If You Could Visit any Pipe Shop...

[SmokeyJock]

I got a job in Perth (railway, track and drainage engineering). I did drop into Rattray's on occasion, but mostly for unusual cigarettes like Sobranie Black Russian, Sobranie Cocktail and Sullivan Private Stock.

big respect to the RMT!

 

[BingBong]

big respect to the RMT!

Ah, I didn't qualify for RMT, or ASLEF obviously. No, I was in TSSA who were "meek", I would say.

 

[SmokeyJock]

Ah, I didn't qualify for RMT, or ASLEF obviously. No, I was in TSSA who were "meek", I would say.

nothing worse than a meek union, I've probably been on many train journeys that will have benefited from your work back then

 

[BingBong]

nothing worse than a meek union, I've probably been on many train journeys that will have benefited from your work back then

Ah, most of the projects went ok. I had one at Longforgan that was a shocker though lol.

A mishandled JCB or a poorly marked signalling trunk... every signal between Perth and Aberdeen went to red, they say....

 

[SmokeyJock]

Ah, most of the projects went ok. I had one at Longforgan that was a shocker though lol.

A mishandled JCB or a poorly marked signalling trunk... every signal between Perth and Aberdeen went to red, they say....

a friend and I made an enemy of a Longforgan farmer when we were younger, we used to roll his haybales down to the burn and sit on them and ride them downstream until they'd get stuck, then go back and repeat... we may have partially flooded one of his fields

 

[JoburgB2]

I found some photos of the interior of the shop and the blending room on the Perth museum archive website

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Well done tracking down those photos for us all Smokeyjock! Great stuff!

 

[JoburgB2]

I got a job in Perth (railway, track and drainage engineering). I did drop into Rattray's on occasion, but mostly for unusual cigarettes like Sobranie Black Russian, Sobranie Cocktail and Sullivan Private Stock.

I used to purchase packets of Sobranie Cocktail for my missus for parties and social events, dinner dances and the like.

 

[PapaCoolDown]

I will now have to plan family vacations around this list of fabulous shops. Don’t tell the kids I have ulterior motives to taking them Europe. Haha.

 

[woodsroad]

I found some photos of the interior of the shop and the blending room on the Perth museum archive website

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It’s so interesting to see these old photos. They were made on a view camera, where the image is backwards and upside down on the ground glass. That screws with people’s inate sense of composition, and you end up with a photo showing a lot of ceiling, instead of foreground!

 

[Terry Lennox]

I was lucky enough to be around to see Kramer's pipe shop in Beverly Hills, Barclay Rex in New York, the original Nat Sherman on Fifth Avenue, and Arnold's Tobacco Shop on Madison Avenue. All now gone.

 

[tabakpfeife]

I am fortunate to live near Peretti's and Watch City and am in the latter often. I would like to visit Country Squire as I have never been before. It's also been a long time since I have been in Iwan Ries.

 

[HeavyLeadBelly]

Chiming in a bit late but I love stopping by Uhles here in Milwaukee but I’ve always wanted to get down to Chicago to Iwan Ries and check the store out. I was going to do that this summer by taking a train down but I got caught up in things so here’s to hoping for a Chicago adventure in 2025.

 

[daveinlax]

I would like to visit and set a spell with Jon David and Quinn at the Country Squire some time soon. Lots of shops in Europe like Novelli Corti Noli Al Pascia Peter Heinrich’s and The Danish Pipe Shop would be great but for the long flight over.

 

[WVOldFart]

I would like to go to Iwan Ries in Chicago and Milan Tobacconist in Roanoke, Va.