Photo-a-Day  (Sunday, 25th August, 2024)

Hope they did not have too many drinks. They don't want to get done for drinking and riding Hope there was a drink for the horses on this rare sunny day.

My son took me there for my dinner when he first got a car, and we had to sit near the window so we could keep it in view so it wouldn't get pinched....I don't think the rag-bone man would have taken it....talk about Rafferty's Motor Car, (two of the wheels are triangular and the third one's off a pram!), But he was 17 and it was his pride and joy. Thirty years on, and that's a lovely view of the pub Dennis, in the sunshine and with the horses outside. And the memories.

Red dogs pub.

Not to demean your photo yesterday Dennis but this is much more interesting and nicer view.
A lovely summers day, it looks like an event is being held and the horses look well groomed.

PS. I meant the other photo of Haigh not the Crooke Marina picture which was lovely. Keep um cumin!

Full of rift raft people who go in nowdays since that marstons took over not like it used to be when it used to be ran bye independantly people the food is tacky and cheap would not recommend it anymore.

Lovely pic,really nice area and friendly pub.

No danger of that pub being closed down I’m sure. Unlike some being made ready for other nationalities and not for serving beer. Still ….waste not want not.
The scene is timeless Dennis.

Marston’s have shocking reputation for recruiting naive new pub managers who pay a substantial amount of money for the privilege and then within six months turfing them out, not only leaving them broke but suing them for what they term ‘Stock Shortages’ I would never patronise a Marston’s Pub on Principle.
I’m surprised Panorama hasn’t investigated them and their tactics.

Those two horses have some bonny legs between them Dennis.
Good photo.

I often think Keats had been on the old Lancaster Bomber when he wrote ,
' My heart aches and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense , as though of hemlock I had drunk '

I do know which chance it belong to about six years ago when we stayed in Haigh Hall, should I say Faulty Towers on Speed, the food and service was so bad we regularly went to the Balcarres for meals. The service and food was superb and reasonably priced with large portions and at lunchtime a great mix of locals and workmen on their way home and always respectful. Although we don’t have a dog we always like them, especially the quiet ones. One couple had a lovely grey whippet, we came away thinking to get one but then thought better of it.
Don’t know which planet ‘so called’ Ex Wiganer now lives on but he is much need of a Spell Check.

Colin, I have told this tale before but it was before you joined....the day my son took me for my dinner the landlord was leaning on the bar reading the rugby page of The Wigan Observer. There was no-one else in the pub and my son said, "Can we have two chip barms, please?" The landlord never looked up from the paper but bellowed through to the kitchen, "Mary! Knock thisel' abeawt a bit....two chip barms!". Jamie and I couldn't stop laughing! I was amazed that "Mary" didn't come out of the kitchen and belt him with the rolling pin! We have never forgotten it.

It’s ‘Spell Check’ that causes mis- spellings Colin. The man who invented ‘Spell Check’ died last week - it’s his Fun-fair on Friday. I might go and throw a coconut. There’s been a lot of ‘fun-fairs’ for him.

Why would folk go and stay at Haigh Hall, unless it was a wedding.

Sue because our house was being renovated, at the time I was working for a French company. Unfortunately our apartment in Paris was unavailable so falling for the web site of Contessa Hotels this sounded a good option. How Wrong we were.

Good photo Dennis and you seem to have been there at the right time to capture the horses.

Irene, your comment of the other day with Garry not posting for a while, yes it's strange how he suddenly stopped commenting, I too hope he's well and looking in and enjoying a glass or two of his favourite tipple.
As for one commenter saying fake, I very much doubt it, as he had far too much knowledge of coal bagging. It was a hard job, especially in winter manhandling freezing cold wet sacks with a hundredweight of coal in them. It's a job I wouldn't like to do.
There's a video of a coalman on youtube, but the sacks look smaller than the ones I remember, maybe they're now in metric.
https://youtu.be/SGk58nCQ4f8?si=LXbx0fBAcvG3isO1

Cyril, the person who said that Garry was a fake and that "other people" had agreed with him about that was just a wind-up merchant, out to get my back up. When I asked him to name the "other people" he backed off because there WERE no "other people". Garry is an honest and decent man and I hope with all my heart that he is okay but it's odd that he hasn't got back to say so. He DOES "go quiet" sometimes but usually speaks up when someone asks if he is okay. Hope all is well, Garry.

I. can see WHERE your coming from but ask yourself this, how many people will. be posting on WW at 04.10 hours.

Yes it is ironical calling Garry a fake when their own names were and are fake!!! You couldn’t make it up!

Garry also used to chip in about old cars and lorries.I too hope he is keeping well.