I think the beer comment was about Mansfield brewery beer which was shocking. Hull Brewery was alright.
Ah, I see. Not sure if I've ever had a Mansfield brewery product. Moved to Leeds in '65 and started drinking Tetleys and John Smiths. Never found a pub in Leeds & district that sold Hull Brewery stuff, I don't think anyway.
There was a cartoon doing the rounds at the time of the takeover picturing a horse drinking out of a bucket with Hull Brewery on it, at the same time pissing into a bucket with Mansfield Breweries on it.
I remember as a kid regularly drinking this... please log in to view this image Then years later my business moved into a new building in North London and it turned out it used to be the Long Life distribution warehouse.
The estuary is where it joins the sea. If Hull has a coast on that basis the Thames Estuary means London has a coast, as does Cologne as the Rhine flows into the sea via an estuary. Any evidence yet of buildings collapsing and sliding into the sea as a result of coastal erosion yet? Surprised Hull council hasn’t complained they aren’t included in the coastal walks.
es·tu·ar·y (ĕs′cho͞o-ĕr′ē) n. pl. es·tu·ar·ies 1. The part of the wide lower course of a river where its current is met by the tides. 2. An arm of the sea that extends inland to meet the mouth of a river. The land where Hull currently exists may well have been on the coast (i.e. situated on the sea) way back in geological time. There may well not have been a settlement of humans at that time, thus not called Hull. Spurn Point etc wasn't on the coast at that time in geological history.
London's on the River Thames, not in the Thames Estuary, though there are plenty of seaside towns on the Thames Estuary, Southend on Sea, Canvey Island etc.
