The Ale House - Is it even a thing now?

[Daz1878]

When I was a kid we lived above a great wee pub that was run by friends of my parents... to me that always set a fairly high bar (ha!) as to what a good pub should be like. Whenever I've been in one lately, they tend to be draughty barns serving cold £15 burgers while some grim-faced type ploughs pound coins into the puggy.

Where I live now, we have a "quaint" village pub just a few minutes up the road - it does look the part, but they're pretty cool to anyone whose local roots are less than 1300 years old, so I mainly just leave them to their £4.65 pints of lukewarm Fosters.

 

[tommye]

Every good community used to have at least one good pub. Most were the heartbeat of the community with kids footy teams etc ran from them. Without one they're just a load of houses by each other with very little to offer.

Would say the decline in proper communities that looked out for each other are also dying as a result of your traditional locals dying out.

 

[coollino]

There is a nice pub where I have been drinking in since 16 or so

There is a guy who used to go there called Tarzan (he had long hair), he split up with his gf in the pub. He left the pub and came back 20 mins later with a chainsaw.

You wouldn't get that in the Vegan Flat White Arms

 

[coollino]

There is also Dave the Train, he was a train driver

 

[ArtetaMoney]

A lot of people moan about the decline of the local, but never went in them when they were open.

The price of a bevvy won’t help, not many locals can afford to do cheap ale anymore.

 

[Ducans elbow]

I grew up in Speke, and apparently we had 14 pubs/social clubs there are now only 4 , its the same story from a lot of other places

 

[Runub]

There is also Dave the Train, he was a train driver

Good job he wasn't a campanologist...Doesn't have the same ring to it

 

[Kurt.]

Love my local … it helps that a good friend of mine owns it too. It’s always been a community pub here and the lads I drink there with now ate the lads I grew up with. Times have changed though over the years and it’s much quieter on a weekday night now than if used to be but from 2pm on a Friday afternoon through to Sunday closing time it’s a fantastic pub.

 

[Simon Buttle]

Yeah there are a fair few still down here due to it being a rural area and there are a fair few micro breweries in the local area. My sister lives down the road in Bognor Regis and there are some proper music stops, head turning, who the hell are you, type places down there if you walk in and are not a local.

 

[coollino]

Love my local … it helps that a good friend of mine owns it too. It’s always been a community pub here and the lads I drink there with now ate the lads I grew up with. Times have changed though over the years and it’s much quieter on a weekday night now than if used to be but from 2pm on a Friday afternoon through to Sunday closing time it’s a fantastic pub.

sounds a bit weird tbh

 

[duncs pigeon]

Love my local … it helps that a good friend of mine owns it too. It’s always been a community pub here and the lads I drink there with now ate the lads I grew up with. Times have changed though over the years and it’s much quieter on a weekday night now than if used to be but from 2pm on a Friday afternoon through to Sunday closing time it’s a fantastic pub.

So you got no mates left? ?

 

[tommye]

There is also Dave the Train, he was a train driver

Disappointed he wasn't an actual train like Thomas The Tank Engine

 

[tommye]

So you got no mates left? ?

Would explain why he's gone so fat the last 18 mths or so

 

[Kurt.]

Would explain why he's gone so fat the last 18 mths or so

Blame yer mar… every time I bum her she gives me a biscuit ?‍



(Old ones are the best ones )

 

[Kurt.]

sounds a bit weird tbh

Wales lnnit