Any Ladies Popping The Question?

I'm sure some will leap at the chance.

Best mon's speech will be interesting.

'Ladies get ready ... and you’d better not miss out, as it’s your last chance for another four years!'

One single day in four years for women. Every single other day for men.

I propose that is unfair.

Proper Cockernee knees-up

In't google great?

A song

Wedding breakfast


From here

(Have another Butchers - 'A song' is a knees-up, too.)

Just seen it as you typed.

(I recently watched the film, following Jarvo's thread.)

I'm trying to find a thread or photo page where WW members commented about how it was quite posh upstairs in The Clarence Hotel (Now Harry's bar). If memory serves, it was a cocktail lounge of sorts.

Oooo errr, that's one to make the Bride's Mother blush.

Owd Dave mentioned it

Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s dress designed by Hubert de Givenchy epitomized the standard for wearing little black dresses, accessorized with pearls, as was frequently seen throughout the early 1960s.

Cocktail dress

It was a cocktail bar in the late '80's/early '90's, too, wasn't it?

Seriously, wouldn't a girl worry he only said 'Yes!' because of ... the Reception.

I'd be more worried if that was HER motive for getting me in there in the first place.

You're right - it could be so for both parties.

Especially if she had a ring from Cash Converters about her person.

I was wondering if it's the woman who proposes would she have to buy an engagement ring.

I think all women should pop this 'question' on 29th February:

"Isn't it time that ironing was banned?"

At least the ring could go straight back to the 'pop shop'.

There's knowledge.

Enough with the ironing campaign, Jo Anne.

Pop goes the weasel

OK.

'pop shop' Knowledge indeed.

Or they could pop on t' 'net.

A wedding band.

Pop Goes The Weasel


Perhaps because of the obscure nature of the lyrics there have been many suggestions for their significance, particularly over the meaning of the phrase 'Pop! goes the weasel', including: that it is a tailor's flat iron, a hatter's tool, a clock reel used for measuring in spinning,[6] a piece of silver plate, or that 'weasel and stoat' is Cockney rhyming slang for 'coat', which is 'popped or pawned' to visit or after visiting the Eagle pub.



More irony.

Here

Here's a question.

Popshop.

Coat.

Wigan actor.

Name the film.

I have mentioned it before.

And the film featured an impending wedding.

Just to stick to topic.

(Audrey Hepburn was in My Fair Lady.) I'll have to ask - what is it?

Spring And Port Wine. (1970)

Ken Parry was the Pawnbroker.

The Dad's (James Mason) best overcoat was pawned.

Eldest daughter (Hannah Gordon) was about to marry.

Note 0:26

Another coincidence.

I've not seen the film, but have seen the play performed at Bolton's Octagon Theatre.

Is it Trencherfield Mill?

No.

The wheel in there (TM) is much bigger. 26 feet diameter.

I was just testing.

So is this mon

And... returning to topic

'The finest is probably the J & E Wood horizontal cross compound outside India mill, Darwen. This featured in the film Spring & Port wine with James Mason as a mill engineer with a troublesome daughter.' Here

Trencherfield Mill is also featured - 'Near to Ince-in-Makerfield.'

Stick to topic.

Harry (far left) and his bar, getting hammered.

21:42 - Do you think he's mistaken?

A Reception in those venues will be a hit with some.

The cylinder sizes don't seem to match, Jo Anne.

If anything, the left hand one looks smaller than the right (0:29) on the film. Unlike the picture where there is a marked difference.

Left cylinder much bigger

just to show the age of romance is'nt dead,it bloody well soon will be after the wedding.

I haven't found any relevant references - Spring & Port Wine engine - online so far.

'Papplewick Pumping Station' sounds wonderful.

See also Crossness.

Stick to topic.

Stick to topic



classic

Classic film: Spring and Port Wine (Tandem Topic )

Youtube 10:10 closing credits, filmed on Location in Bolton, Lancs and ... Studios, London.

www.reelstreets.com
Interesting site, but no mention of the Mill engine.

www.bolton.org.uk research:

"Locating parts of Bolton used for filming 'Spring and Port Wine'. So far Darcy Lever has been identified."

Tandem topic?

TANDEM TOPIC?

Deary me, expect complaints.

Unless you can get a link to a tandem-engine and a wedding reception.

I'll save your bacon, Jo Anne and mention 'Daisy Daisy' and her bicycle made for two.

One thing that I always think of when watching some street scenes in that film, is Fred Dibnah's Land Rover.

Hannah Gordon and her Fiance are filmed riding round in his work's open-topped Land Rover with a welding set in the back.

Sticking even more to topic:

'Davey Davey and his bicycle made for two.

Nice one.

I've just seen the TANDEM COMPOUND HORIZONTAL.

Sounds like a double bed.

Expect complaints.

Better return to topic.

A steam engine cylinder is no place for a tea party. Or is it? Some years ago British television reporters who visited the old waterworks at the Kew Bridge Steam Museum proved that it is indeed by climbing through the inlet valve of the Grand Junction steam engine to have a party on top of the piston.

I seem to remember that. Hence the google.

Here

Nice to see your got your clock fixed

There was another item somewhere about a much bigger recepiton in a boiler or something.

May have been the steam system in New York.

Clock

15:11 Weddings & *Naughton sprung to mind - www.boltonmuseums.org.uk

*mee-mawing ie speaking in dumb show - as mill girls (and Les Dawson) used to do. (WW Definition)

A steam engine cylinder is no place for a tea party. Or is it?

'Whilst the engine was being restored by museum staff and volunteers in 1976, presenters from the Blue Peter television programme climbed into the cylinder through the exhaust valve and held a tea party underneath the piston.'

So not quite tea in steam.

Though they might serve tea, I don't think a teetotal party would get the best reception here.

Getten brain ache.

I'm sure there are photographs of a tea party inside a vast boiler somewhere. The Grand Junction brew up was done as a reenactment of an earlier event, I think.

I bet if a reception on Wallgate consisted of a brew up, there would be a resultant bruise up.

Brew Peter and royalty: 'The top 30 children across the three age categories have been invited to a special tea party at Buckingham Palace next month to celebrate their achievements.'

(I can't find information on the vast boiler tea party so far.)

Turbine hall

It's 29th February tomorrow.

and it ain't happenin

My phone is going crazy!

now thats a brew