If Davenports Beer at Home were still in business I think they would be runoff their feet,
While I am extremely disappointed to say that I recognise your reference to Davenports Beer at Home, and the realisation that it indicates that I am also of a certain vintage, there are modern equivalents: https://www.beerhawk.co.uk/blog/pos...urce=Beer Hawk&dm_i=265V,6THXN,1JDECW,RB80S,1If Davenports Beer at Home were still in business I think they would be runoff their feet,
Parky, think their head office was your part of the world,If Davenports Beer at Home were still in business I think they would be runoff their feet,
Yes, about 8 miles away in Birmingham, Camel.Parky, think their head office was your part of the world,
Always remember on a night out at Shepherds Bush and I had a walk down in to Weet Kensington I went in this pub and said a pint of that which was SKOL lager, I paid a quid for that pint back home it was 55p a pint,If the landlord kept his beer right Brew XI was a lovely pint Camel.
It was the beer of choice for young dudes before cold draught lager became really popular.
I was on a night out at White City / Shepherds Bush lorry park and as a few of us were heading to the green for a pint we saw the stars coming out of the stage door of the theater where Wogan was broadcast from.Always remember on a night out at Shepherds Bush and I had a walk down in to Weet Kensington I went in this pub and said a pint of that which was SKOL lager, I paid a quid for that pint back home it was 55p a pint,
I always remembering being in the bush pub and the cast from 'It aint half hot mum' came kn Windsor D avis certainly like his pint of bitter, on another occasion I ended up in the BBC theatre watching James Burke (do you rememder him) doing his programme based on science, another. character I saw in one of the pubs on sherpherds bush green was the guy from the James Bond film "Odd Job" he was only short but I thought I better not tell him that,I was on a night out at White City / Shepherds Bush lorry park and as a few of us were heading to the green for a pint we saw the stars coming out of the stage door of the theater where Wogan was broadcast from.
We saw Kate Bush and Victoria Principal off Dallas come out.
We never saw that at the Tunnel Motel, my usual London stopover near to the Blackwall tunnel, but at least it had it's own bar.
Can't remember what beer they sold though, Watneys I think.
I used to pass by the Trumans brewery quite often back in the day DD.Us South London boys drank Bass Charrington or Young’s Ordinary. All gone. Watneys? Remember the joke about a young couple in a punt? Thank goodness we have had Camra for a number of years and many micro breweries have sprung up. Working in London the Truman brewery in Brick Lane was good. Anyone seen Newcastle Brown Ale in the bottles?
I spent first 18 years in Stechford,cant't understand why so many of us leftAs we are reminiscing a little, my first 18 years of life were spent living 150 yds from the Stirrup cup pub in sheldon, Birmingham, from the age of 10 ish until 14 ish the landlord had 2 sons the same age, there was a room there that was only used on Saturday evening for the weekly singalong, the 2 lads who lived at the pub were very popular and the room was used for 6 days a week as a play ground for probably 8 young lads, even at our tender age we got the taste for a beer or two, it sounds pretty revolting now but our tipple of choice was whatever drip tray had some in, the landlord would lock up after lunchtime session and not empty the drip trays until getting ready for evening opening, any still left in the drip trays then would be poured in to the M&B mild, a practice used by all pubs that eventually got banned due to health and safety I assume, never did any of us boys any harm, a popular drink I seem to remember was brown and mild which was half mild and a bottle of Mann’s brown, happy happy days.
BP
I spent first 18 years in Stechford,cant't understand why so many of us left
When I got married in 1974 (to my now ex wife) we bought a house in Hobmoor Rd, Yardley near to the Yew Tree pub.I used to go to Stechford baths in summer holidays, we would be there every day and usually got in free by climbing wall/fence around the outdoor pool, wearing just our trunks, good days, I had lots of mates in stechford, my brother in laws dad had a butchers shop and a green grocers right opposite the baths, I think it was just called Dangerfields Butchers, such a long time ago it’s only when something jogs a distant memory you think about it. I moved to daventry due to getting married and easy to get a house there, getting the house is a tale in itself for another day.
BP