Friday, February 26, 2010

Some odd history for a Friday…

There is an old Hotel/Pub in Marble Arch, London ...

Odd history Pub house

....which used to have gallows adjacent. Prisoners were taken to the gallows (after a fair trial of course) to be hung.

The horse drawn dray, carting the prisoner was accompanied by an armed guard, who would stop the dray outside the pub and ask the prisoner if he would like ''ONE LAST DRINK''.

If he said YES it was referred to as “ONE FOR THE ROAD.”

If he declined, that prisoner waTwo cavalry soldierss “ON THE WAGON.”

old wagon pic

So there you go...!

More...

They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot & then once a day it was taken and sold to the tannery.

 If you had to do this to survive you were "Piss Poor". 

 But worse than that were the really poor folk who couldn’t even afford to buy a pot they "Didn’t have a pot to Piss in" & were the lowest of the low.

cups

And that's the truth...Now, whoever said History was boring !

 Thanks for sending me this Bill Cummings!

 Have a great weekend.

 

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