Bob, The little coottage you refere to sound like the " Birdbird in Hand" at Kent Green on the Macclesfield canal the lady who went down with the jug was Esme. The only pub I ever went in that did "top ups" ie a kind customer would pay for the jug full of ale and Esme would go round topping up all the drinkers glasses.The pub was in the same family for over a hundred years and was a rare free house in the early 70s.Now it has been converted back into two cottages.When Esme died I remember writing her obitury for a magazine.Happy days long gone i'm afaid. CKP --- On Sat, 21/2/09, Bob Adams <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Bob Adams <[email protected]> Subject: [canals-list] Re: Braunston's Admiral Nelson closes To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, 21 February, 2009, 11:32 PM In message <E1LaJ88-000HfG- v...@pr-webmail- 1.mail.demon. net>, edi...@navvies. demon.co. uk writes >I've just dug out my copy of the guide, and one thing that I'd >forgotten was just how few real ale pubs there were on some waterways >in those days. We took our copy on our first foray along the Llangollen and managed to find a listed pub for every night, even though some of them needed a couple of miles hike to reach. Funny thing is though, the next day I could only ever remember walking _to_ the pub... Even now, thirty years later, I can still recall what seemed more like a little cottage than a pub and where the landlady went down into the basement and brought the beer upstairs in a jug. But wherever it was is completely forgotten. Bob -- Bob Adams [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
