24-Jun-2007, 10:30 AM
Noel, best wishes for your good lady`s recovery.
On the drinking habits of doctors etc. I always thought it was members of the religious abstention societies who were big secret drinkers, and who decried the evils of drink to all.
When we lived in Chorley we knew a delivery driver for a local brewery whose best customers insisted that he delivered their supplies of the evil drink quietly and parked away from the house so that it was not apparent where he was delivering.
Of course, there was the Sunday Night race we used to see in Chorley, when the Faithful had been to Evensong at St,George`s Church to decry the evils of drink etc, and then raced down St.George`s Street to get their favourite seat in Yate`s Wine Lodge at the bottom.
Still, things have changed since the 1950`s (I think!!)
On the drinking habits of doctors etc. I always thought it was members of the religious abstention societies who were big secret drinkers, and who decried the evils of drink to all.
When we lived in Chorley we knew a delivery driver for a local brewery whose best customers insisted that he delivered their supplies of the evil drink quietly and parked away from the house so that it was not apparent where he was delivering.
Of course, there was the Sunday Night race we used to see in Chorley, when the Faithful had been to Evensong at St,George`s Church to decry the evils of drink etc, and then raced down St.George`s Street to get their favourite seat in Yate`s Wine Lodge at the bottom.
Still, things have changed since the 1950`s (I think!!)