Kind of
Being a larger place then the rest of Co Durham and so far South in the county though most people have very little to do with the rest of the county in my experience
Tell me about it. I grew up the only Sunderland fan in my school.
Mags are the result of sons mating with their mams. Fact
What school was a few of us at Carmel but mostly mags I live very near Polam now and mostly see Man City and Liverpool nowadays which is better than mags I suppose
I may know you, always in east stanley club as well.
knew loads of stanley's Newcastle supporters during the 80s, outstanding bunch of young men, absolute pillars of society.
on the whole they always drank in the kings head or the royal. you should've popped in and told them so, they were always very open to constructive criticism!
That and the Joseph Pease are like the holding pen for benefits street shame as a lot of nice bars further up. That is the only place in my life where I've seen someone be told they couldn't come in as they were dressed too smartly and it would alert the regularsyou might, I'm not from stanley, but served me apprenticeship at the ever ready so got to know loads of stanley lads during the late 70s, early 80s and carried on popping up there for a pint for a number of years afterwards. not been there for 20 years now if not longer.
if I recall east stanley club wasn't used much, more than the central.
sunderland supporters on the whole were only tolerated provided they stayed in the thatchers foot, although there was a concession for two mackems in the kings head and they drank in there regularly. top blokes, both of them!
I worked a few times as an e
I worked a few times as an engineering sub contractor at the hitachi plant at newton aycliffe. I stopped at the premier inn at darlington on each occasion and just round the corner was a bar called the boot and shoe. you ever been in there?
clientele made those in the star wars bar look positively normal, great laugh nonetheless!
That and the Joseph Pease are like the holding pen for benefits street shame as a lot of nice bars further up. That is the only place in my life where I've seen someone be told they couldn't come in as they were dressed too smartly and it would alert the regulars
Knew a canny few lads from Stanley who worked at ever ready in that time frame. You'll deffo know them.you might, I'm not from stanley, but served me apprenticeship at the ever ready so got to know loads of stanley lads during the late 70s, early 80s and carried on popping up there for a pint for a number of years afterwards. not been there for 20 years now if not longer.
if I recall east stanley club wasn't used much, more than the central.
sunderland supporters on the whole were only tolerated provided they stayed in the thatchers foot, although there was a concession for two mackems in the kings head and they drank in there regularly. top blokes, both of them!
I worked a few times as an e
I worked a few times as an engineering sub contractor at the hitachi plant at newton aycliffe. I stopped at the premier inn at darlington on each occasion and just round the corner was a bar called the boot and shoe. you ever been in there?
clientele made those in the star wars bar look positively normal, great laugh nonetheless!
