Middlesbrough's lost pubs

morrissey said:
Fantastic mate, we lived at No88 - Fleetham St school for me and my 2 sisters, I was born in 61.
My Dad and uncles etc would go to watch Boro, I'd see the fans passing and,want to go... at about 7 I did, lost 3-2 to Bury but that was it, totally hooked - still am.
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Wow, what a small world this is at times.
Thanks for the information Morrissey.
Incredible that two people apart from myself today, know about Monkland Street.
It really has stirred up the memories.
 
Used to play darts in a few of the pubs shown.
Played in a league for the Gosforth on a Friday night near the old Theatre Royal which later converted into a cinema called I think the Essoldo.
Had some memorable eventful nights in the Gosforth “over the border” as it was known.
 
Beverleyred said:
Wow, what a small world this is at times.
Thanks for the information Morrissey.
Incredible that two people apart from myself today, know about Monkland Street.
It really has stirred up the memories.
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not sure of my gran's number, middle of the terrace down from the bakers on the corner. 30-something? Mrs Cronin - she was a widow (husband had died pre-WWII) and she must have lived there for at least 15 years before moving into our house in Thorntree in 69/70. Dundas Street before that.
 
Lottowyn said:
Used to play darts in a few of the pubs shown.
Played in a league for the Gosforth on a Friday night near the old Theatre Royal which later converted into a cinema called I think the Essoldo.
Had some memorable eventful nights in the Gosforth “over the border” as it was known.
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It was actually called the GosFORD. A common mistake.

I once made a tenner off a mate I was drinking with in the Boro who was adamant it was the Gosforth.

A slight detour over the border and the money was mine.
 
Rofesleg said:
:) When would that be? I worked there for a short while in 1985.
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It may well have been 85. I was living in Brighton between 83 and 87 and always went on a pub crawl over the border with my dad at Xmas/NY time when I came 'home'.
The pub crawl then would have been, the Glass Barrel for the bandbox, follied by the Fleece, Robin Hood, Gosford, Captain Cook and sometimes the Commercial, Bridge and Ship Inn. and even the Steam Packet in the early days. Always had a pint in the Irish Centre though. I think the bar must have been open when other pubs were shut.
 
Redwurzel said:
I think I will have to have visit to the Navi - in the close season, and try some of the Teesside beers from the 1970s!
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The Navi was owned by Camerons in the 70s and was a tied house. A great pint of handpulled Strongarm (and opened early for the steelworkers coming off shift).
 
Cogeur_le_Conq said:
It may well have been 85. I was living in Brighton between 83 and 87 and always went on a pub crawl over the border with my dad at Xmas/NY time when I came 'home'.
The pub crawl then would have been, the Glass Barrel for the bandbox, follied by the Fleece, Robin Hood, Gosford, Captain Cook and sometimes the Commercial, Bridge and Ship Inn. and even the Steam Packet in the early days. Always had a pint in the Irish Centre though. I think the bar must have been open when other pubs were shut.
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It could be a scary place. Especially during 'ladies weekend'. When the wives were allowed out. Bingo followed by mayhem.
 
Boro for life said:
Another one for Monkland Street, my grandparents and mum used to live there as well, my dad thinks number 77 but not sure, Liz and Dave Jenkins , and mum was Margaret, she also went to Fleetham Street school
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Wow, loving this, at this rate we’ll be able to set up a Street reunion!!
 
NorthumberlandBoro said:
72 pubs in st Hilda's alone back in the old days.
I imagine it was lively in the late 19th century to say the least.
Thousands of young Irishman (including my great grandfather from county Antrim), spending their hard earned wages on copious amounts of beer.
Probably a bit like the wild west.
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In the first decade of the new Middlesbrough's growth period, it probably was very much like a wild west boomtown, even in the similar time frame as the five points from the Gangs of New York, with people from far and wide looking for prosperity.
The bylaws very pretty strict though, as set out by the owners of the Middlesbrough estate.
Ale was necessary to replenish the salts and fluids that the workers will have lost because of the nature and conditions of the work and I would guess that a lot of mild beers would be drank.
On a sidenote, I once had a pint of the Worthy Teesside where it was brewed at the Canon Brewery in Sheffield, that and the Stone's tasted great onsite.
I was also told that The Borough Hotel ( Dr Brown's) used to sell Beverley Ales.
Pity you can't get a Bass in Boro these days.
 
delgrapos said:
In the first decade of the new Middlesbrough's growth period, it probably was very much like a wild west boomtown, even in the similar time frame as the five points from the Gangs of New York, with people from far and wide looking for prosperity.
The bylaws very pretty strict though, as set out by the owners of the Middlesbrough estate.
Ale was necessary to replenish the salts and fluids that the workers will have lost because of the nature and conditions of the work and I would guess that a lot of mild beers would be drank.
On a sidenote, I once had a pint of the Worthy Teesside where it was brewed at the Canon Brewery in Sheffield, that and the Stone's tasted great onsite.
I was also told that The Borough Hotel ( Dr Brown's) used to sell Beverley Ales.
Pity you can't get a Bass in Boro these days.
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The Borough Hotel used to be a Watneys house in the 70's
 
My dad liked his pint and told me many stories of drinking over the border. Many pubs were really just someone's front room. A piece of wood placed over two barrels formed the bar. Men coming off nights would call in for a pint. These places didn't have licences but the police were also partial to a pint. They also liked their palms greased.
In the 19th century Middlesbrough was so crime ridden, including the police, outside officers were drafted into the area but would not police the area unless they were paid exceptionally well
 
when it was the old times drinking hours when the pubs used to close at 3 at not open again till 7.we would go over the border to the glass barrel and gosford at 5.30 as they would be open before going into town at 7
 
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