First Pint

[geordie]

Do you remember your first pint?
When I was about 11 my stepdad gave me a drop of toon brew (Newcastle Brown) out of his glass and I got quite bolshy.
But my first Pint was when I was 18, I went with a work pal Gordon who was about 22 to the Mayfair Dance, we met at Marlboro Crescent and he took me to the Durham Ox just opposite, we had a Black Velvet (sickly stuff) followed by a Rum and Pep (heartburn recipe).
Whilst we were in the pub I was looking around and saw a group of about 8 women, I thought that was strange as the village I lived in no women were allowed in the bar without a man. anyway, they all had stickers on the bottom of their shoes and sitting cross legged with a foot up, some were marked 7/6 some at 5/- and the cheapest was 2/6, after downing the drinks and feeling very light headed I asked Gordon in a whisper that the whole pub could hear ' Have those women just had their shoes cobbled coz the prices are on the soles of the shoes' He grabbed me by the collar and ran me out of the pub, when we got along the road he said ' those women were prozzies, that is the price they are charging.
How could I be so naive? I still am.

[Jazz]

I can't really remember my first pint but it was probably at the "Grapes Vaults" in Ncle.....it's no longer there but was on the corner of the lane that runs from Grey Street to Pilgrim Street where the cash machines are near Monument Metro. We drank "Scotch", "Exhibition" (Ex) and we seemed forever to be taking pints back because they were "cloudy" or had little bits floating in them! Also used to go to the jazz clubs and when there drinking Ncle Amber Ale, Export and sometimes Ncle. Brown Ale. Remember vividly being violently sick at Manors Station....I just wanted to die.....one of the first of many such occasions....we've all had 'em! It shames me now but I also recall going round the Downbeat Club and drinking from the.dregs of bottles that other people had left on the floor. It was a pitch dark rectangular room so nobody would notice! There was no "Gents" and you just went down some stairs and from about the fourth stair from the bottom you unzipped and let loose into the yard! I presume there must have been a "Ladies" somewhere! As for the "Mayfair" that deserves a story on its own....like the "Oxford Galleries"!

[Fairscup]

I remember both The Grapes and Downbeat. Used to frequent both along with Club a go go. Gino Washington and the Ram jam band were regularly there and used to be a highlight for me.

As for my first pint - 16 years old, Brandling Arms, Gosforth High St. Pint of Bass bitter - got rumbled half way through it and was thrown out. Money ( about 2 bob) down the drain! ;D

[Pollypeterborough]

I can not remember my last pint let alone my first.

[Fairscup]

Jun 23, 2011 14:20:53 GMT 1 Pollypeterborough said:

I can not remember my last pint let alone my first.

[Shadow]

Jun 23, 2011 16:02:21 GMT 1 Fairscup said:

Jun 23, 2011 14:20:53 GMT 1 Pollypeterborough said:

I can not remember my last pint let alone my first.