Old Extinct Pubs in Aberdeen

[57vintage]

Ah want tae correct this story, but Ah canna mind how it wis that The Tanfield got their team back in the league.

It wisna as ye say tho, cos Bob Lawrence's and The Tanfield were the same bar at different times.

Bob Lawrence bought ower the Tanfield and changed the name

Did Walter Baxter take it ower and imaginatively re-name it Walter’s?

The only time I can recall being in there one drunken Friday night aboot 1981, there was a boy going roon taking orders for video recorders. In a crude, primitive early form of a manual spreadsheet, he had the models and their features on a bit of paper, and got affa ratty with a potential customer who couldna understand the 8xFF feature on the model he fancied getting.

[NaeMairNeeps]

Did Walter Baxter take it ower and imaginatively re-name it Walter’s?

The only time I can recall being in there one drunken Friday night aboot 1981, there was a boy going roon taking orders for video recorders. In a crude, primitive early form of a manual spreadsheet, he had the models and their features on a bit of paper, and got affa ratty with a potential customer who couldna understand the 8xFF feature on the model he fancied getting.

Hmmm ... Ah dae mind it wis 'Walters Bar' ... but yer sayin 1981? ... Ah suppose, it might hae been Walter's' afore it wis 'Lawrence's' ... but if that's the case, it couldna hae been for lang.

Last time I ws in .... ither than tae view ma Da's body, wis only tae buy some tobacco efter the shops had closed. The guy on ma right, at the coonter, kept askin me tae sell him some smack ... which Ah tellt him Ah didna hae onythin tae dae wi ... ever! ... but he kept askin. The guy on ma left wis gan tae 'kick ma fkn heid in' cos Ah widna gie him a roll up .... even tho Ah explained, Ah didna hae ony ... but would hae if he wid jist leave me tae get served. Luckily, he got some ither c*nt tae sort him oot wi a fag by the time Ah got served.

[Onebobbyconnor]

Spotted The Wild Boar on the news tonight. The first pub i was ever in as an underage scamp many, many years ago.