What type of cucumber do I have?

Before I had a greenhouse, sometime in the 70s I used to just grow ridge cues outside for salads, they then seemed to breed a strain that looked similar to greenhouse grown ones, but it grew outside ok.
I then mostly grew the all female types in a greenhouse after growing Telegraph for a few years and pinching out all the male flowers, not a great job really.

About 5 yrs ago I went down memory lane and grew a specific pickling variety outside, cant remember the name, but I couldn't keep up with the amount of cues just two plants produced, most were wasted, shame I know, but my plans for getting someone to pickle them didn't work out.

 

Many years ago, when I was new to gardening, I grew some cucs in a greenhouse.
I remember reading that cucs grown in greenhouses needed the male flowers removing, so I religiously removed them. Problem was, they didn't produce any fruit.
Further reading indicated that I was growing an outdoor variety.
Once I left the male flowers, I got cucs. Hurrah
I believe they were called Apple cucumbers. Short, fattish, soft thorn-like protusions from the skin and a fabulous flavour.
I gave some to a friend who was adament that they were NOT cucs, but some type of melon, which he insisted on eating with dried ginger, IIRC.

 

I agree, it was always the case that ridge types, (outdoor), needed to be pollinated whereas growing the older varieties of greenhouse types you had to remove all male flowers, otherwise the fruit became misshapen and bitter.
That's why they bred all female types.