spendius wrote:A pub is "nice" Francis when the company and the beer are both nice. It's fixtures and fittings and its name are of no consequence.
And the company can only be nice after prolonged intimacy. You need to be able to say that if you're not in at 11 pm you're in the hospital.
They arranged some fancy opening hours a few years back in the UK. I rather think it was intended to help the breweries sell more beer. It didn't work, beer sales in public houses according to Scottish Newcastle are tumbling down, a bit like London Bridge did.
You won't find much 'nice' company in pubs either after 11 pm. The nice folk are usually at home by then.
I was talking to a Landlord from Leyland recently, he told me he had to pay the customers to drink any considerable volumes in his pub.
You know he put groups on or a comedian. I asked him about strippers. "No way" he said. "They won't allow that in Leyland.
The old Leyland Motors Club became a filthy dilapidated blot on the landscape of the town.
Fancy that.
It became a haven for the scum of the town. Anybody who drank in there had no pride in their appearance or cared what they sat on. There were cob-webs all over the place when I called in to see it some years ago.
They eventually closed it down. There was a story in the local paper stating quite clearly " We need a new breed of members"
Well the place is about to be knocked down thank goodness and in its place will be a new health centre, gymnasium etc.
Thats more like it.
Thanks for your photographs Francis, I thought they were very nice.
Almost as good as my sofly boiled eggs and toasted soldiers.
I love 'em.
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