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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 11:58 am
by memor
I remember sitting in Pub it was called the

"Festering Carbuncle Cocktail Bar."

just round the back from where Shields Gazette is.

It have cocktail waitresses, olives and everything, very snazzy for the 60's.

Very select you not let in less you wearing cloth cap and muffler.

First in area to put little umbrellas with cherries in your pint.

Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 1:52 pm
by fadeout1930
There was the Mermaids Tale

and also City of Durham

not sure if they are still there though

Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 4:41 pm
by brian c
The City of Durham's still there.



Its got a big Cathedral.


and a University.


and a railway station.

Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 5:04 pm
by memor
I remember "Mermaids Tail."

It very fishy Plaice it had no Sole.

It full of criminals one was called the Codfather.

All have dodgy hairstyles called Mullets.

I have to lay down now I got a nasty Haddock.

Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 6:42 pm
by Jim_in_France
memor wrote:I remember sitting in Pub it was called the

"Festering Carbuncle Cocktail Bar."

just round the back from where Shields Gazette is.

It have cocktail waitresses, olives and everything, very snazzy for the 60's.

Very select you not let in less you wearing cloth cap and muffler.

First in area to put little umbrellas with cherries in your pint.
It was called the Douglas Vaults, I think Memor. :roll:

Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 6:48 pm
by memor
The "Douglas Vaults." I remember that.

Oh how I wondered what went on in that place.

When I was little boy I imagined someone called Douglas giving

gymnastic display.

Douglas

Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 7:49 pm
by baldy.smith
I used to get into the Douglas Vaults in the late fifties. The room upstairs was always packed, They used to serve Samson Ale.

No one has mentioned "The Tram" that used to be in the market place. :?:

Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 1:13 pm
by Jim_in_France
baldy. Why did they serve Samson ale? Was this the only bar he could get in? Maybe he caused damage to the other bars??? :lol:

Samson

Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 2:27 pm
by baldy.smith
A few pints of that and everyone thought they were Samson. I may be mistaken about it being Samson, it may have been Strongarm. They always seem to run out of draught they were so busy; they then started selling the more expensive bottled beers (was it a con?) I always did my best to help them run out of draught beer. Alas these days I am teetotal except for the odd glass of wine.

Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 5:44 pm
by Cisco
I rememember The Douglas, they used to have jazz groups on upstairs on a weekend.

Samson was a vaux's beer.

Cisco

Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 7:04 pm
by captain beefheart
the douglas vaults had a dodgy rep, it was the place to score a bit of nigerian black (allegedly, not like today where it may as well be in the local shops it is that common) in the sixties, i used to like this pub and the mechanics, the beer used to be that brew from the hartlepool brewery, i though it was sampson and the strongarm was the best bitter version.

Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 4:54 pm
by Jim_in_France
What was the name of that VILE lager from Hartlepool? It tasted of wax to me. :drunken_smilie:

Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 6:19 pm
by memor
It called "EarAle."

Got taste because Chief Brewer would keep pencil behind his ear and give vats a stir with it to see if it was ready.

Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 8:12 pm
by Cisco
If I remember rightly the Douglas Vaults was a Charringtons pub.

The beer was crap :(

Cisco

Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 11:19 pm
by memor
I liked Charringtons beer. It shame they not brew anymore.

Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 9:05 pm
by Cisco
I remember the Mechanics before they renovated it, when you went through the door on the left, at the bottom of the room there was a juke box to the left of it was the gents toilet when you went in, there was a step down and there never was any lights on and it was pitch black and you were wading through water.

The bar maid was a peroxide blonde girl painted up like a doll.
I heard later that she died of cirrhosis of the liver. :(

richard

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 11:42 pm
by tonnee
and dont forget the 50 pence piece screwed to the floor

Re: richard

Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2005 9:21 am
by Jim_in_France
tonnee wrote:and dont forget the 50 pence piece screwed to the floor
That was in the days when Richard had it. He was a "Friend Of Dorothy"

Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2005 10:17 am
by baldy.smith
Wonder if that is the same Richard who had a pub in the Big Market in Newcastle (seeing as this thread is about pubs in Shields market place) he also had a coin stuck to the floor. Also had a Mynah bird that used to shout obcenities to everyone. I used to repair and maintain gaming machines in pubs and clubs back in those days; covering an area from York to Berwick.

8)

Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2005 6:20 pm
by Jim_in_France
Not sure about the pub in Newcastle baldy, but I seem to remember he had a Myna bird. I did hear about a pub in N/cle with 50 pences stuck to the floor. It must have been Richards.