In for the night. Just liberated the Polish shop for my sustenance 😊

Edited September 21, 20223 yr by deane koontz

We’ve even had a dabble with fashionable stuff like knife crime and cultural mixing lately

13 minutes ago, Rudy said:

Alright Horwich starting at the top and working your way down 

That's the way to do it. Only old folk and craft ale drinkers do it any other way.

It was a good enough night out when I last went out given the circumstances. 

Is the top the Crown or Blundell? 

Just now, ErnestTurnip said:

Is the top the Crown or Blundell? 

Blunder but skip that unless you want some scran, crofters or the bank top pub

Test

 

 

Oh my word

It works

Behave you bastards or ill change the settings

1 minute ago, Casino said:

Oh my word

It works

Behave you bastards or ill change the settings

How did you do that?

Aye was just wondering what folk saw as the top, think weirdly i've always thought of the Crown as being at the top of Horwich.

I realise that doesn't make sense though.

4 minutes ago, Spider said:

How did you do that?

Haha

Great isn't it

Happy always told me it was a bad idea

Anyway

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3 hours ago, Casino said:

No

Tails

Went and educated em in the quiz

I'd regularly go over the road to Southfields for the quiz, for the 'free' butties, sometimes a variety of filling, sometimes chip butties, which when you spend about £25 on ale is a bit false economy.

Anyway being a sad bastard with skinflint friends living local I'd usually be on my tod.

I won it single-handed many a time.

Decent prizes too, big 1.5L of Bailey's once, Champers another time, £20 once...

And free butties.

Edited August 27, 20214 yr by Youri McAnespie

29 minutes ago, Youri McAnespie said:

I'd regularly go over the road to Southfields for the quiz, for the 'free' butties, sometimes a variety of filling, sometimes chip butties, which when you spend about £25 on ale is a bit false economy.

Anyway being a sad bastard with skinflint friends living local I'd usually be on my tod.

I won it single-handed many a time.

Decent prizes too, big 1.5L of Bailey's once, Champers another time, £20 once...

And free butties.

When pubs started opening agan me and Mrs. Fogarty called in Southfields (support your local etc). One of the managers, tall one, not the little round Geordie one took my mobile number, sent me a text to book me in, showed me to a table outside and said he'd send some one out to take my order. I said I just want a pint and half of Guinness. He said I'll send someone out to take your order.

Nobody turned out in the following 15 minutes though. They might not have turned up at all. I don't know, I've not been back. We went to the Dancers and had several pints of Guinness.

1 hour ago, Francis Fogarty said:

When pubs started opening agan me and Mrs. Fogarty called in Southfields (support your local etc). One of the managers, tall one, not the little round Geordie one took my mobile number, sent me a text to book me in, showed me to a table outside and said he'd send some one out to take my order. I said I just want a pint and half of Guinness. He said I'll send someone out to take your order.

Nobody turned out in the following 15 minutes though. They might not have turned up at all. I don't know, I've not been back. We went to the Dancers and had several pints of Guinness.

These quiz nights I was Billy-No-Mates at were about fifteen years ago...

On other occasions (the quiz nights attracted regular folk, not pisspots), I got friendly with the regular barflies there though, some ex-services amongst them, hardly known for their temperance - they were a terrible influence on me, older lads leading me astray...

Nah I genuinely did stop going in, I think keeling over into a neighbours garden once going home swung the decision.

The food was cheap and cheerful.

Decent staff.

Decent pint.

But I went in once and ordered a pint of coke and the lads looked at me like a traitorous nonce.

Controlled social drinking and that place weren't compatible.

So I stopped going, walking by even when going for the match bus.

Didn't really bother with the other either.

I hated the fact The Brooklyn seemed to attract more plastic munich than whites in it's later years, used to be a staunch Wanderers pub.

Southfields became my local then. They didn't really bother with the football there so no conflicts.

I'd sometimes wander up to your manor to The Canary, didn't mind the Manny Road Greyhound either.

For an area quite big G/L has never had many pubs...

Edited August 28, 20214 yr by Youri McAnespie

6 hours ago, Youri McAnespie said:

These quiz nights I was Billy-No-Mates at were about fifteen years ago...

On other occasions (the quiz nights attracted regular folk, not pisspots), I got friendly with the regular barflies there though, some ex-services amongst them, hardly known for their temperance - they were a terrible influence on me, older lads leading me astray...

Nah I genuinely did stop going in, I think keeling over into a neighbours garden once going home swung the decision.

The food was cheap and cheerful.

Decent staff.

Decent pint.

But I went in once and ordered a pint of coke and the lads looked at me like a traitorous nonce.

Controlled social drinking and that place weren't compatible.

So I stopped going, walking by even when going for the match bus.

Didn't really bother with the other either.

I hated the fact The Brooklyn seemed to attract more plastic munich than whites in it's later years, used to be a staunch Wanderers pub.

Southfields became my local then. They didn't really bother with the football there so no conflicts.

I'd sometimes wander up to your manor to The Canary, didn't mind the Manny Road Greyhound either.

For an area quite big G/L has never had many pubs...

Bobby heywoods seemed to have a few round them, lizzy, vic, little John , cattle market, Irish club 

Pilchards on toast was a go to snack for many years.

Has to be the ones in spicy tomato sauce though.

8 minutes ago, Spider said:

Pilchards on toast was a go to snack for many years.

Has to be the ones in spicy tomato sauce though.

Yeah, nice on hot buttered toast mashed up.

What's that got to do with being a pisspot, though?

1 minute ago, Youri McAnespie said:

Yeah, nice on hot buttered toast mashed up.

What's that got to do with being a pisspot, though?

I’m still pissed from last night so am doing this with one eye.

The irony fits nicely

39 minutes ago, Rudy said:

Bobby heywoods seemed to have a few round them, lizzy, vic, little John , cattle market, Irish club 

I had an A-Z of Bolton and that area had a specific name, the former industrial zone, a bit like Pike Mill or Lever Edge...

Vic?

Dunno the Vic?

Anyhow, the others - never really considered them to be in G/L...

Maybe The New Cabin at a push...

All the others, apart from The Little John (and that was only because mates who worked at Bolton Sp*stics were regulars) always seemed a bit 'Slaughtered Lamb-esque' if you walked in as a non-regular, the needle would scratch across the record and the singalong would stop...

Plus The Cattle Market was only a few more minutes walk so always pushed on there...

But yeah, New Cabin, Queen Liz, The Park?, Lodge Bank Tavern, Little John, The Nightingale/Irish Club...

There was The Angler's Club an' all, and G/L Conny Club on Greenland Road - both made the Slaughtered Lamb seem like Cheers off the telly...

The Little John was cliquey too, but one of our mates had been in th'Army so we were tolerated, think the landlord was into rum, sodomy and the lash at one point.

Edited August 28, 20214 yr by Youri McAnespie

@Spider

Just have an eye-opener and top-up...

You know it makes sense.

Irish coffee works well.

Or Russian coffee.

Or Jamaican coffee...

Or any spirit you've got in coffee.

15 minutes ago, Youri McAnespie said:

@Spider

Just have an eye-opener and top-up...

You know it makes sense.

Irish coffee works well.

Or Russian coffee.

Or Jamaican coffee...

Or any spirit you've got in coffee.

I’ve got Disaronno, Chambord or toilet duck.

12 minutes ago, Spider said:

I’ve got Disaronno, Chambord or toilet duck.

All three...

Use a decent coffee though.

No instant muck...

Just been chatted up in Wetherspoons. Christ 😳

Turns out Horwich is a thriving, bustling, vibrant, cosmopolitan place where good ale and good company can be found in equal measure.

And there's very loud karaoke in Sam's bar.

9 minutes ago, ErnestTurnip said:

Turns out Horwich is a thriving, bustling, vibrant, cosmopolitan place where good ale and good company can be found in equal measure.

And there's very loud karaoke in Sam's bar.

It's to drown out the sound of Bruce Willis and Ving Rhames being molested in the basement by three of the patrons...

17 hours ago, bolton_blondie said:

Just been chatted up in Wetherspoons. Christ 😳

What the fuck are you doing frequenting a Wetherfuckungspoons!? That scruffy cunt should be in hiding after his antics when Covid hit.

2 minutes ago, Winchester White said:

What the fuck are you doing frequenting a Wetherfuckungspoons!? That scruffy cunt should be in hiding after his antics when Covid hit.

Christ knows.