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Peter Chamberlain Researcher This message was updated on 4/22/2005 11:28:45 AM by Peter Chamberlain	The 1940/50s 'Best Beers' Pub(s) replied on: 4/22/2005 11:23:33 AM Johns sons now run the auctioneers buisness from the Shipstones brewery which John bought a few years ago. If you drop John Pye and Sons into a search engine you will find their site.A few years ago John and his wife appeared on the television on the program A Place in the Sun and i believe he purchased a place in Majorca.Joe was his father and initially he worked at Langley Pit before taking over the Beer Off which was tied to the Home Brewery.
suzard Researcher	The 1940/50s 'Best Beers' Pub(s) replied on: 4/22/2005 9:23:12 AM Well, well-we always called that beer off Jo Pye's- Jo was getting on in years when I was young-is John his son then? Great a Langley Mill chap now owns Shippos!
Peter Chamberlain Researcher	The 1940/50s 'Best Beers' Pub(s) replied on: 4/22/2005 6:55:19 AM Shipstones Brewery is now owned by John Pye a Langley Mill Man whose father kept the Beer Off corner of North Street and Station Road Referred to in Shops of Langley Mill
suzard Researcher	The 1940/50s 'Best Beers' Pub(s) replied on: 4/18/2005 3:46:21 PM Shipstone's beer was always known as "Hooligan Broth" in our family!
Azzabuv This message was updated on 4/17/2005 4:25:43 PM by Azzabuv	The 1940/50s 'Best Beers' Pub(s) replied on: 4/17/2005 4:12:03 PM Personally, i don't know who made it, Phil. One look of the stuff was enough to make me lose interest for ever, but i used to fetch a jug or two for the old man regularly and as they were friends, he and the Off-licence owner, even though i was well underage, when all was clear, he'd pour it into whatever container i'd taken. It looked like extra thick brown gravy, as it slopped and gurgled into the depths. He still drinks the bottled variety today and he's 93, so perhaps i've really missed out on something here? I've often wondered if a little mix of that breath-taking Wormwood distillation mixed with it, would bring about a really amazing chemical reaction - something would have been bound to give and i believe the results would have been worth watching - from a safe distance. It would have been like 'The Irristible Force' meeting 'The Immovable Object'. Stand well clear. Azzabuv.
philfred	The 1940/50s 'Best Beers' Pub(s) replied on: 4/17/2005 3:55:15 PM Could it have been Shipstone's NutBrown Ale not that I was old enough to legally buy and consume it. The beer off, Ilkestone Road Marlpool C Brookes ?) used to serve you but only if there were no other customers in the beer off. Queens Head used to be a Shipstone's pub in the 50s and 60s. regards Phil
Azzabuv	The 1940/50s 'Best Beers' Pub(s) replied on: 4/11/2005 11:18:04 AM Those Hardy Brothers, Peter. We made a Boo Boo. They're ALREADY logged and identified on Site - 'The Heanor & Area Personnel & Employment - 1857' Page. THAT's where i'd already read them, Robert. As i said later on - "I'd seen 'em somewhere". All is remembered now. Azzabuv.
Azzabuv	The 1940/50s 'Best Beers' Pub(s) replied on: 4/11/2005 10:43:01 AM No way, Peter. No doubt the ales they sold would quite naturally have been A1, ever so. No, i blame the celler storage system. I mean, ALL that traffic thudding past the Lion, the barrels all vibrating continuously........ well, our James of the Bond type, wouldn't have liked that either- ALL shaken AND stirred. Azzabuv.
Peter Chamberlain Researcher	The 1940/50s 'Best Beers' Pub(s) replied on: 4/11/2005 6:41:05 AM AZZA HOPE YOUR NOT SUGGESTING YOUR PROPOSED ANCESTORS THE "HARDY'S" MADE SLUDGE AND VINEGAR.
Azzabuv This message was updated on 4/10/2005 3:57:16 PM by Azzabuv	The 1940/50s 'Best Beers' Pub(s) replied on: 4/10/2005 3:52:13 PM The best pub which i found for a reasonable drink, was 'The Thorn Tree', Woodlinkin. I never had the 'Mild', only the 'bitter'. You just didn't feel too far out of this World the next morning. The 'Red Lion' on Red Lion Square, can only be described as 'Uck'. The Mild tasted as thick as sludge and the Bitter tasted as if it was laced with vinegar. Either was guaranteed to lift the top off a novice drinker's head as soon as life returned the next morning and even accomplished drinkers too. Talk about 'The Morning of the Living Dead'. The 'Ray's Arms' was about neutral concerning either drink. Not too bad, not too good, unless you had several, then you went neutral too. 'The Market Hotel' - decent too. As for the other way up Tag Hill, as far as i was concerned - best left alone in the Mild and Bitter sense of things. The 'Nottm. House' was the only Pub in Heanor i never visited, either because later on in the Weekend evenings, i'd forgot where it was, or just couldn't find it and i did try, several times, but strangely, the Alma kept getting in the way somehow. Does anyone remember that reviving drink from the beer-offs, especially the one on Nelson St; just below Lockton's Groceries. The beer was called 'Nutbrown'? It came in tall bottles, or, take a can, bottle, pitcher or bucket and get them filled. And he WOULD fill them, even the buckets. Afterwards, everybody looked well. Are we missing out on something today? Perhaps it was the distilled 'Wormwood's' blood cleansing effect? It was a GREAT day all round, when the various Lagers invaded the land. Goodby sludge and vinegar. Azzabuv.

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