I was a barman in Haworth around 1997. There was a good mix of students and locals who poured the beer there. George and Jeanette were the landlords at the time. We all had to have a 'Scream' induction in the function room when it came in. I mostly worked Friday and Sunday nights and even though I was sober (most of the time) it was like being paid for a night out. All the bar staff were mates and we knew most of the students and the locals at the time. I pulled a few of the customers and had a few free pints of the male ones! Great days! My nights went like this.. Pull up and park in my dad's Volvo 430 (or 440) on Beresford Ave. Go to Jacksons and get 8 tins of beer for a fiver (xxxx, fosters, heinekin or whatever). Go back to the car and drink one. Then into Haworth to start at 7pm. As you go through the revolver, the left bar was the old mans bar and the right was the student bar. Both would be rammed. You always wanted to work in the student bar. But if you got the old man's bar, you might be lucky in that if you were mates with the cook she'd leave you a load of chips in the pan in the kitchen. Made up for the boredom and lack of women in there ha. If you were really unlucky you'd get the function room bar when there was a do on. I ****ing hated getting that job. Serving booze at a birthday bash atop of Haworth was a pain in the arse! Hated it. Anyway, after the punters left it was sweep, wash, clean and you'd get away about 11:45. This was before the smoking ban so when I got in at midnight my clothes went on the washing line. They stunk and as a non-smoker, Roy Castle was always in my thoughts. Anyway, after that it was a bath, curried beans and egg on toast, 7 tins of beer and watching VHS Auf Weidersehen Pet. Great days!!! Anyway, just a little overview of my time there. Plenty stories and events in my head, but maybe best they stay there ha. I went in a couple of months back on a Friday. The old mans bar was shut (not serving) which was weird. And seeing the student bar staff in the student bit, half my age, was a shock. I wanted to tell them some tales but then I'd be a creepy old bar fly ha. Speaking of creepy, the cellar was said to be haunted. If I ever went in I was so close to ****ting myself it was in and out asap!!! But yeah, those were the days. Haworth, Gardeners, Turnpike/Main Event, Hockneys, Mainbrace and on. Shame Bev Rd is pretty much a ****hole now.
We generally got the bus into town and worked our way from Ferensway to Spiders, but on the night in question we took some blow out and felt we'd be safer starting at Haworth then walking from there. With twenty year olds logic, it seemed like a good idea at the time. We were looking for the footpath to which you refer but the alcohol/cannabis combo conspired against us and somewhat dazed and confused we decided to proceed as the crow flies by vaulting the gates of the tannery. It was coming out the other side that was our downfall. We didn't look before we leapt and as we scaled the far wall onto Bankside we were met by an oncoming patrol car. The fact that we looked like the ****ing Human League cut no ice with this copper who took my mate's rizla packet with the top ripped off as evidence of much wrongdoing. Accusing us of robbing the offices, he was not much taken with our excuse that we were simply en route to Spiders, nor with our demonstrable lack of hides, pickling vats, tubs of urine and whatever other ****e one could filch from a bleeding tanner's yard. Luckily the desk sergeant had more sense and having waited until all the clubs had closed, turfed us out into Queens Gardens.
Ha, I actually scanned it after I posted and thought 'of/off', they'll know what I mean but now I see how it looks
Re bev rd the pub run. In later years we worked out a good route. Start at Rising Sun then onto Pilot and Cross keys. Then bus to town and work way back from Lamp via Banks Harbour, Station, Bull, Rose, Dorchester, Cannon Junction, Bevvy etc. Then the finale was Gardeners/Haworth. Best way to do it in the 2000s
We just used to stamp each other with the scream ink stamp! Fill your guiness card and you got a Guinness t shirt mind
Yes, wonderful to see pubs full of people in Hull supporting Liverpool. The sorting it out on Queens car park replies came about because of a couple of posters on here having a difference of opinion with a gang of ****ers supporting Liverpool who were playing in the lunch time kick off when City were at home. When asked why they didn't support their local team the reply was they did - Rovers.
One consolation was that each one I'd ever been in seemed to have "Hangman" in it. That and Millionaire. Great quizzers.
