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SouthEssexBlade said:
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My ex worked at Whitbreads in the offices. When she was 21 her colleagues took her in there for a lunchtime drink. At 2pm I got a call at work to go and collect her. She had been given non stop barley wine for two hours and was completely wasted, couldn't stand up, couldn't make scence of what she was saying. Her parents had gone to London for the weekend and we were going down to meet up. I was driving the firms van so laid her in the back and went to pick her clothes up and off we went. Had to stop at every services to clean up the mess. Got to London at about 8pm and her father played fuckin hell with me for getting her pissed. Didn't really like him before, but hated him ever since.
 

SouthEssexBlade said:
Love this. So much to see

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Seeing the circular kiosk in this photo reminds me that there used to be a number of these around the town centre. Think there's been a photo posted of the one outside Platform A on Pond Street.

During the World Cup in 1966 these kiosks used to sell continental newspapers for the fans staying in the city. In addition the flags that were put up on the Wicker and Penistone Road gave the city a real international feel.

A number of Swiss fans must have been staying out in Dronfield because I remember my dad getting me one of those hand waving Swiss flags from some he met in the Blue Stoops or Green Dragon.

What's the flats in the background?
 
Robby Blade said:
My ex worked at Whitbreads in the offices. When she was 21 her colleagues took her in there for a lunchtime drink. At 2pm I got a call at work to go and collect her. She had been given non stop barley wine for two hours and was completely wasted, couldn't stand up, couldn't make scence of what she was saying. Her parents had gone to London for the weekend and we were going down to meet up. I was driving the firms van so laid her in the back and went to pick her clothes up and off we went. Had to stop at every services to clean up the mess. Got to London at about 8pm and her father played fuckin hell with me for getting her pissed. Didn't really like him before, but hated him ever since.
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Some stories are a bit boring and don't take a retelling, and then there are stories like this one ... fantastic..
 
SouthEssexBlade said:
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Back when Lady's Bridge was a hotel, there was a handwritten sign in the window - 'No blacks, dogs or Irish'. Absolutely true.

Robby Blade said:
My ex worked at Whitbreads in the offices. When she was 21 her colleagues took her in there for a lunchtime drink. At 2pm I got a call at work to go and collect her. She had been given non stop barley wine for two hours and was completely wasted, couldn't stand up, couldn't make scence of what she was saying. Her parents had gone to London for the weekend and we were going down to meet up. I was driving the firms van so laid her in the back and went to pick her clothes up and off we went. Had to stop at every services to clean up the mess. Got to London at about 8pm and her father played fuckin hell with me for getting her pissed. Didn't really like him before, but hated him ever since.
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My very first alcoholic drink was Barley Wine. It was in The Moorfoot Tavern (think it was The Hind back then) in 1973. I went to the bar without a clue what to order. I decided on Barley Wine but, seeing the small bottle, told the barsteward to put 3 in a pint pot - 66p. The rest is history. Just wish I could remember most of it...

Way back then, I was on the books of Manpower - an employment agency. Every week was a new job and some of the tales! I did a week working for R Whites soft drinks as a drivers mate. Every pub we delivered to, it was customary to get a free pint. We usually did 14 to 16 pubs and night clubs so drank a couple of gallons in the day. Me and the driver...
 
grafikhaus said:
Back when Lady's Bridge was a hotel, there was a handwritten sign in the window - 'No blacks, dogs or Irish'. Absolutely true.
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My wife was brought up in the East end of London. That sign appeared with great regularity in many establishments, not just hotels. Direct discrimination of that sort was an every day occurrence for her (she's black and not Irish).
 
grafikhaus said:
Back when Lady's Bridge was a hotel, there was a handwritten sign in the window - 'No blacks, dogs or Irish'. Absolutely true.



My very first alcoholic drink was Barley Wine. It was in The Moorfoot Tavern (think it was The Hind back then) in 1973. I went to the bar without a clue what to order. I decided on Barley Wine but, seeing the small bottle, told the barsteward to put 3 in a pint pot - 66p. The rest is history. Just wish I could remember most of it...

Way back then, I was on the books of Manpower - an employment agency. Every week was a new job and some of the tales! I did a week working for R Whites soft drinks as a drivers mate. Every pub we delivered to, it was customary to get a free pint. We usually did 14 to 16 pubs and night clubs so drank a couple of gallons in the day. Me and the driver...
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In the early seventies I worked with a guy who was a drayman for Tennant when they had steam driven drays. His area was Derbyshire. They had a couple of pints in the canteen before leaving the brewery. They delivered to five pubs and had a pint on arrival and one when they'd finished, followed by a couple more back at the yard. The dray had a driver, mate and stoker. The stoker was usually a school leaver about 14 or 15 who had to sit on the roof and scramble down when the dray needed more coal.
 
grafikhaus said:
Back when Lady's Bridge was a hotel, there was a handwritten sign in the window - 'No blacks, dogs or Irish'. Absolutely true.



My very first alcoholic drink was Barley Wine. It was in The Moorfoot Tavern (think it was The Hind back then) in 1973. I went to the bar without a clue what to order. I decided on Barley Wine but, seeing the small bottle, told the barsteward to put 3 in a pint pot - 66p. The rest is history. Just wish I could remember most of it...

Way back then, I was on the books of Manpower - an employment agency. Every week was a new job and some of the tales! I did a week working for R Whites soft drinks as a drivers mate. Every pub we delivered to, it was customary to get a free pint. We usually did 14 to 16 pubs and night clubs so drank a couple of gallons in the day. Me and the driver...
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Wasn't it the Whetstone in 73? The Nelson became the Hind iirc.
 

Ivanhoe said:
If I remember rightly the Army/RAF recruiting offices were somewhere around there..
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On the ground floor of the building on the RHS with the flags flying.

At 18 I was thinking of joining REME and went in. The old school Sgt Major type was a bit flustered as just about everyone else who'd ever gone in wanted to join the Paras 'to kick shit out of people'.

I never did sign up....
 
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