You mentioned Alton Towers so I get to tell my story
My Nan ran a village pub in England for 26 years, when I was a little kid before we emigrated to Australia I used to spend a lot of time there, one of her regulars who really seemed to like my Nan was Mr Bagshaw, as a wee lad I used to sit on his knee while he drew little pictures of ducks tie me in the margin of his newspaper and snuck me little sips of his beer. One day he tried to land his helicopter in the car park to take me and my Nanna for a ride but something to do with power cables prevented him from landing.
He also used to give us free gold passes every year to his business…Alton Towers!
Me and my brother went there so often as kids (but too small to go on the corkscrew and other major rides) that we got more excited about going to McDonalds on the way home than Alton Towers itself after a while
The family story is that Mr Bagshaw had a crush on my Nan and if he hadn’t been married we might have had a chance at a very wealthy existence, but I’m pretty sure that’s wrong, I think he just liked having a proper village pub he could visit where everyone just treated him like another regular and not a rich guy
You mentioned Alton Towers so I get to tell my story
My Nan ran a village pub in England for 26 years, when I was a little kid before we emigrated to Australia I used to spend a lot of time there, one of her regulars who really seemed to like my Nan was Mr Bagshaw, as a wee lad I used to sit on his knee while he drew little pictures of ducks tie me in the margin of his newspaper and snuck me little sips of his beer. One day he tried to land his helicopter in the car park to take me and my Nanna for a ride but something to do with power cables prevented him from landing.
He also used to give us free gold passes every year to his business…Alton Towers!
Me and my brother went there so often as kids (but too small to go on the corkscrew and other major rides) that we got more excited about going to McDonalds on the way home than Alton Towers itself after a while
The family story is that Mr Bagshaw had a crush on my Nan and if he hadn’t been married we might have had a chance at a very wealthy existence, but I’m pretty sure that’s wrong, I think he just liked having a proper village pub he could visit where everyone just treated him like another regular and not a rich guy