THE BRITISH THREAD II

@McTag,

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Okay, I'll buy you a clock if you give us back Berwick-on-Tweed.

That sounds like a bloody good swap ! Take it smorgs !

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Eccles Cakes? Wozzat.

The only Eccles I know was a Goon Show character.

but wait....

Or there was Sir John Eccles, the Australian neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize winner. Doesn't appear to immediately relate to cake, though!?

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@margo,

Private Eccles.....

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@Ionus,

Don't know him...............(or her)

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@margo,

Private Eccles was the Goon show character. I dont remember hearing of him just as Eccles. Have you read any of Spike Milligans books on hos wartime experiences ? "Hitler....my part in his downfall" is one that comes to mind.

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@margo,

Oftentimes, especially in the north of England, one comes across a placename which one first enountered as a person's surname.

Abram.. Hindley. Atherton. Turton. Malpas

Bur Eccles is a big place which you really should know about. And Eccles Cakes? The food of the gods.

http://www.salford.gov.uk/ecclescakes.htm

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@McTag,

McTags we don't speak of in polite company.

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Eccles Cake and a brew - Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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I've put a question on the gardening section about me tree:

http://able2know.org/topic/163482-1#post-4399738

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I've had Eccles cakes. They're alright. Nothing special. Compared to jam roly-poly and runny custard they are pathetic.

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@spendius,

How modern. I always write "all right", myself.

JARROW: Jarrow Bitter, Rivet Catcher, Joblings Swinging Gibbet, Caulker, Red Ellen, McConnell's Irish Stout, Westoe IPA
JENNINGS: Jennings Bitter, Cumberland Ale, Cocker Hoop, Sneck Lifter
KELHAM ISLAND: Kelham Island Bitter, Easy Rider, Pale Rider
KIRKBY LONSDALE: Ruskin's, Radical, Monumental, Jubilee Stout
LANCASTER: Lancaster Amber, Lancaster Blonde, Lancaster Black, Lancaster Red
LEEDS: Leeds Pale, Leeds Best, Midnight Bell
MAXIM: Swedish Blonde, Double Maxim, Maximus
MILLSTONE: Vale Mill, Tiger Rut, True Grit

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@McTag,

"MIDNIGHT BELL" would be an excellent name for a rock band.

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@McTag,

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Joblings Swinging Gibbet

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Jobling was the last man gibbeted in the North.

Jobling was hung on August 3rd. Hepburn asked his men not to attend the hanging and held a meeting at Boldon Colliery. After Jobling was taken from the scaffold his clothes were removed and his body covered in pitch. He was then riveted into an iron cage, made of flat iron bars two and a half inches wide. His feet were placed in stirrups from which bars of iron went each side of his head and ended in a ring, which suspended his cage. Jobling’s hands hung by his sides, and his head was covered with a white cloth obscuring his face.

In a four-wheeled wagon, drawn by two horses, on Monday, August 6th, his body was taken to Jarrow Slake escorted by a troop of Hussars and two companies of Infantry. The gibbet was fixed upon a stone weighing one and half tons that was sunk into the slake, and the heavy wooden uprights were reinforced with steel bars to prevent it being sawn through. At high tide the water covered four to five feet of the gibbet leaving a further sixteen to seventeen feet visible.

Isabella, Jobling’s wife, had a cottage near the slake and would have been able to see her husband clearly for the three weeks he was displayed. On August 31st when the guard was removed Jobling’s friends stole the body. His whereabouts have never been discovered.

I saw a TV programme about it a long time ago. It was eerie at the end with the creaking of the chain in the wind.

http://www.dnar.org.uk/local-history/36-south-shields/114-william-jobling-m

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@spendius,

Well that's very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Beer and education, what could be better. Social history. Mankind, the proper study of man. Who needs boring classrooms, when we have pubs?

and

MOORHOUSE'S: Black Cat, Premier Bitter, Pride of Pendle, Blond Witch, Pendle Witches Brew
MORDUE: Five Bridges, Geordie Pride, Workie Ticket, Radgie Gadgie, IPA
MOUNT MURRAY (BUSHY'S): Castletown Bitter, Ruby (1874) Mild, Shuttleworth Snap, Manx Pride, Oyster Stout, Helsman
NAYLOR'S: Pinnacle Mild, Pinnacle Blond, Black & Tan, Old Ale
NOOK BREWHOUSE: Nook Blond, Cherry Stout
NORTHUMBERLAND: Hoof Harted, Northumberland Brown Ale
OKELLS: Okells Bitter, Dr Okell's IPA, Okells Eastern Spice, Okells Red, Okells Alt
OLD BEAR: Black Maria, Honeypot
OLD MILL: Traditional Bitter, Blonde Bombshell, Yorkshire Porter, Fall Over, Old Curiosity, Bullion
OSSETT: Yorkshire Blonde, Big Red, Silver King, Excelsior
PEERLESS: Dod Leg, Dark Arts, Fuggle Hop, Triple Blond, Hillbre Gold, Storr Lager, Red Rocks, Full Whack
PROSPECT: Silver Tally, Nutty Slack, Hop Vine Bitter, Blinding Light, Dragon Ale, Gold Rush, 70 B.O.B, Big John, DynaMILD, Big Adventure
REDCSAR: Redscar Rocks, Redscar Beach
RIVERHEAD: Liquorice Stout
ROOSTER'S: GCB (Good Cheer Beer), Rooster's YPA, Outlaw Dry Irish Stout, Rooster's Cream, Honey Beer, Rooster's India Pale Ale
RUDGATE: Jorvik Blonde, Viking Bitter, Battleaxe Bitter, Ruby Mild, Special, Well Blathered

next, Saltaire

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@farmerman,

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"MIDNIGHT BELL" would be an excellent name for a rock band.

It would? Okay. Good advertising, too. Free.
I wonder why they chose it for their beer.

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Yawn...

What's occurin' chaps?

My tree's still leaning. I just want to know about the dormant period, so I can prune it on one side, so the weight may pull it straight.

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@smorgs,

Don't be so bloody silly.

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Had a nice trip out today, up to the Hodder Valley in the Trough of Bowland, and a seven-mile walk round Stocks Reservoir.
Lovely autumn colours, especially lovely beech trees between Whitewell and Clitheroe.

beers

SALTAIRE: Harvest Moon, Cascade Pale Ale, Triple Chocoholic, Yorkshire Spiced Ale
SOUTHPORT: Golden Sands
SPITTING FEATHERS: Farmhouse Ale, Thirstquencher, Special Ale, Old Wavertonian, Basket Case
STRINGERS: Dark Country, No. 2 Stout, Sunbird, Best Bitter, West Coast Blond, Victoria IPA, Genuine Stunning, Mutiny
TATTON: Tatton Ale, Indian Summer, Tatton Best, Tatton Gold
TOAD: Tadpole, Golden Angel, St Leger Festival Ale, Mature Toad, The Da Vinci Toad, Texas Frogspawn Massacre
WHARFEBANK: Slingers Gold, Tether Blond, Black Tom, CamFell Flame, Nightshade, WISPA (Wharfedale India Strong Pale Ale)
WHITEHAVEN: Ennerdale Bitter, Ennerdale Blonde, Darkest Ennerdale
WOLD TOP: Wold Top Bitter, Against the Grain, Mars Magic, Wold Gold
WYLAM: Wylam Gold Tankard, Wylam Northern Kite
YATES: Yates Bitter, Yates Golden Ale, Yates Green Hop Bitter
YORK: Guzzler, Decade, Yorkshire Terrier, Centurions Ghost Ale

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@McTag,

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Abram.. Hindley. Atherton. Turton. Malpas

Whalley. Chatterton. Read. Waddington. Mellor

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@McTag,

Why is there a meeting point between the names of beers and the psuedonoms of prostitutes ?

Black Cat, Pride of Pendle, Blond Witch, Geordie Pride, Workie Ticket, Radgie Gadgie, Manx Pride, Pinnacle Blond, Black & Tan, Nook Blond, Cherry Stout, Black Maria, Honeypot, Blonde Bombshell, Yorkshire Porter, Fall Over, Old Curiosity, Bullion, Yorkshire Blonde, Big Red, Dod Leg, Dark Arts, Fuggle Hop, Triple Blond, Silver Tally, Nutty Slack, Big John, DynaMILD, Big Adventure, Redscar Rocks, Liquorice Stout, Rooster's YPA, Outlaw Dry Irish Stout, Rooster's Cream, Honey Beer, Jorvik Blonde, Viking Bitter, Battleaxe Bitter, Ruby Mild, Special, Well Blathered, Harvest Moon, Thirstquencher, Old Wavertonian, Basket Case, Dark Country, No. 2 Stout, Sunbird, West Coast Blond, Victoria IPA, Genuine Stunning, Mutiny,
Indian Summer, Tatton Best, Tatton Gold, Tadpole, Golden Angel, Mature Toad, The Da Vinci Toad, Texas Frogspawn Massacre, Slingers Gold, Tether Blond, Black Tom, CamFell Flame, Nightshade, WISPA , Ennerdale Blonde, Darkest Ennerdale, Against the Grain, Mars Magic, Wold Gold, Guzzler, Decade, Yorkshire Terrier.....

I think I know some of those girls.

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