Big pots at the garden centre
A Retirement: The Last Night of The Swan Inn, Brome, Suffolk - 3rd June 2017
After approximately 4,500 visits, 16,000 pints of beer, 20,000 wee stops in urinal number 1 (but only about 20 in number 3), 1,000 post-badminton Wednesday nights and maybe 1,500 spirit rounds since 1989, the Brome Swan - Nosher's local for almost all of adult life so far - calls time due to retirement. Nosher's been going there for around 28 years, but Alan and Sylvia have managed 33 years, six months, three weeks and three days - an epic stint for any job, but these days it's increasingly rare in the challenging world of the pub landlord.
next album: The BSCC at the Mellis Railway and The Swan, Brome, Suffolk - 8th June 2017
previous album: The BSCC Rides to the Six Bells, Gislingham, Suffolk - 1st June 2017
The boys mess around near cat-shaped pots
A bee does its thing
Isobel and Fred at Bressingham Garden Centre
A field somewhere
Fred points the way up the Oaksmere's drive
Grandad and the gang wander up to the pub
Harry peeps over the bar
Fred at the bar
Wavy's home-made teeshirt
Wavy models the best tee-shirt ever
Syvlia has found Wavy's 1990's 'Angels of Abbot'
Mick the Brick's coat hangs up, alone for now
A crowd gathers at the bar
John Willy talks about fish or something
Alan does a retirement speech
Spammy looks over
Spammy gets a retirement gift after 27 years
Spammy chats to Janice
Neil looks shifty as he bunks out for a ciggy
Pippa is in animated conversation
Jill gets some cake in
Suey, Marc, Benny and Uncle Mick
More queueing at the buffet
John Willy, Sylvia, Alan and Spammy
Uncle Mick is on the Sprog table
Apple, Pippa, Marc and Isobel
Marc does some selfies
Wavy's got a pint
Marc does another selfie with Paul
Marc and Apple
Another selfie with Wavy and Rachel
Mick the Brick comes through
Mikey P is back on the blue WKD
The 'Saga' group
Isobel and DH
DH holds up a pint
Nosher behind the bar
The Saga group again
Bernie shakes hands
Roy Keane is still stuck to the ceiling
The gang in the Swan
Wavy looks at the old bottle collection
Old bottles on the wall
Mikey P is on the phone
Mikey's got The Boy Phil on the blue WKD as well
Bill's on the floor again, as usual
Marc has a nap
The gang
The Boy Phil does the beer-mat-elbow thing
Gov gives it a go
An Adnam's beer mat floats over Alan's head
Marc has a go
The pub, lit up
That's it: would the last one out turn off the lights
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Big pots at the garden centre
Big pots at the garden centre
The boys mess around near cat-shaped pots
A bee does its thing
Isobel and Fred at Bressingham Garden Centre
A field somewhere
Fred points the way up the Oaksmere's drive
Grandad and the gang wander up to the pub
Harry peeps over the bar
Fred at the bar
Wavy's home-made teeshirt
Wavy models the best tee-shirt ever
Syvlia has found Wavy's 1990's 'Angels of Abbot'
Mick the Brick's coat hangs up, alone for now
A crowd gathers at the bar
John Willy talks about fish or something
Alan does a retirement speech
Spammy looks over
Spammy gets a retirement gift after 27 years
Spammy chats to Janice
Neil looks shifty as he bunks out for a ciggy
Pippa is in animated conversation
Jill gets some cake in
Suey, Marc, Benny and Uncle Mick
More queueing at the buffet
John Willy, Sylvia, Alan and Spammy
Uncle Mick is on the Sprog table
Apple, Pippa, Marc and Isobel
Marc does some selfies
Wavy's got a pint
Marc does another selfie with Paul
Marc and Apple
Another selfie with Wavy and Rachel
Mick the Brick comes through
Mikey P is back on the blue WKD
The 'Saga' group
Isobel and DH
DH holds up a pint
Nosher behind the bar
The Saga group again
Bernie shakes hands
Roy Keane is still stuck to the ceiling
The gang in the Swan
Wavy looks at the old bottle collection
Old bottles on the wall
Mikey P is on the phone
Mikey's got The Boy Phil on the blue WKD as well
Bill's on the floor again, as usual
Marc has a nap
The gang
The Boy Phil does the beer-mat-elbow thing
Gov gives it a go
An Adnam's beer mat floats over Alan's head
Marc has a go
The pub, lit up
That's it: would the last one out turn off the lights