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"john boy"
Brig
Number of posts: 569
Age: 49
Localisation: shrewsbury
Cap Badge: acc
Places Served: aldershot/albermarle bks ouston-father LI- gib- berlin NI- lemgo- colchester- shrewsbury-tidworth left82
Registration date: 2010-12-30
 | | Subject: Memory lane 5/3/2011, 13:23 | |
|    Well guys a smile on your face or a tear in your eye! why oh why did they ever have to close down the N.A.A.F.I.? i never realised they had closed until one day when i saw a SPAR shop where there once was a N.A.A.F.I well I almost crashed the car gob smacked or what. HAPPY DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!and fond memories BRING BACK DOUBLE DIAMOND!!!!!!!!!!! cheap and cheerful  |
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Gordon.
Gen
Number of posts: 2184
Age: 68
Localisation: West Lothian
Cap Badge: AAS & Royal Signals (Jimmy)
Places Served: UK:Harrogate,Blandford & Catterick x 7...West Germany:Herford & the rest...Singapore: Changi & Tanglin.
Registration date: 2008-02-28
| | Subject: Re: Memory lane 5/3/2011, 22:43 | |
| Double Diamond??????????? A cross between dishwater and piss if my memory serves me well.  |
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Shelldrake
Let Gen
Number of posts: 1480
Localisation: Kyrenia
Cap Badge: Royal Artillery
Places Served: Troon, Lippstadt, Devizes, NI, Paderborn, Dortmund, Colchester, Belize, Canada, Cyprus, Gutersloh
Registration date: 2010-10-26
| | Subject: Re: Memory lane 6/3/2011, 07:48 | |
| Don't recall the taste of dishwater, Gordon!  |
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Gordon.
Gen
Number of posts: 2184
Age: 68
Localisation: West Lothian
Cap Badge: AAS & Royal Signals (Jimmy)
Places Served: UK:Harrogate,Blandford & Catterick x 7...West Germany:Herford & the rest...Singapore: Changi & Tanglin.
Registration date: 2008-02-28
| | Subject: Re: Memory lane 6/3/2011, 10:43 | |
| You must have had good mess`s Shelldrake..I take it by your post that you do recall the taste of piss  |
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Shelldrake
Let Gen
Number of posts: 1480
Localisation: Kyrenia
Cap Badge: Royal Artillery
Places Served: Troon, Lippstadt, Devizes, NI, Paderborn, Dortmund, Colchester, Belize, Canada, Cyprus, Gutersloh
Registration date: 2010-10-26
| | Subject: Re: Memory lane 6/3/2011, 11:04 | |
| Yes, urine was a contributing essence!  |
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Themaadone
Maj
Number of posts: 270
Localisation: Near London
Cap Badge: RAOC/RLC/AGC
Places Served: Bielefeld, Guetersloh, Viersen, Bracht, Falklands, Aldershot, Leconsfield, NI, Rwanda, Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan
Registration date: 2010-09-02
| | Subject: Re: Memory lane 6/3/2011, 12:21 | |
| I remember the NAAFI tipple of my choice being Carling Black Lable at 89 pence a pint....
Oh, what lovely times. |
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Gordon.
Gen
Number of posts: 2184
Age: 68
Localisation: West Lothian
Cap Badge: AAS & Royal Signals (Jimmy)
Places Served: UK:Harrogate,Blandford & Catterick x 7...West Germany:Herford & the rest...Singapore: Changi & Tanglin.
Registration date: 2008-02-28
| | Subject: Re: Memory lane 6/3/2011, 12:52 | |
| I`m paying £2.15 a pint at the moment.Was £2.00 up untill a few weeks ago  |
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Shelldrake
Let Gen
Number of posts: 1480
Localisation: Kyrenia
Cap Badge: Royal Artillery
Places Served: Troon, Lippstadt, Devizes, NI, Paderborn, Dortmund, Colchester, Belize, Canada, Cyprus, Gutersloh
Registration date: 2010-10-26
| | Subject: Re: Memory lane 6/3/2011, 13:49 | |
| Can't remember the last time I was in a Pub, I do most of my drinking at home - I've got a behaviour problem. |
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"john boy"
Brig
Number of posts: 569
Age: 49
Localisation: shrewsbury
Cap Badge: acc
Places Served: aldershot/albermarle bks ouston-father LI- gib- berlin NI- lemgo- colchester- shrewsbury-tidworth left82
Registration date: 2010-12-30
| | Subject: Re: Memory lane 6/3/2011, 14:23 | |
| I think when I was in it was about 50p a pint and £1.00 for spirits use to get ratted for a fiver How cheap can you guys go? |
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Shelldrake
Let Gen
Number of posts: 1480
Localisation: Kyrenia
Cap Badge: Royal Artillery
Places Served: Troon, Lippstadt, Devizes, NI, Paderborn, Dortmund, Colchester, Belize, Canada, Cyprus, Gutersloh
Registration date: 2010-10-26
| | Subject: Re: Memory lane 6/3/2011, 15:53 | |
| When stationed in Devizes in '69 I was allowed £1:00 a week Pocket Money. That would buy me 8 Pints of Wadworths. |
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Gordon.
Gen
Number of posts: 2184
Age: 68
Localisation: West Lothian
Cap Badge: AAS & Royal Signals (Jimmy)
Places Served: UK:Harrogate,Blandford & Catterick x 7...West Germany:Herford & the rest...Singapore: Changi & Tanglin.
Registration date: 2008-02-28
| | Subject: Re: Memory lane 6/3/2011, 16:01 | |
| | Quote: | | How cheap can you guys go? |
Pre decimalisation..pint of lager 1 shilling and four pence about 8p..Bring it back please |
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"john boy"
Brig
Number of posts: 569
Age: 49
Localisation: shrewsbury
Cap Badge: acc
Places Served: aldershot/albermarle bks ouston-father LI- gib- berlin NI- lemgo- colchester- shrewsbury-tidworth left82
Registration date: 2010-12-30
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Hardrations
Brig
Number of posts: 713
Localisation: Winnipeg Manitoba Canada
Cap Badge: RC Sigs (RTG Op) / CF Logistics (Cook)
Places Served: Germany, Egypt, Cyprus, CFS Alert and some other strange places
Registration date: 2007-12-16
| | Subject: Re: Memory lane 6/3/2011, 17:15 | |
| Red Barrel. I enjoyed that, still have a key fob from Red Barrel some where. And Double Diamond I enjoyed, but being Canadian maybe that help me enjoy it. Black Lable??? That's yank, how can one enjoy that...  |
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"john boy"
Brig
Number of posts: 569
Age: 49
Localisation: shrewsbury
Cap Badge: acc
Places Served: aldershot/albermarle bks ouston-father LI- gib- berlin NI- lemgo- colchester- shrewsbury-tidworth left82
Registration date: 2010-12-30
| | Subject: Re: Memory lane 6/3/2011, 17:29 | |
|   how about the whatneys party 7&4 pint cans |
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Shelldrake
Let Gen
Number of posts: 1480
Localisation: Kyrenia
Cap Badge: Royal Artillery
Places Served: Troon, Lippstadt, Devizes, NI, Paderborn, Dortmund, Colchester, Belize, Canada, Cyprus, Gutersloh
Registration date: 2010-10-26
| | Subject: Re: Memory lane 6/3/2011, 18:14 | |
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