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The dimpled pint glass or jug nearly disappeared from pubs a decade ago. Now this symbol of the British pub is back.

Travel back in time for a moment. Visit in your mind the fictional British pubs of the 1980s - the Woolpack in Emmerdale, the Rovers Return in Coronation Street. Someone orders a pint of bitter at the bar. What is it served in?

A glass tankard. With handle. And distinctive dimples. To some, they resembled a sort of glass grenade. You might call it a pint pot. Or a jug.

This was the traditional pint glass of yore. But in the 2000s, it came close to extinction. In 2001, Ravenhead Glass in St Helens - the last factory to make the old-style glass - closed.

A fixture in British pubs since the 1920s, the dimpled glass had been challenged by straight glasses - the conical, the nonic and the tulip. As lager conquered bitter in the 1970s and 1980s, it somehow seemed more appropriate in a straighter glass.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27188915

Is that right Mo

It is Ann, just one little thing to make it perfect is the url to the story.

I am well chuffed with what you have achieved Ann.

go to the site you got story and copy the url, if you paste it on here I'll add it so you can see what I mean.

I like the glass post  ju098

wow, this is great - for Miss Pears, - the tryer of the week xxxx

Ann,
I put the url in for you, so you will see what we mean, but don't tell Mo, I did it.  sp0 sp0

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Bill can't use the modern schooner glasses, as he can't  grip them & they end up on the floor

Well deserved trophy  va++++ va++++ va++++ va++++

I did think should i have put the url  on

thanks for the cup Wendy

from now on, you will find it ever so easy, and you will be perfect remembering it all
I keep looking at your post, it has made me ever so happy. o904

Maureen has done very well