When a pint of beer was 1/9d
And choice was either Brains or Hancock’s
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When a pint of beer was 1/9d
And choice was either Brains or Hancock’s
No my first pint was 13p. And it was Club Breweries in Pontyclun or Ansell's, it was awful.
Hancocks Home Brew 1/10d in the Royal Oak Whitchurch , Hancocks PA was cheaper but like dishwaterQuote:
Originally Posted by Cleve van Leef
not into alcohol but I can just about handle Newcastle Brown Ale
Everything else tastes like death
Brains tastes like soap
Mason’s Arms Whitchurch a great pub in the 60’s/70’s.Quote:
Originally Posted by Enoch Mort
Remember it well, opposite Trevor Ford’s garage :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Cleve van Leef
my first pint was 3 for a quid..33p a pint..three brewers.colchester ave
My old man used to say, “When I can’t get 4 for a quid, I’m wrapping it in”........he lied:hehe:
Scrumpy at 9d a pint in The Mitre, Llandaff was great value when I started drinking 'properly'. Ratted for about 3 bob.
I remember paying 39p for a pint of John Smith's. That was in a social club. I think a pint in the pub was 48p. A fiver was more than enough for a decent night down the pub.
i can remember being able to buy 10 fags for 1/11d. I would buy 10 Cadets on the way down to the City at a shop on Ninian Park Road. We used to call them the One Drag Fag. They were all gone by half-time.
Rhymney brewery best bitter, Cow and Snuffers 1/8p a pint. 12 for a quid.
Anybody remember fags called Dominos that came in a paper wrapper with 4 fags in it for 6d?
Think Reg Walton who was landlord then was in the Echo a couple of years back as being oldest season ticket holder at age I think of 96.Quote:
Originally Posted by Enoch Mort
where did you live? you're two years younger than me and i could get 4 pints out of a quid in cardiffQuote:
Originally Posted by NYCBlue
Yep. The local agent would also sell them for 2d each or you could buy a pack of two for 4d.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cyncoed Slumdog
I remember having 5 pints there at that price and having change from a 50p piece. Needed a nap in the grass on the way home. Brain's Dark was 15p a pint at the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cyncoed Slumdog
I looked older than my years as a teen, I had a pint of bitter at about 10d in the Bush Bassaleg , which is no more
1977 (remember it well because it was the time my mother died) 4 pints of Dark in the Hollybush Llanedeyrn 4p change from a pound.Quote:
Originally Posted by ToTaL ITK
14p for a pint of allbright in Llanrumney Hall early 70's
And 3 shillings (15p) to get in the grangend late 60'sQuote:
Originally Posted by alfie
Petrol for 4/11d a gallon, 6d for Saturday morning cinema and 1 shilling to see the City.
Imagine the Bob Bank being called the 5p Paddock:yikes:
In the early seventies it seemed that decent beer was going to disappear for ever. Disgusting slop such as Worthington E, Trophy, Watney's were taking over and it was a travesty. Carling and the like are still out there but thank goodness that some people with functioning taste buds resisted the trend of consuming such swill....Quote:
Originally Posted by alfie
Double Diamond 66p a pint in the electricity club.After football on Pontcanna.
That's the cheapest I remember.
a pint of snake bite after the football pre 8pm on a saturday could be had for 50p in the philharmonic circa 1984-86
used to live in there most friday and saturday nights back then too
I recall my dad getting a pounds-worth of petrol - about 4 gallons.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vindec
I was quite late geeting my own car as I was in London - expensive to insure, nowhere to park, etc.
Eventually got one in 1985 after my second son eas born- petrol a whopping £1.65 - ish per gallon!
Reading the title of the thread, at my age I had trouble remembering part 1:frown: