Tan Hill landladies reunion

Tan Hill landladies reunion (shortened version)

Transcript

00:00Welcome to Tanhill Inn. I am Andrew Healds. I'm the owner of the Tanhill since 2018.

00:06And today we are here with the old previous landladies and we're just bringing them all

00:11together and have a great reunion and talk about all the history and all their very very fond

00:16memories. So we felt it's time to get everybody together and get everything documented, recorded

00:22in all the various formats of modern day and just really get their memories and all their history

00:28down on paper and into the archive. My name is Audrey Yeardley but when we lived at Tanhill

00:35I had my married name. We were Clifford and we moved here on October the 28th, 1961 and it was

00:45snowing. We were here for just under six years and for me it was a magic time. Very very challenging

00:51because it was back in the day when there were no facilities. We had Calagas lighting,

00:58we had coal fires obviously the traditional one and it was Calagas cooking. We had no electricity.

01:06In fact it was a year before we got a generator and it was an ex-war department one that we bought

01:12from mask and when we got that we were able to have an eight valve wireless which used to fire up and we

01:21used to listen to all the great music because this was the 60s. We had two young children,

01:29Marcus and Simon. We had a dog called Toby and we had a cat who produced three kittens. I called the

01:37mother cat mini vole strangler for some reason and we lived among the rats because it was so cold that

01:44the rats burrowed their way through the door and they lived in their little homes under the floorboards

01:51and you could hear them. I knew Tracy who'll come later this evening. I didn't know Sue so much

01:57but we've made we've become friends since because we've all got our stories to tell. Sadly Margaret

02:05Baines died just not so long ago and they were here for the longest time they were here for 20 years

02:12and Tracy beat our record and there were itinerants in between you know who for various reasons didn't

02:20stay the course. The common ground is Town Hill and we all have a great love for it. Well my name is Sue Hanson

02:29and I came as a manager and as a co-owner with my then husband in 78, 79 and 84, 85. It was

02:44um it was um it was quite extreme constantly busy they were very long days that went into early hours

02:54because there weren't that many licensing hours to speak of it it was a case of you worked until the

03:05last ones went home yeah and sometimes you'd beg them to go home because it was two in the morning. I used to get the yard brush

03:14and child's brush but no it's one of those very very special places. And like you when I bet you felt the

03:24same when that door opened you didn't know who was coming in it was a situation and you went with it

03:31and it was like you were in a movie and then they went out and another movie came through the door so

03:38it was brilliant wasn't it for yeah for making it up as you went along really