Originally Posted by
PhilipG
I googled "Aintree Iron" and found this:
AS I actually wrote "Thank U very much for the Aintree Iron" for Scaffold, I trust that I'm the best judge as to the authenticity of your readers' answers. Stephen Bold says that he once heard me define the Aintree Iron as "iron hoof: poof", ie Brian Epstein, "a resident of Aintree". I suggest he buys a hearing aid! I have never commented on Brian's sexuality, and I could never have said that he was a resident of Aintree, as he didn't live there. As for Neil Burgess, who says the Iron was a railway "gravitational marshalling yard" . . . what a load of grid iron! Sorry, Neil, you're light aeons away. As it's now coming up to 30 years since I created this mischievous little monster, I'd like to thank U all very much for your continuing curiosity, and look forward to the next 30 years of miles-off guesswork.
Mike McCartney, (ex-McGear, ex-Scaffold), Liverpool
I'm pretty sure he meant the Aintree gas iron. The Aintree iron, as people called items by the brand name - Hoover for vacuum cleaner, Kleenex for tissues, so an Aintree iron. I'm sure he and Paul McCartney ironed their shirts and pants with one. Aintree also made over the sink gas water heaters, with Aintree written on a chrome badge on the case. Aintree were not a big company and never sold that many appliances.
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I bet he was shocked that few identified what an Aintree iron was, and were asking what it was.
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