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Jan 2016
1:41pm, 28 Jan 2016
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Nicholls595
Our "work time" supping was done in Heanor. Jolly Colliers or New Inn on Tag Hill. I remember at Christmas, when all the firms on the industrial estate broke up, the landlord of the Colliers took the curtains down and hid all the table and chairs in the skittle alley.
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Jan 2016
1:46pm, 28 Jan 2016
19,883 posts
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Derby Tup
Jolly Colliers and New Inn - proper pubs 
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Jan 2016
1:52pm, 28 Jan 2016
21,958 posts
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macca 53
.....and all for a quid..........
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Jan 2016
1:54pm, 28 Jan 2016
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Nicholls595
Not been in either since I moved jobs in early 90's. Even though I drive past them regularly.
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Jan 2016
1:55pm, 28 Jan 2016
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Nicholls595
Only 2 pubs left on Tag Hill. Used to be 5 within 50 yards, 6 if you count the Con club
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Jan 2016
2:13pm, 28 Jan 2016
12,192 posts
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TRO Saracen
I joined my current company soon after it had been privatised.
At my grade, in the nationalised days, you were given an office, and a fully stocked drinks cabinet. In the short time since, all that had been abolished and everyone sat out in the open plan office.
Some were still grumbling at the loss of these 'privileges' which they felt were their right for being more important.
I fear we may have strayed from 'weird lunches' however...
.....so.....
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Jan 2016
2:19pm, 28 Jan 2016
12,193 posts
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TRO Saracen
.....I worked a year as a graduate in a paint factory in Canning Town, site was right on the river. The lads on the factory floor would leave fishing lines out overnight, and sometimes get eels. These would be kept in a bucket, and boiled later for lunch *hurls*
Thursday was the big day for pub lunch, as it was pay day - and this the old days when you'd go up to the cash office and get your wages in a little brown envelope with a window, and you could see all the folded up fivers and feel a few coins rolling about inside People would be straight off down the pub once they got paid. Rough place, recommended you went to the cash office in groups as sometimes people were mugged for their wages on the way back from the different factory buildings.
Thursday lunchtimes would get pretty wild, strippers, fights - anything could happen.
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Jan 2016
2:24pm, 28 Jan 2016
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Nicholls595
... until Gene Hunt burst in and broke it all up?
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Jan 2016
2:37pm, 28 Jan 2016
21,965 posts
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macca 53
IP TRO? (or IPJ if you're really old ;))
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Jan 2016
2:40pm, 28 Jan 2016
12,194 posts
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TRO Saracen
It was IP.
No idea if it's still there, became Coutaulds I think but kept the IP name.
We had a football match - those of us in the research labs/office vs those out on the factories. Bloodbath!
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