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SATURDAY MADHOUSE AT THE BELL INN Tales from Ivy House, New Bolingbroke, 1974

July 11, 2022 • Richard Keith Sanders

Then just as suddenly it was all over and relative peace and quite reigned until the next group of buses from another large part of the midlands would descend on that modern “oasis” and it would all begin again.

We admit to finding good reason to quit the scene rapidly. It was truly a mad house every Saturday Morning in those months that folk from the huge midlands towns and cities took their holidays on the Lincolnshire coast.

This was how Hylda made a large proportion of her living. Of course there was substantial beer sales to bus passengers as well as the sandwiches and tea.

Local trade for a pub stuck out in a tiny hamlet in the countryside was negligible. Hylda was a good cook and providing meals to paying clients must have been part of her regular trade too.

One other result of all this summer time invasion was satisfying the VAT man!

I do remember distinctly Hylda remonstrating in her usual way about how the VAT inspectors wanted her to work out how many breakfasts she provided free of charge to the bus drivers who brought their passengers to stop at the pub.

They expected her to pay the VAT on those breakfasts even though they had been provided at no charge!

She was typically furious and it was not a good idea to pay a visit close to any time the VAT man had also been calling, as this was not the only “weeze” that they thought up to get more income from hard working folk like Hylda.

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