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Big Bob Ridley Beer Float - Horden (hord0352)

The Metcalfe Family
Horden ‘Big Club' after the fire

Photograph showing the side of a motor lorry parked in front of a single-storey wooden building with the following written on it: Comrades Of the Great War Club And Institute. Lorimers Famous Edinbro' Ales. Vaux's Britons Best Bottled Beers; the lorry is decorated as a float with a barrel on its back and a table with beer bottles on it, round which three men are sitting; on its side is a notice reading: Vaux Froth Blowers Comrades Babies Stout Ales & Sam Currys Beef; the photograph has been described as Bob Ridley Beer Float, Horden

Big Bob Ridley Beer Float - Horden

Photograph showing the side of a motor lorry parked in front of a single-storey wooden building with the following written on it: Comrades Of the Great War Club And Institute. Lorimers Famous Edinbro' Ales. Vaux's Britons Best Bottled Beers; the lorry is decorated as a float with a barrel on its back and a table with beer bottles on it, round which three men are sitting; on its side is a notice reading: Vaux Froth Blowers Comrades Babies Stout Ales & Sam Currys Beef; the photograph has been described as Bob Ridley Beer Float, Horden

Date: 1930 - 1939


When the Comrades was on the opposite (North side of Windsor Terrace) to where it is now

Comment added by Barry Wood on 05/01/2009 12:03:00

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