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Post by johnofgwent on Dec 28, 2022 21:12:27 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-64074950What a pisser I first stopped at this hostelry back in the late 70s. We were on a coach coming back from a visit to the Flour Millers and Bakers Research Association In later years it marked the 60 minute marker to my journey home on a Friday night from a client god knows where. No speed cameras in those days and actually no accidents either. Given the reason for the pub closure is the need to redevelop the A419 junction they claim is an accident black spot…. Maybe it is. All I know is the journey will never be the same again. Bummer
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Post by Red Rackham on Dec 28, 2022 22:24:17 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-64074950What a pisser I first stopped at this hostelry back in the late 70s. We were on a coach coming back from a visit to the Flour Millers and Bakers Research Association In later years it marked the 60 minute marker to my journey home on a Friday night from a client god knows where. No speed cameras in those days and actually no accidents either. Given the reason for the pub closure is the need to redevelop the A419 junction they claim is an accident black spot…. Maybe it is. All I know is the journey will never be the same again. Bummer It's always sad when hostelry closes, especially one that evokes special memories. But more interesting is the fact that you were returning from the Flour Millers and Bakers Research Association lol, that's brilliant. And I know you're not joking which makes it even better.  |
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Post by Vinny on Dec 28, 2022 22:32:10 GMT
That's a shame. I've got relatives in Gloucestershire, but not near there. Wouldn't be able to drive over and visit at this short notice anyway.  Hope the regulars give the place the send off it deserves. |
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Post by johnofgwent on Dec 28, 2022 23:35:58 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-64074950What a pisser I first stopped at this hostelry back in the late 70s. We were on a coach coming back from a visit to the Flour Millers and Bakers Research Association In later years it marked the 60 minute marker to my journey home on a Friday night from a client god knows where. No speed cameras in those days and actually no accidents either. Given the reason for the pub closure is the need to redevelop the A419 junction they claim is an accident black spot…. Maybe it is. All I know is the journey will never be the same again. Bummer It's always sad when hostelry closes, especially one that evokes special memories. But more interesting is the fact that you were returning from the Flour Millers and Bakers Research Association lol, that's brilliant. And I know you're not joking which makes it even better. It was a sort of careers event. The biochemistry professor at Cardiff was a great friend of the chief officer at the association whose head office was a Georgian Pile near Rickmansworth IIRC called Chorleywood The idea was to show us the sort of work any of us thinking of taking our degrees into industry could end up doing. The guy in charge there had invented the Chorleywood Bread Process which made him an utter fortune. This was the industrial process used to make sliced white bread. No artisans involved !! Thinking back it also taught me what a small world it was. They acquired quite a bit of their research chemicals from the industrial pharmaceutical company in Amersham my aunt and uncle founded ! The pub was, I think you can guess from the picture, one of these places with a roaring log fire and several cask ales on the bar. If I was coming back from a client on tbe ‘M4 corridor’ I’d often pull in on a Friday night for food and a half before doing the last hour to home. |
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Post by Red Rackham on Dec 28, 2022 23:52:06 GMT
It's always sad when hostelry closes, especially one that evokes special memories. But more interesting is the fact that you were returning from the Flour Millers and Bakers Research Association lol, that's brilliant. And I know you're not joking which makes it even better. It was a sort of careers event. The biochemistry professor at Cardiff was a great friend of the chief officer at the association whose head office was a Georgian Pile near Rickmansworth IIRC called Chorleywood The idea was to show us the sort of work any of us thinking of taking our degrees into industry could end up doing. The guy in charge there had invented the Chorleywood Bread Process which made him an utter fortune. This was the industrial process used to make sliced white bread. No artisans involved !! Thinking back it also taught me what a small world it was. They acquired quite a bit of their research chemicals from the industrial pharmaceutical company in Amersham my aunt and uncle founded ! The pub was, I think you can guess from the picture, one of these places with a roaring log fire and several cask ales on the bar. If I was coming back from a client on tbe ‘M4 corridor’ I’d often pull in on a Friday night for food and a half before doing the last hour to home. We must be of a similar age, which means we went through the same education system until at least the age of 11. You're obviously a clever chap, I enjoy the company of clever people, as an observer lol. They are often very interesting, if you can ease them out of their shells. But I suspect you wouldn't need much encouragement. I sense that although you're a boffin type you're not very nerdy, could be wrong. Difficult to tell on a 2d forum. |
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Post by johnofgwent on Dec 29, 2022 12:06:53 GMT
It was a sort of careers event. The biochemistry professor at Cardiff was a great friend of the chief officer at the association whose head office was a Georgian Pile near Rickmansworth IIRC called Chorleywood The idea was to show us the sort of work any of us thinking of taking our degrees into industry could end up doing. The guy in charge there had invented the Chorleywood Bread Process which made him an utter fortune. This was the industrial process used to make sliced white bread. No artisans involved !! Thinking back it also taught me what a small world it was. They acquired quite a bit of their research chemicals from the industrial pharmaceutical company in Amersham my aunt and uncle founded ! The pub was, I think you can guess from the picture, one of these places with a roaring log fire and several cask ales on the bar. If I was coming back from a client on tbe ‘M4 corridor’ I’d often pull in on a Friday night for food and a half before doing the last hour to home. We must be of a similar age, which means we went through the same education system until at least the age of 11. You're obviously a clever chap, I enjoy the company of clever people, as an observer lol. They are often very interesting, if you can ease them out of their shells. But I suspect you wouldn't need much encouragement. I sense that although you're a boffin type you're not very nerdy, could be wrong. Difficult to tell on a 2d forum. I met my nemesis in the nerd department oh it must have been about 25 years ago now. Paramount hosted a star trek fan convention in Cardiff. I went with my eldest and several friends and their kids. It was fun. While there we got wind of a quiz competition with lids of free stuff as prizes. Had to be done. One of us actually possessed the Haynes manual for the Next Gen USS Enterprise and everyone knows the combined phaser power of the saucer section detached from the battle bridge was 175 Terawatts …. So we thought we’d put up a fight. The quiz was set in several sessions em each based on a kids tv quiz. We absolutely OWNED round one based on Michael Rodd’s Screen Test. But that afternoon it was Bob Houlness’s Blockbusters and that’s when we met … Terry Terry was our opposing team captain. About my age, then early 40s, balding slightly, and he had come wearing a TNG series Engineering Officers uniform that included the toy tricorder and toy phaser. But he was a one man encyclopaedia. We got the first couple of questions right. I even remembered the name of the villain in a specific episode. But then the questions got harder. We didn’t know. Terry DID. The last question was what was the name of the insect like race whose scan of the Enterprise caused the holodeck to malfunction in ‘The Big Goodbye’. We looked at each other in despair. Terry not only knew, he pronounced it perfectly. At this point I tied a white handkerchief to a lollipop stick I had handy and waved it in a gesture of surrender. Yes the audience cheered but we had been outgunned, outclassed and utterly defeated. Over a couple of beers later, the self confessed nerdiest of our team, Paul, remarked that just as there’s always a faster gunslinger in the Wild West, so must it be that there’s always a nerdier nerd. And it does yourself a power of good just once in a while to actually meet them. |
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