title A Retirement: The Last Night of The Swan Inn, Brome, Suffolk - 3rd June 2017 intro After approximately 4,500 visits, 16,000 pints of beer, 20,000 wee stops in urinal number 1 (but only about 20 in number 3), 1,000 post-badminton Wednesday nights and maybe 1,500 spirit rounds since 1989, the Brome Swan - Nosher's local for almost all of adult life so far - calls time due to retirement. Nosher's been going there for around 28 years, but Alan and Sylvia have managed 33 years, six months, three weeks and three days - an epic stint for any job, but these days it's increasingly rare in the challenging world of the pub landlord. imgc6223 Big pots at the garden centre imgc6224 The boys mess around near cat-shaped pots imgc6227 A bee does its thing imgc6228 Isobel and Fred at Bressingham Garden Centre imgc6229 A field somewhere imgp9413 Fred points the way up the Oaksmere's drive imgp9414 Grandad and the gang wander up to the pub imgp9416 Harry peeps over the bar imgp9418 Fred at the bar imgp9420 Wavy's home-made teeshirt imgp9421 Wavy models the best tee-shirt ever imgp9422 Syvlia has found Wavy's 1990's "Angels of Abbot" imgp9423 Mick the Brick's coat hangs up, alone for now imgp9425 A crowd gathers at the bar imgp9427 John Willy talks about fish or something imgp9428 Alan does a retirement speech imgp9433 Spammy looks over imgp9436 Spammy gets a retirement gift after 27 years imgp9442 Spammy and Jean imgp9446 Spammy chats to Janice imgp9449 Neil looks shifty as he bunks out for a ciggy imgp9451 Pippa is in animated conversation imgp9453 Jill gets some cake in imgp9454 Suey, Marc, Benny and Uncle Mick imgp9456 More queueing at the buffet imgp9460 John Willy, Sylvia, Alan and Spammy imgp9468 Uncle Mick is on the Sprog table imgp9469 Apple, Pippa, Marc and Isobel imgp9470 Marc does some selfies imgp9473 Marc shows off his selfie imgp9475 Wavy's got a pint imgp9476 Marc does another selfie with Paul imgp9477 Marc and Apple imgp9478 Another selfie with Wavy and Rachel imgp9484 Mick the Brick comes through imgp9485 imgp9486 Mikey P is back on the blue WKD imgp9489 The "Saga" group imgp9490 Isobel and DH imgp9492 DH holds up a pint imgp9495 Nosher behind the bar imgp9498 The Saga group again imgp9501 Bernie shakes hands imgp9502 Roy Keane is still stuck to the ceiling imgp9503 The gang in the Swan imgp9504 Wavy looks at the old bottle collection imgp9507 Old bottles on the wall imgp9509 Mikey P is on the phone imgp9514 Mikey's got The Boy Phil on the blue WKD as well imgp9521 Bill's on the floor again, as usual imgp9523 Marc has a nap imgp9527 The gang imgp9534 The Boy Phil does the beer-mat-elbow thing imgp9536 imgp9538 Gov gives it a go imgp9545 An Adnam's beer mat floats over Alan's head imgp9546 Marc has a go imgp9553 The pub, lit up imgp9555 That's it: would the last one out turn off the lights