Knacker Drink in St. Annes
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Topic: Knacker Drink in St. Annes
Posted By: eejit91
Subject: Knacker Drink in St. Annes
Date Posted: 13-October-2005 at 20:14
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After speaking with my husband which also was a true Grove goer he told me some crazy stories. To start he was off out for a Saturday night and proceeded to go for a few ciders down St. Anne’s Park and onto the beach front where he smoked himself to death - black Moroccan I believe… yikes… from there it was up to the Grove where he desecrated the place per the words of one of bouncers. His friend was pulled by the collar and sent out to take care of him. What a sight – you’d never believe that of him now… He was left by one of the bouncers hanging over his motorbike and when asked by his friend could he drive home – he said, start my motorbike, which he did… he then drove home and was greeted by his Mother… Jasus Martin she said to her husband – will ya look at the state of him… the rest was pure history. Grounded for a week! ------------- "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better." |
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Posted By: Lenny3fingers
Date Posted: 07-November-2005 at 12:33
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i remember the oul knacker drinking in st annes allright. one night i was in there with a mate and my gf and her sister, cops come over and take all their drink and leave me with my lovely bulmers!! strange ------------- work. the curse of the drinking classes! 
-----grover 90 - 96 ish------ |
Posted By: Li''leGer
Date Posted: 20-September-2006 at 19:55
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Where to start with St. Annes ....... I remember the special branch out one night and they chased us through st. annes, up the avenue and across the fields (just at texaco garage). I still managed to hang on to my Ritz and outran them, the things we had to do! ------------- Ger |
Posted By: Lenny3fingers
Date Posted: 20-September-2006 at 20:24
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LOL - go on Ger ye mad thing!! Everyone, This is Ger, my better half. We met at the grove, 12 years later still going strong!! ------------- work. the curse of the drinking classes!
-----grover 90 - 96 ish------ |
Posted By: Hayseed Dixie
Date Posted: 21-September-2006 at 20:42
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Hey Ger...welcome  Another Grove couple joins ..yaaay!! I'm telling Ya Lenny..never mind Zhivago's..Love stories began in the Grove..hehehe!!
 ------------- Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. - (Henri Cartier-Bresson) |
Posted By: Hayseed Dixie
Date Posted: 21-September-2006 at 20:43
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Just thinking actually.. bet the Gards wish that's all they had to worry about these days huh! Chasing a bunch of half stoned hippies around Raheny..hehehe!! ------------- Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. - (Henri Cartier-Bresson) |
Posted By: eejit91
Date Posted: 21-September-2006 at 21:02
Funny that you say that! I had an email from my sis in law this morning regarding the grove and she told me that herself and my brother met at the old grove - and in her words said "Love stories begin at the grove" ditto.... ------------- "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better." |
Hayseed Dixie wrote:Posted By: Hayseed Dixie
Date Posted: 21-September-2006 at 21:08
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wow!! That is probably unique.. they should have been on the documentary... Can't imagine there are too many people who met at the original Grove and are still together now.. ------------- Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. - (Henri Cartier-Bresson) |
Posted By: Lenny3fingers
Date Posted: 21-September-2006 at 21:20
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i wasnt even born when the original grove was on!!
------------- work. the curse of the drinking classes!
-----grover 90 - 96 ish------ |
Posted By: Hayseed Dixie
Date Posted: 21-September-2006 at 21:24
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I was ..but I lived across the water and was probably still listening to Tommy Makem and the Clancy Brothers..  was the only record me ma had ....!! ...There was a wild colonial boy...Jack duggan was his name....Yeee Haaar!! ------------- Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. - (Henri Cartier-Bresson) |
Posted By: Bluebell
Date Posted: 22-September-2006 at 13:00
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Stop lying.....you still listen to them..... ------------- You are what you wanna be....age doesn't matter |
Posted By: Hayseed Dixie
Date Posted: 22-September-2006 at 13:21
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HAHA!! Well if I did..still better than George Michael....and god forbid.....Robbie Williams...ahem,!! ------------- Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. - (Henri Cartier-Bresson) |
Posted By: BakerBabe
Date Posted: 22-September-2006 at 19:38
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Hi all groveys - I am so glad that I found this site!! I was a grovey back in 84 til about 88/89 - I have to say that I learnt all I know in the Grove !!!!!!!!!!!! Ah the documentary the other nite had me in tears - poor Cecil he was so upset - I am dying to go to the reunion now - naturally my younger sisters will be there as will my Future Brother in Law !!! Thanks Len !!! ------------- A womans place is on the Phone...... |
Posted By: Lenny3fingers
Date Posted: 22-September-2006 at 21:01
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no problemo! ------------- work. the curse of the drinking classes!
-----grover 90 - 96 ish------ |
Posted By: irish_mammy
Date Posted: 19-October-2006 at 07:01
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My friends and I were too "posh" or lazy to go knacker drinking in St. Annes. We just plastered the make up on and went to "the sheds". For years my mother thought I was knacker drinking, she didn't realise it was a pub!! We liked our comfort even back then. Plus the guys were better looking in the pub. irish_mammy ------------- Lesley 25th June - 25th July. Get organising my nights out. Child can stay in the car. Grove 1980-1984 |
Posted By: Bluebell
Date Posted: 19-October-2006 at 14:02
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Hi and welcome to the forum Irish mammy...
We (me and my girlfriends) never went knacker drinking in St Annes
either cos like you by the time we were 16/17yrs we were getting served
in pubs....I was... a still am tall, so like you we would slap on the
make-up and off the the pub we would trot....only got refused about
once or twice.....
------------- You are what you wanna be....age doesn't matter |
Posted By: eejit91
Date Posted: 19-October-2006 at 16:06
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Ah you missed out on an entire era in the park... Nothing like swigging out of a bottle walking up the mansion road... ------------- "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better." |
Posted By: Vinyl Junkie
Date Posted: 19-October-2006 at 23:38
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Welcome Irish_Mammy Ah, knacker drinking was the business. Bit of a pain on winter nights but there used to be droves drinking down the park down near the old mansion during the summer. Scoff 3-4 polo mints or mint gum on the way back up and you were sorted. ------------- TPFKAB (The Poster Formerly Known As Brunswick). |
Posted By: Kay Fagan
Date Posted: 20-October-2006 at 22:32
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knacker drinking was the best.There was always a big gang of us we had some great nights down there.Wouldn't walk down the park now at night ------------- Kay Fagan |
Posted By: eejit91
Date Posted: 21-October-2006 at 14:20
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Me neither Kay but we did have some great nights didn't we walking up the mansion road. ------------- "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better." |
Posted By: Bluebell
Date Posted: 21-October-2006 at 15:59
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Teresa/Kay did you both hang around together during the grove years?
And were you always in touch or did you meet up again on the website?
------------- You are what you wanna be....age doesn't matter |
Posted By: tmarie
Date Posted: 21-October-2006 at 17:16
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My worst memory of knacker drinking was the last new year's grove I went to...Our modus operandi was to knock back a naggin of vodka then leggit into the grove before it hit and we became obviously drunk...object of drinkin being purely to get drunk and brave etc etc ;) I used to hate vodka so drank it straight (quicker!) and had to take a few deep breaths to make sure it stayed down - on this particular nyg night someone asked me a question too soon and I was caught off guard and the whole naggin came back up before it even hit my stomach! No more drink left so there I was sober as a judge on new years eve, completely irritated with everyone who was as drink and foolish as I longed to be - complete nightmare I'll never forget it :( ------------- Cheers Marie |
Posted By: eejit91
Date Posted: 21-October-2006 at 21:23
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Bluebell yep we are both from St. Annes and went to school together and hung around together. Lost touch although one of Kay's good friends Ita is my sis in laws sis so I would always see her and she'd fill me in on how all the others were doing. She was also a good friend from back then. There used to be about 3 gangs of us that would meet up down the park or at the grove or we just did things now and then with a few different people within the group. We had the best life really. I met up with Kay again out here and met up with her and the gang when home in May. ------------- "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better." |
Posted By: Bluebell
Date Posted: 22-October-2006 at 22:11
Wow.....you guys have a lot of history together and a lot of stories
about eachother.....so come on spill the beans, we won't tell anyone
else.....promise 
------------- You are what you wanna be....age doesn't matter |
Posted By: Floyd
Date Posted: 11-November-2006 at 21:50
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AAAHHH,knacker drinking in park,what a ritual.Why oh why was it necessary,nay,compulsory to rip away the label from the two litre bottle of cider? To see how much you had left? One precious night Tonto and I got our stories rehearsed for the Rosemount off licence (how old are you,where do you live etc) and got 4 Harp and a flgon of cider. I think it was a new years or definitely Christmas time. I started on the cider and Tony had two of the Harp when we were getting bored with the taste. Half way through the drink we swapped-of course this was perfect snakebites-except they were being mixed in our stomachs. Didn't hit until we were in there.Spent the WHOLE night in the compound bringing it all back up.How we weren't booted out I'll never know. Barry Reynolds and Ciaran White (anyone remember them?) sat there just laughing their arses off at us. Even now when I see cider I can taste carrotts... ------------- There are three kinds of people in the world,those who are able to count,and those who can't... |
Posted By: Vinyl Junkie
Date Posted: 11-November-2006 at 22:17
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Funny thing really, I dont ever remember being sick down the Grove although I must have been at some stage.. ------------- TPFKAB (The Poster Formerly Known As Brunswick). |
Posted By: irish_mammy
Date Posted: 12-November-2006 at 04:58
I think we were all sick there at some stage ------------- Lesley 25th June - 25th July. Get organising my nights out. Child can stay in the car. Grove 1980-1984 |
Posted By: Bluebell
Date Posted: 12-November-2006 at 10:52
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I fainted on the stage on night, and the bouncers had to carry me
outside. When I came through they kept asking me about what I had taken
and how much ????? I had taken nothing not even a drink, was stone cold
sober, but I don't think they believed me......after about half an hour
or so I was back up headbanging again, but the bouncers kept giving me
strange looks all night.
------------- You are what you wanna be....age doesn't matter |
Posted By: irish_mammy
Date Posted: 12-November-2006 at 14:32
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Bluebell, Maybe you fainted from lack of headbanging
------------- Lesley 25th June - 25th July. Get organising my nights out. Child can stay in the car. Grove 1980-1984 |
Posted By: Vinyl Junkie
Date Posted: 12-November-2006 at 14:39
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There's your problem! ------------- TPFKAB (The Poster Formerly Known As Brunswick). |
Posted By: Blondie
Date Posted: 12-November-2006 at 14:43
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Hav to be honest didnt drink that much when going to grove still young and innocent then ------------- Blondie I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it ! |