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07-02-2013, 19:51
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There’s an interesting new website called A Journey into History (http://www.journeyintohistory.co.uk/) which contains reminiscences of the long-closed Railway Inn on Wellington Road South in Stockport, which is now an art shop.
One of the most memorable anecdotes is the tale of pub regular “Sticky” Edwards (http://www.journeyintohistory.co.uk/tales/) whom the family encountered when they moved to another pub, the Church in Heaton Norris. At the same time both funny and sad, this has to be read to be believed, and conjures up a vanished world of how pubs used to be.
You just don’t seem to see that kind of heroic-cum-tragic volume consumption of beer in pubs nowadays. Indeed, to maintain a twenty pints a day habit would be prohibitively expensive, yet “Sticky” seemed to manage it on a pension in the 1950s, suggesting that the real-terms price of a pint across the bar has actually increased over the years.
The story reminded me of this post from last year (http://pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/never-did-me-any-harm.html) about a retired licensee who claimed to have routinely drunk forty pints a day in his heyday.
More... (http://pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2013/02/sticky-wickets.html)
There’s an interesting new website called A Journey into History (http://www.journeyintohistory.co.uk/) which contains reminiscences of the long-closed Railway Inn on Wellington Road South in Stockport, which is now an art shop.
One of the most memorable anecdotes is the tale of pub regular “Sticky” Edwards (http://www.journeyintohistory.co.uk/tales/) whom the family encountered when they moved to another pub, the Church in Heaton Norris. At the same time both funny and sad, this has to be read to be believed, and conjures up a vanished world of how pubs used to be.
You just don’t seem to see that kind of heroic-cum-tragic volume consumption of beer in pubs nowadays. Indeed, to maintain a twenty pints a day habit would be prohibitively expensive, yet “Sticky” seemed to manage it on a pension in the 1950s, suggesting that the real-terms price of a pint across the bar has actually increased over the years.
The story reminded me of this post from last year (http://pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/never-did-me-any-harm.html) about a retired licensee who claimed to have routinely drunk forty pints a day in his heyday.
More... (http://pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2013/02/sticky-wickets.html)