I started an apprenticeship at Matthews & Yeats in Swinton 1975. There were 2 pubs next door to the factory, The Football and The Weavers Arms. 12.00hr Fridays most of the workers from the shop floor spent their 30min break guzzling 3 pints apiece. Lots of sweaty red faced fuckers doing jack shit on Friday afternoons. Management seemed to turn a blind eye. Wouldn't happen today mind. The factory and offices got bowled and Morrisons now sits on the site. The 2 pubs are still in operation.
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Friday lunchtime pints
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stonerblue
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Xmas eve and derby days onlyNever drank at lunchtime in my whole working life.
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Both sadly closed at the moment mate, and no signs of opening back up.I started an apprenticeship at Matthews & Yeats in Swinton 1975. There were 2 pubs next door to the factory, The Football and The Weavers Arms. 12.00hr Fridays most of the workers from the shop floor spent their 30min break guzzling 3 pints apiece. Lots of sweaty red faced fuckers doing jack shit on Friday afternoons. Management seemed to turn a blind eye. Wouldn't happen today mind. The factory and offices got bowled and Morrisons now sits on the site. The 2 pubs are still in operation.
Weavers was a great little pub in it's heyday, and when Boddies was a top pint!
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At least someone telling the truth about “working from home”Anyone still do it since covid. Pre covid could be as many as 20/30 of us from various departments such as IT, Finance, Events etc etc packing pubs near Hampton court for extended lunchtime pints. Last time I went into office on Friday and went there was no one. Since covid I try to work from home on a Friday and started chatting to a few in the local (only pub in the village) and it's now become a regular thing we meet at 1 for a few pints. All strangers pre covid now friends from different walks of life, various jobs who wouldn't have connected if not for working from home