it re-opend at the weekend,a bloke called rudy from the 5-archers as opend it up.

Me!!!!! all those years ago!

Originally posted by Emilychee
Me!!!!! all those years ago!

saturday tea times eh! top choons :)

it was funny seeing the looks on the old men's faces when me and me mates were dancing around!!

ah yes..golden memories of burberry ridden scummers fighting outside on sunny Saturday afternoons

Often used to end up there after United games, have a bounce around to a bit of ska.

Originally posted by Barra
Often used to end up there after United games, have a bounce around to a bit of ska.

did you used to come in with mr dawson and crew?

would i be right in saying the mulberry was the first boozer in sheffield city centre to have a video juke box,it would have been around 1981 and i remember it was such a big deal that you could get the video with the song,the place was always rammed upstairs and down.

Kirky ,

I might be completely wrong about this but I remember a jukebox that showed pictures on the top as the music played in the Hermitage , on London Road , way before 1981.
Trouble is , it was probably a primitive version of a video jukebox and since I' m really technically illiiterate , I call them all the same name.
The Hermitage was pretty respectable at that time and I even took my mother in , who very rarely went in pubs .
I THINK the song on the juke box that we saw was Freddy and the Dreamers , singing that one that went , "How do you do what you do to me " , which may help you date it.
No chortling please-----it was modern for that time !

The Hermitage was as you rightly say Fareast the first to have a video jukebox, I used to work behind there, and used to nip in for a swift couple of pints at lunchtimes. ;)

Originally posted by Fareast
Kirky ,

I might be completely wrong about this but I remember a jukebox that showed pictures on the top as the music played in the Hermitage , on London Road , way before 1981.
Trouble is , it was probably a primitive version of a video jukebox and since I' m really technically illiiterate , I call them all the same name.
The Hermitage was pretty respectable at that time and I even took my mother in , who very rarely went in pubs .
I THINK the song on the juke box that we saw was Freddy and the Dreamers , singing that one that went , "How do you do what you do to me " , which may help you date it.
No chortling please-----it was modern for that time ! do you mean by gerry and the pacemakers ? not freddie and the dreamers . around 1964 , going back a bit intit .

Yeah , Tinker , I've got mixed up on the details , somewhere along the line.
Th best person to pinpoint the year is Owdlad , since he worked near there.
What was Freddy and the Dreamers ' best known song ? I might have been thinking of that ?

yes owd lad iworked at the back of the hermatage pub at joseph rodgers in 1971 left the same year to go down pit i used to go in the pub for my dinner we may have even crossed paths all them years ago :D

Originally posted by tinker
do you mean by gerry and the pacemakers ? not freddie and the dreamers . around 1964 , going back a bit intit .

1963 it was in the charts and i can't see them having music videos at that time:confused: :confused:

freddy and the dreamers had a few hits around the same time

you were made for me

i'm telling you now

spring to mind

Kirky

I suppose that even if Freddy and the Dreamers or Gerry and the Pacemakers had hits in the '60's , they might have put their songs on a video juke box much later than that. Perhaps , for some reason , only certain groups , "videod " their songs for the juke box ? I honestly don't know .
It's still up to Owdlad to pinpoint the date for us . Where is he ? Not back in the Hermitage , I hope.

Originally posted by Fareast
Kirky

I suppose that even if Freddy and the Dreamers or Gerry and the Pacemakers had hits in the '60's , they might have put their songs on a video juke box much later than that. Perhaps , for some reason , only certain groups , "videod " their songs for the juke box ? I honestly don't know .
It's still up to Owdlad to pinpoint the date for us . Where is he ? Not back in the Hermitage , I hope.

yeah i know what you are saying and i'm not disgreeing with you,going back to the mulberry it just sticks in my mind because i was 18 and found it amazing you coulkd get the video with the song the place had about 10 tele's spred around the room and it just sticks out in my mind

Originally posted by kirky
would i be right in saying the mulberry was the first boozer in sheffield city centre to have a video juke box,it would have been around 1981 and i remember it was such a big deal that you could get the video with the song,the place was always rammed upstairs and down. i would say you could be right kirky i would have thought the video jukebox was introduced in the early 1980s , i used to go in the hermitage in the late 60s 1969 to be exact and it was just a standard type jukebox i remember putting honky tonk women on by the rolling stones july 69 .

Originally posted by Fareast
Kirky

I suppose that even if Freddy and the Dreamers or Gerry and the Pacemakers had hits in the '60's , they might have put their songs on a video juke box much later than that. Perhaps , for some reason , only certain groups , "videod " their songs for the juke box ? I honestly don't know .
It's still up to Owdlad to pinpoint the date for us . Where is he ? Not back in the Hermitage , I hope.


I can't pinpoint it exactly, but it must have been 1968 or 9 mainly because I was a young lad then, and only learned later that the beer in The Pheasant was much better.

Originally posted by steevie/d
yes owd lad iworked at the back of the hermatage pub at joseph rodgers in 1971 left the same year to go down pit i used to go in the pub for my dinner we may have even crossed paths all them years ago :D


Sodding hell Steevie I used to work at Rodgers as well. Did you work there before they moved from Pond Hill or were you one of Coopers staff that got taken over by JR's?

Who was your foreman?

i know its off the thread a bit but i worked at rodgers just when they left pond hill owd lad worked in the press shop with terry ? john broughton and owd ted arthur ? forgot their sir names its a long time ago now memmory is not what it used to be m8:thumbsup:

I remember the first video jukebox in The Hermitage pub somewhere around the late sixties.

The place used to be packed and you had to watch any glasses falling from the gallery.

Happy Days!

Thanks , Pop T.
Glad I hadn't dreamt it !

Originally posted by steevie/d
i know its off the thread a bit but i worked at rodgers just when they left pond hill owd lad worked in the press shop with terry ? john broughton and owd ted arthur ? forgot their sir names its a long time ago now memmory is not what it used to be m8:thumbsup:

Was Dick Marples the press shop foreman Steevie? Terry worked on one of the hammers and did John work on the screw press ? I can't remember Ted Arthur though. Did you remember Reg the chargehand?

yes !! owdlad i remeber he gave me a fiver extra in my hand for breaking the rake record on the press a lot of dosh when i was getting £8.40 a week and told me not to tell any1 i went to granville collage on day release 9am to 7pm and passed with distinction my mates were om £20 a week so i joined the to work at orgreave mr barber was not pleased with me but in those days you could leave a job on fri and start a new 1 on a monday still got some old lock knifes somewhare with xxl rodgers on them and i made a blade for the year knife do you rember that its in a museium now i think its at kellam island :thumbsup:

Old Fred Barber would have been gutted at losing one of his lads Steevie :) The *+ was the trademark and like you I still have one or two of the old penknives.

Can you remember Mary who worked in the drilling dept of the forge? or Maureen, and Jean they all worked in the press shop.

As for the year knife, I think it's in the Cutlers hall at present (at least it was when I asked about it at Kelham Island a few weeks ago.

Lastly can you remember Mick & Ken Tyler who both worked in the grinders with old Harry and his Neffy Roland Swinburn, who set up the grinders shop at KI industrial museum.

Whatever happened to this thread?

It reads more like friends re-united.

Happy Days Fella's

Sold one of the machines a while back.
Not too many of the original video/music ones left.


'Tiocfaidh Ar La'

Originally posted by tinker
i would say you could be right kirky i would have thought the video jukebox was introduced in the early 1980s , i used to go in the hermitage in the late 60s 1969 to be exact and it was just a standard type jukebox i remember putting honky tonk women on by the rolling stones july 69 .

I remember a video jukebox playing Freddie and the Dreamers in the Hermitage sometime in the 60's. My wife and I both watched it. I left England for Canada in 1967 so it had to be before that .

Chuffinel
I might have been stood next to you ! [Please check previous comments]
I never went in the Hermitage regularly but at some point in the 70's it started to go down the Swanee , fast.
I once went in , maybe in the 80's at lunchtime and it looked like something Hogarth might have painted------drunks and tramps lurching about ------all , "well gone " , by 1 p.m.!

Originally posted by kirky
would i be right in saying the mulberry was the first boozer in sheffield city centre to have a video juke box,it would have been around 1981 and i remember it was such a big deal that you could get the video with the song,the place was always rammed upstairs and down.

I can't remember the name, but the pub that used to stand where the Crucible is now had a video juke box around 1968. I used to go in there on Saturday afternoons with my mate Mick. We were only 15 but looked older. If I remember right it was 6d a go but you could pay a bob and the video was of, shall we say, of an adult nature. Pretty tame by todays standards but quite raunchy for two fifteen year old lads to watch.

Lostrider ,

Another piece of Sheffield history comes to mind via your post !
The pub you might be thinking of was perhaps , " The Sycamore ". A Sycamore St. used to run from [I think] Pond Hill up to where the Crucible is now and there was a pub at the top , where Sycamore St. met Arundel St. ? [ again , the memory's faded a bit and I've no access to old maps ].
I do remeber , for certain , though a little street that ran off Sycamore street , near the bottom , called Milk Street. On Milk St. there was a club called , 'The Postman's '. It was one of those places which were open outside normal pub hours , presumably to cater for postmen. You can bet your life that not all the boozers who popped in had been delivering mail that day !

Originally posted by Fareast
Kirky ,

I might be completely wrong about this but I remember a jukebox that showed pictures on the top as the music played in the Hermitage , on London Road , way before 1981.
Trouble is , it was probably a primitive version of a video jukebox and since I' m really technically illiiterate , I call them all the same name.
The Hermitage was pretty respectable at that time and I even took my mother in , who very rarely went in pubs .
I THINK the song on the juke box that we saw was Freddy and the Dreamers , singing that one that went , "How do you do what you do to me " , which may help you date it.
No chortling please-----it was modern for that time !

The Hermitage had that juke box in the early sixties and it was Gerry and the Pacemakers that sang HOW DO YOU DO WHAT YOU DO TO ME not Freddie and the Dreamers

Originally posted by Lostrider
I can't remember the name, but the pub that used to stand where the Crucible is now had a video juke box around 1968. I used to go in there on Saturday afternoons with my mate Mick. We were only 15 but looked older. If I remember right it was 6d a go but you could pay a bob and the video was of, shall we say, of an adult nature. Pretty tame by todays standards but quite raunchy for two fifteen year old lads to watch.

That pub was The Adelphi a Stones house and was the birthplace of Yorkshire Cricket club.

Originally posted by lazarus
That pub was The Adelphi a Stones house and was the birthplace of Yorkshire Cricket club.

Your'e dead right there Lazarus, it's all coming back to me now.
Cheers.

anyone remember the Mulberry Tavern in the town centre early 80s when big Mick Lee was the landlord, Bomber, walt clayton,mick cain,all used to work there,not much trouble in those days.:gag:

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=13111

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=49042

Thanks Strix

I recall Walt Clayton, He took over the Marples in the 80's and I worked for him.

He married my best friend, after divorcing his first wife.

I do, towns never been the same since, I was there when Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce came in to see Mick Lee, he had worked for Eric previously, Mick wouldnt let him have a drink!!!!! anyone remember the Mulberry Tavern in the town centre early 80s when big Mick Lee was the landlord, Bomber, walt clayton,mick cain,all used to work there,not much trouble in those days.:gag:

Anyway back to the topic - what is the Mulberry like now its re-opened ? Is it as rough and ready as it always ever was ?

Anyway back to the topic - what is the Mulberry like now its re-opened ? Is it as rough and ready as it always ever was ?You've clearly not checked the dates on this thread!

Has it reopened this thread started a 100 years ago !!!!!!!
When i looked into taking it on a few months ago it was totally gutted...

It opened on November 6th 1976, first Managr was Mick Lee who kept it for about 5 years. Herol Graham worked behind the bar as did a number of Brendans boxers, also Mark Hudson who appeared as Yorkie on "The Bill". Mick was a smashing bloke who represented other Pub Managers against the breweries. When he left it went down the nick till it closed. Shame.

PS Marti Caine performed the opening ceremony.