the town s civic society had the idea of making commemorative salt and pepper pots for the town s bicentenary. but the answer to which of goole s towers was which needed shaking out. we were discussing this and we said, right, which one is which, then? because obviously salt has one hole and pepper has more than one hole. the first tower was built in 1885 and, when goole grew, the bigger water tower was needed. seen here being built in 1926, the builders even had a quick way down. we filmed its restoration ten years ago. pauljarvis used to look after the towers when he worked for yorkshire water. we had pumps in there and they were failing and if i remember rightly all we had was a 6 inch scaffold pole and we used to have this thing to run again and go and get water again. what do you think about all these people who say, well, the salt pot when you go to a cafe is always the tall thin one, and the pepper one has got more
holes on the top so it s the big fat one? i don t think it matters. literally. because that is the pepper pot and the pepper pot has one hole in the top and it s thin, and the salt pot has several holes in the top so it has to be bigger. well, let s try and settle this once and for all in the shadow of the towers. this is gail s cafe. gail, show me the salt and pepper pots. there you go. which one is which out there? white salt, brown pepper. white is the pepper and brown the salt. the salt maybe is the first and the pepper is maybe on the back. salt is white so it should be the white one. pepper is red so it s the red one. easy. does it matter? well, it seems to. more than 300 people voted at a park fun day this weekend and there has been a whole raft of comedy memes online. so let s go back to a man who should know.
i don t know when the debate started. i m 70 years old now and it s always been pepper pot, salt pot. it is a spicy debate, perhaps best taken with a pinch of salt. philip norton, bbc news. now it s time for a look at the weather with ben rich. hello there. for a time this week the weather is set to feel a little bit more summer like than it has of late. already looking like summer for this weather watcher in hertfordshire. we are going to see some drier and warmer weather developing this week, but perhaps only for a short time. 0n the satellite picture you can see this big swirl of cloud, a potent storm system currently battering parts of northern europe. that s going to get a little bit closer, close enough to strengthen the winds across the far north east of scotland, particularly shetland. quite windy here over the next few days. then, at the other end of the uk, we ve got this zone of cloud
ten years ago. pauljarvis used to look after the towers when he worked for yorkshire water. we had pumps in there and they were failing and if i remember rightly all we had was a 6 inch scaffold pole and we used to have this thing to run again and go and get water again. what do you think about all these people who say, well, the salt pot when you go to a cafe is always the tall thin one, and the pepper one has got more holes on the top so it s the big fat one? i don t think that holds water. literally. because that is the pepper pot and the pepper pot has one hole in the top and it s thin, and the salt pot has several holes in the top so it has to be bigger. well, let s try and settle this once and for all in the shadow of the towers. this is gail s cafe. gail, show me the salt and pepper pots. there you go. which one is which out there? white salt, brown pepper. white is the pepper and brown the salt.
life to the fullest. allison holt, bbc news. parking and recycling are often the subject of neighbourly debates, but in goole in east yorkshire, the talk of the town is salt and pepper . they re the nicknames of the two water towers which have framed the skyline for more than 100 years, but which is which? no one can agree. philip norton reports. it s the question on everybody s lips. there are quite a few older people who think that the red one is the salt. the younger people tend to think it s the other way round. i was speaking to my parents and they are split. it has created debate in goole and right around the world. we were interviewed by abc radio in australia about it. the only problem is that no one could agree which one should be the salt and which one should be the pepper.