[Drinking] Where did you go for an Underage Drink ?

[WATFORD zero]

The Mill House Easthill drive Portslade.

Not when I was serving in there, you wouldn't. Having just turned 18, I could tell to the month

 

[maresfield seagull]

Was that the one opposite Ardingly college? I remember a pal from that village introducing me to that place. An amazing place if you were 15/16, especially useful for pupils from the school opposite. Didn’t even need my dodgy ID!

Might have been The Avins Bridge ? that was further down from the college though Oak was in the village near the RBL club I think ?

 

[Silverhatch]

County Oak (Hollingbury), Shakespeare’s Head (Spring St) and Henekeys all at 15. By the time we were invited to leave secondary education - Shades, Abinger, Druids, Fleece, Sussex etc like most of Brighton from the late 70s onwards.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Not when I was serving in there, you wouldn't. Having just turned 18, I could tell to the month

Were you headhunted?

 

[WATFORD zero]

County Oak (Hollingbury), Shakespeare’s Head (Spring St) and Henekeys all at 15. By the time we were invited to leave secondary education - Shades, Abinger, Druids, Fleece, Sussex etc like most of Brighton from the late 70s onwards.

Do you remember the organist in Henekeys. I'm convinced that's where Ron Mael got his whole act from

 

[WATFORD zero]

Were you headhunted?

As we have ascertained on NSC a number of times, you would have to be a complete idiot not to have been. ....Oh

 

[drew]

Might have been The Avins Bridge ? that was further down from the college though Oak was in the village near the RBL club I think ?

Both gone now.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Might have been The Avins Bridge ? that was further down from the college though Oak was in the village near the RBL club I think ?

Ardingly Inn is opposite the RBL. The Oak is/was along the same road opposite a green. The Avins Bridge was the original Railway Hotel. Finally opposite the showground is the Gardners.

i lived in Ardingly for 13 years

Drinking wise Dog and Bacon Horsham aged 14

 

[pastafarian]

Ardingly Inn is opposite the RBL. The Oak is/was along the same road opposite a green. The Avins Bridge was the original Railway Hotel. Finally opposite the showground is the Gardners.

i lived in Ardingly for 13 years

Drinking wise Dog and Bacon Horsham aged 14

The Oak

 

[Silverhatch]

Do you remember the organist in Henekeys. I'm convinced that's where Ron Mael got his whole act from

Henekeys was the first place I ever bought a drink. The barmaid took pity on me and served me a pint of some piss weak bitter and I hid on the balcony with some older 5th years!

 

[LANGDON SEAGULL]

The Retreat in Peacehaven, and the Sheffield in Newhaven. Both now closed


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[maresfield seagull]

Ardingly Inn is opposite the RBL. The Oak is/was along the same road opposite a green. The Avins Bridge was the original Railway Hotel. Finally opposite the showground is the Gardners.

i lived in Ardingly for 13 years

Drinking wise Dog and Bacon Horsham aged 14

You are quite correct Ardinglee Inn opposite the RBL
and the Oak a short drop kick along the road toward Balcombe
[MENTION=5208]drew[/MENTION] is correct both the Oak ( might be a house / flats by now ) and Avins Bridge have gone As well as the White Hart ( now a house ) on the Turners Hill road

 

[BN9 BHA]

Could've been that

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Next to the station, unfortunately it has closed down now but there wasn’t any other pubs in Glynde

 

[swindonseagull]

Not when I was serving in there, you wouldn't. Having just turned 18, I could tell to the month

Rick Darimple ( spelling) was not fussed he would take anyones money....I joined the RAF in 79 so I guess would have been 77-78

 

[Sirnormangall]

The Green Dragon, tiny pub somewhere in the North Laines - age 14 ( landlord must have been desperate for business!).

 

[A mex eyecan]

Station @ Preston Park railway. , 76? . 17 yo

The Northern , London Road, 76-77, ? - friggin good band , Woodbine

 

[Super Steve Earle]

I didn't. It was against the law

 

[Seagulls over Essex]

The Green Jacket in Shoreham. Probably Dry Blackthorn.

Green Jacket and Swiss Cottage for me. 3 mates and I got thrown out of the Green Jacket once for being too rowdy and singing Beatles songs! We were about 17 at the time.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Rick Darimple ( spelling) was not fussed he would take anyones money....I joined the RAF in 79 so I guess would have been 77-78

Precisely,

You may remember that Rick had a bit of history with the Boys from across the water and consequently may remember Tony his head barman and minder. When I had to get something from Tony's room and found the shotgun under his bed, even as a somewhat cocky teenager, I thought maybe the time had come for a career change

If you want the correct spelling a nightclub in Brighton from around that time may give a clue.

 

[maresfield seagull]

Thinking about it now All the Lindfield pubs plus the previously mentioned Serge in HH and the Golden Eagle / Pilgrim ,& Ugly Duck and Cuckfields Wheatsheaf
Were all quite easy to get served in In the mid to late 80s as an underage drinker