Pubs - or lack of them

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  1. arabian_ian

    arabian_ian Well-Known Member

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    Hey Tarntyke, I’m spotting a bit of theme here. You seem to visit a pub only for it to close down.
    Maybe if you stayed in and watched Eastenders the drinking establishments would more abundant.
     
    arabian_ian, Oct 1, 2024 at 2:50 PM
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    I also think the canned beer technology the nitro widget stuff mean you can get a decent drink at home. In the 70s and 80s it was like fizzy dish water only the way to get decent pint was to go to the pub ,plus only been 3 or 4 tv channels obviously no Internet people went to pubs to be entertainment and to socialise.
     
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    I think you're including the Working Men's clubs like the Coronation and the Ship.
     
    Brush, Oct 1, 2024 at 3:06 PM
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    Tesco, Asda and Morrisons are still going strong though.
     
    MrsHallsToffeerolls, Oct 1, 2024 at 3:07 PM
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    Great Houghton used to have 5 pubs/clubs at one time, now only one.
     
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    Used to be 20 pubs/clubs in Featherstone. Just 10 now. Still a healthy number to be fair but not quite the pub crawl we used to do, and most of them are dead now whenever you go in
     
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  7. Tarntyke

    Tarntyke Well-Known Member

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    I still go in, mainly Sunday nights to meet up with my old mates. Still run by the same family since 1976. We’ll mainly by Kev, as his mam Beryl passed away a 2 or 3 years ago.
     
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    Tarntyke Well-Known Member

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    Aye, lol. Perhaps, If It work with football grounds. I would immediately stop going to Oakwell of course and firstly become a massive, then onto Bramall lane, then Elland road.:)
     
    Tarntyke, Oct 1, 2024 at 3:36 PM
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    When I turned 18 in 2005 there were five on my short walk from Darfield to Wombwell, The Sportsman, The Drop, Wat Tyler, Miner's Arms, and The Station, and only The Sportsman is left. I don't think my generation (and certainly Gen Z) really see the pub as something to do every week, there are better options for entertainment nowadays.
     
    Skryptic, Oct 1, 2024 at 3:59 PM
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    Remember t Drum?
     
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    Do you mean in Houghton?
    What was the one near the welfare hall called?
     
    SuperTyke, Oct 1, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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    Yeah. That what was next to welfare was comrades.
     
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