Why Is "Three Nuns" So Named?

[condorlover1]

If you went a little further down the road to Mile End there was piece of political graffiti on the wall by the Underground Station that said 'Mosley or Slump' with the fascist lighting flash in a circle symbol that was a reference to the pre war fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley. Under the slogan someone had painted 'Slump Please!' which I thought was pretty funny.

 

[timelord]

If you went a little further down the road to Mile End there was piece of political graffiti on the wall by the Underground Station that said 'Mosley or Slump' with the fascist lighting flash in a circle symbol that was a reference to the pre war fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley. Under the slogan someone had painted 'Slump Please!' which I thought was pretty funny.

That's not a long way from Cable St where the 'Battle of Cable St' when Mosley and his supporters tried to march through a Jewish and Irish neighbourhood but were repelled... ...this mural commemorates it (I used to live about a 4 minute walk from this spot!):

 

[Country Bladesmith]

That's not a long way from Cable St where the 'Battle of Cable St' when Mosley and his supporters tried to march through a Jewish and Irish neighbourhood but were repelled... ...this mural commemorates it (I used to live about a 4 minute walk from this spot!):


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That’s pretty neat. The mural that is. Sadly I have to concede that my introduction to this facet of English history only came recently, after watching Peaky Blinders, of all things, in which Mosley is featured in season 5. I didn’t even know he was a real person until I looked him up after watching the show. If I had a dunce cap, I’d put it on now. ?‍

 

[Chasing Embers]

Would you smoke a tobacco named 3 whores ?

I've never been interested in 3 Nuns but if a blend called 3 Whores was real, I'd buy a couple of pounds for the name alone.

Tin art.?

 

[Country Bladesmith]

I've never been interested in 3 Nuns but if a blend called 3 Whores was real, I'd buy a couple of pounds for the name alone.

Tin art.?

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You’d have to wax it before you smoked it. And then register yourself at the Center for Disease Control afterwards. Too much work!

 

[Chasing Embers]

You’d have to wax it before you smoked it. And then register yourself at the Center for Disease Control afterwards. Too much work!

Would have to smoke it in a Chris Ass-width pipe with and extra wide chamber.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Would you smoke a tobacco named 3 whores ?

absolutley.

 

[condorlover1]

I met Mosley in the flesh. He died in 1980 in France. I had an Uncle who was into all things 'foreign' as the Father would say who was an ardent follower of his before WW2 and used to go to the reunions in the late 1970s and I was dragged along as a young un. Mosley was a big fellow with very piecing eyes who seemed to be treated like a god by all the old guys who would turn up at these get togethers usually at some hotel in Victoria London.

 

[workman]

I met Mosley in the flesh. He died in 1980 in France. I had an Uncle who was into all things 'foreign' as the Father would say who was an ardent follower of his before WW2 and used to go to the reunions in the late 1970s and I was dragged along as a young un. Mosley was a big fellow with very piecing eyes who seemed to be treated like a god by all the old guys who would turn up at these get togethers usually at some hotel in Victoria London.

Apparently one of his weddings took place at herr Goebbels' house in Berlin with the attendance of local dignitaries, including Hitler.

 

[condorlover1]

Could have been a great Prime Minister if he had stuck with the Labour Party instead of going off into the crazy politics of the 1930s. P J Woodhouse did a pretty good piss take of him as Spode the leader of the Blaskshort Movement..

 

[weezell]

You’d have to wax it before you smoked it. And then register yourself at the Center for Disease Control afterwards. Too much work!

And scrub with a wire brush to get the stink off...

 

[B_Rock]

Imagination (mine anyway).....

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I went to Catholic schools for 12 years...the nuns that taught me didn't look anything like that!

 

[Country Bladesmith]

I went to Catholic schools for 12 years...the nuns that taught me didn't look anything like that!

Yep. Been Catholic my whole life. She was never in mass!

 

[greeneyes]

As for a link between the Bells of Glasgow and those you found at the hotel in London, I'm not sure. IF there is one I haven't found it, and it must go back very far indeed.

I wonder, then, the source of inspiration for the name. I thought the coincidence a little glaring: a Bell, proprietor of the Three Nuns Inn. I have a feeling this information may never have made it to paper.

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

If you went a little further down the road to Mile End there was piece of political graffiti on the wall by the Underground Station that said 'Mosley or Slump' with the fascist lighting flash in a circle symbol that was a reference to the pre war fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley. Under the slogan someone had painted 'Slump Please!' which I thought was pretty funny.

I saw a TV mini series about Mosley, it was pretty good, he was an interesting character. Not my cup of tea politically speaking, but his life was certainly eventful.

His son is Max Mosley. The guy who used to help run Formula 1 with Bernie Eccleston. I remember the papers did a story on him having an orgy with prostitutes dressed up in Nazi gear?. I'm sure his old man would've approved.

 

[jguss]

I wonder, then, the source of inspiration for the name. I thought the coincidence a little glaring: a Bell, proprietor of the Three Nuns Inn. I have a feeling this information may never have made it to paper.

Good question. If the name did somehow arise from the hotel it might be for another reason entirely. Or the whole idea could be wrong.

I did say it was a dim recollection. I could have said that a link between the hotel and the tobacco rang a Bell. <rim shot>

 

[redrooster1977]

Well... ...I used to drink a beer from an Australian microbrewery called "Devil's Daughters" so I guess I might.

I probably would too.....

 

[redrooster1977]

I THINK MY DAD ORDERED A TIN OF THIS FROM THE BACK OF A 1970S HUSTLER MAGAZINE

I was hoping BROBS would happen along...

 

[mso489]

Three Comely Sex Workers, an aromatic.

 

[Country Bladesmith]

Three Comely Sex Workers, an aromatic.

Room note: overwhelming