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chav1 23-01-2005 20:39
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the best 2 best boozer in accy are no longer with us

teh corners and the shifters night club were great

Mick 24-01-2005 09:57
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They can't have been that good if they have shut

Tealeaf 24-01-2005 10:13
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I don't remember them...were they puffters pubs?

fibi 24-01-2005 10:33
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the best 2 best boozer in accy are no longer with us

teh corners and the shifters night club were great
I remember them both ....the corners used to be the cock and bull and it closed because I beleive it was demolished it was across from Karrimor and shifters was upstairs next to the classic cinema the landlord bloke there was a prat who thought he was gods gift.

Tealeaf 24-01-2005 10:38
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I remember them both ....the corners used to be the cock and bull and it closed because I beleive it was demolished it was across from Karrimor and shifters was upstairs next to the classic cinema the landlord bloke there was a prat who thought he was gods gift.
Am I suffering from severe dementia? What Classic cinema? I only remember the Odeon and the Princess in Accy and the Palladium up Ossy.........and where was the Cock & Bull? I remember the Black Bull, demolised for the Arndale carpark, but Cock & Bull? Never hard of it....

fibi 24-01-2005 10:44
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Am I suffering from severe dementia? What Classic cinema? I only remember the Odeon and the Princess in Accy and the Palladium up Ossy.........and where was the Cock & Bull? I remember the Black Bull, demolised for the Arndale carpark, but Cock & Bull? Never hard of it....
The cock and bull / corners was on the corner of water street (i think it was water street) and the classic was once the odeon

Tealeaf 24-01-2005 10:46
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The cock and bull / corners was on the corner of water street (i think it was water street) and the classic was once the odeon
OK....I remember the Odeon changing its name...but Cock & Bull...are you sure?

fibi 24-01-2005 10:55
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OK....I remember the Odeon changing its name...but Cock & Bull...are you sure?
definately opened as the cock and bull then changed to corners....i would've been about 13 or 14 then it changed it's name to the corners and was very popular

janet 24-01-2005 11:36
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Odeon did change it's name to Classic, but i don't remember Cock and Bull.

Sara 24-01-2005 12:23
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Shifters was above what was the Pickwick.

mthead 24-01-2005 12:29
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yeah cock and bull changed name to the corners.it was on melbourne st facing dhss

mthead 24-01-2005 12:34
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landlord of corners was joe mcguiness,who is now landlord of the Gt Eastern

fibi 24-01-2005 12:36
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yeah cock and bull changed name to the corners.it was on melbourne st facing dhss
Thank-you I was beginning to think I was going mad!!! I remember that it was always full of skin heads

fibi 24-01-2005 12:37
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landlord of corners was joe mcguiness,who is now landlord of the Gt Eastern
I remember joe and also Billy Mc who worked behind the bar and when it was corners the DJ was a guy called Mark

mthead 24-01-2005 12:39
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is it the same billy mac who was a doorman at the smithies(miners)


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