Ahh... The Schooner. I used to visit there at dinnertimes when I worked in the bookies.
Didn't it open dead early as well? Now you've got to go to Coopers or The Portals for a 7am pint.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Mon 4 May 2015, 15:47, 1 reply, 10 years ago)

6am I think. Used to go after a nightshift, or (like most people) when I'd been up all night and was well fucked.
On one of the latter occasions, a mate put on the full 12 minute version of "I'll Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)" four times in a row. This seemed funny the first time.
(McChinaman banned, Mon 4 May 2015, 15:57, Reply)

lol.
Yeah, I've been in the portals after the afterparty stopped at 7am. Full of folk from further south still going until they can get a train back.

Last time I was there I had a nice chat with a couple of alcoholics who were just in there because they were awake and the offie wasn't open yet. The correctly guessed I'd been on the garys.

A couple of my mates upset a bloke in their local because they put £30 in the jukebox and challenged themselves to go through a song starting with every letter in the alphabet. He was even more upset that after going to a different pub for a couple of hours his tunes still hadn't played.

I also remember being stood hiding from the rain in the Castlegate between the Casino shutting and Portals opening, knowing that I had work in about 3 hours. God knows how I didn't get sent straight home when I went to that one.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Mon 4 May 2015, 16:03, Reply)

Didn't know Portals opened so early. Is that in the last couple of years?

(McChinaman banned, Mon 4 May 2015, 16:05, Reply)

Nah. It's been 7 or half-7 for as long as I can remember.
It did change a few years ago; the back room is now gone.

There's also the Balaclava. Quality.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Mon 4 May 2015, 16:08, Reply)

I've just moved back after 8 years. Can't remember it being a thing back then.

(McChinaman banned, Mon 4 May 2015, 16:10, Reply)

Ahh. It'll be my tenth year here in Sept.

( Slippery Mick ‏, Mon 4 May 2015, 16:11, Reply)

I left in 1998

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Mon 4 May 2015, 16:13, Reply)

I remember the street party

(McChinaman banned, Mon 4 May 2015, 17:44, Reply)

I remember the first day covers.

(DBT became a fruitarian on, Mon 4 May 2015, 17:50, Reply)

#vietnam

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Mon 4 May 2015, 17:58, Reply)