There is a lack of venues other than pubs these day, by that I mean clubs, Mecca, L.A. call it what you like, was a magnet for all age groups to dance until early hours. Tower had its fans is no more, Circus Circus although a pub has been closed for years, Spencers Arms when I went there, Baileys long gone. Belive it or not the oldies also liked a night out that's why L.A.'s was popular, was it grab a granny night when the place was packed? Waterfront had taken the helm for nights out at one time but not sure what the place is today. I sometimes pass through town late at night coming home from work and right up to Friday nights most of the main streets are quiet, very quiet. There are nights I have seen Dram Shop and Punch both closed only Amiral On The Humber seems to be doing ok. Although I am not well up on todays club scene the only one I know about is Welly and I don't think you will get a grab a granny night there
Bit late to this feed but wasn't Trog bar the place that some guy shot half his own face off. That was before the film of the same name! All I remember otherwise is that it was one of the pubs or bars that played rock music, like Georgian and Rugby before it went conversation only.
Bit late to this feed but wasn't Trogg bar the place that some guy shot half his own face off. That was before the film of the same name! All I remember otherwise is that it was one of the pubs or bars that played rock music, like Georgian and Rugby before it went conversation only.
======= We use to go in there ....hide a bottle of gin / vodka under table....drink coke...and end up pissed.....( having topped up coke with vodka Gin or what ever my mate could nick out of his parents pub ( the bluebell inn ) I once got off with a bird in there.....bonked her in C+A doorway.....then went in Tony's the next night to boast about it only to discover half the pub had shagged her that week. I'm sure I got clap off her.....grrrr
Yes i think you are correct in that, although i can't remember any of the details about it. Maybe it was Lasers by then though
I'm not surprised you got the clap off her, giving her one in C&As doorway.... You wouldn't get clap in Hammonds doorway, far too upmarket for that....
When Trogg Bar opened it had good groups on but the bar service was terrible and they watered down the beer so we would buy packs of beer from shops and go in the public bar and through the shared toilets and into the Trogg Bar. After a while they used to put a bouncer in the toilet to stop that.
Do you remember that "Indian" take away on the opposite side of George Street, down the steps in the basement. ****ing awful, but I still went there every week!
Ye that place was dodgy as **** but i too was like a moth to a flame!! On Trogg Bar, Mel Shally used to be in charge of the doormen, he was a mate of my old mans. They used to attack in a pack and used to all rush over to Dram if there was trouble there too. A mate of my brothers got blindsided by one of em one weekend. The next weekend about 30 of us, I was only 17 and ****ting myself, all went into Trogg and he called out this one bouncer. He beat the **** out of him outside, none of the others lifted a finger.
difference in them days was last orders at 11 and then unless you went home everyone went onto a night club what was the name of that club opposite trogg bar which got burnt down it had telephones on the tables. I loved it first club for me was Romeos then peppermint park and later on waterfront
I loved the Trogg bar. It was just so different. Service was awful. We went in on New Year's Eve and got served once in an hour and a half. We went to the off licence near home, bought a bottle of rum and drank that instead. There was one barmaid in there who would have neen bout twenty, who plucked her eyebrows out and replaced them with an eyebrow pencil line. I thought she was wonderfully exotic. Now I wonder about that! I first encountered Stella Artois there. It was about 1974 and a pint of it was 49 pence. That doesn't sound much till you realise I was earning a tenner a week and paying tax on that! Hull Brewery Bitter was about 13 pence at the time and Mild was even cheaper. Worthington E was about 14 pence. Double Diamond was 15 pence. We never went in the Brewery pubs as we thought the beer was awful. They had some good music on there. I saw Thurston Binns perform in the Trogg. Anybody remember him?
