Remember joining the Saddlers Club at FP when it opened and was a few months short of 18. A pint of mild was just over a shilling as I recall and Brew IX about 1/6. Several pints on a Friday then fish and chips from Middletons in the Pleck for under a pound. Generally pubs had outdoors. Think the Tiger even said this in the door glazing. There was also a stand alone outdoor/off licence in Dora Street,Pleck on the corner of the gully through to Kingsley Street.
Regarding price differences I think I am right in thinking that prices today are supposed to vary by strength but not many pubs keen to this.
I didn’t live in the Chuckery, although I did go to the infants and juniors. My Grandparents lived there for many years and I used to spend school holidays there as my parents were at work. Always got my haircut at Alex’s on Burleigh Street.
I didn’t know your cousins I’m afraid but I assume they went Chuckery school?
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Yes mate i think they did, they used the old spring cottage pub for years, what area did you live ?
Lived next to the Arbo just off Mellish Road. Used to go the Heavy Rock discos at the Spring Cottage.
I think your cousins might have been a bit older than me. My sister (5 years older) used to hang round with gang who called themselves The Paddock Defence Association!
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When I walked to school I used to see PDA sprayed on walls.
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PDA 
classic
I always remember every time i travelled up the Mellish rd, Walsall council owned a couple of houses up there opposite the arbo.
And one of the guys i was paired up with, (Rigga) had worked on them, putting a new cold water storage tank in the airing cupboard, but he couldn’t be arsed to drill the wall to thread the overflow through, so he opened the old sash window about an inch and put the pipe through so you could never close the window it was like that for about 20 years
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First pint was in the priory when I was 16 can’t remember how much it was a pint but I think it was around 30p when I started drinking in my local the Foley Arms the Mild was 39p and the bitter 45p brew or Springfield but they had a lounge and a bar and a little lounge but when it was done up in about 1988 it was one room
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Hi mate i know you know Tealeaf but do you remember a guy called Colin Smith from Streetley?
The name rings a bell but I don’t remember anybody specific
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He would be about 62 ish now? he used to use the Buccaneer on the chester rd back in the day
Alf Biggs tucks home one of his goals for us against Shrewsbury. Read on a Rovers site a few years ago that his pre-match preparations for home games at Bristol was to have 2 or 3 pints but made sure he downed the last one by 2pm. He was also a bit of a heavy smoker
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I occasionally drank in the Buc but he would of been a couple of years older tha Rob so he would of known him
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That looks like the easiest chance in the history of football
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Reminds me of a time me and my Dad was stuck in a traffic jam on the Birmingham Road, near Queens Road. We were watching a bloke putting in the last horizontal plank of his new garden fence. It was horribly out of whack with the other horizontals. My Dad couldn’t believe it.
I always looked out for it when I went by. It was like that for nearly 20 years before the fence was completely replaced.
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I was an apprentice plumber to him back in the early 80’s i remember him setting fire to a house in darlason on Richards street while trying to do a taft joint in lead
It is amazing how simple things like that stick in your mind for years 
I took a model in there once just to impress him. she was a girlfriend of a mate who was living in devon, but she was bored of staying in while he was living down there, so i used to take her out just to make myself look cool i could almost hear the comments of " what is she doing with that fat bastard"
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Bobby Shinton on the ball in 1972. Nearly every fan in the background watching the game intently. Unlike these days when half the fanbase are checking their phones at any given time.
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If i remember he was a George Best lookalike and i can see my old workmate Kenny oliver in the backround 
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Blimey chunk we don’t need google surveillance with you around
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When i worked on what is now dorchester rd in Willenhall next to the milestone
Kenny was one of our labourers and his dad was a painter, there were about 4 family members, and i foolishly stole the keys to one of the electricians car one day and took it for a joyride, but when i tried to park it back where i had took it from, there had been a delivery of roof tiles, and i hadn’t seen them so took the whole side of the car out while putting it back 
but as i got out of the car i tried to run off but Kenny’s dad Charlie saw me and said to me “if you don’t admit to it i will tell steve” who’s car it was, so i told him and he never spoke to me again 
Cost over £600 to put it right, back in 1977 and he claimed on his insurance instead of charging me. who was on about £17 a week at the time.
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