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Your first pint/cherryB/gin & it/etc (delete as applicable)

in a pub on kingsbury road, got a brand new pair of high heeled suede boots on, thought i looked the bees knees, i was sick all over them, never been in a pub in suede shoes since.
patti, my aunt and uncle used to be licensees at the golden cross must have been in the 60s Jim and Norah Kiernon.
 
only went there occasionaly to see my aunt and uncle, I notice you used to live inn holte road, they also used to keep the Holte, i think that was after the golden cross.
 
Anne my parents were not pub goers but I remember the people who owned the Holte had the biggest dog I have ever seen in my life. He was even pictured in our evening mail. Did they have a son?. Jean.
 
Hello Just read your story about Henry's - I remember the shop well and it was in Dale End.
I notice you lived in Alum Rock and I also grew up there. I havent spoken to anyone else from The Rock so it would be nice to know where you lived etc. and the school you went to. I went to Nansen Road.
WendyP
 
I remember having a cherry b at work one Christmas in the offices of the Council House in Birmingham and I fell down the steps from top to bottom afterwards. I have never drank since!!
 
wendyP said:
Hello Just read your story about Henry's - I remember the shop well and it was in Dale End.
I notice you lived in Alum Rock and I also grew up there. I havent spoken to anyone else from The Rock so it would be nice to know where you lived etc. and the school you went to. I went to Nansen Road.
WendyP
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Hi Wendy,
I was born at 29 Foxton Road in 1948. I went to Nansen as well. When I was about 8 we moved to Great Barr (delusions of grandeur - a semi!) but then we moved to 81 Foley Road in Ward End after a year or so (back to a terrace but the front room was a wool/drapery shop) and I went to Thornton Road and then Saltley Grammar. My paternal grandparents lived at 72 Woodwells Road for about 50 years. I also lived in Ludlow Road for a couple of years in the early 70s.
Cheers,
Stan
 
Hello Stan
Nice to hear from you. You moved around a bit didnt you? I lived in Reginald road (opposite the Rock Cinema) and went to Nansen Road all thro my school years. Just missed passing for Saltley Grammar!

Looks like you have moved away from Birmingham and live in Spain. I too have moved to Suffolk and love the peace and quiet.

Wendy
 
Hi everyone,

My first cherryb ?.. I can still taste it (yuk)

I was 15 years old and I worked for GPO , the telephone exchange I initially worked at was HillStreet but it closed and I was transferred to Sheldon Telephone Exchange (all high tech stuff!)

Christmas Eve arrived and I was working 10am to 6pm .. in lunch hour I was invited (by older telephonists) to go to Wheatsheaf pub. I drank 3 cherry b's , walked back up the Coventry road .. (or should say staggered) to work, I sat back on the switchboards and threw up all over them, I ran to toilets and I was convinced I was vomiting blood... how I ever got away with it is still a mystery , possibly because the GPO in those days felt they had a duty to their under 18's to look after them.

They sent me home in a Taxi (which they paid for!) , Dad couldn't hide his amusement at the fact i was drunk but Mom went crazy "you've lost a job you could have had for life"".. I was on duty the next day (xmas day) and I honestly did not think taxi would arrive for me .. but it did and I worked my 8am to 4pm with the first and worst hangover I ever experienced. The GPO never ever mentioned my drunken state ever again !

From that day on I heave at the very sight of Cherryb !
 
g g jean they used to have a great dane when they kept there first pub, the black horse on stratford road, but i am not sure whether they still had it at the holte, they had a son and daughter, colin & kathleen
 
A scotch and dry at the Britsh Leagion. College Road.

Next a Drambue [a lady had one so though I would try it] - ending up in the loo being sick - with my Dad taking me home :redface::redface: Miriam
 
Hi wendyP

Do you remember Robert, Sandra or Barbara Beasley, they lived in SHawhill Rd (just off Slade Road) ,, Robert (Beaky) used the Pelham Arms
 
I didn't live in Alum Rock, but worked with Sandra and Barbara Beasley and their mother - think her name was Winn, at Delta Metals, Dartmouth Street in the 1960s.
 
Oooh this is bringing back memories. I think my first drink was a Pink Lady & it would've been at the Broadway pub on Belchers Lane (we were down the road at Saltley Grammar in 6th form).
Then it was one vodka & lime on a Sunday night at the Rio (Yardley)!!! What wild days huh?lol
 
Dolphie said:
Oooh this is bringing back memories. I think my first drink was a Pink Lady & it would've been at the Broadway pub on Belchers Lane (we were down the road at Saltley Grammar in 6th form).
Then it was one vodka & lime on a Sunday night at the Rio (Yardley)!!! What wild days huh?lol
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Hello Dolphie.
Might I ask which years you were a Saltley sausage?
Stan
 
Aye Stan, you certainly can.........I was there 1968-75 & loved every minute. Were you a Saltley Sausage too??lol
 
Dolphie said:
Aye Stan, you certainly can.........I was there 1968-75 & loved every minute. Were you a Saltley Sausage too??lol
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Yep, 59-65, so our paths can't have crossed :(

Was that "Aye" a shortened "Why, aye", given your location? Have you gone native up there? "Gissa tab,man!"

Stan
 
Ooops, sorry Stan.lol........nah, still a proud Brummie at heart despite living up north for nearly 30yrs, but I am married to a Scotsman so words/accent/dialects have merged somewhat over time.

Returning to topic......the teachers would drink down the Pelham & we'd be up the Broadway so that our paths didn't cross.lol
 
el-stano said:
Hi Wendy,
I was born at 29 Foxton Road in 1948. I went to Nansen as well. When I was about 8 we moved to Great Barr (delusions of grandeur - a semi!) but then we moved to 81 Foley Road in Ward End after a year or so (back to a terrace but the front room was a wool/drapery shop) and I went to Thornton Road and then Saltley Grammar. My paternal grandparents lived at 72 Woodwells Road for about 50 years. I also lived in Ludlow Road for a couple of years in the early 70s.
Cheers,
Stan
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Hi Stan

I lived in William Cook Rd, which was a couple of roads up from Foley.
I remember there was an outdoor on the corner of Foley Rd and Morley Road, my Dad would send me there for his bottle on Nut Brown - I was under ten .....the good old days when anything went. There was a shop on the other side of the road called Len's I think it was a grocers and newsagent.

I also went to Thorton Road, my mom worked there as a dinner lady and playground patrol lady. You might remember her she was scottish and her name was Mrs Brown.

Regards
 
veegee said:
Hi Stan

I lived in William Cook Rd, which was a couple of roads up from Foley.
I remember there was an outdoor on the corner of Foley Rd and Morley Road, my Dad would send me there for his bottle on Nut Brown - I was under ten .....the good old days when anything went. There was a shop on the other side of the road called Len's I think it was a grocers and newsagent.

I also went to Thorton Road, my mom worked there as a dinner lady and playground patrol lady. You might remember her she was scottish and her name was Mrs Brown.

Regards
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Heh! I used to get sent for a jug of draught beer. My fee was a 2d packet of KP nuts. The news/grocery was Len Knapp's. He only had one hand and drove with a sort of ball-and-socket attachment. I never asked how he lost it, but I worried when he was slicing bacon. Later the shop was owned by the Sanders. I had a paper-round for several years. Mom's shop was next door to Len's. She sold wool, habberdashery and "ladies requisites", which was normally what was wanted whenever I answered the shop bell. The customer would always demand to see my Mom. I'm afraid I don't remember your Mom - it was more than 50 years ago...
Sorry, off-topic, folks.
Stan
 
I was in the RAF doing my "square bashing" at Cardington in Wiltshire, was sent some money from home for my 18th birthday and took a couple of mates and went in my first pub and bought my first round of drinks, I had a black velvet (guiness and Ale) and was later sick in the toilet, which put me off drink for a while, found later some one had added a whisky to my drink. This was June 1948. Eric
 
I was actually to scared to go in a pub, until a few months before my 18th, totally convinced they would know and turn me away,that would have been to embarrassing.
and then i only had a very weak shandy, On my 18th i went out with my sisters (older)
and was allowed a vodka lime, it wasn't great and i still dont rate the taste of alcohol
rather have a glass of pop.having said that i kept trying to acquire the taste for many years:beam:
 
i was married by then, with a small baby, so a drink was an occasional thing for me
i hope you enjoyed it liz
 
First drink, when I was about five and my parents had a dinner party and someone thought it would be nice to let me taste a BabyCham with a cherry on a stick and an umbrella! I rewarded them by apparently reciting every nursery ryhme I knew (and I knew quite a few believe me!) and then passing out!
 
I've been wracking my brains, but I just cannot remember when and where I bought my first drink :( - but I do recall drinking in a pub at Hill Top with my best mate, when two other youths were thrown out for being a tad noisy and under-age....they were about 16-17.....and my mate turned to me and said ''bloody fools; if only they'd behaved themselves'' - at which point we both sniggered into our beer - we were only fourteen!

The moral of the story being: learn to play the game!
 
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