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Hope you're got it well insured. Not that money could replace something so special I guess. Especially as it was gifted to you by your old man.
Don't ever let on where you live or where it's kept. Guard it with all you got my friend.

 

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In my day (kinell, how old am I?) no self respecting woman would be seen holding a pint.

The first time I saw it was in the Old Trip to Jerusalem in Nottingham when an American couple walked in and ordered two pints and the woman rather self consciously drank it. I think they must have thought this was the cultural norm, but it wasn't.

Your other half would sip half a pint or, if you were feeling posh, a Martini and lemonade with a glacé cherry in it. Under no circumstances would a pint be drunk.

Even the ladies of easy virtue and the fur coat and no knickers brigade, would only drink a pint if it came with an empty half pint so they could surreptitiously decant one into the other. Them were days.

When I first started working in pubs blokes often asked for a “ladies’ half” and were most disconcerted when they didn’t get some kind of posh goblet thing, none of which we actually had.

 

[Silent Blade]

Fantastic. A genuine piece of our history. Have you seen this Silent Blade?

Not seen it. It is brilliant! Jack Almond was the richest player in the team

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Almond

 

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When I first started working in pubs blokes often asked for a “ladies’ half” and were most disconcerted when they didn’t get some kind of posh goblet thing, none of which we actually had.

Yep, when I was a barman in the mid eighties we had to ask “in a lady’s glass?” for halves.

 

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Yep, when I was a barman in the mid eighties we had to ask “in a lady’s glass?” for halves.

Now you get the poncy drinks in a fucking jam jar. Progress eh?

 

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Some things never change. We lost 2-0 - Walsall was ever thus. According to 'The first 100 Years', the crowd was 'few'. No doubt as it was December it snowed on the journey back.

 

[Kentblade]

Graves Park Pavilion, spent many a happy time there

Spent many a happy time there.They used to serve ice cream in a metal dish but going back years. My grandfather used to treat me in there in the war years when there was little else around so that would probably be between 1943 to 1946, aged 3-5.
Always remember the immaculate flowers in the garden in the beds as one entered the park from the Graves park entrance at the top of Derbyshire Lane where the 34 bus turned round. If one turned right after entering the park one could walk down to see the pigs, (no not football supporters ) as there were pig sty's in the bottom corner. As the years moved on it was football/cricket plus riding bikes in Graves Park as there was nothing else to do pre 50.s except to go to the Lane. Re visited the park a few years ago but it had been very run down.

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Back when Tranmere were pushing for a Prem place

 

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