Was my boozing haunt as a young lad. Lounge or bar...depending on if I was with my dad/lads or with the love of my life at the time. Pie, pint and brain heamorrhage on a Saturday night. (Cribbage/darts optional).

Long gone.......sorely missed. I might be going through a mid life crisis.

The Catty/shaky was my local also when wendy had it. Was in there 6 nights a week as an apprentice surviving on being good at pool. All games were £2 which was also a pint of Irish harp!!! Used to love it in there. Went right downhill after Wendy left and with the closure of the rift house ended up being rough as Fuck towards the end. You used to able to sit with anyone as everybody knew each other but at the end there was just different sets of crowds and was very intimidating. Still miss it though

I had my first pint in there in 1970,got hammered after six pints in an hour and a half. The hippies getting filled in at closing time,usually by Graham Stevenson. Peter Marsh was the pop of Jesus Christ. Come think of it he still looks the same now.

I used to go in there in the sixties.
It was a great pub with regular live music.
I remember climbing out of a window into the car park as a seventeen year old just as the bobbies entered the place.
Shame pubs like that have gone.

Double post.

"Shame pubs like that have gone", it was a hell hole. Granted I went in when I was in college, about 2000 - 2001 and it had just changed from the Catcote to the Shakespear but god it was awful.

I understand the whole nostalga thing but anyone saying it was a shame it had gone obviously hadnt been there in about 30 years.

I suppose me, pubey and yloop could say the wonkey donkey, the sports bar, churchills and the fly and jug were class back in the day, when infact they wernt and we only thought it was good as 1) you could get served and 2) it was cheap.

If it's your local though you see it alot differently. The carpets were shocking but when your in 6 nights a week it becomes a 2nd home

When was the pic taken bob?? Can't remember that shop at all

I get you there I still count the Warrior as my local when at home as all my mates still drink in there.

If you read my post again, young sir, you will find the the clue to my comments is in the word "sixties". What it was like forty years later I know not.
Pubs are dying all over the place. In the fifties and sixties they were opening new pubs all over the place.

If you read my post again, young sir, you will find the the clue to my comments is in the word "sixties". What it was like forty years later I know not.
Pubs are dying all over the place. In the fifties and sixties they were opening new pubs all over the place.

You can say that again!

That

Most of the "new" pubs had an off door attached. In those days supermarkets hardly existed and didn't sell booze and closed at 6pm. The off doors had strict opening and closing times and their prices were in line with the pubs. Hence people would rather go and get a pint of draught in the pub than buy a bottle in the offy.

MJ right would been mid 80s

I did !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The new pubs in the 60s/70s were nearly all obligatory-pub-in-new-estate models. Very few new town centre pubs: The Park, The Grange, can't think of any more. The Clansman was your obligatory-pub-in-the-new-shopping-centre. At the time, if a brewery didn't open a pub then nobody did.
Clubs on the other hand were sprouting up like mushrooms.

The Catcote is quite possibly the only pub from back then I never went to. No particular reason; it just never seemed to be on my way or interesting enough to draw me out of my way.

That pic brings a lump to my throat Fetish. I lived off Marlowe Road so the watering holes that were within staggering distance were the Catty..Rift House club..the Cathy club and the Pink Domino. There was another one that was newer near Owton Manor school that I didn't bother with. If I/we fancied a posh/cultured night out then we went to the Travs!!! The Catty was the first boozer that I had my first legal drink in 1976...bought by my dad.
Say what you want about the place....my memories of it are all happy ones.

The Hourglass was near the school,at one time ran by Norman and Jean who used to have the Rift House club,my mother worked at the club as a cleaner.The club was also ran by Maurice and ElsIe Jones at one time.

That was it....The Hourglass. Nice enough place....just the wrong side of Brierton Lane for us staunch Rifthousians.

Where did you live off Marlowe road.

worked in BMS from 79 to 80 which was the shop nearest the catcote for the younger ones who cant remember it was a halfords type shop selling car bits, it is now the sandwich shop

If you go onto the board called Hartlepool Internet and You Tube Stuff on here there's picture after picture of old pubs, just search pubs/drinking haunts then relive your youth

Like this from which is before many on here

The offy on the side will have shut in about 1990 by my reckoning.

It's a crying shame that so many pubs are closing down. They aren't places for the working man any more, it costs an arm and a leg to get a round in now.

I fear that in a couple of generation's time, the only pubs that exist will be in historical theme parks like Beamish or Blists Hill.

Like I said earlier I had my first drink there in 1970,and I'm sure where the shop door is was the entrance to the bar.

There was a few Goldfinch Wines in Hartlepool in the sixties,. Eventually they were bought out by a bigger chain and 'rationalised' in the seventies. There was another on the Fens shops when I was a sprog. We used to nick the empties from the back of the Fens Hotel and claim the money at Goldfinch Wines.

Im 31 and dont remember that place at all and I lived a minute away if that. I remember the vg though which was a offy wasn't it in oxy road??

called micks

A used to get videos there if memory serves me right

That used to be the Grammer Skool tuck shop (or whatever we called such purveyors at the time – probably baccy shop).
Can't for the life of me remember the owner's name though.

Yep, you could buy a loosie and a book of matches for 2p on your way to school. Usually a Players No10 or a No6, depending what he had open. He sold Woodbines in packs of five as well.

I can't remember his name either but me dad knew him but as he's long gone I'll probably never know.

I do remember his brother-in-law had a grocers on Cornwall Street though. Billy Lee?

Looked like that place off Open All Hours..

You sure you aren't getting mixed up with the "Micks" on the corner of Collingwood Road and Blake Street in the area we grew up in mate?

As for that off door next to the catty pub, i think that got shut about 1984 ish, my nana and grandad lived over the road and i used to spend every friday night at their house. My grandad used to go that offy to get his cigars on a friday and the catty was always heaving at tea time.

Your going back a few years Mick i remember you used to go in a room at the back of the shop for the video's and im sure he used to have a few bluey's under the counter.

What was the first video shop in the town was it ziggy's ??? i know Gerald Shotton had the first

I can remember the shop in Browning Avenue as I used to go there every day when at the 6th form college, its a Baptist Church now.

I remember the off door that used to be on the side of the warrior back in the day, in fact didnt nearly all pubs have a little shop on the side?

Rochdale.

[quote="poolie1966"]I can remember the shop in Browning Avenue as I used to go there every day when at the 6th form college, its a Baptist Church now.[/quote
wasnt the church round the corner from the shop and a seperate building.

Yes I think your correct.

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I remember the first two Betamax videos I watched. King Frat and Pussy Talk
I used to use Night Vision in Oxford Rd. There was also a place in Park Road opened just after Gotcha Covered shut down!

Catty shops had a video shop also around 92, i remember getting 1 of the karate kid films for bring good!!