philmayfield

Warwick's used to be served at The Full Moon at Morton, my local for many years. Not a bad pint as I remember. Sadly there are no breweries in the town of Newark now. The last brewery I looked round was Bateman's at Wainfleet but that was about 16 years ago. It was a "proper" brewery and not a chemical processing plant that many of the so called craft breweries are today. Craft beer should be brewed in a bucket under the sink!

Eptons is only 2% terrible and 68% excellent on Trip Advisor, so that's where I'm going when next there!

I’ve never been but 17% of reviews on Trip Adviser say terrible. Only 50% very good.

If it was my cousin’s horse that ate your father’s vegetables I apologise on her behalf as she is no longer with us. The same horse was kept in a stable on Eaton St., facing the Methodist Church during the winter months. It was fed on rich diet of hay and pony nuts which gave it lots of energy to burn off. This was done on a Sunday when uncle, father and self hitched it to a two wheeled trap and took it to the end of The Plains. It took off at an amazing speed which my uncle was barely able to control. There was not much in the way of cars back in the 50’s so the horse had a clear run. It was

No. You are absolutely right. I remember it growing in profusion on the old suburban railway line between Daybrook and Woodthorpe Park.

Sorry, that was me Margie!

That reminds me - I sat next to Princess Michael of Kent on a flight back from Milan once, I saw Lionel Blair who was wearing a fur coat in the newsagent’s at Heathrow and I stood next to Stirling Moss at the check in desk at the same airport. All my celebrity meetings are flooding back now!

My father had an allotment down there but it was nearer the bottom on the flatter bit and just before the model aircraft flying field which was very popular back in the 50’s. Just over the road on the opposite hill was a wartime pillbox in the middle of a field. There’s still another one where Bank Hill joins Plains Rd. I suppose that will be listed building now.

"Vacuous" the very word!

You've done well with meeting celebrities. The best I can come up with is Torville and Dean on Pelham St! Colin Cooper used to live near to me and Garry Linacre and David Gower used to come into our pub as his agent John Holmes lived in the village.

I know where there's a Le Mans for sale if you're interested. Martin Daly at the School Garage Whaley Bridge. £29,950. All of his classics are immaculate. I've been there a few times. Not a good name for a car dealer though - Daly!

I’ve just done a bit of research on line and he’ll be about 84, so likely to be with us for a while yet!

Yes, I do believe there had been some serious injuries on that “ski slope”. I loved it - I always liked pushing the limits - still do when I can get the chance at my age!

Holes Brewery at Newark made the soapiest beer I’ve ever drunk.

He must be well over 100 now then!

Along with Shipstone’s, Home Brewery were clients of my firm (who wasn’t!) when I was in the accountancy business. I’ve spent many hours there and over the road at the Daybrook Laundry (both belonged to the Farr family). It was rumoured that the laundry used to pump the dirty washing water under the road to the brewery!

This chap used to crop up from time to time on Radio Nottingham ‘phone ins years ago. Occasionally he wrote to the newspapers with fairly meaningless comments. I thought he was long gone - but no - here he is again in the Newark Advertiser today with a letter about the homeless. Is he a real person?

I looked for that path when I drove down Breckhill last week but it’s gone. I would have thought it would have been established as a right of way. I remember Breckhill fields as a place to go sledging in the winter. It was a fantastic slalom down between the bushes to Melbury Rd. My cousin Peggy Burton from Greys Rd. used to keep a pony on those fields. The other good sledging slope was in Woodthorpe Park, down the steep hill towards the old Sherwood Station. They weren’t too keen on us sledging over the pitch and putt course on the other side!

I was christened in that Methodist Church in 1943. Good to see we are both still standing. I never became an active Methodist though and I’ve never been in since. I was sent to a C of E Sunday school that was initially at the Arno Vale School and then it to moved to the Woodthorpe Church Hall which was between Arno Vale and Wesley Rd. It was an offshoot of St.James, Porchester then before Woodthorpe got it’s own church, St. Marks. I think it’s a lending library now.

The old Home Brewery building in Daybrook, which is used by Notts County Council, is to be made available for commercial offices. The Council is to commission a feasibility study regarding this at a cost of £50,000. Having seen the building and having been inside I can confirm that the idea is perfectly feasible. To whom do I write to claim the £50,000?

Amongst other things “Wong” is a long narrow strip of land. Probably Anglo Saxon. There is a Willow Wong in Burton Joyce.

If only laptops and spreadsheets had been around then! The only computers I ever saw in those days were hugh reel to reel machines situated behind glass in air conditioned rooms accessible only to the operators. The first one I saw was in the Nottingham City Treasurer’s Department. At the Water Department, which was then run by the City Council, they were still living in the Victorian era with tall sloping desks and men sitting on stools writing in hugh bound ledgers. The youngsters may call us silver surfers and think we don’t understand computing but some of us have been involved with the e

Shipstone’s had a unique, unmistakeable flavour compared to the other local brews. There was no doubt that you were drinking Shippos. The so called Shipstone’s beer I tried at the Belvoir Brewery a couple of years ago had nothing like the old Shipstone’s taste. I think it’s one of those beers that’s best forgotten! Shipstone’s were clients of my firm when I was in the accountancy profession back in the 60’s. and when we were working there a crate of ale was brought to our room at 11 o’clock each morning!

I don’t live there but I pass through regularly. The plaque is erected on The Old Ship Inn on Main St.

Nah. Too obvious.