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Reply | Working Mens Clubs/ Constitutional Clubs.
at 17:24 16 Jan 2025
A bit of history for you. The Village Inn was previously The Railway Hotel. In March 1944 Hitler ordered the Luftwaffe to make a last ditch bombing attack on London with the dwindling numbers of planes left . It became known as the "mini Blitz"
Dad was working at Bratt Colbran in Lancelot Road, which was then making aircraft parts. As the chargehand in the toolroom (yes, he was a toolmaker, but I'm not Keir Starmer) he was in a reserved occupation so not called up. My mum's dad, my grandad George was 64 and not working. Mum told him that he must do something for the war effort, so dad got him a job as a night watchman at the factory. Every night he'd get two trolleybuses from Willesden up to the Railway Hotel, where he'd sink several pints then totter down to his reinforced concrete "bombproof" night watchman's hut. Same routine on 30th March, except his hut got a direct hit. RIP Grandad George, but at least he died with a smile on his face after his last visit to the Railway. [Post edited 16 Jan 18:40]
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Reply | Identity Crisis
at 22:14 13 Jan 2025
Stick with your original. I haven't lived in Pinner for 15 years. |
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Reply | Good pubs In Leicester
at 17:40 8 Jan 2025
Just round the corner from Uni, so it was one of my locals back then. I was there last March, still decent with a good range of Everard's beers. |
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Reply | Good pubs In Leicester
at 14:06 8 Jan 2025
I was at Uni in Leicester, but left in 1973. Been back for visits a lot since, so I can say there are good boozers in the City Centre, but I have no idea about fooball policy. Opposite the station is The Hind, further up London Road The Marquis Wellington. In Granby Street is The Barley Mow, Charles Street has The Ale Wagon. There are two Spoons, The Corn Exchange in Market Place and The Highcross. Plenty of others dotted around that area. |
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Reply | Brighton
at 18:59 1 Jan 2025
Parking is available at the Amex. It must be pre booked at a cost of £18 |
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Reply | Johnnie Walker RIP
at 19:44 31 Dec 2024
I may be wrong, but I think that the last pirate left now is the truly awful Tony Blackburn. |
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Reply | Storm ...
at 14:58 30 Dec 2024
There's more water out there than there is in your beer. |
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Reply | Storm ...
at 14:07 30 Dec 2024
South Cones have been hoisted.
They haven't!
They have...
What are they?
I dunno, but they've hoisted them! |
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Reply | Happy Christmas Loftforwords
at 17:51 25 Dec 2024
I'm a grumpy old git who hates Christmas, but likes presents such as 14th in the table.
Also I do mean it when I say all the very best to everyone here. [Post edited 25 Dec 2024 17:52]
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Thread | Shrewsbury
at 20:06 4 Dec 2024
1-0 up after 4 minutes. I really hope it continues to go well for GA. |
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Reply | Villains Who’ve Supported QPR
at 21:57 2 Dec 2024
As did his wife. As a teenager in Halifax his lack of success with girls led to the nickname " Reggie no dick". [Post edited 2 Dec 2024 22:30]
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Reply | Burgers
at 15:31 27 Nov 2024
Wendy's in Western Road Brighton opened last year. Just as good as ever . Just looked at the website. 40 locations. [Post edited 27 Nov 2024 15:37]
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Reply | Wembley Stadium
at 19:03 20 Nov 2024
The London Borough of Brent was created on 1st April 1965, so in 1963 you were born in the County Borough of Willesden in Middlesex, as was I 13 years earlier. |
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Reply | Wembley Stadium
at 19:47 19 Nov 2024
The Office for National Statistics lists Middlesex as an historic county in its Index of Place Names, so if it's good enough for them, it's good enough for me. |
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Reply | Wembley Stadium
at 13:22 19 Nov 2024
Middlesex has a history that spans well over a thousand years, to 704 AD - the Middlesex County Council was created in 1889 and abolished in 1965 - Parliament has confirmed, on numerous occasions, that the administrative County of Middlesex was abolished but not Middlesex. |
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