Visting old Pubs....Can anyone remember???

@Anthonyarumugam

My father worked at spinning wheel, I have some old pictures, I wonder if they are your parents.

@Anthonyarumugam

I remember them and you! And your sister who appeared in "EastEneders" a few times in the late 89s/90s!  It was the fantastic Indian Restaurant that was best and of course the pub they had in Irish Town! Great times!!  And you were a very good Pool player!!

Ian McMonagle

I know this is old, but I hope the person posting sees this.  This is SO strange.  For one thing, I used to work at the 6 Steps!  It was 1968, so a little before the time period mentioned, but the really weird thing is that Diana and Delia are my sister and mother's names!  The reason I was there in the first place was because my sister was born there a few weeks before I started working at the pub.  The 9 Tombs I knew well, too.  I think it was owned at the time by a friend, although I can't remember who.  I've no idea why it came to me to look up the 6 Steps but I am glad I did.

What a great place it was!  All the members of the various garrisons coming in every night, someone always had a guitar and would play - that's where I learned all the Irish songs I know.  Loved Gib and spent 3 or four months there at the time.  SO different from today.  Only 2 hotels, a lot of pubs, two chippies, a terrible Chinese restaurant and a Wimpey's.  One cinema.

Can't see anyone seeing this reply after so long, but if for some reason this IS my sister, hey, sis!

That has to have been way after my time there which was '68.  At that time it was owned by some people from Ceylon.  I loved that place and the people, mostly RAF and Navy personnel, who played guitar and told outrageous stories.  It's nice to hear it continued, at least for a while.  Different kind of place now, if it's still there.  Probably changed a lot, because we didn't even have running water behind the bar!  LOL!  Don't think health regs would allow that these days.

@AnnCrofts

Hi, Ann. I check periodically to see if I can find any new posting and was heartened to see your from only 7 years ago.  I was astonished to see that the Six Steps was still there then.  I loved that place and had such a great time working there - hardly like a job at all, more like hanging out with my friends as I would be doing anyway, except I got paid for it.  At the time (1968) it was owned by some lovely people from Sri Lanka, I think.  Most of the clientele was from the garrison and everyone seemed to play guitar. It was there I learned all the old Irish folk songs like Wild Rover and Holy Ground. I believe the most people we ever had in there was some special night, maybe a birthday bash or something.  I think it was twenty-two or there abouts and that was with two people sitting in the loo, using the toilet as a seat with someone sitting on that person's lap.  Back then the bar itself was tiny, maybe a metre and a half or 2 wide, with all the bottles mounted on the wall so you could push up with the glass to dispense an exact shot.  There was no sink back there and all the glasses were rinsed only in a basin!  It was a great time in my life, at only about 18! I miss those people al lot and wonder what became of  them. Most are probably gone because they were all far older than I was, as much as twenty years, so they're unlikely to be still with us.  After work we'd sometimes get pub food at the London Bar...gorgeous steak and kidney min-pies. Or go other days to the Nine Tombs owned by someone I knew. We lived in a haunted Hotel called the Havencourt,  That we called the Raving Court, gone decades ago.  Gib was a wonderful place back then.  I'd give a lot to be transported back there at that time, go to the after hours places I can't remember the names of, especially a divey bar down by the waterfront that had the best bacon butties I've ever had.  Sorry, I have pontificated long enough.