A little piece about the new Wetherspoons on Market Hill. It's to be called The Joseph Bramah and will open in June. I think you already know it's on the site of the Orchard. They'll be refurbishing the two old buildings at the back and there'll be a courtyard space facing onto Market Hill. They're going to expose the old stone and brickwork. There will be an variety of beers available for purchase including Woolly Cardie, Dog Sick and Old Stinky Poo.
RE: A little piece about the new Wetherspoons on Market Hill. At last, one of England and Barnsleys greatest sons will get some recognition. An inventor of the highest regard, his greatest invention lives on and is still in daily use - quite appropriately in real ale pubs.
RE: A little piece about the new Wetherspoons on Market Hill. Who was Joseph Bramah? One thing about Wetherspoons when they get hold of a building they do try to retain original features and have some feeling for the history of the building. I'd heard it was going to be a Lloyd's No 1 though (which is one of Wetherspoons brands) which don't concentrate on real ale in the way "ordinary" Wetherspoons, not sure that Lloyd's always stock it - and email to the company might be in order.
Joseph Bramah http://www.pioneers.historians.co.uk/bramah.html Quite apt then as he invented the beer engine
Joseph Bramah....... ......Born in Stainborough in 1748, invented a version of the modern water closet, a supposedly unpickable lock, a beer pump, a quill-sharpener and some other stuff.
RE: Joseph Bramah....... Brilliant story about the lock - when he'd perfected it he offered a reward (very substantial amount of money at the time) to anyone who could pick it. It was 60 odd years before anyone did and even then it took 16 days to do it. He was featured on Local Heroes on BBC1 a while back.
Boozetastic..just the feckin smokers to sort out trouble with spoons is is full of *** ash buggers.</p> Ah well at least its a source of decent ale.</p>
RE: Thez a Bramah Street at Carlton. Also a turn of phrase; "It's a Bramah": meaning good, when looking at something mechanical like a car engine.
When we were kids we used to say "it's a remma". I always wondered what a "remma" was - I guess it's a distortion of Bramah.