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banjo wrote:i was in the tavern in millport today.lovely well stocked,well ran pub.

Indeed it is, banjo. Bobby Clark,the present proprietor, bought The Tavern from the Roberts which means it has had only 2 owners in about 50 years! Continuity is one of the hallmarks of a well run pub.

Ah Millport! My grandparents visited for years and my family would join them for part of the summer.They retired there in 1966.(still shiver when I type that date for some reason) What followed was 8 boyhood summers of fun, then 74-77, 4 summers working in The Tavern Bar run then by Farquhar and Bet...

Bobby, would you have any objection to me posting the link on the Ships of Calmac forum?

It was $8.84 Australian-just over £3 in 1982.

Fat Cat, May I ask if your organisation offers any confidential assistance and support to employees? I fancy the answer is no and herein lies the problem with the new breed of manager and performance driven operations. In the current economic climate,job security takes on much more importance.In my ...

Ah the cheeky chappie that he is. He has obviously learned from the "Master"- Ryan Air's Michael O'Leary- on how to court controversy and gain free publicity. http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/video-paddy-power-defends-controversial-cheltenham-transgender-advert-3028326.html" onclic...

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=veRAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DKcMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4816,4450926&dq=glasgow+493+alexandra+parade+tenement+fire&hl=en" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; If it had not been for the party goers and then the fire crew who rescued us....I might not have been...

Would you believe being able to walk to Shawfield to see The Bully Wee? No? Somehow didn't think you would.

Jelly babies box found under the seats @ the Lyceum Govan. 70s methinks. http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/s320x320/403362_251477388257307_100001851430756_611095_2047741116_n.jpg Bar of Cadburys Dairy Milk...well scoffed ! that came in foiled paper and before the days of sealed wrapers...

Please,do enlighten me to the meaning of the term, "Associated Football teams"

My Gran always said "rubbage" for rubbish....especially when Mick MacManus was on the wrestlin'!

Brilliant photographs. Such clarity of atmosphere. One for the "ship heads" amongst us regarding the TSS Earnshaw.

http://www.nzmaritime.co.nz/earnslaw.htm

I used to see plenty in packs of twenty!

One man band busker in Glasgow http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6211/6333810461_9a1ea0a149.jpg Give a man a guitar to play and a mouth organ to play simultaneously and it makes him talented and interesting. Strap a drum and cymbal to his back too and it turns him into a fucking idiot. Not always, Mr....

Two things;
Sheffield is a city.
Sheffield is not,I repeat,not in the "Midlands"!