July 13, 200817 yr A pub in Tyldesley, nicknamed the "Skenners" in 1970. Great pub, good jukebox, casual sex.
July 15, 200817 yr Surprised nobodys mentioned The Painters Arms on Trinity st, good Wanderers pub back in the day.
July 15, 200817 yr Surprised nobodys mentioned The Painters Arms on Trinity st, good Wanderers pub back in the day. Horrible flashbacks there Bogsy. They started to have Chippendale type events on for the lasses (Thursdays or Fridays I think). I was helping th' owd chap out at Bestway Taxis. A cold shiver went down your spine when you got a call there. Climbing the feckin walls they were; goin mental. You had to wander about inside shouting out the birds name. B0llocks black and blue by the time you got out and then you had to cope with 3 or 4 randy, pissed up housewives offering all manner of 'services'. Nearly ran off the road a few times whilst they fiddled with and clawed at me fly. Fooking murder I tell thee! Wasn't there a woofters pub down the back called The Church or summat? Take my chances at The Painters thank you
July 15, 200817 yr The Trotters for me as well (sometimes the Alma or Anchor also) then on to Va Va / Scamps / Pips or a few years later the Maxwell's Plum. I'm another who also sampled the delights of the Bus Inn. Other town centre pubs I don't think have been mentioned yet - Wheatsheaf, New Zealand Chief, The Railway on Newport Street (where the station is now) was the first pub in Bolton I knew with a pool table - there was another pub also called (I think) the Railway on Great Moor Street near the dole office, Gypsies Tent, the one on the corner opposite the old fire station whose name I can't recall, The Greyhound, The Albion, Blue Boar, Boars Head, Hen and Chicks, Golden Lion (Brass Cat), Three Crowns, Millstone, Dog and Partridge, King Bill, Gaiety (Golden Fleece), Balmoral...... White Lion Or Gypsy's Tent. My first was Crofters in Bradshaw. Was a regular by the time I was 15! As an aside, do you recall Paul Adams clothes shop in the Arndale? (Where Primark is) They sold three-piece-suits for about ?20. About 10 of us got our parents to buy us one in about 1978 ish. Unfortunately they only came in 5 colours so there were two of each colour! We tried to arrange it so a pair never stood together. We must have looked a right set of pricks on Bradshawgate! Thought we looked the dog's boll?cks though.
July 15, 200817 yr About 10 of us got our parents to buy us one in about 1978 ish. Unfortunately they only came in 5 colours so there were two of each colour! We tried to arrange it so a pair never stood together. We must have looked a right set of pricks on Bradshawgate! Thought we looked the dog's boll?cks though. The 'two for the price of one suit gang'!! We wondered for years who the fook they were. My brother used to hang out of the Prince Bill windows shouting abuse at you lot because he thought you were bible selling mormons (may have been morons, can't remember).
July 15, 200817 yr The 'two for the price of one suit gang'!! We wondered for years who the fook they were. My brother used to hang out of the Prince Bill windows shouting abuse at you lot because he thought you were bible selling mormons (may have been morons, can't remember).
July 15, 200817 yr ...and you still hang around with a bunch of blokes who all wear the same suits. Only the number of stripes differs
July 15, 200817 yr Another one was a pub in Farnworth we used to go to every Friday night, we used to call it Greens, not sure what the proper name was, the stuff in there was rocket fuel!! That'll be the Bridgewater Another pub that I was a regular at for a while as a youth... because of the Barmaids. People knew it as 'Greens' / 'Green for go' etc because of the beer I think, but I can't remember what the beer was called ! Strong stuff though. Used to have a skinful in there and then brave the walk back over the motorway bridge to LH, usually freezing cold and windy as hell
July 15, 200817 yr That'll be the Bridgewater Another pub that I was a regular at for a while as a youth... because of the Barmaids. People knew it as 'Greens' / 'Green for go' etc because of the beer I think, but I can't remember what the beer was called ! Strong stuff though. Used to have a skinful in there and then brave the walk back over the motorway bridge to LH, usually freezing cold and windy as hell Ayingerbrau?
July 15, 200817 yr Peel Arms - Halliwell Rd - they'd serve anyone. try and get served in the ainsworth, get turned out then down to the Peel.
July 15, 200817 yr try and get served in the ainsworth, get turned out then down to the Peel. was this when it was a gay pub ?
July 15, 200817 yr http://3401.e-printphoto.co.uk/ben/index.c...&c_id=33982 There's a few pic of old pubs here
July 15, 200817 yr Queen Anne and The Welli in Little Lever. Then moved on to Farnworth, drink in the Brit most times - proper drinkers pub! The beer festivals there are class.
July 15, 200817 yr we used to go in Crofters on our Thursday night drive-about session.Took it in turns to drive. Crofters, Volunteer up BromX, Tavern. I would do the very same until for some reason we all decided that we couldn`t be bothered and just went to the Feathers instead. The opening night of which, on conversion from the Withins, was one of the funniest I have ever witnessed. The holes in the ceilings where there for years afterwards.
July 15, 200817 yr Was there not two pubs called the Railway? The one I was talking about was at the bottom end of Newport Street and got knocked down - to make room for the train station moving from one side of Trinity Street to where it is now. The other - unless my memory is playing tricks is / was on Great Moor Street - just up from the Griffin - and on the same side of the road. McGhees?
July 15, 200817 yr Being a Stoneclough lad I was always in The Flyin' Yed, The Swingin' Skirt, and The Creepin' Sparrer on the "Stoneclough Strip". Or, you're not local, Hare & Hounds, Grapes and Tavern.
July 15, 200817 yr I would do the very same until for some reason we all decided that we couldn`t be bothered and just went to the Feathers instead. The opening night of which, on conversion from the Withins, was one of the funniest I have ever witnessed. The holes in the ceilings where there for years afterwards. i remember the grand opening too, thought it was the dogs b*llocks because it had a video juke box, that soon got wrecked i seem to recall. used to even come back from town to get in that place of a weekend, before 11 i think otherwise you wouldnt get in. guaranteed to go off evrey weekend, even every night of a weekend. some strange characters went in there, it reminded me of that bar in star wars at times such was the clientel
July 15, 200817 yr Was there not two pubs called the Railway? The one I was talking about was at the bottom end of Newport Street and got knocked down - to make room for the train station moving from one side of Trinity Street to where it is now. The other - unless my memory is playing tricks is / was on Great Moor Street - just up from the Griffin - and on the same side of the road. McGhees? there was, the one up from griffin changed names from railway to quill and pen for a while then changed to Donaghys, then got knocked down.
July 15, 200817 yr there was, the one up from griffin changed names from railway to quill and pen for a while then changed to Donaghys, then got knocked down. Aye, was run by a Homosexual Irishman: Councillor Martin Donaghy. Bolton Council were happy he won his election: they filled two minority places at once.
A pub in Tyldesley, nicknamed the "Skenners" in 1970. Great pub, good jukebox, casual sex.