25-03-2020, 10:11 PM
(23-03-2020, 11:22 PM)Steve kay Wrote: , remote ones like the Bird in Hand for instance.
Blimey, The Bird in Hand - Mow Cop? I once got snowed in there. I had tramped across the fields in the snow to visit Little Moreton Hall and got soaked. The landlady of the Bird (in t'Hand) took my wet clothes and offered to dry them by her fire. When we went back in the evening, there were two people in the pub - the Landlady and her next door neighbour (we are talking remote, here) It was the most wonderful night I ever had in a pub. There was no bar - it was, what I call, an ale house. She had to lift a trap door in the floor and descend to the cellar to return with a large enamel jug of foaming beer as the 4 of us sat round the fire and chewed the fat. A was a true priviledge to spend such a night as that... Pubs like that just dont exist any more...