“75p a pint …. Holt’s Mild ….. cheapest beer in Britain”………….

Now you do have to go back to 1990 and the Griffin in Heaton Mersey to experience such a bargain.

Not that I like Mild, and I only ever went in the Griffin once which would have been in the late 1970s.

That said this is one of those rare pictures of the inside of a pub.

And it is odd that despite the vast number of photographs of the exterior of pubs there are a lot less of the insides.

I am guessing that if you are inside, and having fun, the carefully rehearsed picture is not uppermost in your mind.

And while there will be plenty of “snaps” taken by the likes of aunt Eddie of Sid’s birthday party, few of these very personal photos ever gets published.

At which point a host of people will prove me wrong and send in a collection of snaps of birthday and , wedding celebrations along with the  odd anniversary dos.

And in doing so will offer up a vast store of images of how pubs used to be, with their small smoky rooms,  beer stained tables and faded calendars of the local football teams, with adverts for Pork Scratchings and Smith’s Crisps.

So that is it, the photograph was taken by Howard Barlow and published by the Sunday Telegraph in the February of 1992.

Of course I can do better than 75p, because back in 1968 a pint cost one shilling [5p], but that was London prices. 

A year later in Manchester I could dine out on a three course businessman's lunch for 3 shillings [15p].

Leaving someone to ask ... and how much did you get paid?

I have David Harrop to thank for sharing the picture with me.

Location Heaton Mersey

Picture; the Griffin, where Mild was 75p in 1990, Howard Barlow, Sunday Telegraph from the collection of David Harrop