Off Topic Bev

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Pricey spilled my pint said:
I moved to Beverley when I was 13 and spent 11 years there (moved out in 1998). The infrastructure was already beginning to creak back then - attempting to drive into town on a Saturday was a waste of time!
Great choice of shops, pubs restaurants etc, but just too many people for it's medieval street layout. More houses still being built now that the Southern bypass is in place.
If you avoided the market square pubs (Push, Kings Head & Green D) then you could generally avoid the pissed up squaddies.
It was a great place to spend my teenage/early 20's years, and it's a great night out, but I don't think I'd ever move back, given the choice.
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Squaddies are banned in a lot of places now due to the havoc caused so it's not really an issue now.
 
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bum_chinned_crab said:
No but there’s a Spoons.

Every single time I’ve been drinking in Beverley the threat of violence has been palpable. There always seems to be loads of squaddie-types itching for it, and it’s kicked off several times a night, every time.

Is it always like that or is it a coincidence that when I’m there, people get angry?
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It was quite bad about 15-20 years ago but squaddies aren't really an issue generally now from what I can gather. The most **** kicks off around 'ladies' day. Scary.
 
Carmine Galante. said:
Which battle cruisers are you frequenting Bummers?

I’ve never had that experience, then again maybe me and my mates are the (ex) squaddie types you talk of and it was me you were cack scared of.

Ya great big pansy.
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I haven’t got a clue.

I wasn’t scared, honest. I could’ve taken them all but I’d only just been accepted to the SAS and didn’t want to scupper it.

In all seriousness, people say how nice it is and my experience was it was rough as fook in the pubs.
 
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To summarize then:

- endemic random spontaneous street violence, mass brawls, men and women, mano a mano

- traffic gridlock and major infrastructure problems
 
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Pricey spilled my pint said:
I moved to Beverley when I was 13 and spent 11 years there (moved out in 1998). The infrastructure was already beginning to creak back then - attempting to drive into town on a Saturday was a waste of time!
Great choice of shops, pubs restaurants etc, but just too many people for it's medieval street layout. More houses still being built now that the Southern bypass is in place.
If you avoided the market square pubs (Push, Kings Head & Green D) then you could generally avoid the pissed up squaddies.
It was a great place to spend my teenage/early 20's years, and it's a great night out, but I don't think I'd ever move back, given the choice.
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Interesting that you said you wouldn’t move back.

Do you still live locally?
 
bum_chinned_crab said:
No but there’s a Spoons.

Every single time I’ve been drinking in Beverley the threat of violence has been palpable. There always seems to be loads of squaddie-types itching for it, and it’s kicked off several times a night, every time.

Is it always like that or is it a coincidence that when I’m there, people get angry?
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There's always some fool trying to bite your nose off...
 
Asterix said:
Nellie's lost its charm the day the marble table top went. Not least of all the biscuit tin till and washing up bowl for rinsing glasses
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In the early '60s Nellie's was ideal for underage drinking. Think the old biddies serving behind the marble-top table must have been shortsighted and a bit deaf (couldn't hear our squeaky voices) 'cos they always served us.
Haven't been in there for nigh on 50 years. Has it been tarted up - all glass and chrome ? Would be a shame. Always pop into Green Dragon in Beverley on my trips back home these days. Quite like the patio 'cos they have ashtrays.
T'other place we could get away with underage boozing was "Top House" on Prestongate in Hessle. Days long gone, full of happy memories.
 
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tigerscanada said:
In the early '60s Nellie's was ideal for underage drinking. Think the old biddies serving behind the marble-top table must have been shortsighted and a bit deaf (couldn't hear our squeaky voices) 'cos they always served us.
Haven't been in there for nigh on 50 years. Has it been tarted up - all glass and chrome ? Would be a shame.
T'other place we could get away with underage boozing was "Top House" on Prestongate in Hessle. Days long gone, full of happy memories.
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I doubt it’s even had a lick of paint since you last went in there.

It’s like something out of a Dickensian novel.

A proper ****hole.
 
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