Fond memories of a vintage Mancunian tipple

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I very much look forward to visiting Martin Parr’s photography exhibition in Cardiff . His exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery earlier this year was superb (Interview, G2, 14 October). Warm monochrome photographs of Yates’s Wine Lodge in Ashton-under-Lyne brought back vivid memories of waiting in line to be served a blob, akin to a rite of passage for Mancunians of a certain vintage. This delightful concoction consisted of a lump of white sugar slowly dissolving in a glass of warmed Australian white wine. Of course, it was the 1970s.Beverley MasonCardiff

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