BTW 9 yds or 27 ft was the length of the ammunition belts feeding the guns in the WW1 string bags
Nope, they used drums of ammo.
9yds was WWII USAAF.
Agree on the Lemon barley water making a passible Cyp Brandy Sour but it has to be Robinson's, as you say.
L'sol Wine Festival Fountain usually had a packet of Daz lobbed into it ISTR.
Anyone remember Lofty's bar at the (then, 1969-72) west end of the Bypass. Twas my local for a couple of years.