out there think of the pubs that were an integral part of Saturday football at Burnden park?

There are very few left at all , and the axe has already fallen around our "New" home 

Greenwood , Bonnie Lasses, Barnstormers unable to trade even with a football ground nearby.

Thinking about the Tanners , Cattle Market , Rose Hill Tavern, Farmers in Darcy Lever.Trotters on Manchester road.

And of course our dear King William IV , the Holy Grail of lunacy on big match days

Mad memories and even photos eagerly accepted

Levers Arms and the Lever Bridge too.

All suffered.

[only1swanny]

Seem to have lost half of them in little lever, 

Canary,  3 crowns, white horse, Seven stars, Church Inn, Queens (temp closed), Jolly Carter's been closed and reopened a few times

 

Leaving us with Hennigans (was that the horse and cart??) New inn, Queen Anne and Stopes. 

[Spider]

Horwich seems to have done ok, and I think there’s now more bars than ever, albeit a lot of those little crafty places.

Bolton has suffered and in places heavily populated with Asians it’s obvious why.

Younger mobs don’t seem to be all that interested in  the pub culture and are drinking less - plus it’s really fucking expensive.

Running a successful pub can’t be easy.

[tomski]

Loads of the pubs on the outskirts of Bolton are plenty nice and doing well. 
 

Went for a few pints in town last sat and actually thoroughly enjoyed it.

Some great memories in some fore mentioned pubs above but they closed because they were shit.

Drinking is coming back with the new youngsters but they don’t want to sit around chatting in a boozer anymore. 
 

My fave pastime but each to their own and all that.

[L/H White]

8 minutes ago, Spider said:

Horwich seems to have done ok, and I think there’s now more bars than ever, albeit a lot of those little crafty places.

Bolton has suffered and in places heavily populated with Asians it’s obvious why.

Younger mobs don’t seem to be all that interested in  the pub culture and are drinking less - plus it’s really fucking expensive.

Running a successful pub can’t be easy.

It won't be long before your traditional pubs are no more 

A place where you used to go to socialise and have a smoke etc 

When you go in now, there is no young uns, just the same old guard who are there the same time and leave the same every day 

Young ens just stay in playing Xbox, phones and vaping 

And it's much cheaper to drink at home

10 years and they'll be little proper pubs left 

[frank_spencer]

7 minutes ago, L/H White said:

It won't be long before your traditional pubs are no more 

A place where you used to go to socialise and have a smoke etc 

When you go in now, there is no young uns, just the same old guard who are there the same time and leave the same every day 

Young ens just stay in playing Xbox, phones and vaping 

And it's much cheaper to drink at home

10 years and they'll be little proper pubs left 

Fucking hell you sound like a right old codger on that post! 😄

Outside of the 4 pre gig pubs/bars in Manchester can't of the last pub I went into for just a drink was.

[FrancisFogarty]

While supermarkets are knocking drinks out for bugger all, why would anybody go out to the pub?

You can stop in and watch anything you like on a firestick, dodgy or otherwise.

A rhetorical question for me as I do go to pubs.

[Zico]

pubs seem to do ok round my way

mostly Robinsons which are expensive, particulary for non Robinsons beer

but the brewery will not allow any to shutdown, even if they were losing money

[boogs]

54 minutes ago, FrancisFogarty said:

While supermarkets are knocking drinks out for bugger all, why would anybody go out to the pub?

You can stop in and watch anything you like on a firestick, dodgy or otherwise.

A rhetorical question for me as I do go to pubs.

I see what your saying but it just doesn't work like that for me. 

I rarely drink at home unless we have people round. Drinking is a social thing for me so that's pubs 90% of the time. 

Maybe that's why I get whinged at for spending too much time in the pub 😁

[mickbrown]

53 minutes ago, Zico said:

pubs seem to do ok round my way

mostly Robinsons which are expensive, particulary for non Robinsons beer

but the brewery will not allow any to shutdown, even if they were losing money

Robinsons have literally just shut a pub I drive past regularly. 

[Zico]

2 minutes ago, mickbrown said:

Robinsons have literally just shut a pub I drive past regularly. 

Ha

Must've had a change of heart 

It was a bloke down a non Robinsons pub who told me

[FrancisFogarty]

9 minutes ago, boogs said:

I see what your saying but it just doesn't work like that for me. 

I rarely drink at home unless we have people round. Drinking is a social thing for me so that's pubs 90% of the time. 

Maybe that's why I get whinged at for spending too much time in the pub 😁

I never, ever have a drink at home. I don’t drink cans or bottles so it’s the pub for me too.

 It’s the social side I like. I bowl three nights a week so I get to socialise anywhere from Edgerton to Ainsworth some weeks.

[gonzo]

I just love pubs.

From shitty flat council estate gaffs to cozy little gaffs in Mayfair. Proper love em.

Each one has its own set of regulars, characters and history.

It's ace to see a pub doing well, sad to see one in decline.

[tomski]

5 minutes ago, gonzo said:

I just love pubs.

From shitty flat council estate gaffs to cozy little gaffs in Mayfair. Proper love em.

Each one has its own set of regulars, characters and history.

It's ace to see a pub doing well, sad to see one in decline.

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