When I find a picture I will post it, finding what I wrote 25 years ago is a bit more difficult but I have a friend living in the village who will no doubt have more info will do a bit of digging . Incidentaly the "Miners Arms" at Aldlington also on the Macclesfied canal, bridge 18,was of the same type, ale in a jug etc. but was first modernised in the mid 60s and then in the 80s you have to look very hard to find the old building in the new one.CKP
--- On Sun, 22/2/09, Steve Haywood <[email protected]> wrote: From: Steve Haywood <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: Braunston's Admiral Nelson closes To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, 22 February, 2009, 11:40 AM 2009/2/22 chris potter <chriskpotter@ yahoo.co. uk> > 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 > Would you have a copy of this Chris? I went to the pub a few times - it was extraordinary place. Wasn't Esme something big in the music hall at one time. I'd love to read your obit. Has anyone got any pictures of the place as it used to be? Steve [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
