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Old 08-02-2013, 17:22   #492
DtheP47
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Re: 1st pint, 1st local.

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Originally Posted by Eric View Post
Quite a few pubs only the size of a terraced house ... Village Blacksmith on Bayley St., Clayton (bottom end of course, just up the street from the Bottom Club) for example. Dutton's house; served a grand pint ... often stopped in there for a quick one on the way down to the Fort's, which was a fair distance away ... almost a 2 minute walk.
I served my time at the English Electric and remember more than one housewife in her scarf and curlers waiting at the back gates of th'Lectric on paydays to get first dibbs on their husbands pay packet before the Village Blacksmith
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