QuestionTime With PPB, Instead of Sir Robin Day .

[Newbridge Wolf]

T-Dan, used to use the New inns myself when I was 14, Cameron's lager 99p a pint, sorted for a fiver then of to Club Crush at the Venue, halycon days

Remember having my 18th birthday at the wheel in codsall and the landlord giving me a cigar and asking what birthday it was. I'd been drinking in there regular since I was 15, que a rather unconvincing reply of 'err 21?'

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

It was pints of Harp for something like £1.49 when I drank in there. I think most underage kids in Wolverhampton started out in the New Inn!

 

[Newbridge Wolf]

Obviously too much of a high roller for me! Harp there's a blast from the past.

Yes I suppose most of us went through the New Inns. I happened to go back there about 15 years ago, had to ask behind the bar for a key to the toilet, pretty sad really

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

Obviously too much of a high roller for me! Harp there's a blast from the past.

My lavish lifestyle of drinking dodgy lager in dodgy pubs was council funded. I had a Saturday job at the children's library in town.

 

[FrankMunro-371]

Both, depending on time available.

I do not take sugar, but milk in last.

T Shirt

First gig, erm possibly Black Sabbath in Birmingham.

Not sure how older I was when I had my first taste of alcohol, but as my Father was a publican in the late sixties, I suppose I would have been about 16. But not sure to be honest.

 

[PPB]

T-Dan, used to use the New inns myself when I was 14, Cameron's lager 99p a pint, sorted for a fiver then of to Club Crush at the Venue, halycon days

Remember having my 18th birthday at the wheel in codsall and the landlord giving me a cigar and asking what birthday it was. I'd been drinking in there regular since I was 15, que a rather unconvincing reply of 'err 21?'

The Wheel in Codsall was also where I had my first drink in a pub, also aged 15. After that it was either The Woodman, Wheel, or The Crown. Sneaking out down the pub on a Sunday,then back home to decide whether to do your homework or not. Terrible really!!

 

[Newbridge Wolf]

The Wheel was my local, drank in there until they knocked it down, nearly literally. Of course I used the Crown and Bull, ended up in the Crown as the main haunt never got on in the bull as I used to enjoy myself, something that was always frowned upon in the bull.

The woodie was never really my pub, although I spent 6 months in exile there when the Crown was shut and I was outrageously barred from the Bull....

 

[PPB]

The Wheel was my local, drank in there until they knocked it down, nearly literally. Of course I used the Crown and Bull, ended up in the Crown as the main haunt never got on in the bull as I used to enjoy myself, something that was always frowned upon in the bull.

The woodie was never really my pub, although I spent 6 months in exile there when the Crown was shut and I was outrageously barred from the Bull....

Never really liked the Bull either. But between all those pubs mentioned, they saw all of my pocket money!

 

[PPB]

How much pocket money did your parents used to give you when you were growing up, or did you have to get a weekend job to get pocket money?

 

[leedswolf]

I got 2s 6d from my parents and 2 bob off one of my grans during the mid 60s. When I got older I did a morning paper round for 12s a week then added an evening round to it before I helped deliver the morning milk for £5 a week!!!!!!!

 

[PPB]

How much pocket money did your parents used to give you when you were growing up, or did you have to get a weekend job to get pocket money?

Saturday & Sunday mornings from 8-2,I used to work at Tyningham Nursing Home in Claregate for 5 quid. Washing up in the kitchen, and writing letters to family for the old folks who were unable to hold a pen.

 

[Freddeno]

I got 100 swedish crowns per month..but got additional if needed

 

[PPB]

I got 100 swedish crowns per month..but got additional if needed

How much is that in proper money?

 

[Freddeno]

100 crowns is like 12 dollars in todays value..back then was much more

 

[The Bear]

I think I got £15 per week from my parents. I'm not sure though.

I do remember when I got a paper round it was £11 per week. That was for the evening paper every day and the Sunday mornings, which was a bloody heavy round!

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

£2.50 a week. But we are talking late seventies so it went a fair distance. I could buy a pack of airfix soldiers and a load of sweets from the model shop and sweet shop next door in Sandbach and have change from a pound.

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

I used to get £11 from my paper round and £5 pocket money. It all went on CDs and concert tickets.

 

[FrankMunro-371]

I got 3 shillings in pocket Money, but if I got in trouble at school then I could kiss goodbye to that...

 

[leedswolf]

£2.50 a week. But we are talking late seventies so it went a fair distance. I could buy a pack of airfix soldiers and a load of sweets from the model shop and sweet shop next door in Sandbach and have change from a pound.

I can remember when Airfix kits started from about 2 bob!

 

[Deleted Cyber]

£2.50 a week. But we are talking late seventies so it went a fair distance. I could buy a pack of airfix soldiers and a load of sweets from the model shop and sweet shop next door in Sandbach and have change from a pound.

£2.34 from my local garage per week and £2.08 from my sunday paper round. Late 70s same as Pad. 10 benson and Hedges were 30p , top shelf mags were about a quid, quids worth of sweets. The rest I just wasted! No pocket money. Working at 13 in 1977 and haven't stopped since. Used to love the airfix ho/oo soldiers. Waterloo and the American civil wars were my favourites.