Did you have to have those special glasses like the one you get at the iMax?

Bought my first pint in rlhererl but back then is was known as The Woodman (now Woddies)

I've written all about The Woodman rlhererl

Not quite how I remember it as I think the era that you frequented this find drinking establishment would be a little further down the historical timeline than I, but they must have obviously kept up the tradition of serving under-aged drinkers as it was well before my 18th birthday when I first stepped foot in there.

does involve a kindly barmaid helping you out?

Hand pulled?

There are too many incidents to identify the specific one to which you seem to be referring, I have needed assistance in leaving many pubs in the past, some voluntarily, some not so, and in one bar in a country a long way away I needed help in finding the door after walking around said bar three times trying to find somewhere to leave by.

I don't touch the stuff now.

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In 1974 ?

You must be joking.

People don't believe me when I say there were only two pubs in Leeds still with hand pumps in 1974 - the one behind the fire station on Burley Rd (The Highlander ?) and Whitelocks.

Bradford had loads, but then electricity hadn't found the city at that time.

I bought my first ever pint in The Crown at the bottom of Tong Road.

I was always more grassroots than you to be fair.

The Regent in Chapel allerton also kept hand pumps when all the others went electric.

Thats true.

There were a handfull left in Leeds, we used to make special trips to them, around '78 or so we bought a copy of the CAMRA guide - there was I believe only one pub in Leeds in it, The Eagle at Sheepscar.

There was a whole chapter for Bradford and the Halifax section just said "all of them"

I remember when Boddingtons switched over to electric pumps. They had a glass cylinder on top of the pump which drew your beer in and then released it half pint by half pint. A sad day.
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Yes.

Used to be beloved of bus drivers IIRC.

No. Not now anyway, couldn't tell you about back in t'day.