My Treasure – Mick Turner

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‘Bell from The Ship (pub), Green Street Green, Kent’ ‘I grew up living above a country pub called ‘The Ship’ in a hamlet called Green Street Green in Kent. My grandparents, and then my parents, owned the pub. Five minutes before closing time Grandad would ring this bell and call out in his loudest voice “Last orders, gentlemen, please! Last order”! At the actual closing time, he would ring the bell again and call out “Time, gentlemen, please! Time!” which was the sign for my Mum and Dad to put a cloth over the beer pumps. He did this right up until he died at the age of 86.” Story written by Mick Turner, originally from Kent, now living in Articlave and member of Causeway Yarnspinners