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Longship pub closed in Hebburn due to fighting- mags got a hiding.

70s traveller said:
Sorry to interject, but it was Spuggies Bridge. The spookies legend began after a 1973 sighting by a p.c. when he'd thought he'd hit a pedestrian he's seen but couldn't find any trace of a body. Ref: Colin Lawson book ^The Legend of Spuggies Bridge".

Are there many pubs left in that area still open?
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Aye good shout mate. May have been the strange dialect they speak round there but now you mention it you are, of course, correct.
 

70s traveller said:
I grew up less than a mile from there in the 60s and the kids knew it as spuggies, and yes our dialect & behaviour was sometimes quite strange. The Cokies, crusher and the slag heap was blamed for that. :)
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There was a sports stadium near there too. I will probably get this wrong too but was it the Matupa?
 
70s traveller said:
Sorry to interject, but it was Spuggies Bridge. The spookies legend began after a 1973 sighting by a p.c. when he'd thought he'd hit a pedestrian he's seen but couldn't find any trace of a body. Ref: Colin Lawson book ^The Legend of Spuggies Bridge".

Are there many pubs left in that area still open?
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Nowhere near as many as there was
 
Prince of Wales
Cock Crown Inn
Lord Nelson
Murrays
Longship
Lakeside (classed as Wardley though for some reason)
Greyhound
Dougies Tavern
Wardles
The Caledonian
The Clock
The Ben Lomond
Johnnies Bar
The Kelly (current closed)
The Mill Tavern
Crown and Anchor
The Red Hackle
are the pubs still open (probably missed a couple) but loads have closed as well
 
jarramackem said:
Prince of Wales
Cock Crown Inn
Lord Nelson
Murrays
Longship
Lakeside (classed as Wardley though for some reason)
Greyhound
Dougies Tavern
Wardles
The Caledonian
The Clock
The Ben Lomond
Johnnies Bar
The Kelly (current closed)
The Mill Tavern
Crown and Anchor
The Red Hackle
are the pubs still open (probably missed a couple) but loads have closed as well
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I was in one of them last night.
 
jarramackem said:
Prince of Wales
Cock Crown Inn
Lord Nelson
Murrays
Longship
Lakeside (classed as Wardley though for some reason)
Greyhound
Dougies Tavern
Wardles
The Caledonian
The Clock
The Ben Lomond
Johnnies Bar
The Kelly (current closed)
The Mill Tavern
Crown and Anchor
The Red Hackle
are the pubs still open (probably missed a couple) but loads have closed as well
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Good list, but most of the good ones that I frequented have gone. Not least, most of the CIU WMC's.
 
jarramackem said:
Prince of Wales
Cock Crown Inn
Lord Nelson
Murrays
Longship
Lakeside (classed as Wardley though for some reason)
Greyhound
Dougies Tavern
Wardles
The Caledonian
The Clock
The Ben Lomond
Johnnies Bar
The Kelly (current closed)
The Mill Tavern
Crown and Anchor
The Red Hackle
are the pubs still open (probably missed a couple) but loads have closed as well
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The Long Bar shut but opened back up I think. Not that I'd go in as the beer is rotten with it being a Sam Smiths pub
 
70s traveller said:
Sorry to interject, but it was Spuggies Bridge. The spookies legend began after a 1973 sighting by a p.c. when he'd thought he'd hit a pedestrian he's seen but couldn't find any trace of a body. Ref: Colin Lawson book ^The Legend of Spuggies Bridge".

Are there many pubs left in that area still open?
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Absolutely loads, hebburn and jarra is a decent little crawl. If you’re born with a silver spoon up your arse can’t see it being your thing mind.
 
I used to drink in the Viking for a brief period. No idea if it’s still there

And the club on Luke’s lane, The Hastings I think it was called. Also the Elmfield and Hebburn Labour club. And the Iona.

They have probably all gone now. I was in a covers band and we did loads of clubs.

@70s traveller will knaa
 
jarramackem said:
Prince of Wales
Cock Crown Inn
Lord Nelson
Murrays
Longship
Lakeside (classed as Wardley though for some reason)
Greyhound
Dougies Tavern
Wardles
The Caledonian
The Clock
The Ben Lomond
Johnnies Bar
The Kelly (current closed)
The Mill Tavern
Crown and Anchor
The Red Hackle
are the pubs still open (probably missed a couple) but loads have closed as well
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Iona
Bentinck
Sportsy
Elmfield
Alberta
Jarra buffs
Hebburn buffs
Albion gin and ale (had a fire recently so currently closed)
Hebburn legion
Big Jeff said:
I used to drink in the Viking for a brief period. No idea if it’s still there

And the club on Luke’s lane, The Hastings I think it was called. Also the Elmfield and Hebburn Labour club. And the Iona.

They have probably all gone now. I was in a covers band and we did loads of clubs.

@70s traveller will knaa
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Luke’s lane club is called Jordan’s now

Iona and the elmfield still thriving
 
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Big Jeff said:
I used to drink in the Viking for a brief period. No idea if it’s still there

And the club on Luke’s lane, The Hastings I think it was called. Also the Elmfield and Hebburn Labour club. And the Iona.

They have probably all gone now. I was in a covers band and we did loads of clubs.

@70s traveller will knaa
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Isn't the viking the ben lomond?
 
Grimes said:
Absolutely loads, hebburn and jarra is a decent little crawl. If you’re born with a silver spoon up your arse can’t see it being your thing mind.
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My crawls used to be around the dives, loved them. But they're pretty much gone now.

Yes, The Ben is what used to be the Viking.
 
Big Jeff said:
I used to drink in the Viking for a brief period. No idea if it’s still there

And the club on Luke’s lane, The Hastings I think it was called. Also the Elmfield and Hebburn Labour club. And the Iona.

They have probably all gone now. I was in a covers band and we did loads of clubs.

@70s traveller will knaa
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The Viking is still there, it's back to being the The Ben Lomond.
The Club Hastings was a weird place (but I won't go into that), The Elmer Fudd was not great (crap snooker tables & poor beer imo), Hebburn Labour was always good crack then it became Victoria Pk which was great & packed on a weekend before it burned down. The Iona was a regular haunt on my/our way from Claps along the bottom road via The Station/Roys, County (Miss Kinx night club was upstairs) along to The Banks then into Jarra via a few long gone bars if your legs were still functional. The Jarrow bars most are gone that I knew like the Cottage, one of the Queens (Arms or Head) and others I can't recall the names of.

Them were the days in my youth!
Dennis said:
The Long Bar shut but opened back up I think.
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The Long Bar used to be a good bar with decent beer, last time I walked past it still looked like a bar. But no one was in.
 
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