who remembers the footrail at the bar counter in the old pubs and is there any pub that has still got one.
they used to be great to stop you falling over for some reason!
Isn't that the feature that actually gave the name "bar" to bars in the 1st place? As in "standing at the bar"?
"The Clarence" in Albion Street, New Brighton. Foot & Hand rail, polished daily.
The "Ginny" in New Brighton, brass ones top and bottom!!
I love the noise that these make when coinage hits em, at least you know you have dropped something
Cheshire Cheese in the village.
the bighouse (coach and horses) in moreton has one.
Canarvon Castle Oxton Has
I wonder what was the last pub to have a Spittoon.
...or sawdust on the floor? (as in spit & sawdust!!)?
My favourite pub out of all the ones I've been in was McSawleys in Toronto. It had a sign over the exit saying "Customers are requested to please wipe their feet on the way out." The deck inside was in a mess because they used to throw all the free peanut shells on the foor to keep the bar and tables clear.
...or sawdust on the floor? (as in spit & sawdust!!)?
Both in Liverpool, The Swan in Wood St about 12 years ago followed by the Ye Olde Crack Rice St about 10 years ago. Both bare boards with a couple of handfulls of sawdust thrown down at lunchtime.
Farmers in wallasey village has a bar thing
I wonder what was the last pub to have a Spittoon.
I'll start this off with mate's mum's pub, the 'Manor', Union St., mid '50s.
I certainly don't remember any around here, i did come across one in a pub in a mining village in Scotland some years ago.
On enquiring why it still had one the answer was a lot of miners still used chewing tobacco and ping, ping, thats where they spit.
When I joined the Andrew in 58 they had spitkids in the messes but you weren't allowed to use them, only polish them. I'll try and sort out a photo of the mess and put it up so that peeps can see what a spit kid looked like.
At the Old Colonial they had one. When we removed it during renovations, we donated it to the tram museum. When they inspected it, they said it was very old and were looking at all the old shoe polish on the brass and saying how many people do you think scuff there shoes on this
Bert, you would have to have asked big John Wayne about the last bar with a spitoon
the central hotel still have there bar and it is always polished to a shine
Don't forget that Gallaghers has a foot rail.
A nice shiny brass one, no spittoon though.