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darts22

darts22

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age'd parent said:
"i think my idea for two day licences and a tiny capacity - in peoples fron rooms - may still catch on"

Not a bad idea I can create 40 pints a time, at a cost of about 30 pence a pint, if I did it in bulk even cheaper, sell it at a bit less than today's prices, a bit to the tax man, should leave a decent profit to me.
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Ah, you could call it 'The Little Grey Lady' after the ghost that flitted from the old Coton Hill asylum to the SDG hospital in 1984.
 
darts22

darts22

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John Bolton , licensee of the Rickerscote Arms, has confirmed he has given up trying to keep the Prince of Wales pub open. He has received no help from the pubco and has failed to attract back the previous customers who have gone to the met.
 
tek-monkey

tek-monkey

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How was he trying to attract them exactly? I wouldn't have known it was open if not for in here. The problem is the 2 places are very close, so both are 'locals'.
 
shoes

shoes

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They are very different though, when I was a keen drinker in my teens the met was regarded as the pub to go to if you would like to sink 10 carlings, have a bar room brawl over the football result and then go home to beat the mrs, whereas the prince was always regarded as the place to queue up to see the big man. I much preferred the prince though.

Haven't been in the met in years, it could have improved somewhat, however i walk past there often and there are no shortage of tracksuits.
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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Biggest fight I've ever seen was in ( and outside of ) the Gate. During the 70s power cuts. It stopped the traffic on the Weston Road and Tixall Road for quite a while.
 
basil

basil

don't mention the blinds
Archbishop, butcher and a farmer, not heard that one but it made me smile anyway.........
 
darts22

darts22

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shoes said:
They are very different though, when I was a keen drinker in my teens the met was regarded as the pub to go to if you would like to sink 10 carlings, have a bar room brawl over the football result and then go home to beat the mrs, whereas the prince was always regarded as the place to queue up to see the big man. I much preferred the prince though.

Haven't been in the met in years, it could have improved somewhat, however i walk past there often and there are no shortage of tracksuits.
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No change then.
There are very few people who behave antisocially after drinking a few pints of real ale. People who like real ale drink it like wine fans drink wine. You drink it for the taste, rather than to get drunk.
 
John Marwood

John Marwood

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I used to use The Gate offey circa 1972 - It was a window on a world I never wanted to really discover

There, and one in Cambridge Street I think - in the days of Tudor crisps - wear 'em scare 'em
 
basil

basil

don't mention the blinds
Cambridge St, Corner of Crooked Bridge Road, x 2 on Oxford Gds have all now reverted to residential......
 
Wyred

Wyred

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Remember the offy on the corner of Earl Street/Bath Street?
Got served in there at 15 in the very early 80s.

ycf2hne
 
darts22

darts22

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Kept by the same family for yonks. Ventured into the pub trade for just a year or so during WWII - called it The Dears Leap, there was a mural just above the door in Bath St of a leeping deer, I think it was the ale supplier's logo.
 
basil

basil

don't mention the blinds
I reckon that site is about the bottom of the service ramp to the Guildhall........
 
shoes

shoes

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basil said:
Cambridge St, Corner of Crooked Bridge Road, x 2 on Oxford Gds have all now reverted to residential......
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I remember the shop about 4 doors away from Henry Street on Oxford Gardens, that must have closed around 1996 (I think)?

Where was the other one?
 
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