Martin Parr Yates's Wine Lodges. Although well priced in comparison to their competitors, these wine lodges acquired a distinctly dismal reputation with typical characteristics of a working class customer, eld (...)
erly and often female with overdone make-up. But the unspoilt, original wine lodges, with their high ceilings and bare floorboards, their pillars and rails for propping yourself upright, seem clearly designed for the determined and joyless business of taking the quickest route to oblivion. Peter Yates insisted that, in the interests of sobriety, food should be available throughout licensing hours and every lodge still boasts “something good to eat at any time of the day” (though it maybe often no more than the ubiquitous pork pie!). Newcastle. England. GB. 1983 © Martin Parr | Magnum Photos
Martin Parr GB. England. Liverpool. Great Charlotte St. Yates's Wine Lodges. Although well priced in comparison to their competitors, these wine lodges acquired a distinctly dismal reputation with typical char (...)
acteristics of a working class customer, elderly and often female with overdone make-up. But the unspoilt, original wine lodges, with their high ceilings and bare floorboards, their pillars and rails for propping yourself upright, seem clearly designed for the determined and joyless business of taking the quickest route to oblivion. Peter Yates insisted that, in the interests of sobriety, food should be available throughout licensing hours and every lodge still boasts “something good to eat at any time of the day” (though it maybe often no more than the ubiquitous pork pie!). 1983 © Martin Parr | Magnum Photos
Martin Parr GB. England. Bolton. Yates's Wine Lodges. Although well priced in comparison to their competitors, these wine lodges acquired a distinctly dismal reputation with typical characteristics of a workin (...)
g class customer, elderly and often female with overdone make-up. But the unspoilt, original wine lodges, with their high ceilings and bare floorboards, their pillars and rails for propping yourself upright, seem clearly designed for the determined and joyless business of taking the quickest route to oblivion. Peter Yates insisted that, in the interests of sobriety, food should be available throughout licensing hours and every lodge still boasts something good to eat at any time of the day, (though it maybe often no more than the ubiquitous pork pie!). 1982. © Martin Parr | Magnum Photos
Martin Parr GB. England. Newcastle. Yates's Wine Lodges. Although well priced in comparison to their competitors, these wine lodges acquired a distinctly dismal reputation with typical characteristics of a wor (...)
king class customer, elderly and often female with overdone make-up. But the unspoilt, original wine lodges, with their high ceilings and bare floorboards, their pillars and rails for propping yourself upright, seem clearly designed for the determined and joyless business of taking the quickest route to oblivion. Peter Yates insisted that, in the interests of sobriety, food should be available throughout licensing hours and every lodge still boasts something good to eat at any time of the day, (though it maybe often no more than the ubiquitous pork pie!). 1983. © Martin Parr | Magnum Photos
Martin Parr GB. England. Lincolnshire. The Haxey Hood.
Haxey Hood. Every year on 6th January, villagers in Westwoodside and Haxey dress up to compete for possession of ‘the Hood’. This 700-year tradition st (...)
arted when Lady de Mowbray was out riding and a sudden gust of wind blew her hat off. The local farm labourers chased after it. Lady de Mowbray, so pleased to get her hat back, handed out a few titles. The fool leads proceedings. 1975. © Martin Parr | Magnum Photos