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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]A couple of tales about the Great Northern that I remember my Grandad telling me when I was a lad (he still used to call it 'The Navigation'or ' t' Navi ' ) At one stage in the early part of last century the border between Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire ran through the bar and and as there used to be a half hour difference in closing times between the two counties they used to sound closing time in one half of the bar and everyone used to crowd into the tiny corner that was in Derbyshire which called time later. The other thing was a scandal that rocked Langly Mill some time in the twenties and caused a boycott of the pub by the miners who were its main customers. Regular drinkers at the pub used to have a weekly draw where they all used to scratch their initials on to a penny, drop it into a bag and whoevers penny was drawn by the landlords young daughter got the lot. This had worked well for some time until mysteriously the landlord started winning the pot almost every week. Everyone was baffled, they checked the girls hands before she put her hands in the bag to make sure they were empty, made sure that the bag was empty before they started. All was revealed when one time the girl took an unusually long time to draw out the penny. When asked why she hadn't drawn one out yet she blurted out "Dad, dad I can't feel t' 'ot 'un", it turned out that her dad, the Landlord, used to stand with his back to the fire before the draw with the penny cupped in his hand warming it before the fire, his daughter could then easily pick it out from the others. It was several weeks and free pints before he was forgiven [/quote]
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Re: Public Houses
replied on: 12/13/2002 12:32:19 PM

A couple of tales about the Great Northern that I remember my Grandad telling me when I was a lad (he still used to call it 'The Navigation'or ' t' Navi ' )

At one stage in the early part of last century the border between Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire ran through the bar and and as there used to be a half hour difference in closing times between the two counties they used to sound closing time in one half of the bar and everyone used to crowd into the tiny corner that was in Derbyshire which called time later.

The other thing was a scandal that rocked Langly Mill some time in the twenties and caused a boycott of the pub by the miners who were its main customers.

Regular drinkers at the pub used to have a weekly draw where they all used to scratch their initials on to a penny, drop it into a bag and whoevers penny was drawn by the landlords young daughter got the lot. This had worked well for some time until mysteriously the landlord started winning the pot almost every week. Everyone was baffled, they checked the girls hands before she put her hands in the bag to make sure they were empty, made sure that the bag was empty before they started. All was revealed when one time the girl took an unusually long time to draw out the penny. When asked why she hadn't drawn one out yet she blurted out "Dad, dad I can't feel t' 'ot 'un", it turned out that her dad, the Landlord, used to stand with his back to the fire before the draw with the penny cupped in his hand warming it before the fire, his daughter could then easily pick it out from the others. It was several weeks and free pints before he was forgiven

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