Mine was and still is 1267.

They must have started the numbers all over again at some stage. If Monarch went in 1967 and I didn't start til 1979.

Or maybe you're much older than you're letting on?

Only messing mate!!!

My number was 9344, white card, HIDEOUS picture (of all things I had short hair....sooo embarrassing to have it on my Grove card). Still have it though, a tresured souvenir, complete with Ciaran Mulcahy's teeth marks in it!

Bluebell wrote: monarch wrote: For a few years of my life one of the most important things I owned was a little bit red cardboard with my name and address and the number 798. stamped on it.Does anyone have a lower number than that, I doubt it. Can't remember what my number was, but I do remember that my card was white...just like Bob Smith at the top of the page. Wonder when they changed them from red cardboard to white?

When I started to go down the Grove first (79-80) they had red cards for the guys and green ones for the girls.  Then, after about maybe 6 months, they switched them to the hideous white ones - they took the old cards off everyone and traded you your new one.  I think they were having trouble with young grovers/non members using family/friends old cards, which didnt have pictures - thats what I heard anyway. Sadly, lost mine somewhere or other when I moved out of my folks home back in Artane.

1192. The familiar white one. Yes,it was duly christened too. Tonto passed it around the alcove and it eventually came back to me in a state. In boredom I poked the eyes out of my picture one night-Tony-think you did too?

Strange crew,indeed.

Floydman wrote: 1192. The familiar white one. Yes,it was duly christened too. Tonto passed it around the alcove and it eventually came back to me in a state. In boredom I poked the eyes out of my picture one night-Tony-think you did too? Strange crew,indeed.

Haha! CP, you reading this...?

My card was white and laminated. Not sure of the number but it's still in my mam's house. (my old bedroom still has a lot of junk in it)

So when I go home for my hols in Sept(hopefully) I can update this posting.

Wonder if my denim jacket will still fit from back then!!! Had all my lovely stitching on it of all my fave bands.

Yep Fester, Tighes is still there on Vernon Avenue. 

Mine was a white card with photo (hideous) and was number 12024.  I still have it and it was also "christened" in the manner hitherto described.

Tighes is beside the Sheds,right?

When Arthur Guinness lived at Thornville (St. Annes) he had lands (three times the size of the park now...)all over Raheny and Clontarf.

During his life there he leased several of his lands (most of which purchased from Lord Vernon) to farmers for tillage.Unlike a lot of English landlords at the time who squeezed what they could from their tenants during famine times,Guinness actually donated to his tenants. He built sheds along his lands on the Clontarf seafront for his tenants during hard times.

Thus,a popular drinking hole in Clontarf got it's name from this...

Floydman wrote: Thus,a popular drinking hole in Clontarf got it's name from this..

........and to this day,the bar is still a hole, albeit a most enjoyable throwback. Ever see the dog sitting under the table opening the bag of crisps,or the regulars eating fish and chips from Beshoff's on the bar counter ?

Love jumping a cab outside HBs and asking the driver to take us to " Connolly's Select Bar and Lounge ".

Peter ( Not you, Black Russian ) if ya happen to read this, sincere apologies.

Moved house last summer and stumbled accross my grove card in the mayhem. My number was 13,167 - joined in '89 sometime. Never could bring myself to throw it away even though after 91 knew I would never be back. Remember feeling great when I joined and wouldn't have to queue anymore. I lost the card sometime in '90 and it was like a funeral - it must have dropped out of my pocket one night, but there it was a week later outside Pauls - a minor miracle at the time ! 

Rolo wrote: Floydman wrote: Thus,a popular drinking hole in Clontarf got it's name from this.. ........and to this day,the bar is still a hole, albeit a most enjoyable throwback.

Now that bit I agree with. A fabulous place with a good pint and brilliant staff. Peter would have been the year behind me in school - top fella. No need to chase up to the bar at last orders in the sheds. A polite request to your table from the lounge staff, and plenty of drinking up time allowed. If you arrived in second, Peter would tell you where your mates were sitting (not that the pub was big enough not to spot them, but that's not the point).

Our football club also held a couple of race nights there - great support from the bar staff (who had seen all the races before and cleaned up!) and regulars.

Top top place - I miss drinking there on a Thursday and Sunday evening.

whippersnapper wrote: Now that bit I agree with. A fabulous place with a good pint and brilliant staff.

Agreed on the staff 'Snapper. Particularly a certain baldy Mayo Man.

One night we were at a party at a local sports Club and it was well past closing time and we were just about to leave when who walks in for a quick one on his way home only the Mayo Man himself.

Wa hay, another couple of beers for the lads.

Always who you know Rolo!

I think the ability to know where to get a late pint was sometimes the most respected piece of info in Ireland - and always a closely guarded secret. The value was in the rarity.

My card is no 13211 and it's the white card too.

I had been going for awhile on and off before I decided to get a card. Actually not strictly true - we had been going for awhile, but queued up for them on a few times and gave up as queue's were too long and songs were being missed and then eventually got around to it on a quieter night.

Pic is horrible as I was growing my hair out of short hair (remember the Di look - yuck!)- so it was at that horrible halfway stage.

I think I eventually got card around 89 or 90..

Sister 1 - we are defo the same era then! Proof - your card is only 14 before mine! 

Btw I'm moving upto your old neck of the woods!

aurnia wrote: Sister 1 - we are defo the same era then! Proof - your card is only 14 before mine!  Btw I'm moving upto your old neck of the woods!

Aurnia - Must have joined in practically the same week then !

Good luck with the move.

Sister1 wrote: aurnia wrote: Sister 1 - we are defo the same era then! Proof - your card is only 14 before mine!  Btw I'm moving upto your old neck of the woods! Aurnia - Must have joined in practically the same week then ! Good luck with the move.

Yeah we must have joined the same week or I did the week after! That's gas when you think of it!

Ta about the move. Stressful isn't it!

No doubt we'll run into each other at the 40th reunion on the Sun 'cause I know a few guys ex Aidan's (one or two up yer old way) from back then so I'm defo sure we know mutual people if not even each other!

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Actually my calc were wrong. D'oh! It's 44 ahead of mine - so a week or two after you Sister1 then!

Still and all that's gas!

aurnia wrote: [ Ta about the move. Stressful isn't it!

You bet its stressful. I moved last year, and although it was within a relatively short distance (we moved from one side of Swords to the other), it was a very hard thing to do. Between solicitors, estate agents, movers etc you would get a complete pain. Was worth it in the end, but not planning on moving again anytime soon !

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No doubt we'll run into each other at the 40th reunion on the Sun 'cause I know a few guys ex Aidan's (one or two up yer old way) from back then so I'm defo sure we know mutual people if not even each other!

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No doubt we will. I think its a great idea to have two night for the different era's. The sunday will be more metal and goth plus other Grove classics. Should be good !