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JEVER STEAM LAUNDRY NOSTALGIA REUNION
Friday 12 Feb 10
12 noon to 1500 hrs
DIRTY DICK'S
202 Bishopsgate, City of London, London, EC2M 4NR
Telephone: 020 7283 5888.
(Round the corner from Liverpool Street Station).
Jever Steam laundry Founders' Supper at Dirty Dick's - believed to be 1957.
Lots of shareholders used to meet at Dirty Dick's on Sunday evening before catching the boat train from Liverpool Street Station, just round the corner, and then travelling overnight by ferry from Harwich to the Hook of Holland and the Blue Train to Jever in time for flying on Mondays.
Pete Jarvis explains this long overdue reunion thus:
"Responding to your last e-mail I have made a further visit to Dirty Dick's and am pleased to report that the lunch menu is still of a very good standard and that a group meeting there would be welcomed by a very enthusiastic management team. The cellar bar, of abiding memories, would be allocated exclusively to us for wining and dining.
I have provisionally arranged a booking of the cellar bar for Friday, 12th February, 2010 from 12 noon to 3 pm and would be looking to field a tem of 30 or so. The visit is based upon the need to indulge our continuing feelings of nostalgia for "The Good Ole Days" without experiencing the "Bad Bits" such as enduring the North Sea crossing from Harwich to Hook on a seriously blustery night.
Dirty Dick's website offers a comprehensive view of it's traditional facilities and should be a good place to launch a short tour of an interesting part of our great metro-police. But that's just a sop to the intelligentsia! I just like a pint in convivial company and surroundings.
Try: Link to Dirty Dick's Web Site It's a Young's pub!
Examples from their Menu:
PLATTERS to share
Miniature Pie Platter
Selection of Young's pies with chutney and chips £10.95
BBQ Board
BBQ chicken wings, baby pork ribs, potato wedges, sour cream, corn on the cob and tomato relish £10.95
SNACKS & STARTERS
Bread Selection served with olive oil, balsamic vinegar and butter (v) (n) Starter: £2.00 for one, Main: £4.50 to share
Pitta Bread with Hummus (v) £2.50
Bowl of Marinated Olives (v) £2.50
Homemade Soup with crusty bread £3.50
Potted Red Mullet and Brown Shrimps, smoked paprika butter and melba toast £4.95
Spicy Crispy Squid with roasted garlic mayonnaise £4.95
Smoked Mackerel, Potato & Egg Fish Cake (Our very own Award Winning fishcake, created by the Head Chef of the Alma, Wandsworth) Served on a bed of wilted spinach, lemon and parsley butter sauce. Starter: £5.75, Main: £9.25
Winter Crunchy Apple, Walnuts and Stilton Salad (v) (n) £5.25
BAKED POTATOES with a choice of one filling £4.50, each additional filling mature Cheddar cheese, sour cream and chive, chilli, British ham or baked beans £1.00
SANDWICHES AND WRAPS
On hand cut malted or white farmhouse bread add a handful of chips for £1.00 or a portion for £2.00
Free Range Cumberland Pork Sausage with caramelised onion £4.25
Chicken Club with West Country chargrilled chicken, crispy bacon, layered with salad and light mayonnaise £5.95
Steak Sandwich 4oz steak and caramelised red onions, served open £6.95
Roasted Vegetable & Goat's Cheese Wrap with basil and pine nut dressing (v) (n) £3.95
Chicken & Sweet Chilli Wrap grilled chicken, and sweet chilli sauce with mixed leaves in a soft wrap £4.50
COLD
British Ham with sliced tomato and lettuce £4.25
Mature Cheddar Cheese and real ale chutney (v) £3.95
MAINS
Venison Burger 6oz of seasoned Scottish Highland venison with roast tomato and apple chutney £8.95
Classic Fish Pie with mashed potato topping & winter vegetables £8.95
Roast Beetroot and Shallot Tart with watercress salad and grape chutney (v) £8.75
Chicken Tikka Masala Tender chunky pieces of roasted chicken in a medium spiced sauce of yoghurt, cream and tomatoes served with Kashmiri pilau rice and naan bread (n) £9.50
OR
Sweet Potato Curry chunky sweet potatoes tossed in a rich, smooth coconut flavoured sauce served with chick peas, spinach, Kashmiri pilau rice and naan bread (v) (n) £9.25
Venison and Red Wine Casserole Made with Scottish Highland venison served with a spring onion mash and sauteed peppers £9.75
OUR CLASSICS
Fish in Young's Beer Batter with chips and mushy peas £8.95
Bangers & Mash Choice of Young's 'Special' London Banger made with Young's Special Bitter or Free Range Cumberland sausage both served with red onion gravy £7.95
8oz Exmoor 21 day aged Beef Burger served in a soft flour bun with red onion relish and chips £7.95 (Plain) or £8.95 (Bacon/cheese)
YOUNG'S OWN FAMOUS PIES
Steak and Ale made with chunks of beef and Young's Bitter Served with buttery mash & seasonal vegetables £9.50
Chicken, Leek & Ham Served with buttery mash & seasonal vegetables £9.50
SIDES & SAUCES
Mashed Potato - Seasonal Vegetables - Chips - Potato Wedges - Mixed Salad - Garlic Bread Peppercorn Sauce - Bearnaise Sauce £2.00 each
DESSERTS
served with cream or ice cream
Sticky Toffee Pudding £4.75
Bread and Butter Pudding £4.75
Fruits of the Forest Berry Crumble £4.75
Selection of Beechdean Dairy Ice Cream £4.25
Selection of British Cheese served with real ale chutney and biscuits £6.50
At Young's we take pride in our food and include the best of British ingredients. Our beef is selected from the Quantock Hills in Somerset and in and around the Exmoor National Park; in fact all our meat and poultry are sourced from the West Country; our venison from the Highlands of Scotland and our pork is Free Range. Where possible, we use British fruit and vegetables, although from time to time the weather forces us to substitute the best of British with produce from abroad.
HISTORY OF 'DIRTY DICK'S
Opposite Liverpool Street Station, on Bishopsgate, is Dirty Dick's, an historic city pub, which takes its name from the dirty Warehouse on Leadenhall Street.
Before the beginning of the 19th century, the pub was called the Old Jerusalem, but the owners transferred the name and the story from the warehouse because it was too good and too famous a name to let die.
The original Dirty Dick, was Richard, or some say Nathanial, Bentley, a prosperous city merchant living in the middle of the 18th century, who owned a hardware shop and warehouse, and it said to be the inspiration for Miss Havisham in Dickens' Great Expectations.
Bentley had been quite a dandy in his youth, but following the death of is fiancee, he refused to clear up or clean anything.
His house, shop and warehouse became so filthy that he became a celebrity of dirt. Any letter addressed to The Dirty Warehouse, London, would be delivered to Bentley. He stopped trading in 1804 and died in 1809. The warehouse was later demolished.
The pub that perpetuates the name and legend was described thus in 1866: "A small public house or rather a tap of a wholesale wine and spirit business"..."a warehouse or barn without floorboards; a low ceiling, with cobwebs festoons dangling from the black rafters; a pewter, bar battered and dirty, floating with beer, numberless gas pipes tied anyhow along the struts and posts to conduct the spirits from the barrels to the taps; sample phials and labelled bottles of wine and spirits on shelves - everything covered with virgin dust and cobwebs."
It seems that successive owners of the Bishopsgate Distillery and its tap capitalised on the legend. By the end of the 19th century, its owner, a public house company called William Barker's (D.D) Ltd, was producing commemorative booklets and promotional material to advertise the pub.
For years it kept the cobwebs, dead cats and other disgusting things in the cellar bar, but these have now been tidied a to a glass display case.
Set over three levels, this idiosyncratic, deeply traditional pub is crammed full of strange and wonderful artefacts, which will keep you engrossed for hours.
LIST OF THOSE WHO ARE POTENTIAL ATTENDEES AT
JSL NOSTALGIA REUNION - FRI 12 FEB 10
- Pat King - President
- Audrey King
- Ted Bywater
- Barry Dale
- Mary Dale
- Gil Gray
- Beryl Gray
- Pete Jarvis
- Pete Jennings
- Mick Ryan - Web Master
- Jo Ryan
- Kenneth Sambrooks
8 + 4 ladies = 12 total
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