Anybody else remember the good old Sunday breakfast outings?

When I was a member of the New Imperial Club down Grimsby Road, in the days before extended hours, we would ask a pub down the coast somewhere if they could accommodate a bus load for breakfast. They would then apply for a special opening hours licence.

We'd meet in the club for about 7.30am and head off about 9am, having quaffed liberal amounts of drink, and the cans, bottles, dominoes and cards would come on the bus with us. Breakfast would usually be the full English, with as much as you could probably eat, and then drinks up until normal opening hours, when we would head back to the club for last orders.

Great days out, and nobody has ever seemingly heard of them up here in Scotland.

Yes, great days out, something quite surreal about walking down to a pub early on a quiet Sunday morning and stepping into a packed smoky bar with everyone drinking, playing pool, darts and cards. Not a thing that happens down here in London either

No. First I've ever heard of it. The fact it's unheard of in Scotland (surely they'd have discovered a loophole in the booze laws if anyone) suggests it was a fairly localised practice.

I could well be wrong though! It wouldn't surprise me if there were more examples. People always find a way round restrictions.

Side issue to this. I'd never seen so many pissheads in the street as in my first visit to Helsinki 18 years ago. Guys rooting through bins to collect any bottles that naive foreigners like me had put in them to collect the deposits on them. Mind you this was a part of town (Kallio) that was more like Freemo (someone even developed a version of Monopoly, 'Kalliopoly'. Pass Go, collect your 2000 Mark gyro, land on the Alko shop lose 300 Marks). They had (still have) a law which stops strong alcohol (i.e. anything above about 5%) being sold anywhere but in state-run alko shops which had limited opening hours like we had for pubs. People just stocked up on vodka when they could.

Quoted from KingstonMariner

No. First I've ever heard of it. The fact it's unheard of in Scotland (surely they'd have discovered a loophole in the booze laws if anyone) suggests it was a fairly localised practice.

I could well be wrong though! It wouldn't surprise me if there were more examples. People always find a way round restrictions.

Side issue to this. I'd never seen so many pissheads in the street as in my first visit to Helsinki 18 years ago. Guys rooting through bins to collect any bottles that naive foreigners like me had put in them to collect the deposits on them. Mind you this was a part of town (Kallio) that was more like Freemo (someone even developed a version of Monopoly, 'Kalliopoly'. Pass Go, collect your 2000 Mark gyro, land on the Alko shop lose 300 Marks). They had (still have) a law which stops strong alcohol (i.e. anything above about 5%) being sold anywhere but in state-run alko shops which had limited opening hours like we had for pubs. People just stocked up on vodka when they could.

That's the same as Sweden. State sponsored alkies.

Social Democracy. You know it makes sense. Taken care of womb to tomb.

Never went on any breakfast outings I needed to play a footy match before I had a drink. ;D

When I worked in Edinburgh you could get booze all hours and the pizza places all sold it too. Can't remember if the new law had come out, if it had it was very early doors for it where nothing had really changed down here.

They still do these at the Westlands Club

I remember the breakfast outings well but I never managed to get up early enough to go on one because I was suffering from too much from a hangover from the night before   ;D

Still have the odd breakfast outing from a couple of pubs on freeman street! Mostly lads who work on the docks, but a few pub regulars too. Not been on one myself, having a business to run my phone is never off.......I couldn’t think of anything worse than having to answer it to customers after 6 pints at 10am 😂

Cons club do an occasional one.
Kingsway club too

[quote=697]They still do these at the Westlands Club[/quote

Used to belong the Westlands many moons ago. They used to have excellent heavily subsidised days out to the Test Match and York Races back then. Do they still?

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Cons club do an occasional one.
Kingsway club too

Just been taken over by new owners and it looks like they have applied for it to stay open until 4am FFS.

I live just round the corner on South Street.

https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/news/grimsby-news/kingsway-club-closure-brett-smith-2521979

Called 'morning drives' over here and tended to include a stripper or 2!