Quote from Manchester evening news when they dropped the "wine lodge" name :
"The first Yates's Wine Lodge was set up by Peter Yates in the Angel pub on Oldham High Street in 1884 and within twenty years there were nearly 20 lodges around Lancashire.
In 1920 the company bought farm land in Cheshire and raised a herd of Hereford beef cattle. The meat was sold at Yates's Butchers shops in Blackpool and Manchester, as well as in some of the larger Wine Lodges.
During World War II the company became the first company in Britain to import Australian wine. It also became known as the "Blob shop" for selling the "blob" - its own mix of fortified white wine, hot water, sugar lemon."
The difference frum a pub, certainly in the early days, was that they specialised in wine, much of it , and certainly the more gut-rotting varieties, on tap, often from large barrels. They sold a large variety when many pubs only sold a sweet sherry if you didn't want beer or spirits.
Mike
"The first Yates's Wine Lodge was set up by Peter Yates in the Angel pub on Oldham High Street in 1884 and within twenty years there were nearly 20 lodges around Lancashire.
In 1920 the company bought farm land in Cheshire and raised a herd of Hereford beef cattle. The meat was sold at Yates's Butchers shops in Blackpool and Manchester, as well as in some of the larger Wine Lodges.
During World War II the company became the first company in Britain to import Australian wine. It also became known as the "Blob shop" for selling the "blob" - its own mix of fortified white wine, hot water, sugar lemon."
The difference frum a pub, certainly in the early days, was that they specialised in wine, much of it , and certainly the more gut-rotting varieties, on tap, often from large barrels. They sold a large variety when many pubs only sold a sweet sherry if you didn't want beer or spirits.
Mike
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