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Smoking does affect your throat!!
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This photo is humuorous and tragic...
In the past doctors and the community in general accepted that smoking was good for you. How times have changed.
This old advertising sign is on the Six Bells pub in Chiddingly in East Sussex. Chiddingly is mentioned in the Domesday Book and there is a plaque [on the wall of Pilgrim’s] at the local church dated 1087-1987.
The Six Bells was built in the 1730s on what was once the busy main track from London to Eastbourne. This well known inn was a staging post to revive weary stagecoach travelers.
Today, this is a quiet and peaceful backwater. Or is it?
The last woman to be hanged in public in 1852 was Mary (of Sarah) French from Chiddingly. The story is that Mary (Sarah) met a young fellow she liked, but that she wasn't too keen on her husband. In an effort to find happiness, she poisoned her husband by giving him an onion pie laced with arsenic poison. She was hanged in Lewes Prison before a crowd of three thousand people.
It is said the spectre of Sara French has been seen at the pub, due to the fact that the Jury sitting at the trial of the 'Onion Pie Murder; sat in the top bar whilst deliberating their verdict. |
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Great capture Garry - as you say both funny and tragic. I remember seeing an old ad for Craven A recently as well that was similarly so - a woman thanking a man for introducing her to the brand cos "they don't hurt my throat". What a gentleman he was!
I'm surprised in our current "nanny" state that this sign hasn't had to be taken down ;-)
TFS. Leon.
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