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I'm glad too I grew up when I did pubs were better back then more characters.
When I first left college 1985 I got a job servicing and installing Alarm systems, we had the contract with brains brewery to do all there pubs.
Back then being a landlord was the best job around.
Free beer
Buy cheap spirits and refill your optics to make a fortune
Make your own food make a few bob.
Plus the pubs were busier most nights of the week.
Here's quite a rank tale from my alarm days.
Putting the alarm in the Flora in Cathays the landlady at the time was the oldest licencee in Cardiff and her husband had passed on but she had this huge alsation dog.
On my dinner break I got some chips from across the road and sat on the step of the pub to eat them.
The landlady invited me upstairs said she would do me some bread and butter to go with my chips.
I told her I was a bit scared of the dog she said it would be OK as he was locked on the middle floor the kitchen was on the top floor. So I went up.
Well the dog was locked on the middle floor as we had to go through it to get to the top floor but he was locked on the floor with about 3 weeks of its own shit.
I didn't eat the bread and butter!
To all of you mentioning the “Canton Mile”, no one’s mentioned The Crown !!!
Small brains pub, 20 yards up a side street (can’t remember the name) estate agents now, entrance to the car park behind Canton shops
Is the Greyhound still there (off the Hayes). Went in there with a couple of pals for some cheap cider. Sawdust of floor and within 5 mins some bloke had pulled a blade out. Didnt stay any longer and never went back.
The Penn in Llanedeyrn and The Murrayfied-Grand Slam in Pentwyn were an experience. Proper Council Estate Pubs where everyone knew everyone else. There was a mutiny at The Penn where some of the locals held the landlord hostage, they gave up after two days as they'd drunk all of the Alcohol.
My old dear used to work in meadow bank special school near the high rise flats , gabalfa
The nearest pub was the cow and snuffers , I was working in llandaff north once and a load of people from the cow and snuffers and the pineapple ? were scrapping in the street
Yes, I had forgotten the Crown, nice, but tiny, pub that which I tended to go to for a pint or two on a Sunday night before moving on to the Romilly. Playing pool was interesting in the Crown because you often ended up looking like you were attempting to play a jump shot because the walls were too close for you to play a normal shot.
The Crown was in Wyndham Crescent wasn’t it? On the corner where you drive into the car park now. The Craddock St pub was The Wells.
You do seem to have a propensity for being in places when there is trouble going on.
I drank in the Cow all my life, from age 16 to the day it closed in all it's recreations (when I was in Cardiff) and I never saw a minute's trouble in there. The Pineapple was less than 500 yards away and the people who drank in one drank in the other. I can recall playing skittles in the Cow and they had run out of lager so between rolls the whole team was walking to the Pineapple for a pint and walking back again for the next roll. At the end the visiting team captain made a speech to himself and when he asked where we were he was told, "up the pub!"