Nostalgia - What are your memories of Stafford?

proactive

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
Clearly by being a conscientious objector to dancing and simply not seeing the point of meeting up with friends in an environment where talking is impossible and the beer twice as expensive as everywhere else, I have missed a massive part of my youth.
 
staffordjas

staffordjas

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proactive said:
and the beer twice as expensive as everywhere else, I have missed a massive part of my youth.
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Used to get p1ssed before we went in . The mud like scrumpy in The Nags Head used to be like drinking sludge , but a glass or two of that ,mixed with more enjoyable Cider (and leg-overs....cider and Cherry B ) in other pubs before going to Top of the World meant not having to fork much out once in there.
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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staffordjas said:
Used to get p1ssed before we went in . The mud like scrumpy in The Nags Head used to be like drinking sludge , but a glass or two of that ,mixed with more enjoyable Cider (and leg-overs....cider and Cherry B ) in other pubs before going to Top of the World meant not having to fork much out once in there.
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Just like reading a report in the Court Circular, about debutantes 'coming out'.
 
proactive

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
staffordjas said:
Used to get p1ssed before we went in . The mud like scrumpy in The Nags Head used to be like drinking sludge , but a glass or two of that ,mixed with more enjoyable Cider (and leg-overs....cider and Cherry B ) in other pubs before going to Top of the World meant not having to fork much out once in there.
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Or being able to stand up unaided, I should imagine :aboot:
 
littleme

littleme

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staffordjas said:
Used to get p1ssed before we went in . The mud like scrumpy in The Nags Head used to be like drinking sludge , but a glass or two of that ,mixed with more enjoyable Cider (and leg-overs....cider and Cherry B ) in other pubs before going to Top of the World meant not having to fork much out once in there.
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So did we 🤣🤣🤣 although it was zanziba when I went.....
 
Lucy

Lucy

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I didn't go until 1999 at the earliest and it was stil Coliseum then. They didn't let me in on my 18th birthday because they IDed me and said I'd been in before...
 
littleme

littleme

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Apres (or whatever it was called them), Chicago rock (especially 999 night) Colesseum, then Reynolds bar (as it was on the way home).

Props, Satchmos and joxters on other nights, along with Stafford uni studen Union bar, and red rum...but it was called something else then...

Calling @Mudgie
 
littleme

littleme

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Lucy said:
I often ended my night in Litten Tree...
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I only went into the litten tree a few times,always with work (I worked for an insurance company In town, & it was there go to place to take us for drinks).


The one and only time I could get some to babysit on new years eve, I had to work in the morning....kids were staying with baby sitter, I'd arranged a big new years eve out...but went for dinner time drinks with work at the litten tree.....got home, started to get ready for my big night out...but thought I'd have a nap......woke up at 1am with fireworks still going off, missed my whole big night out!
 
Mudgie

Mudgie

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littleme said:
Apres (or whatever it was called them), Chicago rock (especially 999 night) Colesseum, then Reynolds bar (as it was on the way home).

Props, Satchmos and joxters on other nights, along with Stafford uni studen Union bar, and red rum...but it was called something else then...

Calling @Mudgie
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The Noah's Ark, but that closed in 1966.
It reopened in 1999 as The Surgery, became Palmers in 2008, The Pie and Ale House in 2009, The Stafford Ale House in 2012 and closed ten years ago before reopening as Red Rum.
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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Lucy said:
I often ended my night in Litten Tree...
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The Litten Tree had a Thursday night quiz - free to enter five rounds at £10 per round for the winners, plus £50 for the overall winners, so a potential £100 in total - over seven months we won £1,100 - we used to go, spend a few quid on the first round, then rely on the winnings to keep us going through the night, plus on into the early hours in the Grapes, and still go home with more than we set out with.
 
gon2seed

gon2seed

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Top of the World, in the 60's; my Cousins visited from the smoke! L-aaa-ndan; smart lads, went to sample Staffords finest, was a very popular spot in them days, apparently, coach loads came from all over the Midlands. Well my lot fancied a bit of it. Uncle Bern (grhs. Last month! :( ) had teddy boy style side burns! The bouncers said they looked too long, took out a ruler and refused him entry! One of em whipped out a razor said if he had an inch off he could come in. Deed done he gained entry! Told his sons the story at his wake recently.
 
Joey

Joey

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One of my first memories ever is of walking home from Nursery School with my nan, I was like 2 then, this was in 2001, it was on Bridge Street I'm sure of that. We were walking back to her house on Albert Street, and it was absolutely tipping it down in the rain. Again, even though I was like 2, everytime I'm at the bridge there, I think of that.

Bit embarrassing, one memory from when I was like 2 ¾ was my Mum changing my nappy in the Ancient High House. We were there with her friend at the time, remember everything from her going "let's get that Nappy changed", to her doing up the tapes on the nappy. :embarrass:

When I was a kid, I was strangely fascinated with the little 'Lockup', you know, the stone-built mini dungeon at Queensway Island. Ahhh, when the real world, even the mediocrities, were endlessly fascinating.
 
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