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

Those were the days

you knew how to live

 

Still do minxy - if you know what I mean

 

You never know even though you voted for me in the first week!

 

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.

 

Well lads here's a pub trivia question for you excusing the pun

How many pubs are on the OKR?

 

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'.

 

Plenty would have done by now but again Brissie, it's less than you think

 

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!

 

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

 

Meanwhile back from the nostalgia to the thread title...this is sounding very good:

http://www.newsatden.co.uk/9746-cen...hted-to-join-millwall-on-permanent-basis.html

Was with a Barnsley supporter today who knows Beevers and also Rhodes. He was impressed that we'd got him.

 

Bugger off, Digger. We're talking about the good old days when Millwall played at THE DEN

 

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/

 

Looks like a place Del Boy himself and Rodney would visit

 

Yeah cosmic

 

Like the funny club bar scene when he falls over the end of the bar

 

A la mode Rodney..... a la mode

 

**ck off yourself Brisbane.

I'm looking to the future - built on our past.

Don't see you regularly down the Den.

 

Send me the fare, you tight sod, and I'll be there every week