The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #122013   Message #2674642
Posted By: Will Fly
08-Jul-09 - 08:38 AM
Thread Name: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
When I drank in the Whitelocks, it was certainly Youngers Scotch Bitter - and a gradely pint it was. I can't recall the No. 3 Old, but I wouldn't be surprised.

When I was a student in Leeds, there were whole hams and strings of sausages, and flitches of bacon hanging from hooks just over the bar in the Whitelocks. The barmaid (the female bar staff were "barmaids" in those days) would prepare sandwiches and rolls by slicing pieces of the meats as they hung over the bar - and we all smoked in those days! She was a very large, blonde lady, hair piled up behind her, standing like a queen behind the round-fronted bar which, if I remember correctly, was tiled and had a copper or brass top to it. And the tables were old sewing machines.

Ah.. great days - and boating on Roundhay pond when I should have been studying. Being a Young Git was nearly as good as being an Old One!