how does a beever almost become a lion....?

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Grumpyoldsod said:
Ah memories - used to go pub crawling down the OKR in my youth (many decades ago) could never get from one end to the other before I was either

a) sick
b) sicker
c) got so pissed I forgot what I was doing
d) got beaten up
e) arrested
and my favorite
f) chatted up some bird and went back to her place.........






only to get a slap from her old man.


Those were the days:biggrin:
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I remember (just) the night before my eighteenth birthday, a mate and i tried to have drink in every pub in the OKR. Started at the Brick and ended, ignominiously, at Canal Bridge. Do any of you know how many pubs there were in the OKR in the fifties? Bloody lots of 'em. Finished at a boozer I can't remember the name of, used to be the entrance to the old tram depot, then went to the 'hole in the wall' opposite the Dun Cow for some chips and a wally. Sick? Christ, i nearly signed the pledge there and then. And we weren't even half way!

Those were the days? Right, but I've grown up a bit since then.
 
I believe we counted them once and it was over a hundred from the Brick to New Cross Gate. 'course a lot of them have gone now. I just remembered the last pub on my journey, it was the Shard Arms on the corner of OKR and St James' Road.
 
I remember my uncle saying if anyone told you they'd done the entire pub crawl they were speaking to you through a 'medium'.
 
brisbane-lion said:
I believe we counted them once and it was over a hundred from the Brick to New Cross Gate. 'course a lot of them have gone now. I just remembered the last pub on my journey, it was the Shard Arms on the corner of OKR and St James' Road.
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Plenty would have done by now but again Brissie, it's less than you think <ok>
 
Showoff said:
I remember my uncle saying if anyone told you they'd done the entire pub crawl they were speaking to you through a 'medium'.
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My old man told me years ago that the best he ever managed was about half way back the other side, he was having a game of arrows in one pub that I can't remember the name of now and the dart board fell down on his head but he didn't remember it until the next morning with the massive bump on his head as he was so pissed! <laugh>
 
Used to go down the Thomas A'Beckett and do a bit of boxing (not very good mind u was always leading with my chin) and quite a few times saw Henry Cooper in there training for one of his fights against Ali or Cassius Clay as he was then - magic
 
Grumpyoldsod said:
Used to go down the Thomas A'Beckett and do a bit of boxing (not very good mind u was always leading with my chin) and quite a few times saw Henry Cooper in there training for one of his fights against Ali or Cassius Clay as he was then - magic
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My Grandfather used train as boxer there and fight in the Blackfriars ring - now its reopend as ****ing bar & club for the locals!!!!

http://www.thomasabecket.com/
 
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