Seems as little else in happening in our football world lets continue in the nostalgic vein.

My first underage drink was in the Astronaut pub in Billingham, aged about 14 and was a half of lager.

Woodcutter aged 15. Pint of Norseman if I recall!

Pint of Trophy in the Pink Domino.

Pint in the mill house aged 14 then onto the engineers disco 12p a pint 1971


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Prinny Helena at 14 years old, was more like a youthy in there.

Or can I count the times when me and the lads from school used to go to the baths and when we had finished we would go to the offy to buy some cider. The only reason we got away with it was because one of us looked about 25 when we were actually only 13.

Top marks for anyone who can guess the identity of our old looking cider pimp, I'll give you a clue: He didn't go to Dyke House.

Greensides when I was about 16

Aged 14 at The Old Dungeon Ghyll while at School Camp in Langdale.

Half a dozen of us sneaked out to the pub and our first drink in an iconic real ale pub...........Newcy Broon!!

We got rumbled by a few of the teachers who turned up for a few pints and to their eternal credit they bought us all a proper pint of Jennings Sneck Lifter.

Emporium I think?

Travs circa 2005 when i was 15/16. First legal pint in the lodge.

Same here Greensides.............Lager and lime wtf !!!

Malones....circa 1987...15...half of Guinness

I think we can see the age demographic here by some of the places mentioned!

park hotel 1976 pint of strongarm(about 22p)paid half fare on the bus

age 16

Hope & Anchor, Greatham, 1972. Aged 17 ( I looked about 9 ) Lager n lime (Skol) Tasted shit but I managed to drink it all.

First working mans club was Owton Manor could get 8 pints and a bag of crisps and still stagger home with change from a Quid Happy days

Prince Andrew bought my sister's first underage drink. They met by chance after a middle-aged man gave her some free tickets for a holiday in the Virgin islands.

Hope you are not implying our wonderful Royals don't do a marvellous job for this glorious nation...

Such a slur is frowned upon around here.

Guinness aged 14.

Mate was shocked we actually got served, panicked at chose the first thing he saw.

Pint of Tennants (spelling?) Super and Merrydown cider in my older brother's flat at 15.

Half pint* room in the Grange after night school.

*Just in case we didn't like it.

I remember being about 10 year old and my dad left a bottle of JD on the kitchen work top, I opened it and had a swig thinking I was clever and it felt like my mouth was on fire, eyes watering the lot! The stuff is still rank now even when i'm older.

Can of Kestrel Lager....ahh, those were the days !!!

15- Duke of Edinburgh hike, Castleton.
First in town, the Woodcutter. It was always there for the young uns.

TMS? to tunstall youth centre disco no doubt.

not far wrong there like

Pint of Strongarm in the Causeway aged about fifteen.

If its a drink from the offy, then one Tuesday night when I was about 14 a Pools night match got called off late on, and one of the lads suggested we spend our entrance money on Newky Brown instead. Obtained from the offy off Murray Street. Got lifted by the police about half an hour later down an alley off York Road.

Carling, 5th Avenue 96'

Evenwood Social Club aged 15. Free pint check so ordered a pint of Vaux Samson. I even did the deep voice when I ordered!

Churchills when I was 16 for the first pint I bought myself. Fosters, quid a pint.

The North Eastern probably about 1988....Lager....urgh!!!!

First time I was ever drunk/palatic....New Years 1985 or 86....drank nearly a full bottle of this horrible stuff....



I can't even look at the stuff these days without feeling sick....even the smell of whisky makes me bork!!!!

In the early/mid 80's us down Flamboro use to nick 24 packs of Hansa from the Brewery which they kept outside in their yards....tasted like piss from what I can remember!!!!

Mine was in the Woodie. Two policemen appeared while we were happily knocking back our beer, and started asking people's names, addresses and ages. My friend put back our birth-days a year, and the police didn't check up. So, thanks friend. My mam would have had a stroke if she'd found out.

The North Horns, now called the Twesledown, Fleets, Hants.

Castlemain xxxx was rocket fuel that night

A pint of ? (Strongarm maybe) in the Catcote. 1974 aged 16.

So, to sum this thread up, it appears there's not a single Bunkerite who waited the full monty before embarking on the loony juice.

Does anybody?.. Its a rule made to be broken ,

We are all hartlepudlians after all so its no surprise really

Mine was after GCSE results at 16 in the sports bar as being a midget I couldnt get served anywhere else I think had two or three pints went back to mates to get ready and back to Sports bar. The women on bar on return wouldnt serve me but her collegue said we where in earlier so they did again I think I had one more and then tried to walk to Church Street to wonkey donkey and fell on my face. Mates put me in taxi and then I got a bollocking of my dad.

The usual drinking place of Brinky college I think i was in there drinking with you after A'levels but then went to sports bar and as usual I signed out after about 5 pints and then had to be propped up all night by Mampi

Pub in Blackpool just before the game where Andy Saville scored 'that' goal.

Was always the case, remember organising a college party in Odessa, £1 an aftershock, everyone was absolutely ruined.

1973; aged 15; Park Hotel on a Friday night. Drinking Strongarm.

Two policemen walked in and marched straight over to where we were sitting; result was four of us in juvenile court where we were fined for 'buying', but let off for 'drinking'.

And did it stop us?

Yeah, we moved to the 'Cutter (for the pebbledash inducing Exhibition) and the Greensides for the Strongarm.....

Royal Oak at 14 and a half.Samson or Strongarm, largest teeny mob in the town..