Originally Posted by sospan
I used to travel to our R&D in the Ballymena factory. If a Thursday then I joined the “Thursday Club” for a light lunch ( ?!🤭)
A Glutton burger and pint of Guinness. The burger was a full Ulster Fry breakfast in two slices of soda bread. Delicious. Filling. If flying back that afternoon the extra weight I was carrying extended the plane’s take off down the runway. Belfast City airport next to the Harland &Wolf cranes. Bumpy runway.



Yes very bumpy & not a fun place to visit in the late 70s, but also a wonderfull place. I remember selling a food processing machine to press scampi from monk fish to a fisherman on the quay side pub, shop & post office at Annalong in the summer sun drinking Guiness & Blackbush chasers with the mountains of Mourne in the back ground.

Our service agent had a house on Starangford Lough with a view to die for.

I'm so glad that peace now prevails there.

JohnV6
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