Gloucester - vanishing pubs!

[Arranroots]

A concrete drill??

Is that anything like a chocolate teapot??

 

[Keziahemm]

Arranroots   

Sprout - think I'll have to put my Miss Marple hat on and investigate further, see what you've done got me intrigued now 

Mermaid cottage is reputed to be the oldest in the village.

Haven't been down that way to the river for a while so another visit is long overdue! 

Regards

Susan 

[Sprout]

Arranroots....I knew I'd get 'picked up' re. concrete drill, I'd ask what its proper name is but guess that's a new thread.

Wish I could join you Susan but have to go and brush up on my road-building vocabulary.....a photo would be lovely! ( Not of you, the area....I could swap it for a very fine snap of a headstone in Dunster Churchyard?....with a robin perched on it....)
Once again, appreciate your help
Sprout

[ev]

sprout

following the tale of ship inn with interest
would it be a "masons drill"
looks like a normal drill but the cutting blades are welded on to the
fluted shaft
the cutting blades would be heat treated and very hard but cheaper
than making the whole drill like this
i notice all the smileys now have santa hats and its still november
hope you find your anchor

ev

[Sprout]

ev
wouldn't there be an apostraphe in "masons drill"?

[ev]

hi sprout

no but an "apostrophe" maybe should be there
perhaps there was a young apprentice who took care of the
mason's drill
rodger the cabin boy ?

ev

[Sprout]

Oo-er Matron.
Ev, you must understand this is a forum for deep and serious debate not....Carry on up the Family Tree....

[Gillg]

Sprout

You are not going to like this - I passed through Minsterworth today, but was unable to stop, as I was a passenger in the car of someone who was rushing to work.

It's a long, rambling village along the A48, but I did notice that there were only 3 streets on the river side of the road - Pound St, Church St and Broadway Lane, all narrow lanes.  So I passed the top of the lane where the Ship Inn must once have been (assume it was Church Street from what has been said earlier), but never got a chance to inspect that car park

You might like to order Terry Moore Scott's "A History of Minsterworth" from your local library. http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~cotswold/minst.htm for more information.

Gillg

[ev]

hi sprout

hope you find your ship inn
put me down as a cheeky monkey
didn't sailors have them instead of parrots ?
and they are good at climbing trees

yours

saucy sally(sorry ev )