What ladies drank on the Broads in the 1960's

[NorfolkNog]

Firstly humble apologies to Carol for nicking this from her Twitter feed 

but I thought it was such a good photo 

No WKD or fancy lager, these ladies are drinking Steward and Pattesons fine ales

Interestingly beer is still being brewed under the S & P brand but not at the original brewery which has long gone. Very fine beer indeed and well worth seeking out among the Wherry and other usual suspects  

[BroadScot]

Hi Howard,

The pub along Thorpe Green, Kings Arms/Head? from memory had the two letters in iron as wall supports S & P.you could see from the river.

 

Iain.

[NorfolkNog]

Hi Iain 

I can see exactly where you are coming from but no, it's Horning Ferry. Bit deceptive because it was taken before the thatched roof was destroyed by fire. 

[MauriceMynah]

And those oh so happy days when using rhond anchors was the normal method of securing a broads boat

[BroadScot]

6 minutes ago, NorfolkNog said:

Hi Iain 

I can see exactly where you are coming from but no, it's Horning Ferry. Bit deceptive because it was taken before the thatched roof was destroyed by fire. 

Hi Howard,

Sorry, I meant I have seen the S&P letters at Thorpe St Andrew, is what I meant. I remember TFI before the fire. It was the RAF Pilots local for many in WW2 I believe.

Iain

[NorfolkNog]

Hi Iain, sorry, I'm at cross purposes 

Yes indeed, Steward and Patteson had quite a few a pubs around the Broads as did Bullards before they were taken over by Watneys 

[BroadScot]

3 minutes ago, NorfolkNog said:

Hi Iain, sorry, I'm at cross purposes 

Yes indeed, Steward and Patteson had quite a few a pubs around the Broads as did Bullards before they were taken over by Watneys 

I liked my Wee Red Barrel Keyring! 

Iain.

[Poppy]

Wee - Red Barrel . A very appropriate juxtaposition

[Bound2Please]

bungs up

[BroadScot]

Howard's worst nightmare  Seeing this back on a bar top! 

[NorfolkNog]

Aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

[jeffbroadslover]

What a great idea !

Put that red barrel back in the pubs and convince the O.K.YAH crowd it is THE thing to drink.

Should leave more Wherry available for those who know better !!!

Jeff

[Paul]

Don't take the water out of Watney's, it needs all the flavour it can get

 

[JennyMorgan]

When friends and I took on the Waveney Inn during the 1970's we had the car-park resurfaced courtesy of Watneys on the condition that a Watney's Red Barrel had prime position on the bar. We also had Courage Directors, various Adnams ales, a couple of Scottish-Newcastle beers and Green King so the Watneys had some real competition. We must have got something right as we regularly won the Broads Pub of the Year Award. Anyway, try as we might, Red Barrel accounted for around one percent of our ale sales. When it was revamped as Red sales diminished even further! Don't suppose it had anything to do with pump-out storage tank, a big drum on the quay head outside the shop, that was painted pillar box red!

[AdnamsGirl]

Howard, you're a very naughty boy! Slapped wrist when I see you next week!

It is a great photo and was from the 1965 Blake's boating brochure. The photo was obviously taken in 1964 as the fire which destroyed the thatch occurred in March 1965. Excuse the plug, but there is a photo of that fire (and the story of the Luftwaffe bombing raid which destroyed the earlier building) in an old Broadland Memories blog post here: http://www.broadlandmemories.co.uk/blog/2010/10/the-ferry-inn-horning-an-eventful-history/

 

Carol

[AdnamsGirl]

Steward & Patteson advert from the 1964 edition of the Broads Book

[JennyMorgan]

The dot screen background, a new and trendy product at that time, called, if I remember correctly, Letratint. There was also Letraset, adhesive typeface, the two products changed the face of graphics art during the 1960's. 

[Poppy]

11 hours ago, AdnamsGirl said:

Steward & Patteson advert from the 1964 edition of the Broads Book

No, that's NOT me in the crows nest! 

[Vaughan]

They used to reckon that S&P was the best bitter and Bullards was the best mild, while Youngs and Crawshays was the best bottled light ale. There was also some stuff for cold-starting diesel engines, called a Bullards Nip.

Broadscot - I thought of Thorpe as well at first. Thorpe Gardens was S&P, and the Buck was Bullards. I seem to remember that the King's Head (now the River Garden) was Morgans.

[BroadScot]

It was the King's Head I think I saw the S&P built into the wall, you could see it from the pub moorings. RAF lads from Coltishall, used it for stag nights, or did on two occasions I accidently ended up playing darts with them all!

Iain

[Hockham Admiral]

Back to the thread title.......

Any ladies whom I took out in the 60's were offered usually Babycham and Cointreau, a quite explosive mixture even nowadays!      

[LizG]

70s it was Dubonnet and lemonade, and then dry martini and lemonade - both in retrospect were pretty revolting, certainly the dry martini and lemonade. Even the wine then was pretty vile.....but you could still drink too much wine but not the martini 

 

[NorfolkNog]

Apparently the Woolpack in Norwich used to sell a Watneys 'house' wine called Tarafino. It was so bad that the locals referred to it as Parafino 

[JennyMorgan]

Expensive ones went for Pimms with all the trimmings or Snowballs with a cherry, best avoided, warning of potential high maintenance if pursued further. Half of Adnams was more like it! My wife to be was into downing yards of ale & showing us blokes how to do it!

[NorfolkNog]

1 hour ago, Vaughan said:

They used to reckon that S&P was the best bitter and Bullards was the best mild, while Youngs and Crawshays was the best bottled light ale. There was also some stuff for cold-starting diesel engines, called a Bullards Nip.

Broadscot - I thought of Thorpe as well at first. Thorpe Gardens was S&P, and the Buck was Bullards. I seem to remember that the King's Head (now the River Garden) was Morgans.

That's very interesting as I believe the Norwich Brewery later brought out versions of Bullards Mild and S and P bitter although I suspect they were not a patch on the originals. Barry (Springsong) would know better as I belive he used to sell them at the Ship