Match Day Pubs - Past and Present

[davieG]

[davieG]

What were yours?

 

Pictures if possible.

[Ashley]

Nags Head & Star growing up. 

 

 

My Dad and his crowd later moved to the Gateway(it was me who used to play football at the bottom of the stairs and terrorise people needing a pee - sorry)

[TheUltimateWinner]

[Officer Doofy]

 

At its best when it was the Gateway 

[Officer Doofy]

[davieG]

In my late teens, lived just around the corner before walking to Welford Road and down through Freemans Commons when it was a massive allotment past the Cattle Market

[Officer Doofy]

[FLAN]

47 minutes ago, davieG said:

What were these and where?

[FLAN]

Never been much of a drinker ahead of games but when I did back in Oneills era we used The Quay before it became Teaco….

Great bar that place when it first opened 

[davieG]

13 minutes ago, FLAN said:

What were these and where?

[davieG]

7 minutes ago, FLAN said:

Never been much of a drinker ahead of games but when I did back in Oneills era we used The Quay before it became Teaco….

Great bar that place when it first opened 

Great location especially if the weather was good. Always rammed on match days fans used to buy cans from the supermarket on the same site

[SK3Blue]

Met my missus in here in 2001 before a game against an Everton side which included Gazza. 
 

 

[EastAnglianFox]

Halftime Orange on Burnmoor street with the old man

 

 

[Narborough Road Fox]

The Pump and Tap, Duns Lane near Braunstone Gate. 

[Orange seat]

A pint of Dog Bolter in here as a pre match ritual.

 

Edited 4 hours ago by Orange seat

[RedSoxUK]

2 hours ago, Officer Doofy said:

 

 

[grobyfox1990]

2 hours ago, SK3Blue said:

Met my missus in here in 2001 before a game against an Everton side which included Gazza. 
 

 

That was my first ever game. Found and bought the programme online a few years ago

[bovril]

Don't know why but I sometimes dream I'm in the Swan and Rushes having a pint of Bateman's Mild. A very missed pub. 

[bovril]

First pub I used to go to with my Dad was the Fullback and Firkin (then polar bear?) which I always remember as much more cavernous than it really is. I was a lot smaller I suppose...

[Ted Maul]

These threads are always quite sad- Leicester has lost some fantastic boozers and pub culture in general is a million miles away from what it used to be. 

Edited 2 hours ago by Ted Maul

[hackneyfox]

Used to come over on a coach from Rugby.

All we ever knew of Leicester were the gas towers and The South Leicester Working Mens Club, later The Halftime Orange.

The barmaids were all huge old women, how they steered around each other I do not know.

Place did an awesome Faggots, Chips & Peas, if you ever found a hair in it the length would determine if it had come off a barmaids head or chin.

[Jimmy]

I used to start in the Bricklayers Arms for a couple then move to the Turnstyle/F Bar

[South Shire Fox]

The Donkey or the New road inn 

[Stuntman_Mike]

6 hours ago, TheUltimateWinner said:

I really miss this place. 

 

£1 a pint some weeknights after I'd finish work at Homebase next door.