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Interesting. Hickory's Smoke House are not one of GK's brands like Hungry Horse, Wacky Warehouse or Chef & Brewer, they are a Venture like Metropolitan Pub Co and Crafted Pubs. So what is the difference between a Brand and a Venture?

Black & white is pretty much Victorian, once they had got plaster without impurities that was white and creosote to protect the wood and turn it black. Before that the plaster was something like buff coloured and if the wood was oak then that was silvery grey. If you look at picture in medieval...

Happy Birthday @Andreas Rex

Interesting pumpclip on one handpump a few days ago Only available on 1st April

Standing up against a brick wall. I can guess what Bob Clay might have said.

Sometimes, but I doubt anyone knows which ones are live except for the brewer. Anyway, some of them are pretty good, live or not.

Indeed, but that was in Hertfordshire

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Happy birthday @Bodger

Reasonable bit of photoshop work

Happy Birthday @gon2seed

Introduced with the conversion from coal gas to natural gas. Coal gas smelt, natural gas didn't.

Don't think they've used that as a medium in commercial production for a while.

Algarve got a look in late 60s & 70s

The Cancer Research shop at Queens is open, possibly been open for some time. I found it a bit odd, not sure why though

We were out with Mrs Noah's daughter. We had had lunch but she hadn't so she dived into a McDonalds and got herself a burger and latte. She had decided to get us each a cup of tea and something called a "Hot Cross Bun Pie" Ok, it was warm but certainly not hot, it neither had a cross on it nor...

Someone did some research into "99s" and came up with the answer that the flakes were number 99 in the manufacturers order sheet. Good as story as any other I guess. Interesting thing on alternative transport. Some areas in this country and in Europe introduced free bus services and were very...

Happy Birthday @acpoynton

Berkshire?

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