NEWS FLASH...TRAMP ARRESTED WITH TORCH CREEPING AROUND TACASTER PUBS!!!!!

[beerman1]

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[bigjim]

Well it sounds daft enough to be true to me! Yet another amazing tale to add to the legend that is Samuel Smith Old Brewery (Tadcaster)! LOL

[sovsuppa]

I dont think anything in your post would be beyond him.

[DarkieBoy]

Has this been reported in the local newspapers? What is the newspaper for Tadcaster?

DB.

[DarkieBoy]

It never used to be bad in the good old days:

http://www.harrogateadvertiser.net/wetherby-local-people/Family-with-a-rich-history.4180688.jp

DB.

[DarkieBoy]

Someone I know who works for Samuel Smith's Old Brewery (Tadcaster) has told me that s/he has also heard this story, apart from the part that he was arrested (which I believe to be a bit extreme, as he would have probably been carrying ID).

DB.

[DarkieBoy]

It never used to be bad in the good old days:

http://www.harrogateadvertiser.net/wetherby-local-people/Family-with-a-rich-history.4180688.jp

DB.

 
A more recent local owner of a classic winner was the late Geoffrey Smith, who also resided at Oxton Hall and whose trainer the late Noel Murless saddled the racehorse Ridgewood to win the 1949 St Ledger. He was so delighted he visited all his Samuel Smith public houses on Ledger night and paid for drinks for his licensees and customers.
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No chance of Mr H doing that!   

I thought exactly the same.  Bateman's in Wainfleet have a get-together for their staff at the Windmill bar and visitor's centre with "free" beer and entertainment...several hundred turn up and it's a superb bash!  It helps to bond management and licensees and staff together...and the staff talk about the "Batemen's Bash" for weeks and months afterwards...it's good PR exercise and moral booster for the company...hat's off to Stuart Bateman.

DB.

[larry]

Someone I know who works for Samuel Smith's Old Brewery (Tadcaster) has told me that s/he has also heard this story, apart from the part that he was arrested (which I believe to be a bit extreme, as he would have probably been carrying ID).

DB.

Not too sure about that DB, he usually doesn't even carry money!!

[DarkieBoy]

Someone I know who works for Samuel Smith's Old Brewery (Tadcaster) has told me that s/he has also heard this story, apart from the part that he was arrested (which I believe to be a bit extreme, as he would have probably been carrying ID).

DB.

Not too sure about that DB, he usually doesn't even carry money!!

Quite possibly!

DB.

[ian]

I've been to a trade do (building) at Bateman's in the windmill, quite a few years ago and what a good do it was.

ian.

[ian]

I've been told that Humphrey comes into his bars, buys half a pint of OBB and sits down in a corner.  He sips his beer looking around the room, drinks up and leaves without telling the staff who he is.

ian.

[DarkieBoy]

I've been to a trade do (building) at Bateman's in the windmill, quite a few years ago and what a good do it was.

ian.

Well, we usually get a taxi and it's a round trip of 90 miles...and I've been more than once...if that's an indication of how good it is!

DB.

[DarkieBoy]

I've been told that Humphrey comes into his bars, buys half a pint of OBB and sits down in a corner.  He sips his beer looking around the room, drinks up and leaves without telling the staff who he is.

ian.

Doesn't surprise me.  But it is funny that the staff know who he is and he seems to think that they don't know him.

DB.

[sovsuppa]

I've been told that Humphrey comes into his bars, buys half a pint of OBB and sits down in a corner.  He sips his beer looking around the room, drinks up and leaves without telling the staff who he is.

ian.

Ian, When I first started with this company, and we had Area Managers, we were told that if Humphrey came in(we were given a very explicit description) we were not to acknowledge him, just serve him(with his half pint of OBB, which he duly paid for) and treat him as a normal customer.  He then usually walked around, looked in every room, stood listening for a while, then usually went to the toilet and left. Needless to say now we have no area managers I would have thought everyone would know him seeing that he is the only communication left.

[ian]

I've been told that Humphrey comes into his bars, buys half a pint of OBB and sits down in a corner.  He sips his beer looking around the room, drinks up and leaves without telling the staff who he is.

ian.

Ian, When I first started with this company, and we had Area Managers, we were told that if Humphrey came in(we were given a very explicit description) we were not to acknowledge him, just serve him(with his half pint of OBB, which he duly paid for) and treat him as a normal customer.  He then usually walked around, looked in every room, stood listening for a while, then usually went to the toilet and left. Needless to say now we have no area managers I would have thought everyone would know him seeing that he is the only communication left.

A bit back I was talking to a manager who as never seen him.  And they did not know that FoB had retired.  Talk about being kept in the dark. 

ian.