FairTmiddlin

Click on the you tube button and watch how most of it was made Absolutely Brilliant piece of construction

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Bet they hurt. Is it like Tennis Elbow?

1967 I earnt 25 bob working Mornings, Evenings and weekend at a newsagent/sweetshop in Doncaster Bitter 1/4d a pint blody good night out on 10 bob

https://twitter.com/DavidDaneArtist?ref_src=twsrc^tfw Just been on Davids page and noticed his twitter feed His Sons name was William and he died just before Christmas.

I have Four of Davids prints on my wall. As Barry said almost ephemeral. Its my little bit of Norfolk. The place of my birth, to carry with me.

Opened 15th may 1961 By 1962 the construction company had to come back and underpin the bridge with massive amounts of concrete, as a hill started to appear in the Haddiscoe dam side of the bridge, on the northern marsh. Seems that the bridge pier on that side had sunk and all the earth was being pumped into the marsh. That is why the bridge is a strange shape on that side. And the contractors didn't make a profit on building it.

Usually found if John is anywhere near a bar, there is no way you would be able to talk sense into him

Arggggggggggggh Watneys Red Barrel possibly the first ring of the death knell of real ale in pubs during the 70's and 80's

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MM That just seems to be the problem with most of the tenants nowadays they just see the "Lifestyle" (Charlie I call it Bloody hard work. Having worked all day on a Bank holiday Monday. With nothing to eat, hardly anything to drink for 16 hours, non stop thats not a "Lifestyle) that goes into running a pub . All they ever see is what happens when they are drinking in their local. So as you say they need to do a lot of soul searching from many other landlords before they commit to signing on that dotted line

The biggest problem with most pubs is the transient tenants Pubco's selling tenancies to every Tom, Dick or Harry who has a pension pot or redundancy money who go into the trade half blind as to the amount of work (not only physical) that it takes to run a successful hostelry, then run out of money half way through the tenancy. In the town where i live I can think of two long term tenants and one free house where the landlord has been for more than two years I'm sure half of these people have little or no training from the Pubco and are basically given the keys and left to get on with it. and most of them seem to have the social graces of Tyson Fury. Most of them seem to think this will be a nice little earner with not much work. Wakeup people running a pub is 24/7 365 day commitment. Your day doesn't start when you turn the key on the front door and it sure as hell doesn't end when you lock it at night One of my locals when you walk in you are lucky if you see the same staff for two weeks in a row. and if you see the tenant it's sitting the wrong side of the bar. As for food Whitbread who I worked for forced the menu on you but you were allowed to do your own specials. Ours were so popular when I was in the kitchen, we outsold the menu by 70/30%, because it was unpretentious, wholesome home cooked food, all made from scratch and not from the back of a Brakes lorry.

Mind you Steve that always has been a weird pub even when I lived in Sellindge many moons ago

" FairTmiddlin, personal experience? " No Peter Personal knowledge !!

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But 70p of that 99.9p is collected by the treasury So 29.9p to buy it, transport it, refine it, transport it again and sell it for a profit. And the garage to make a profit It's about time the Government stopped looking at this as the cash cow it's become and start dropping the tax pro rata

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Around where I live they used to call one2one One2None

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I remember we sang this one christmas in the church close to our school and we split into four seperate groups one in each corner. We then sang a verse in turn, whilst the other groups hummed the tune all accapella. that sounded really good. We also did carol singing around the streets near the school for charity. all dressed up in Victorian gear (courtesy of school props department) we even made the old fashioned lanterns in metalwork . I agree we were taught very differently in those days

Iain Sang this in school choir quite often Stille Nacht! Heilige Nacht! Alles schläft; einsam wacht Nur das traute heilige Paar.

Iain Remember when I worked in car hire company. They started up a car leasing side Four Salesmen all new computers. OS came in a box not installed, Windows 95, 26 x 3 1/4 floppies + 22 x 3 1/4 for the leasing program+ 17 for the credit check. Took all day on a Sunday to install all of it and that was walking the disks around all four computers. Thank god Cd's came in Nigel