Can you remember July 1966?

Ed: Our thanks to Dave Martin and Waterways World magazine for this story and photograph of Audlem yesteryear

Can you remember July 1966?

This photograph appeared in August Waterways World magazine, in the story of a canal trip made by Max & Edna Holgate in July 1966. They were in a very basic hire-boat with a petrol engine, and needed to replenish their fuel supplies in Audlem, which was when the picture was taken.

The church clock shows it was 3:30pm, and a careful look at the pump shows it was 4/11 a gallon. Neither currency nor measure have survived the 50 years, and that price equates to 5p/litre!

The Lord C car park contains a Mini (the proper sort) and what looks like a Ford Prefect, and there is a Ford Anglia van in the road.

Two questions for folks who can remember those days:

• 1. Who is filling the petrol cans?
• 2. What are the ales advertised on the LordC walls? The big sign is obscured by the petrol pumps. There is a small sign on the end wall of the pub, but it's too indistinct to read. Those were the days! Dave Martin

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