The Spotted Horse

[Gee SCREAMER !!]

8 hours ago, Boycie said:

Flamingo and firkin? Or was that next to Berlins?

Knotted snake?

Pig and Truffle in the 90's

[Ram-Alf]

14 minutes ago, Crewton said:

Knotted Snake was the old Ramsdens Tavern that had a basement bar? 

Nope...Cornmarket ? https://picturethepast.org.uk/image-library/image-details/poster/DRBY000306/posterid/DRBY000306.html

Slug and Lettuce was the old Ramsdens  

[1of4]

2 hours ago, The Last Post said:

Nope...Cornmarket ? https://picturethepast.org.uk/image-library/image-details/poster/DRBY000306/posterid/DRBY000306.html

Slug and Lettuce was the old Ramsdens  

The Slug and Lettuce on Irongate was a Berni Inn. 

Ramsdens was on the Cornmarket.

[Crewton]

8 minutes ago, 1of4 said:

The Slug and Lettuce on Irongate was a Berni Inn. 

Ramsdens was on the Cornmarket.

Yes - the Irongate Tavern 

[Elwood P Dowd]

The Spotted Horse was one of the haunts of Boker Wright and Winnie Austin, Boker used to say "Gi us 10p kid" when you went past him, Boker and Winnie were alway drunk and in the middle of an argument\shouting match.

[Turk Thrust]

We always met in the late60s/70s at the Vine in Whitaker street. (Now long gone)The landlord liked a drink or three and I can remember going there once when he had a badly bruised and bloodied face. He had fallen down the steps to the basement.

nice memories of old friends who I have totally lost touch with alas.

 

 

 

 

Edited January 29, 2023 by Boycie
Removed pics posted in error

[Reggie Greenwood]

25 minutes ago, Turk Thrust said:

We always met in the late60s/70s at the Vine in Whitaker street. (Now long gone)The landlord liked a drink or three and I can remember going there once when he had a badly bruised and bloodied face. He had fallen down the steps to the basement.

nice memories of old friends who I have totally lost touch with alas.

 

 

 

Great pre and apres match boozer in the BBG days 

Edited January 29, 2023 by Boycie

[Ram-Alf]

47 minutes ago, Reggie Greenwood said:

Great pre and apres match boozer in the BBG days 

And the Crystal Palace with some entertainment before the game, Usually putting money into a pint pot ?

[oldtimeram]

5 hours ago, Elwood P Dowd said:

The Spotted Horse was one of the haunts of Boker Wright and Winnie Austin, Boker used to say "Gi us 10p kid" when you went past him, Boker and Winnie were alway drunk and in the middle of an argument\shouting match.

I used buy Bocker a drink every now and again.  He was often outside the White Horse in the Morledge.

He must have liked pubs with the name Horse

[Ram-Alf]

19 minutes ago, oldtimeram said:

I used buy Bocker a drink every now and again.  He was often outside the White Horse in the Morledge.

He must have liked pubs with the name Horse

Often to be seen smashed on the Derby bus station benches after a session 

[one_chop]

My late friend had a fight with one of those moronic skinheads outside the spotted horse on a match day in the 70s. He took a pasting whilst I held his coat. 

[Crewton]

Classic night out in the mid 70s was Local-bus-Jimmy's-Jorrocks-Bell-Wardwick-Saracens-Spotted-Prince-Baileys-Taj

[oldtimeram]

5 hours ago, Crewton said:

Classic night out in the mid 70s was Local-bus-Jimmy's-Jorrocks-Bell-Wardwick-Saracens-Spotted-Prince-Baileys-Taj

I've done that crawl also.  We also included the Buck in the Park too

[Boycie]

14 hours ago, oldtimeram said:

I've done that crawl also.  We also included the Buck in the Park too

Erm, wasn’t the Buck in the Park a pub for the Gay community once? 

[Reggie Greenwood]

1 hour ago, Boycie said:

Erm, wasn’t the Buck in the Park a pub for the Gay community once? 

If my memory serves me correct the pubs for a young bloke to avoid were the Green Lane House and The Rising Sun ( unless you were batting for the other side ). 

[Elwood P Dowd]

On 29/01/2023 at 14:55, oldtimeram said:

I used buy Bocker a drink every now and again.  He was often outside the White Horse in the Morledge.

He must have liked pubs with the name Horse

There used to be other "odd" characters in Derby such as  Pidgeon Percy, he liked and fed the pidgeons and Puffin Billy, he thought he was a stream train. 

 

[Reggie Greenwood]

4 minutes ago, Elwood P Dowd said:

There used to be other "odd" characters in Derby such as  Pidgeon Percy, he liked and fed the pidgeons and Puffin Billy, he thought he was a stream train. 

 

Percy used to sit on a bench in the main centre I recall 

[Crewton]

1 hour ago, Reggie Greenwood said:

If my memory serves me correct the pubs for a young bloke to avoid were the Green Lane House and The Rising Sun ( unless you were batting for the other side ). 

Those were the ones by reputation Reg. I don't remember the Buck ever being a gay-friendly pub - it was just an "old man's" pub in my recollection, very basic typical Marstons, like the Shakespeare before the Thompsons took it over. 

[oldtimeram]

2 hours ago, Boycie said:

Erm, wasn’t the Buck in the Park a pub for the Gay community once? 

Not that I knew off.  I thought that was the Green Man

[Reggie Greenwood]

14 minutes ago, Crewton said:

Those were the ones by reputation Reg. I don't remember the Buck ever being a gay-friendly pub - it was just an "old man's" pub in my recollection, very basic typical Marstons, like the Shakespeare before the Thompsons took it over. 

Yes the Buck for the Merry Monk Mild and Barley Wine drinkers. My first job after leaving School as a 16 year old was at Hunters on Babington Lane. Me and another lad went for a dinner time drink at the Green Lane house and it took us a while to cotton on why everyone in the pub was trying to buy us drinks ! The moustache’s and cravats should have been the clue. Yikes.