You talk of Beer. It used to be difficult to buy milk on some canals - the Worcester and Birmingham especially. One shop had close 20 years before (it was a 3 mile walk). At another place the milk was in the locked cooler unit ready for the seller but he was due tomorrow maybe. Boaters today have it easy!
--- On Thu, 2/19/09, Julian <[email protected]> wrote: From: Julian <[email protected]> Subject: [canals-list] Re: Re: Braunston's Admiral Nelson closes To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009, 3:42 PM "Neil Arlidge" <ne...@tuesdaynightc lub.co.uk> wrote in message news:gnjs73$rlh$1@ ger.gmane. org... > Julian wrote: >> "Neil Arlidge" >> <ne...@tuesdaynightc lub.co.uk> wrote in >> message news:gnjp12$f4u$1@ ger.gmane. org... >>> There are Shirley may people that first boated in the 1970's who did >>> it just as much for the discovering little gems of waterside pubs, >>> with interesting and "exotic" real ale than did it for the boating. >> >> Some of us still have our treasured first edition copy of the Real >> Ale Guide to the Waterways... .... >> >> Having said that I suspect that lots of the pubs in there are no more >> and all the rest have all changed beyond recognition. >> >> Wonder if the pub at Trowley Bottom is still there? >> >> J > > By the look of this photo no...but then it always looked like. > http://www.geograph .org.uk/photo/ 142137 > It was reported to be doing ploughmans last August :-) Ploughman's! what ever next. The only food Judy did was crisps..... I guess that she may have passed on as she will/would have been 89 this year. As for the photo that is what it has looked like for the last 15 years and possibly 20 before that! J [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
