Norpig wrote:Went in the Globe once with my mate just so we could cross it off the list
I've been in worse to be honest (Ancient Shepherd in town springs to mind).
There's not many (if any?) pubs I didn't end up going in at one time or another, in or within a bus ride of Bolton district, usually with my dad on a Sunday evening.
Many of them long gone now.
My dad was a builder and so he'd travelled all around Bolton over the years and had a good idea where all the pubs were (and no doubt supped in many himself!
Actually thinking back I was mistaken, in was the Borough I was talking about (the Globe was the next one down Higher Bridge Street - my mistake).
The couple who had the Borough when we used to go in were actually former neighbours of ours (although we never got a free pint off them, so we only used to have a pint in there then move on, to the Globe and then further down to the Peel.
We'd then cut through to the Falcon, on to the Spread Eagle and end up in the Lord Clyde.
When I first started work I was given day release to study at Bolton College which had a site in those days on Folds Road and I used to pop in the Clyde at lunch and on my way home drop into the Spread Eagle on Hulme street (which no longer exists - near Lark Street which still does).
I also later went to a college site on All Saints Street and the Founders Arms was where I had my lunch and played too many hours of table football!
After then I had to go to night school (three nights a week!) to Wigan Mining College (the one with a pithead wheel outside of it) on Parsons Walk and used to drink in the Pear Tree down Frog Lane.
Still passed all my exams no trouble though!
It sounds as though I was a right alchy at the time but I wasn't, I enjoyed a pint but could leave it just as easily.
Many couldn't though!
Happy days.
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