Old Newcastle boozers

[tonybax]

just up from blackie boy

 

[tonybax]

midland

 

[tonybax]

mind the beer was sh+te

 

[marksworld]

Oh you little toon trendy you

 

[g.ordon]

There was a nightclub just along from the german place in waterloo street, fu**d if I can remember the name. All I can remember is you had to stagger up steps to get to the door, think there was a gay rumour about the place but didn't bother us, anywhere for a slurp. Of booze like.

 

[SIXFOOTSTEVE]

Gordon , that'll have been Rockshots and YES it was very gay.

 

[marksworld]

and below was dingwalls/ the bear pit. many a punk band seen in the 80's

 

[g.ordon]

What about the Oxford, my old man used to go on about that all the time. Didn't it get reopened as some other place years later?

 

[g.ordon]

Gordon , that'll have been Rockshots and YES it was very gay.

aye steve, like I said any port in a storm I'm sure it was called something else before rockshots though.

 

[bd500]

Just thinking about pubs in the toon that have either closed or have been renamed. What are your memories? For me it's the Farmers Rest.

I.Next to the dean. Off the bike into the pub

 

[bd500]

old george down the big market. ord arms at cowgate

Went into the old george one night came out high as a kite just breathing the smoke

 

[roncoe]

julies nightclub on the quayside what a dive lol

 

[big sid]

Boozers

Boozers

Windmill - Cowgate
Rokeby - Blakelaw
Whindyke - West Denton
Kenton Bar - Kenton Lane/Ponteland Rd
The Tavern - Cowgate
Prince of Wales - West Rd
Commrades Club - Newbiggin Hall
Runnymede - Westerhope

 

[snatcher]

What was the name of that boozer a few yards down from the Old George. Seem to recall it had a talking minah bird in at one time ?

John

 

[SIXFOOTSTEVE]

Was that Pumphreys John, at least I think that's what it was called in the eighties.

 

[snatcher]

Was that Pumphreys John, at least I think that's what it was called in the eighties.

Trafalgar/Waterloo ???? Something like that. I am sure that well known toon gay Vivian movewd there from the Golden Tiger. Now he was a right character,a right bundle of laughs !

John

 

[SIXFOOTSTEVE]

That has to be the Viv that had the Asure Blue a few years back, what a character as you say.

 

[g.ordon]

Went into the old george one night came out high as a kite just breathing the smoke

Aye, but yer couldn't actually smell the wacky baccy as it was masked by the honk of incense

 

[snatcher]

That has to be the Viv that had the Asure Blue a few years back, what a character as you say.

Yep that was him. Had a few good nights in the Azure Blue as used to live in the Bensham area before moving down the coast in the 70s. Viv did a load for charity. Got stabbed there by some young lowlife. He had the Crown at the end of Coatsworth Road prior to the Azure Blue.

John

 

[SIXFOOTSTEVE]

Yes John sadly some horrible tow rag did stab him, he was a real handful from what I've heard.
Coatsworth Road wasn't a bad place to drink years ago I seem to remember but not worth looking at these days I'm told.