poohbear 1,360 Posted July 28, 2016 Report Share Posted July 28, 2016 An entire thread about Shippo's horses. http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1058 Tch! Tch! Cliffy old chap...If one is going to use the expression 'Shippos' one should follow this with 'Osses' not horses....... It's not cricket old man! 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
freckles 196 Posted July 28, 2016 Report Share Posted July 28, 2016 As kids we used to have Shippos ginger beer used to bite the back of your throat used to get it from beer off at bottom of Kirkstead Street.When Shippos were brewing and the soap works brewing as well didn't alf stink down the Green. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted July 28, 2016 Report Share Posted July 28, 2016 #26 Cheers Poo I did think that myself, but hey ho "there all Gods children" if everyone stopped posting they'd have nowt to read/move/moderate/delete keeps him off the street annoying the neighbors. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paulus 541 Posted July 28, 2016 Report Share Posted July 28, 2016 #24, Radfordred.............was it next to a row of 'Thunderboxes', you'd need 'em, if it were real Shippo's.............. I remember the night me fost wife ran off wi' me best pal, I thought the bottom had dropped out of me world, went out & 'ad ten pints of Shippo's, next morning I felt as if the world had dropped out of me bottom!!!!!!!!!!!! 9 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted July 28, 2016 Report Share Posted July 28, 2016 #29. Hell's bells! another member telling us about his/her 'ex'. It seems that there are more divorcees amongst us that those who have behaved themselves. lol 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,139 Posted July 28, 2016 Report Share Posted July 28, 2016 # 29 ................poor old Paulus..............bet you still miss your best pal................ 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fogrider 179 Posted July 28, 2016 Report Share Posted July 28, 2016 I went on a visit around Shippo's Brewery, late sixties. Each beer we tasted was superb. It was undrinkable in Shippo's pubs though !!. Sunk a lot of Home ales in the Grosvener up Mansfield road. It was always packed, great night but the beer always seemed watery. It was. Some draymen were flogging 50 galls to independent pubs and back-filling the tanker with water. I remember 3 people ended up arrested over it and given jail sentences. At the end of the night , the Grosvener was a riot of sound as the crowd sang the Beatles "hey jude, na, na na nanan-na........... Anyone else in those singalongs ? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted July 28, 2016 Report Share Posted July 28, 2016 ^^^^^^Me and my then to be wife, as you say the beer weren't great but the company was. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,139 Posted July 29, 2016 Report Share Posted July 29, 2016 #32 fogrider God bless the Draymen'.......it was men ike that who kept me in work for so many years............lol. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Richard Neale 0 Posted January 25, 2022 Report Share Posted January 25, 2022 On 6/29/2016 at 8:52 PM, radfordred said: I was wanting to find out where this poster is and if there was any chance I could make a copy? Richard from the new Shipstone's Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,134 Posted January 25, 2022 Report Share Posted January 25, 2022 Dead Easy Richard, due to my limited printer, I could manage an A4 size. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mess 616 Posted January 25, 2022 Report Share Posted January 25, 2022 On 7/28/2016 at 7:31 PM, fogrider said: I went on a visit around Shippo's Brewery, late sixties. Each beer we tasted was superb. It was undrinkable in Shippo's pubs though !!. Sunk a lot of Home ales in the Grosvener up Mansfield road. It was always packed, great night but the beer always seemed watery. It was. Some draymen were flogging 50 galls to independent pubs and back-filling the tanker with water. I remember 3 people ended up arrested over it and given jail sentences. At the end of the night , the Grosvener was a riot of sound as the crowd sang the Beatles "hey jude, na, na na nanan-na........... Anyone else in those singalongs ? Bit of a late reply. I was a regular at The Grosvenor in the late 60s, usually Friday nights. I think I remember the Hey Jude singalong. I still love The Beatles. I also remember the summer of ‘68 which was quite a warm one. Standing outside in the courtyard with a warm pint of Home Ales with the smell of cooked steak wafting out the top floor windows and Garry Puckett and the Union Gap blasting Lady Willpower out the downstairs jukebox. I didn't know about the watered down beer though. The Grosvenor was one of several great Berni Inns scattered around Notts. The Chateau was always rammed on a Saturday night too. Good times indeed. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,134 Posted January 25, 2022 Report Share Posted January 25, 2022 Talking of the Château. They used to advertise their home made apple with cream. We used to deliver it from Birds Eye as 'Top Tray range'. When the advertising and trade descriptions act came Into force, the sign changed to home baked or 'cooked on the premises'. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,115 Posted January 25, 2022 Report Share Posted January 25, 2022 Berni Inns were a wonderful institution. Prawn cocktail, rump steak and Black Forest gateau, all washed down with a bottle of Cotes de Rhone. They were never the same after the Berni brothers sold to Grand Met. We were spoilt for choice in Nottingham and we even ventured out to Long Eaton, The Hutt at Ravenshead, Boston and Tamworth. I remember the large schooners of sherry as an aperitif. They were inexpensive compared with eating out today. Bernis locally used to buy their steaks from Mason's butchers on Derby Rd., adjacent to Canning Circus. The same family are still selling locally sourced meat from their farm shop at Gonalston. Very expensive though and just as good and far cheaper at Morrison's! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brew 5,408 Posted January 25, 2022 Report Share Posted January 25, 2022 Your post prompted me to take a quick walk down memory lane and view an early Berni menu, wow the prices! https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/477029785513193810/?d=t&mt=login Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,115 Posted January 25, 2022 Report Share Posted January 25, 2022 Yes, even back then it was relatively inexpensive. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,134 Posted January 25, 2022 Report Share Posted January 25, 2022 Brew, any idea as to what era? It seems incredibly cheap (or should I say inexpensive). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,271 Posted January 25, 2022 Report Share Posted January 25, 2022 6 hours ago, philmayfield said: We were spoilt for choice in Nottingham and we even ventured out to Long Eaton, The Hutt at Ravenshead, Boston and Tamworth. Been to all the Berni Inns in and around Nottingham, also the Peel Arms at Tamworth, White Hart at Boston and a bit further afield the Dirty Duck at Walsall. Always good value meals, we usually washed ours down with a Mateus Rose. We still buy a bottle to have with our Christmas dinner. Wish we could get that other Berni favourite, a good gammon steak here, even the butchers don't do them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted October 27, 2022 Report Share Posted October 27, 2022 Back to Shipstone's Shipstone's Foden dray lorry 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Pianoman 1,532 Posted October 27, 2022 Report Share Posted October 27, 2022 Here's another 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,271 Posted October 27, 2022 Report Share Posted October 27, 2022 11 hours ago, radfordred said: Back to Shipstone's Shipstone's Foden dray lorry I wonder how many truckies could sheet and rope a tarp like that these days 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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