In his weekly The Bar Man column, Jeff Hoyle reminisces on his first-ever pub visit and discusses the fish and chip shops in Lynn… It will be 50 years ago this Easter that I first went into a pub, The Abbey in Torquay. We were staying in the town on a Geography field trip and after dinner and writing up our day’s work, we were free to go out in town. Slightly under the legal drinking age we nevertheless were served, though the landlord did enquire about the age of one of my companions and advised us that we should not return after finishing our pints. After that, it was the Falcon that we ch…