Our regular visits were just before Yarm bank in Egglescliffe Village at the Pot & Glass where you would treat your girlfriend to a PIMMS I’m unsure if Charlie behind the bar enjoyed doing them or they posed taking time to make them, but they were always the same — enjoyable.
We went for a meal in Yarm last night, bear in mind it was a Tuesday night long regarded as singles night where local musicians would play and people would come from all over Teesside pre pandemic. Booked a table in Santoros which has long been our favourite restaurant on the high street only to discover the menu was little more than fast food based largely on pasta dishes (it is an italian restaurant after all), considering the time of year it was very quiet and sadly resulted in our departure to Muse…..no booking was required as it was mostly empty too. A quite mediocre meal later at around 21:30 we walked to the town hall where once a multitude of taxi’s would be queuing, there was 3. En route we passed the Ketton Ox…6 people in evidence, then the George where often queue’s would have formed at this time of night and we counted 8, What was the Union Arms next door was completely empty…..looking across the road to the Keys it appeared closed…may have not been but by this time we couldn’t be bothered to go and look…..all in all it was a sad reflection of the high street from just a decade ago….and I suppose when you can buy 15 tins of Carling for £12 in the supermarket or 2 pints in the Bull its little wonder.
Hi, The day of the pub is over. I recall the 4d [less than 2p] for a return ticket on the no. 4 bus. Twelve pubs in High Street, Yarm, and we never achieved a pint in each. It would be a disgrace asking for a half!! We usually managed eight pints with bus back shortly after 22.00, as N. Yorks pubs closed at 22.00 with no drinking-up time. The early 60’s were very happy days. Do older people now go out after dark? Definately not in town centres, eg. Stockton, M’bro.
This brings back memories of the trick that was played on some visitors to Yarm when you asked them if they knew where Yarm Castle was.. Not every one knew that Yarm had a Castle. It was perched on a wall, a model of a Castle, on the banks of the River in mid Town area just about where the car in the photo is on the banks of the river. Nice memories of a childhood spent in Stockton many years ago..
Traffic on Yarm High Street c1962.
Our regular visits were just before Yarm bank in Egglescliffe Village at the Pot & Glass where you would treat your girlfriend to a PIMMS I’m unsure if Charlie behind the bar enjoyed doing them or they posed taking time to make them, but they were always the same — enjoyable.
J.
We went for a meal in Yarm last night, bear in mind it was a Tuesday night long regarded as singles night where local musicians would play and people would come from all over Teesside pre pandemic. Booked a table in Santoros which has long been our favourite restaurant on the high street only to discover the menu was little more than fast food based largely on pasta dishes (it is an italian restaurant after all), considering the time of year it was very quiet and sadly resulted in our departure to Muse…..no booking was required as it was mostly empty too. A quite mediocre meal later at around 21:30 we walked to the town hall where once a multitude of taxi’s would be queuing, there was 3. En route we passed the Ketton Ox…6 people in evidence, then the George where often queue’s would have formed at this time of night and we counted 8, What was the Union Arms next door was completely empty…..looking across the road to the Keys it appeared closed…may have not been but by this time we couldn’t be bothered to go and look…..all in all it was a sad reflection of the high street from just a decade ago….and I suppose when you can buy 15 tins of Carling for £12 in the supermarket or 2 pints in the Bull its little wonder.
Hi, The day of the pub is over. I recall the 4d [less than 2p] for a return ticket on the no. 4 bus. Twelve pubs in High Street, Yarm, and we never achieved a pint in each. It would be a disgrace asking for a half!! We usually managed eight pints with bus back shortly after 22.00, as N. Yorks pubs closed at 22.00 with no drinking-up time. The early 60’s were very happy days. Do older people now go out after dark? Definately not in town centres, eg. Stockton, M’bro.
PS: I know the man who owns the Castle.
Seems to me very few people go out after dark these days, I’m thinking early doors and home is becoming the order of the day…..
This brings back memories of the trick that was played on some visitors to Yarm when you asked them if they knew where Yarm Castle was.. Not every one knew that Yarm had a Castle. It was perched on a wall, a model of a Castle, on the banks of the River in mid Town area just about where the car in the photo is on the banks of the river. Nice memories of a childhood spent in Stockton many years ago..