First Cov pub you had a drink in (4 Viewers)

[hill83]

Do they manage to get served and into pubs and places like that?

No. I was just pointing out that kids these days are massive.
I still get asked for I.D all the time myself and I'm 34, so they'd have no chance.

 

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[Nick]

No. I was just pointing out that kids these days are massive.
I still get asked for I.D all the time myself and I'm 34, so they'd have no chance.

I haven't been asked for ID for ages

You would think they could get into the shitter local pubs, working mans clubs rather than going all in at the city arms or spongate.

 

[LastGarrison]

The Penny Black in town when I was about 16

Been knocked down years and not actually sure what is there nowadays.

 

[clint van damme]

Not sure but probably the Albany in Earlsdon.
Mad to think how lax the pubs were back then.

 

[fernandopartridge]

The Penny Black in town when I was about 16

Been knocked down years and not actually sure what is there nowadays.

The building is still there mate, student digs isn't it? Think it was a HiFi shop for a while...

Funny really, think there are as many places where I've drank that are now closed down as there are open, in the space of 18 years.

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[eastwoodsdustman]

That's part of the fun, if you can't all get in to the good places you just go to some shitholes where they aren't bothered and will happily overcharge you for shit beer.

You have to try to see if you can, then give it the act that you have left your ID at home, back in the day people used to use other people's ID and get in even if they didn't really look like them.

That's what I told them all. We were always in Studio 21 at 16 as we knew we'd get in and get served.

 

[LastGarrison]

The building is still there mate, student digs isn't it? Think it was a HiFi shop for a while...

Funny really, think there are as many places where I've drank that are now closed down as there are open, in the space of 18 years.

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I meant to put closed down. :bag:

Remember the HiFi shop just couldn't remember what was there now but you're right it is student digs. Should have guessed really. (Bloody students, repeat to fade).

I know what you mean but at least there is a bit of a resurgence going on at the moment with lots more opening up in town but your days of your traditional city centre pubs like The Penny Black, Alhambra etc. are long gone!

 

[clint van damme]

The Alhambra was a great City pub. Loved it in there pre game and after away games, (shut after home games, this was before all day opening).

 

[fernandopartridge]

The Alhambra was a great City pub. Loved it in there pre game and after away games, (shut after home games, this was before all day opening).

That was my first town pub also aged 14 (a week after the Binley Oak).

The crackdown on pubs serving underage kids is possibly counter productive. Instead of drinking in a more controlled environment, kids easily get hold of very cheap drink from off licenses and end up drinking on the streets causing untold grief.

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[Grendel]

I’m so old I’ve forgotten it’s name. A dodgy establishment at the front of the arcade which happily served 15 year olds with no ID

 

[clint van damme]

I’m so old I’ve forgotten it’s name. A dodgy establishment at the front of the arcade which happily served 15 year olds with no ID

Thistle? What a boozer. Like it had been lifted straight off a street corner in Scotland and dropped in Coventry. Loved the place.

 

[wingy]

I’m so old I’ve forgotten it’s name. A dodgy establishment at the front of the arcade which happily served 15 year olds with no ID

The Thistle?

 

[bringbackrattles]

Jolly Colliers pub on Woodway Lane. Aged 15 and drank pints of mild. The landlord knew I and my mates were at Caludon Castle school, but still served us.

 

[hill83]

 

[bringbackrattles]

The Climax pub was on the left on this picture,the Thistle further down.

 

[Grendel]

The Thistle?

Ha! Yeah that’s it. Than to the place that is now some kind of strip club ironically at the time named the Climax I think?

 

[hill83]

The Climax pub was on the left on this picture,the Thistle further down.

Now a dodgy strip club.

 

[hill83]

Well worth getting on here

A History of the Pubs of Coventry

 

[bringbackrattles]

The Alhambra was a great City pub. Loved it in there pre game and after away games, (shut after home games, this was before all day opening).

Every Xmas Eve for years a load of us met in the Alhambra, then on to a pub crawl in the town centre. Great crack !

 

[Sky_Blue_Daz]

My parents ran The hope and anchor, the climax and the codrington between the late 70s and finished in 94.

So I used to sneak the odd bottle of Holstein pils when I was 15, the first pub I went into was the Smithfield hotel, bottles of autumn gold cider was about 80p

 

[Si80]

Craftsman at 16 most Sunday evenings till the bellend of a barman questioned one of my mates who wasn’t quick enough with his false age so kicked us out.

Drank at the Standard working men’s club from a much younger age though as part of the men’s hockey team.

 

[bringbackrattles]

Looking back our city centre was lively and loads of places to go. Now there's not a lot.

 

[Sick Boy]

Can't remember now but I was 13 or 14, I started shaving when I was 11 so never got asked for ID.

 

[Grendel]

Coventry cross another classic place

 

[Nick]

Can't remember now but I was 13 or 14, I started shaving when I was 11 so never got asked for ID.

Obviously shaved upwards from the start!

 

[Sick Boy]

Obviously shaved upwards from the start!

Haha I could grow a full beard at 14.

 

[jimmyhillsfanclub]

Can't be sure as my first pint ever was a couple years before but first pint in Coventry was almost definitely the binley oak....

 

[clint van damme]

Looking back our city centre was lively and loads of places to go. Now there's not a lot.

everyone used to moan about it but looking back it was very vibrant, (albeit a bit violent at times). I think the lack of night clubs was peoples main bug bear as finishing the night in a night club was pretty much compulsory back then but Brum was only up the road and always good for a late night.

 

[clint van damme]

Well worth getting on here

A History of the Pubs of Coventry

Beerhouses!! Great term for a boozer.

 

[I_Saw_Shaw_Score]

Probably City arms at 14, ikon/diva at 14 was my first club I got into (1st day of Euro 2004 Greece beat Portugal) I drank absinthe in the afternoon for my one and only time! Memories!!
I was just one of the faces in the crowd in my year at school the 2 'popular' girls of my year were in there with some blokes, saw me told loads in my year and the following Monday for one day only I was the cool kid of the year.

 

[Otis]

Haha I could grow a full beard at 14.

Funnily enough, so could my sister.

 

[clint van damme]

Probably City arms at 14, ikon/diva at 14 was my first club I got into (1st day of Euro 2004 Greece beat Portugal) I drank absinthe in the afternoon for my one and only time! Memories!!
I was just one of the faces in the crowd in my year at school the 2 'popular' girls of my year were in there with some blokes, saw me told loads in my year and the following Monday for one day only I was the cool kid of the year.

you'll always be one of the cool kids to me I_S_S_S!!

 

[I_Saw_Shaw_Score]

you'll always be one of the cool kids to me I_S_S_S!!

Haha cheers mate, I've learnt life's definitely a marathon not a sprint in terms of popularity/being remembered etc....legend at 14 doesn't count for much years down the line!

 

[clint van damme]

Haha cheers mate, I've learnt life's definitely a marathon not a sprint in terms of popularity/being remembered etc....legend at 14 doesn't count for much years down the line!

You wouldn't have made it much past 14 if you'd carried on drinking absinthe - evil gear! I nearly got ran over the night we got relegated from the prem drinking that shit.

 

[Houchens Head]

My first pint was in the Summerland Tavern in the Butts. I was about 14 or 15 and if I recall, it cost 1/11d (just under 10p!). My mate, who was the same age as me, went up to the bar and got served coz he looked a lot older than me! And just going on from this, I had my first ciggie aged 11. I'd wagged school (for the umpteenth time) and ended up spending my week's dinner money on 10 Embassy and a book of matches. (Half-a-crown piece in a fag machine on the wall outside a shop!) It must have taken me a bloody week to smoke them! I've given up now though!