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First pub, first local 19:18 - Oct 25 with 15908 viewsSandyman

What was the first pub you had a drink in and what was your first 'local'?
First pub: Bowling Green, Spotland Road
First local: Bridge Inn, College Road ( eventually the Merry Monk)
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First pub, first local on 23:18 - Oct 25 with 2542 viewsAtThePeake

First drink was in the Black Swan, first regular was The Summit, both in Heywood.

Tangled up in blue.

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First pub, first local on 23:31 - Oct 25 with 2519 viewskiwidale

First pint was in Duke of Wellington on Blackwater st aged 15 shit miself I struggled getting into pictures for X films at 15. Ive had several locals over the years in no particular order Bowling green and Golden Ball spotland rd. Top bird Newhey, Comercial Tim Bobbin and Ladybarn Milnrow. Blue Ball Smithy Bridge and Sun Hotel littleborough, Plough and Bay Horse Oldham rd. I also frequented several pubs in town Flying horse, Clockface and the one next door, Robin Hood also Seven Stars in Heywood occasionally Horse and Farrier in Norden.

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First pub, first local on 00:13 - Oct 26 with 2457 viewsD_Alien

First pint, Catholic Club on Ann St

First regular pub, Kingsway on Friday nights

First local, Weavers Arms, Ashfield Rd

Cheapest pint, 16p in subsidised student union bar

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First pub, first local on 06:02 - Oct 26 with 2422 viewsAlexF

First pint Horse and Farrier Norden, main regular was the Cemetery, but time was also idled away in the Elephant and Castle... amongst others. 😀
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First pub, first local on 08:50 - Oct 26 with 2361 viewsMeanwood

First pub i got served in was Highland Laddie before disco at the Units, 5th form at Greenhill at time about 87. Then regularly drank in Cem, Church inn and Flying horse [hovering donkey!] before leaving to go away to study!
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First pub, first local on 08:53 - Oct 26 with 2356 viewsmingthemerciless

First pub, first local on 22:16 - Oct 25 by EllDale

Red Lion on Newgate which was knocked down for the shopping centre. 1s 10d for a pint of mild.
When I came back after uni I used to drink seven nights a week in the Healey Hotel when Donald Hayes was the landlord.
Robinson’s mixed and good company.


I remember Donald Hayes very well. He gave off a sort of " Basil Fawlty " type of image but when you got know him he was ok.
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First pub, first local on 10:04 - Oct 26 with 2321 viewsHuddersdale1

Caldermoor in Littleborough, 17p for a pint of mild, 18p for bitter (mid 70s)

Forgotten all about The Brunswick on Baillie Street, used to go in there and also The Baths Hotel on Smith Street:-Boddingtons house I think?
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First pub, first local on 10:16 - Oct 26 with 2313 viewsblackdogblue

First pint - 15, Some social club in Middlewich, we used to have a narrow boat & it was some rally or something

First local - Lion & Lamb in Blackley, burnt down after being empty for a while years ago

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First pub, first local on 10:16 - Oct 26 with 2313 viewsrafc1984

Reed hotel just off Yorkshire street, and the Victoria hotel on Spotland road was my local even though I lived in castleton, I could never bring myself to drink there. Mind you in them days it were only 2.50 in a taxi. Worked in the George & Dragon for a while in Castleton, saw some right sights.
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First pub, first local on 11:07 - Oct 26 with 2284 viewskel

First pint was The Woolpack in Hamer I think.

First local is obv Clique HQ.
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First pub, first local on 12:47 - Oct 26 with 2239 viewsNigeriamark

First pub, first local on 10:04 - Oct 26 by Huddersdale1

Caldermoor in Littleborough, 17p for a pint of mild, 18p for bitter (mid 70s)

Forgotten all about The Brunswick on Baillie Street, used to go in there and also The Baths Hotel on Smith Street:-Boddingtons house I think?


I remember when bitter reached 50 p a pint and we were all saying it had gone too far to quickly & people would stop going to pubs !!!
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First pub, first local on 13:32 - Oct 26 with 2202 viewsFrog

First pub was The Old Boars Head in Middleton before the leaver's disco at Queen Elizabeth's (1979). Local was The Roebuck in Alkrington.
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First pub, first local on 17:14 - Oct 26 with 2146 viewsrobtheb

First pub for a drink, New Inn at Castleton, with my dad.

First local, Cloverdale, Entwistle Rd.
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First pub, first local on 18:03 - Oct 26 with 2117 viewsrochdaleriddler

First pint was in a pub in Ashfield valley when I worked at a paper converters in the summer when I was about 13. First local was the fisherman’s inn, I was in most weekends from the age of 15, met my wife in there when I was 21, first legal pint at the Beach, 29p

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First pub, first local on 18:18 - Oct 26 with 2107 viewsDale23years

First pub, first local on 18:03 - Oct 26 by rochdaleriddler

First pint was in a pub in Ashfield valley when I worked at a paper converters in the summer when I was about 13. First local was the fisherman’s inn, I was in most weekends from the age of 15, met my wife in there when I was 21, first legal pint at the Beach, 29p


When was your first Gin

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First pub, first local on 18:54 - Oct 26 with 2076 viewsfinberty

First pint Shepherd's Rest at Lumbutts.
First local Brown Cow, Norden. Arthur Stone at the helm.
Pint of Chester's 77p in 1986.
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First pub, first local on 20:12 - Oct 26 with 2043 viewsjudd

First pint Robin Hood in the Town Centre whilst buying dope.

First local was the Brunswick, along with the rest of our 6th form.

Edit: brilliant thread, Sandyman.. Cheers
[Post edited 26 Oct 2019 20:13]

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First pub, first local on 20:14 - Oct 26 with 2041 viewsTVOS1907

First pub, first local on 20:12 - Oct 26 by judd

First pint Robin Hood in the Town Centre whilst buying dope.

First local was the Brunswick, along with the rest of our 6th form.

Edit: brilliant thread, Sandyman.. Cheers
[Post edited 26 Oct 2019 20:13]


Can I just ask where The Brunswick was?

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First pub, first local on 20:20 - Oct 26 with 2029 viewsjudd

First pub, first local on 20:14 - Oct 26 by TVOS1907

Can I just ask where The Brunswick was?


Behind the bus station that was knocked down a year or two ago.

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First pub, first local on 20:23 - Oct 26 with 2023 viewsTVOS1907

First pub, first local on 20:20 - Oct 26 by judd

Behind the bus station that was knocked down a year or two ago.


Ta, remember it vaguely.

When I was your age, I used to enjoy the odd game of tennis. Or was it golf?

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First pub, first local on 20:28 - Oct 26 with 2008 viewsD_Alien

Pub names have always held a fascination for me

Just googled Brunswick and it comes from the German town we 'Anglicised' as Brunswick - meaning "Bruno's town" - and now known as Braunschweig. So how did it end up as a pub name?

I ventured into a pub in Mossley recently, the Tollemache Arms, which is apparently named after a family in Suffolk who still hold land there, owned by the Baron of Tollemache. I mean, what the suffolk?

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First pub, first local on 20:36 - Oct 26 with 1998 viewsshawclough_dale

First pub the travellers in the bus old bus station
First local the pineapple Howard street
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First pub, first local on 20:50 - Oct 26 with 1976 viewsEllGazzell

First pub, first local on 19:34 - Oct 25 by 442Dale

Hare and Hounds, Bury Road.

Oulder Hill 6th Form were not the clientele some regulars (in there and on this forum) approved of.


What year was it when you started in the Hare?

My first pint was in the Hare & Hounds and regular was the Hare also, in the Lorraine period when it was "open all hours".

I actually applied for a job working on the bar there when I was 17, we'd been drinking in there for a year or so regularly; she leant over the bar and whispered " it's one thing you lot drinking here at your age, but don't push your luck - working here till you're 18".

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First pub, first local on 21:38 - Oct 26 with 1938 viewsEllDale

I think that the Brunswick has a royal connection following the Hanoverian succession; I believe one of Queen Victoria’s family held the title Duke of Brunswick.
Other similar pub names were the Prince Albert, the Duke of Clarence, the Princess Royal, the George and the Dagmar.
Don’t ask me about the derivation of the Bishop Blaize or the Bonnie Dundee though!
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First pub, first local on 21:55 - Oct 26 with 1910 viewssince58

First pub ,the Windmill ,Sudden
First local the Weavers Arms . Ashfield Road.
John Willie Lees . 1 shilling and ten pence in the tap room
2 bob in the snug and best room. Muriel on the piano tho
Saturday night.
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