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Beso
07-02-2025, 08:13 PM
Late 14 or early 15 for me.

Old bessy, one of the local landpersons used to rub your chin, and if you were stubbly enough you got served.

Got caught by PC Purcell at 16 drinking a pint once. The l8cal bobby and my school mates dad.

He took the pint away for evidence. Probably drank it. I just walked back in the pub and asked for another. They obliged!

Crimson Dynamo
07-02-2025, 08:32 PM
16

Beso
07-02-2025, 08:34 PM
16

Double whiskey?
Lager tops?
70 shilling?
Pale ale?
Cider n black?

Livia
07-02-2025, 08:40 PM
14. West Ham Supporters Club and the Boleyn, for those who know the area. I'm quite tall, that helped.

Beso
07-02-2025, 08:57 PM
14. West Ham Supporters Club and the Boleyn, for those who know the area. I'm quite tall, that helped.



Was the Queens reserved back then?

Niamh.
07-02-2025, 09:06 PM
I looked really young as a teen, I hated it. I went to pubs around 16 but one of our group always looked older and she bought the drinks

Beso
07-02-2025, 09:11 PM
I looked really young as a teen, I hated it. I went to pubs around 16 but one of our group always looked older and she bought the drinks


What's she(or he) doing now? Prison officer:shrug:

Redway
07-02-2025, 09:52 PM
17 and 3/4. I didn’t really push it. Blue WKD from all the milk-bars in my ends did me ’til I was more-or-less 18.

Crimson Dynamo
07-02-2025, 09:59 PM
14. West Ham Supporters Club and the Boleyn, for those who know the area. I'm quite tall, that helped.

50p to get in, spent many years there before every home game

Beso
07-02-2025, 10:03 PM
17 and 3/4. I didn’t really push it. Blue WKD from all the milk-bars in my ends did me ’til I was more-or-less 18.



The Adrian's moles head. Down bishopsgate market?:blush:

Niamh.
07-02-2025, 10:11 PM
What's she(or he) doing now? Prison officer:shrug:[emoji23] she's still one of my best buddies and actually now we all look the same age

Beso
07-02-2025, 10:18 PM
[emoji23] she's still one of my best buddies and actually now we all look the same age


She deserves a free night for the next get together:hee:

LaLaLand
07-02-2025, 10:23 PM
15. Always been really tall and large set so seemed older.

Beso
07-02-2025, 10:26 PM
15. Always been really tall and large set so seemed older.

Like miranda hart :shrug:

Niamh.
07-02-2025, 10:39 PM
She deserves a free night for the next get together:hee:She's had many :love:

bots
07-02-2025, 10:50 PM
i celebrated my 18th at my local having been a regular there for 3 years already :laugh:

Beso
07-02-2025, 11:31 PM
i celebrated my 18th at my local having been a regular there for 3 years already :laugh:

I did the same...well sort off.

Celebrated my 17th and got that loud about it, the owner found out.. you cheeky wee bugger! You've been drinking in here for months

Was popular enough at that age for him to build a little shelf below the table for me to prop my pint on. The legend that is Bud Flannigan, or Ian as he likes to be called at the races.

A friend I disappointed in 87, but came together again in 23 where he helped me out again with a squeegie and a shammy.

Seems ages ago now

Beso
07-02-2025, 11:35 PM
She's had many :love:

Looking that old, she probably did back in the day as well.

wont be getting said from me, that's for sure:nono:

AnnieK
08-02-2025, 12:06 AM
I looked really young as a teen, I hated it. I went to pubs around 16 but one of our group always looked older and she bought the drinks

My best friend is a year older than me but looked really young. She wasn't a big fan of clubbing but once came out with us and was asked for ID which she didn't have on her. I knew the bouncers as we were regulars and said "it's OK, she's with me" and they let her in. I was 16 but always looked older and I gloated like mad. She said at the time. "Just wait till we're 40 and I still look 30, you'll be gutted then". I was :bawling: She still looks years younger than her age :laugh:

Redway
08-02-2025, 12:06 AM
The Adrian's moles head. Down bishopsgate market?:blush:

What are you saying?

Beso
08-02-2025, 01:42 AM
What are you saying?

Dont worry, its not a euphemism.