Bygone Pubs - The Bridge Inn (Top Bridge) - Leigh Lancs
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 เม.ย. 2018
- Bygone Pubs - The Top Bridge, (Bridge Inn) Leigh Lancashire
Let's take one last look into one of Leigh's most fondly remembered watering holes.
The Music:
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Palms - Text Me Records / Bobby Renz
Casual Desire - Ugonna Onyekwe
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Blue Creek Trail - Dan Lebowitz
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This pub was the first pub I drank a pint of beer in at the age of 17 in 1981. I played chess for The Bridge Inn Chess Club in the local league. It was my regular every friday and saturday night until my early 20s. I got drunk watching Live Aid in 1984 in the room where the pool table could be seen in the video. I spent my first New Year's Even in a pub there in 1981-82. I recognised Ray and Maureen, the landlord and lady in the picture straight away.
I visited a relative in Leigh last weekend, as I live in the Midlands now, and saw it had been knocked down and replaced by apartments and a car park, so searched to see if there were any pictures online. I came across this video. It is heart rending to see it like that ... and now gone completely. All my memories and my long lost friends, many of them who were much older than me and now also probably long gone. It makes me feel very old and very sad.
Yeah but at the end of the day m8 your lucky enough to have such good memories hence the reason we cover these places in our films so that people don't take things for granted because before they know it its all gone. Thanks for your history brother.
The first put I ever got served in 1990....aged 16.😄
Just heard LULU on the radio singing 'The Man who Sold the World'. I recall first hearing this song in the 'Top Bridge, The date would be early April 1971. I was a young Leyther and Higher Fowder ( Higher Folds Council Estate in Leigh), I6 year old lad at the time trying to get accustomed to Greenhall's 'Best' Biitter !
Hahaa quality thanks for your history pal Im glad you found the vid and yep I know higher fold's allthough I fear it's not the same place you knew growing up.
Makes me feel sick watching it. Enjoyed living there for 5 years
Yeah I dont doubt it m8!
spent many new years eve partys in there so sad to see it like this and now its all gone x
New subscriber - loving these videos and enjoying going through them. I repair fruit machines, pool tables etc. in pubs and find the pub videos of interest. The fruit machine in this video is Cash Attack by Barcrest and was manufactured around 2007 - that could give some indication of when the pub closed, maybe a year or so after this. Great videos and keep them coming! 👍
Oh brilliant cheers for this m8 much appreciated!
It was a more than decent boozer. I used to love it back in the day.
A beautifully put together video, thanks a lot risking your neck for it! I had many pints in there in the 70's . It was the only pub in Leigh where I would drink Greenall Whitley and had one for dutch courage on my wedding day before the kick off at three pm at Pennington Curch :-)
Hahaa quality I'm glad you found and enjoyed the vid m8.
Sorry for the late reply but youtube is very temperamental at notifying me of comment, anyway, hope you found our bottom bridge vid too pal.
still working our way through ur back catalogue still enjoying em too mate....great video ...stay safe ..Frank & Lee...
Cheers Frank I just hope the more recent the films are theres less swearing and bettee commentary lol.
ty for putting this on what a shame im a leyther used to go in this pub in the 70s and 80s
Nice one thunder Im local to the area too m8 Im hoping to the bottom club soon as well as soon as the opportunity arises!
Perfecto!
I'd be afraid of falling through the floor in that place that's some brave exploring there no doubt 👍
Haha, cheers pal I have, however, been in a lot more dangerous places than this although I am keeping a little more danger free these days...apparently lol
Soz dude this also me!
maniaconthetube I stay on the semi safe side...six years ago I fell through a floor and got hurt pretty bad..just now returning to urbex this year.
I look forward to seeing what you get up to then fella!
The Urban Collective thanks man...more to come
Working our way through your vids, brilliant stuff. Love it. One of our favourite channels . The cobwebs would make me leave, spiders would give me panic attacks, I'm such a girl at times. Great stuff... thank you xx
Lol I dont blame you m8 thank you so much for watching our films we really appreciate it!
I (Dave Shave) was in this place 4 nights a week between 1979 and 1985 then moved to Preston. Shout out to Scuthy, Jammy, Eric, Daley, Tonsk, Mac, Trig and many others.
The inital photos at the start (of some regulars) was taken by Yvonne Croston approx 1979 (my girlfriend,then, now wife, ex-wife).
Quality thanks for your history brother.
@@TheUrbanCollectiveWeFilmIt Thanks. I hardly recognised the place (even though I've not visited since probable early 1990s). Had a tear in my eye too as although I knew it was closed, I didn't know it had been demolished and 3 story apartment building gone up on the site.
Also hello to Martin and his missus Ann (barmaid), Greeny (RIP) the landlord Ray and Maureen's son, plusTommy, Kev, Pie, Nodge, Cho, not forgetting The Compost Corner (30 year olds) and The Muppet Corner (the other corner, as named by Jack from the aforementioned Compost Corner). They were 2 age groups in the Back room (the one that in later years had the dartboard) which had a fantastic rock jukebox.
The front room had the over sixties and the landlady Maureen would entertain them at weekends on the organ.
@@daveparr6751 Yeah I've heard about the compost corner m8 lol we had an incredible response to this film over on Facebook and I reckon a lot of your old m8s might have commented so have a look pal you never know as we've reunited a lot of people through these films.
I remember your name, but I was mainly an Athy lad who sometimes used to come down to the bridge on a Saturday. You'll remember Howard Wiper I bet, no longer with us. Pretty unforgettable once you'd met him!
Landlord/landlady Maureen and Ray Green on one clip
In Clarkeys Bottom Bridge there are pics of my parents who met there and the lanlord and landlady Joan and Stan Johnson at the same time as Ray and Maureen had the top bridge....
Been in that pub once long time ago what a shame.... Nice vlog
Yeah, it is pal looked like a nice boozer too!
FLATTENED this year.....
Leythers 👍😂