Blast from the past - remind us of a thing

[DickyC]

hidetheelephants said:

I don't look forward to having my Locomobile filled from glass bottles purchased from the pharmacist.

You just have to channel your inner Bertha Benz.

[jonsp]

Pipes. Back in the day I remember people smoking pipes. There used to be a TV advert with the punchline Gold Block eh? done a quick search and found

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQJeR6GUZ9E

Does nobody smoke pipes any more or have they brought in some mad regulation that's outlawed them?

[ApOrbital]

It's bongs innit bro

[Purosangue]

jonsp said:

Pipes. Back in the day I remember people smoking pipes. There used to be a TV advert with the punchline Gold Block eh? done a quick search and found

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQJeR6GUZ9E

Does nobody smoke pipes any more or have they brought in some mad regulation that's outlawed them?

ha ha , as a non smoker

years ago mid 80s , when i was 17 at college I ,had a part time job ,which had a canteen with majority of users chain smokers ..............so I thought why not join them ,

So near Bournemouth train station there was a really old fashioned tobacconist with glass jars , full of pipe tobacco , they would mix you a blend , old sobranie , with cherry ..... the shop was a real blast from the past sadly now closed

I bought a church warden


and asked the proprietor ...can you mix me a blend that smells of Camel dung ./ bonfires ........he laughed and mixed a load of tobacco . ... He made me a mix .. that was epic in its pungent aroma .

funnily i had the canteen to myself after that ..

years later at a flea market in Turkey i bought a few meerschaum pipes , i think they are ivory , never used them but look decorative

[Plymo]

jonsp said:

Pipes. Back in the day I remember people smoking pipes. There used to be a TV advert with the punchline Gold Block eh? done a quick search and found

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQJeR6GUZ9E

Does nobody smoke pipes any more or have they brought in some mad regulation that's outlawed them?

I have a very small collection of pipes, they are definitely still being made and some are even collectable!
Pipe tobacco smells glorious and is nothing like dirty fags (or cigars...)
I buy most of mine from these guys:
https://www.gqtobaccos.com/pipes/

If you're curious, get a "basket" pipe and a taster pack of different tobaccos, it's definitely an interesting experience and a true blast from the past

[DodgyGeezer]

munroman said:

Kirkintilloch, the town I lived near, first pub opened in Summer 1970.

Handily placed beside a church....

can beat that... Frinton-on-Sea received its first official pub, The Lock & Barrel, in September 2000.

[hidetheelephants]

DodgyGeezer said:

can beat that... Frinton-on-Sea received its first official pub, The Lock & Barrel, in September 2000.

Now you've mentioned it I'm obliged to cite the infamous and very likely apocryphal cry of a BR porter; "Harwich for the Continent; Frinton for the incontinent."

[David A]

DodgyGeezer said:

munroman said:

Kirkintilloch, the town I lived near, first pub opened in Summer 1970.

Handily placed beside a church....

can beat that... Frinton-on-Sea received its first official pub, The Lock & Barrel, in September 2000.

Anyone know when Saltburn by the Sea got its first pub if it’s even has one yet?

[StuntmanMike]

hidetheelephants said:

Herriot details a visit to what I presume was a Dales Ale House, which was just someone's front room where beer was served from jugs filled from a barrel in the cellar. Perhaps their time will come again given conventional pubs are disappearing?

There is a pub like that in Shropshire.

It’s on the Shropshire union canal, we used to moor a narrowboat near it.

[bigpriest]

DickyC said:

munroman said:

Kirkintilloch, the town I lived near, first pub opened in Summer 1970.

Handily placed beside a church....

Many of them are. The pub next door to the Church in Church Street, Urmston is called Church Inn.

"I'm just going to the Church." The definite article being the only thing to betray your lack of piousness.

Can't help but be a pedant - The Church Inn, Church Road, Flixton (actually addressed as "The Village" rather than Church Road) next door to St. Michael's church. If legend is true, the wall of the pub includes a horizontal metal 'fan' that deters late night drinkers from urinating against the pub wall, unless they want wet trousers.

Edited by bigpriest on Friday 13th February 22:07

[DickyC]

bigpriest said:

DickyC said:

munroman said:

Kirkintilloch, the town I lived near, first pub opened in Summer 1970.

Handily placed beside a church....

Many of them are. The pub next door to the Church in Church Street, Urmston is called Church Inn.

"I'm just going to the Church." The definite article being the only thing to betray your lack of piousness.

Can't help but be a pedant - The Church Inn, Church Road, Flixton (actually addressed as "The Village" rather than Church Road) next door to St. Michael's church. If legend is true, the wall of the pub includes a horizontal metal 'fan' that deters late night drinkers from urinating against the pub wall, unless they want wet trousers.

Yes, i thought it was Flixton but made the mistake of looking it up. Looked it up in the wrong place, apparently. As for the rest, I just wanted church, church and church in the address. A little artistic licence.

Step daughter #1 lived in Flixton and her then hubby's best friend lives in the Village.

I hadn't heard the fan story before.

[Pit Pony]

G Thang said:

swisstoni said:

hairy vx said:

Ah yes Izal.
It didn't so much absorb things as move them around a bit.

Don't remember the brand, but I'll never forget the look on our young female history teacher's face when one of the boys went and got something resembling greaseproof paper from the bog when the tracing paper ran out. It's all we used it for, and a daytime dump just wasn't an option.

I was the teenage anarchist in the 6th form and persuaded myself that getting on the 6th form council would be a great way to ps off the deputy head, by proposing/demanding all sorts of minor changes to the way things were run.

One meeting i proposed that the school investigate the replacing the tracing paper bog roll with soft toilet roll in the 6th Form toilets. As luck would have it, a young science teacher on the council also thought it was a great idea for the staff toliets and offered to take the action to contact the education authority purchasing department to find out the cost of changing. He came to the next meeting with the news that soft toilet roll was actually cheaper and the whole school could change over as soon as our current stock was used up... The deputy head did not seem pleased. He didn't like to make any concessions, but he couldn't argue with a cost saving.

Over the next 4 weeks the "use" of the old stuff tripled after a few of us took it upon ourselfs to each remove a roll or 3 every break time and bin it on the way home.

[bigpriest]

DickyC said:

bigpriest said:

DickyC said:

munroman said:

Kirkintilloch, the town I lived near, first pub opened in Summer 1970.

Handily placed beside a church....

Many of them are. The pub next door to the Church in Church Street, Urmston is called Church Inn.

"I'm just going to the Church." The definite article being the only thing to betray your lack of piousness.

Can't help but be a pedant - The Church Inn, Church Road, Flixton (actually addressed as "The Village" rather than Church Road) next door to St. Michael's church. If legend is true, the wall of the pub includes a horizontal metal 'fan' that deters late night drinkers from urinating against the pub wall, unless they want wet trousers.

Yes, i thought it was Flixton but made the mistake of looking it up. Looked it up in the wrong place, apparently. As for the rest, I just wanted church, church and church in the address. A little artistic licence.

Step daughter #1 lived in Flixton and her then hubby's best friend lives in the Village.

I hadn't heard the fan story before.

Royal Mail, in their wisdom, use 'Urmston' as the postal address for anywhere in M41 which includes Davyhulme, Flixton and Urmston. For nerds it's a bit annoying as Flixton Village has a few hundred years more recorded history compared to the realtively 'new' railway town of Urmston.

"Urine deflectors" is the offical term - also seen in parts of London

[nigelpugh7]

jonsp said:

Pipes. Back in the day I remember people smoking pipes. There used to be a TV advert with the punchline Gold Block eh? done a quick search and found

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQJeR6GUZ9E

Does nobody smoke pipes any more or have they brought in some mad regulation that's outlawed them?

My dad used to smoke a pipe.

And yes his tobacco of choice was Gold block, I still have some packets in the garage, to remind me of him smoking his pipe.

My dad and my uncle Vernon used to frequent this tobacconist shop in Stirchley Birmingham.

It really hasn t changed much in what seems like 50 years.

https://pbrowell-tobacconist.lovable.app/

It really is a true Blast from the past.

They have been operating since 1924, 100 plus years.

[brownspeed]

DickyC said:

Yes, i thought it was Flixton but made the mistake of looking it up. Looked it up in the wrong place, apparently. As for the rest, I just wanted church, church and church in the address. A little artistic licence.
Step daughter #1 lived in Flixton and her then hubby's best friend lives in the Village.
I hadn't heard the fan story before.

Uncanny! Until recently- the Church was my local (I moved out of the area, as opposed to fell out of favour with it- AFAIK it still serves a great pint! )
Never noticed this fan thingy though- are we certain its not merely the kitchen extract unit? Never needed to take a leak in the car park as to get there, you need to walk past the gents anyway

[DickyC]

brownspeed said:

DickyC said:

Yes, i thought it was Flixton but made the mistake of looking it up. Looked it up in the wrong place, apparently. As for the rest, I just wanted church, church and church in the address. A little artistic licence.
Step daughter #1 lived in Flixton and her then hubby's best friend lives in the Village.
I hadn't heard the fan story before.

Uncanny! Until recently- the Church was my local (I moved out of the area, as opposed to fell out of favour with it- AFAIK it still serves a great pint! )
Never noticed this fan thingy though- are we certain its not merely the kitchen extract unit? Never needed to take a leak in the car park as to get there, you need to walk past the gents anyway

Small world. My step daughter is now in Altrincham, her then hubby went back to Newcastle and his best mate is still in the Village. Years ago, before I saw his house, he as talking about what he'd done to it and I considered joking, "Gateposts with lions rampant with shield?" But a voice in my head advised me against, so I didn't. And guess what?

[shed driver]

The church inn is the last place my father went for a pint before his terminal illness. We always preferred the Greyhound next door, but the Nelson was his spiritual home.

SD.

[TooLateForAName]

David A said:

Anyone know when Saltburn by the Sea got its first pub if it s even has one yet?

Presumably you mean the victorian restriction that meant no pubs, just drinks in hotels/clubs? Its never been an issue in my lifetime.

Do you count the Ship? Predates the ban.

Back Alex, Vic, queens, etc

[David A]

TooLateForAName said:

David A said:

Anyone know when Saltburn by the Sea got its first pub if it s even has one yet?

Presumably you mean the victorian restriction that meant no pubs, just drinks in hotels/clubs? Its never been an issue in my lifetime.

Do you count the Ship? Predates the ban.

Back Alex, Vic, queens, etc

Not sure I recall my parents saying it didn’t have a pub. We had a flat there (lansdown court?) and I went to school for a year and half there but far too young to know about pubs !

[generationx]

David A said:

TooLateForAName said:

David A said:

Anyone know when Saltburn by the Sea got its first pub if it s even has one yet?

Presumably you mean the victorian restriction that meant no pubs, just drinks in hotels/clubs? Its never been an issue in my lifetime.

Do you count the Ship? Predates the ban.

Back Alex, Vic, queens, etc

Not sure I recall my parents saying it didn t have a pub. We had a flat there (lansdown court?) and I went to school for a year and half there but far too young to know about pubs !

Ah, so primary school.