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In my humble opinion the answer is definately yes take the quality of the beer for a start,back then most bitter beers were good Stones,Wards,Tetleys etc.Not like todays chemical enduced offerings,next entertainment, back then any day of the week somewhere in Sheffield there was a live group on,for instance Mondays we visited the Wheatsheaf Lane Top,Tuesday Arbourthorne hotel,Wednesday Firth Park forgot the pub name,Thursday Sicey Hotel,Friday Blue Bell Hackenthorpe,Sat and Sunday we went out Derbyshire Lathkildale Hotel and Monsaldale Hotel in every pub there was a group on.Another thing behaviour you used to see odd fights and billious bouts not like today the last time I went down town it was like a madhouse at throwing out times,the women were worst than the men screaming fighting passing out,nobody seems to have any control or self respect,if you can,t take it don,t sup it!.So to me apart from the real ale pubs such as Khelam Islands offerings the pubs in the sixties in Sheffield were a lot better,what say you??.:confused::roll::huh:

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I dunno because I am too young to remember, but I think you are right. However I do remember the late 70s-80s pubs, and they were better, nowadays

they have no atmosphere and smell awful.

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The Wharnecliffe was the pub at Firth Park, I left the country over 40 years ago, but Sheffield was certainly the place to live for work and pleasure in the 50's and 60's, great times, and has you say, very little trouble at throwing out time, and then it was one on one using fists only.

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and the pubs were pubs not resturants

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You mention the live band thing ,you can go see live music any night of the week in sheffield now ,so theres no change there. Beer , sheffield has the most beers avaible in the uk(read in the paper its around 300) so if you cant find a decent one in that lot then i dunno what you want to drink! And the trouble thing ,well ive been going out into down for around 10 years and yeah ive seen some scuffles in nightclubs but i can say ive seen about 3-4 fights on west street in that time, i do find it odd when people say town is mental/dodgy. Obiously i cant really compare as i wasnt drinking in the 60,70 or 80's

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The Wharnecliffe was the pub at Firth Park, I left the country over 40 years ago, but Sheffield was certainly the place to live for work and pleasure in the 50's and 60's, great times, and has you say, very little trouble at throwing out time, and then it was one on one using fists only.

 

where do you live now skippy?

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where do you live now skippy?

 

I would hazard a guess at Australia,because of his username.

Also due to the fact that just below it,it says...Australia lol.

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The Wharnecliffe was the pub at Firth Park, I left the country over 40 years ago, but Sheffield was certainly the place to live for work and pleasure in the 50's and 60's, great times, and has you say, very little trouble at throwing out time, and then it was one on one using fists only.

i used to go in the pub at that time lived up bevercotes played darts a lot

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I enjoyed the pubs in Sheffield in the 60's - and trips out to Derbyshire. The Fleur de Lys at Totley on a Saturday night with Joe Cocker on stage was a good night out. No sign of food menus, knives and forks etc - we went into a pub for a drink and a smoke. If you were hungry at 10.30, you went to the chippy or the Chinese. Sadly, today, nearly all pubs have to serve food most of the day to get the punters in. Its difficult to get the right atmosphere for a few pints and a good chat if you're surrounded by dining tables and waiters.

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Enjoyed reading about the above stories regards pubs back in the 60s etc

Bare with me

 

Im from Scotland and contemplating a house exchange to Sheffield

i think its the same all over now with regards pubs , i remember in the 70s

pubs were very busy and better also , although i never smoked

most others did, people smoked away and had a few beers

or spirits , and had a laugh and had entertainment in pubs so unlike today

where bars now have changed

into like pub Restaurants where meals is where much of the trade is made

 

Beer is also getting too expensive now , and many folks have taken to their house

with a carry out from Asdas or Tescos as its so much cheaper

then some if they want to risk it going out then head out at 9 pm

for a cple of drinks, but now many young women

ive seen falling around out of it , and fights etc ..was much better in the 70s

which i remember used to always play Darts and them days their was always

folks chalking the boards unlike now , as theyre always empty until Darts night

once a week

i remember playing Jocky Wilson before he made the big time

when he never had much , he liked a drink , as did all the many others also

 

played him for a fiver when i never knew then whom he was lol

was fun times though, also met that guy later in Wembley Conference centre London

in 1979 as he came over shouted you a Fifer m8 and showed him our table

 

as he sat in our company , he was just back from America playing for Scotland

and was fun company ..then again in the 80s when he was World Champ

i remember like it was yday i was in a small Lounge in Forfar in Tayside region

where they had County Darts

whilst the crowds were up in a big room , i ventured myself into this small Lounge

for a throw at the board , thought the room was closed i thought

until i tried door in which was open

 

Anyhow woman was behind bar so i ordered a pint, then went over to Dartboard

cabinet and then begin throwing away for say 15 mins, when the door opens

and who pops there head in the door, from the many whom were in the main room

Ye Jocky Wilson again and sais ok if i get a throw at the board woth you m8

i sais no probs , not bad a felt when the then World Champ asks if its ok for a throw

at the board with you :D

 

Anyhow i remember asking Jocky how he got along with

Eric Bristow and he sais fine and that he liked Eric and was only a Scotland v England

thing and fun when they played , i guess they had much fun and banter together

Anyhow he Jocky i never mentioned about when i was under age at 17yrs

in that bar in Fife when he came over asking whose on the board

and then guy sais the young lad <-- Me ..he Jocky sais Money

i played him for £5 and he won just :)

a wasnt a bad player them days mind you

But back to in the Plough Inn in Tayside anyhow later word went round Jocky Wilson

was in the lounge throwing at the board, and some young lassies and lads came through

and Jocky bought many a beer in that Lounge before he left for his game for Fife

whom were playing V Tayside region

 

I remember this guy from Tayside coming over

to the dartboard and sais to Jocky , im playing you and ill beat you , and Jocky replied

well then we shall have to wait and see then wont we with that infectious :D upon his face

and i see it now as i type :) Sad about his demise and his death likes ..

 

But then like now was rather silly i thought, someone saying to the then World champion and ill beat you :)

i thought id have to watch this game , so i went throw and watched Jockys game

and Jocky destroyed the guy and won all his games , and he never sais anything at all

back to that guy when he won easily and just walked away from the board with darts in hand

 

i kinda liked that wee guy but dont think much of the many fellow Fifers

whom spoke not to nice about Jocky long before his Death

and they then put up at the time of Jocky Death on the Fife darts website

" Sorry to hear of the death of 2 times World Champion Scotlands Jocky Wilson "

 

Just 2 faced ***** i say to them and also very Jealous natured feckers

whom couldnt lace my boots at Darts, never mind Jocky Wilsons

 

Anyhow the main topic was Pubs in the 60s compared with todays

i wasnt in pubs in the 60s though i can bet they were so much better

for a start Music today is crap , people in them days were better and friendlier

jobs were easier got , now if your out of work in which so many young 20 yr old

lads and lassies are then they get hassled from their respective job centres

to go onto say some meanigless college offer for work experience

in which in the end of such theyre back to square one on the dole

 

True story here i even remember when i was fit and 29 yrs of age in 1990

and after just finishing up on a holiday camp job for the season in Ayr

i went to join an Agency in Glasgow and stayed there for a spell at that time

 

went signed this form in with my details date birth etc

sais i was into taking anything going to the female behind the desk

anyhow i then left and very next morning gets a fone call

was the same female whom took my form the day before, saying come in as we have somthing for you

 

So i bus it into city centre of Glasgow and made my way to the office

went upstairs in the lift, knocked on the door and that females voice sais

come in , i then walk in the door, and she then puts her head down upon her

table in front

and sais Oops Sorry but your to old ..Now this is genuine that i was told i was to old

at 29 yrs of age , i felt 1 ft tall , and she then sais Sorry about that

here is your bus fare back , i mean is that not taking the **** , if not then a dont know what is ?

 

Also remember the 80s with the miners strikes etc in Fife and other areas in Scotland and England also

and jobs then were like you had 3 mths of Labouring in a meaningless job

with your local council (Job Creation ) think it was called, and then back on the dole

to get more hassle , then again another meaningless job creation job for a few mths

with the council again mixing cement and such crap

what ws there to learn doh ..i mean at peace break i walked into the wooden hut

and you would open yer peace box up and be feckin biting into some other fecks peace

:( as some **** would have swapped everyones sandwiches around on the quiet

 

Also wore wellies - wellington boots as was muddy out with the rain and such and cold as **** also

then some of us would carry football boots as i did them days we would play football at break time

then back into hut to change our football boots, fir Wellington boots for work again

and some poor guys Wellies would be nailed to the feckin floor

i mean that is learning ( Job creation ) learning for experience , aye richt :)

 

Anyhow some of the guys i worked with since them days some are now dead

dead in their 40s and such because many took to drink and drugs

 

I never got involved with such and managed to get out of that mining village

which was ok yrs back , but them days i hear is like a hell hole

no jobs , no future whatsoever , i see now for the younger guys and girls

the same as yrs back in the early 80s, as for Tory David Cameron and his

Puppet Nick Clegg, and Ian Duncan Smith whom have certain hand-picked

not very nice individuals now working to have Disabled people

have their money stopped, in which has already been proved they are over doing this

and many folks whom are genuinely not able to work, are having their incomes

taken away from them and are seen fit to work

 

Now even a genuinely blind man was taken off his benefits as was a woman

here whom was sais to be fit for work, but hey that very woman Died not long after

with her illness

 

These people (Tory Parasites) in a short time, do not know what many folks

are going through on a Daily basis and they also do not care

as theyre only thought and motive is to get disabled people off benefits and into work

in which at the end of the day as said even young people whom are fit to work

cant find a job as there are None ..Rant Over :)

Edited by larky

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