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I think it's time we have a new thread that doesn't involve parking!

What have we got besides too many cars and too little parking spaces? Pubs!

We are blessed with a great number of pubs [ we used to have even more in times of yore, with nearly every other house on Union Road serving ale in the parlour.] You can start at the Stanhill Inn and by the time you got to The Last Orders at Moscow Mill you would feel slightly merry if you'd have had a drink in each pub you passed.

Not forgetting the great pubs we have up on the moors.

Any favourites/comments?

I'm an old Stop and Rester as it was nearest to my home, but have recently joined The Straits Club, very friendly, cheap and full of characters, l felt right at home.:)

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Any pub that makes the effort to serve real ale, and keeps it in good condition of course.

I almost forgot to add,; preferably not populated by foul mouthed chavs with communication difficulties.

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Looking at books of old photos of Ossy there were loads of ale houses. l can just about remember the little one on Union Road that is now part of Franco's l think.

There were only slightly more pubs than Chapels and meeting houses. Either the population was split between drinkers and abstainers, or all the pubs were empty on Sundays as the drinkers repented for spending the household money in the pub after they were paid on Fridays.

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No, the one I was thinking of was down below St Pauls school, might have been called Horse **** ?

On the subject of Franco's I remember it opening, 1 small room and Franco lived in flat above. meal for 2 plus couple of drinks cost us about £7.50, the good old days eh ;)

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The one I was always told was:-
If you had a thimble full of ale in the commercial and doubled it at every pub you wouldn't get to the black dog

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do you mean the printers? thats below st: pauls school, its now the last orders.

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Starting with the Commercial Hotel, at the lights at the bottom of Market Street, then the Con servative Club, then the Greyhound???, then the Station, what were the remainder of the ports of call on the way up to the Black Dog?

I was but a spotty little herbert in the days of many of these watering holes. I just about remember the Station in a bombed out state, shortly before it was demolished. My dad used to have the occaisional libation in the Commercial and the Greyhound when he worked for Blair Electrical, at Church lights.

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There were loads of them, I think someone once told me 36 in all, I know the block that the Royal is on there used to be 3 , one of them was called the star I think.
There used to be a web-site run by an Ossy lad which listed them all and had quite a few pictures but he closed the site down about 12 month since

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What are the opening times of pubs in Ossy now?

l seem to remember being in The Golden Cross and it had bouncers on the door and it seemed to be after one a.m., if my hazy memory serves me well. I think l've been in The New Inn's a similar time. Is it offical or was l just lucky?

I wasn't drinking, just trying to sign up converts, [to sign the pledge.] :)

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Pubs in Ossy on Union Rd

Commercial
Con Club
Greyhound
Rose Bud
Musicians
Railway Hotel
Railway Inn
Royal Arms
Fishermans Arms
Startled fox
Castle Inn
Printers Arms
Cricketers Arms
Skinners Arms
Rising Sun
Prince of Wales
Masons Arms
Horseshoe
Foxhill
Tinker & Budget
Bay Horse
Plane Tree
Grey Horse
Golden Cross
Rose Bud ( 2??)
Old House At Home
Black Lion
Quees Head
Miners Arms
Royal Oak
Rose & Crown
Black Dog