26-03-2020, 08:27 AM
(This post was last modified: 26-03-2020, 08:28 AM by Hugh Barnes.)
I guess I'm not surprised, Mow Cop was a hamlet on the canal side and probably relied on canal traffic for much of its income. That, of course, dwindled when commercial traffic finished.
There were a couple of other pubs like that, I knew. The Exhibition at Over, run by the wondeful Mrs. Pullen, who in her 90s, still cycled into St Ives (Cambs) once a week to do her shoppng. As you entered the 'bar' (basically the front room of her house), she would come in and offer the gentlemen a pint of bitter and would then ask any ladies in the party what they would like. When returning with the drinks, if there were 3 of you, she would always offer to make up the 4th for a game of dominoes... That's now a private house. The Harvest Home in Fen Ditton was another similar ..
Happy days...
There were a couple of other pubs like that, I knew. The Exhibition at Over, run by the wondeful Mrs. Pullen, who in her 90s, still cycled into St Ives (Cambs) once a week to do her shoppng. As you entered the 'bar' (basically the front room of her house), she would come in and offer the gentlemen a pint of bitter and would then ask any ladies in the party what they would like. When returning with the drinks, if there were 3 of you, she would always offer to make up the 4th for a game of dominoes... That's now a private house. The Harvest Home in Fen Ditton was another similar ..
Happy days...