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[HarryHaslam]

 

[HarryHaslam]

 

[Silent Blade]

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The last of 051515 three match run. Coldwell's last game as caretaker manager then your namesake became our new manager!

 

[Trigger Blade]

The 1989 Beer Orders caused the traditional big brewers a big headache. They were limited to owning 2,000 tied pubs so they had to sell a load off. Whitbread were also hit by the decline of traditional ales - they had the UK licence to brew Heineken & Stella but obviously didn't own the brands.
So their focus shifted from breweries to Premier Inns & Beefeaters, and the other UK franchises they had (Costa, TGI Fridays, David Lloyd gyms).

What an incredible example of unintended consequences that was. The original government intention was to stop brewers becoming ever more powerful by limiting the number of pubs they could own. The brewers were smarter than the government and decided to sell their breweries and could then own as many pubs as they wanted. The way the hospitality industry is structured today in the UK is still at least partly as a result of that change (as I understand it, based on my simple understanding).

 

[Maurice Maurice]

Fritzie Zivic and Jake Lamotta after their second fight in July, 1943 which Zivic won. Lamotta won the first fight a month before and they'd go on to fight each other twice more. Zivic went on to have 233 fights, losing a lot of the last 50 so you can only imagine how damaged he was. Lamotta had 106 hard fights and when you look at the pair of them, you don't see that many modern boxers look anywhere near as hammered as these two...

 

[FriethBlade]

Back when we were a running club too. Who do we reckon would win a 5 mile cross country nowadays? Peck or OHare for me

 

[Dave]

Saw this online, Sheffield 1988. Any idea where it is?

 

[PrestwichBlade]

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Saw this online, Sheffield 1988. Any idea where it is?

Psalter Lane?

 

[HarryHaslam]

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Saw this online, Sheffield 1988. Any idea where it is?

Broomhall flats

 

[nickwr37]

Psalter Lane?

Art college closed in 2008 so not there as I thought the same as you but just had a further check on dates.

 

[Sean Thornton]

My dad worked for Tennants/Whitbread in the 50s/60s, mostly down in the cellars with the dry hop process of brewing.
He was useless without his glasses and sometimes forgot them in the rush to get to work.
School holidays my mum would get me to catch bus into town to take the glasses to him. He always took some finding but eventually some bloke would guide me to him with the glasses.
He'd always sidle me away to the beer pump where the cellar staff got their daily allowance. He fill a glass with Tennants Queens and let me sup it (I was around 12/13 at the time) and always followed it with 'dont tell thi mum' and 'this'll keep thi bowels oppen'.
Tasted fuckin horrible to me, but mi bowels did open soon after

Not the best bus ride home then?