Thursday, 15 July 2010

Gwladys Street - For MicMac



This'll bring back memories Mike! Your two childhood sweethearts, side by side. In no particular order of course and I suppose they looked better when you were a lad.

8 comments:

  1. Liverpool Organic Brewery has produced a pleasant beer called Pier Head, which apparently began life as an attempt to recreate Higson's, but isn't much like it.

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  2. I didn't say I fancied them :~)

    I don't know - I guess I'm a sucker for a bit of awful wordplay & pun.

    I also liked the fact that quite a big business decided to include local place names & local humour in the marketing of their products.

    There's a few more Wirralian ones & others here - http://tinyurl.com/Higsonian
    "Wallace E Tunnel", "Birk 'n' Head", etc.

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  3. @RedNev I didn't know about that, interesting.

    I brewed much of the beer of the short-lived Bootle reincarnation of Higsons (the recipes were recreated by Stuart Thompson, former brewing chemist at Higsons) - I'm not sure exactly what's happening with the brand now.

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  4. No need to be shy Mike. You are among friends here! (-: Thanks for the link too. I usually rely on RedNev to keep me up to date with attempts to recreate Higsons.

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  5. My favourite Wirral Old Higsonian was the rock superstar, Rock Ferry.

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  6. Speaking of Liverpool. Just read in a rag yesterday that girls there are the second cheapest/easiest dates in the country, after Essex.

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  7. Another great reason to love the city. They're more independent minded and often insist on paying their own way.

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  8. Memories....
    and who could forget this lot:
    Otto Spool
    Doc Road
    Phil O Monic
    Belle Vale
    Clayton Square
    Pierre Head
    Norris Green
    Lord Street
    Kirk Dale
    Mag Hull
    Olive Mount
    Count Erode

    I could go on. The biogs on the backs of the drip mats were amusing too. Happy Days.

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