Lancaster Self Build Do

[Ferdinand]

Back in April @AnonymousBosch flagged up an evening event in Lancaster for self builders.

 

I made it, and it was quite well attended with about a dozen organisations with stands. this is only some of the people.

 

 

There was a window identifying architecture as an Art ?, though to be fair another one identified Science as an Art as well.

 

 

Interesting roofs, including a roof-bush,

 

 

And on the way back I fulfilled a decades old ambition, and visited the only surviving Victorian Temperance Bar anywhere. Was planning to have a Sarsparilla but I did not realise just how heavily everything was loaded with sugar.

 

 

Instead I had a thing called a Blood-something, which sounded quite Klingon.

 

I am happy to write a short report, especially on an interesting building society. How would that best be done ... perhaps as a blog plus a resource thread?

 

Also there were quite a few who had heard of BH, so did a little propagandising.

 

Ferdinand

 

 

Edited June 21, 2019 by Ferdinand

[Big Jimbo]

That old bar looks great.Love the leading on the upper windows of the shop front.

[Ferdinand]

35 minutes ago, Big Jimbo said:

That old bar looks great.Love the leading on the upper windows of the shop front.

 

The bar is tiny .. a couple of seats against the window and about 4 tables.

 

 

 

The drinks below are Blood Tonic, which by rights should have blood in it to refresh the iron like a liquid black pudding, but did not, and Espresso served with a chaser of a tooth mug of water which I have not seen before in this country. It is in a place called Rawtenstall in Rossendale. Easy to divert there when heading M6->M1. At the end of a long cobbled shopping street with 1hr free parking ... so much easier than Lancaster ?which was very difficult.

 

They served a nice big minestrone soup in one of those bowls which keeps it hot for about 15 minutes too long. And I love the China saucer.

 

In some ways the feel is like the tea/coffee room attached to the Northern Tea Traders Ltd, which you go passed on Chatsworth Road in Chesterfield if you take the Buxton route across the Pennines. They have 20 or so types of coffee beans in wooden tubs lie a corn stores, but roast about a ton a week so it is always fresh.

 

On t way out I nibbled another one of those chocs which was the last one left on a sample dish on the counter, which she then told me had been step one in preparing the next person’s coffee. Ooops.

 

Ferdinand

 

Edited June 21, 2019 by Ferdinand

[Big Jimbo]

I'll have to stick that on my list for a visit sometime.

[Ferdinand]

The shop girl makes the various ice cream confections and deserts and floats using a small row of liquidisers behind the counter.