Apr 2017
10:42am, 5 Apr 2017
5,262 posts
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Ceratonia
They are big houses though, and Cambridge is expensive. One of the local papers has various dignitaries tutting over the decline in education standards. Not only is the Latin wrong, but some words are randomly capitalised.
I used to play in an Irish music session in the Penny Ferry pub which was previously on the site of these houses. That's 3 out of 5 Cambridge pubs I've played in that are now closed. Look out the Earl of Beaconsfield and the Golden Hind.
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Apr 2017
11:17am, 5 Apr 2017
26,518 posts
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GlennR
Yup, if you want to drive customers away from a pub put on live Irish music.
The Cricketers is now a Thai restaurant.
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Apr 2017
11:31am, 5 Apr 2017
5,264 posts
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Ceratonia
Yes, run by Noi, who is the auntie/sister/cousin of most of the other Thai chefs in the area. I suspect she doesn't 100% pass on her secrets though, as her cookery is always a notch above the others.
I think it's that pubs that don't have any customers and are on the way to closing down anyway are more likely to let a random bunch of people turn up once a week and sit round a table to play music, provided they actually buy some drinks.
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Apr 2017
11:38am, 5 Apr 2017
22,415 posts
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HellsBells
I used to live opposite The Cricketers and between The Elm Tree and the Free Press - I always wondered how 3 pubs managed to survive within 10 yards of each other. In those days Chris Lloyd had the Press before he moved on to the Cambridge Blue, it was the first non-smoking pub in Cambridge and Debbie his wife did great veggie food. There was a photo of my husband coxing in 1972 on the wall - wonder where that went
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Apr 2017
11:40am, 5 Apr 2017
26,526 posts
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GlennR
Are you sure it's not still there? Still plenty of that paraphernalia - I was there on Sunday.
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Apr 2017
11:53am, 5 Apr 2017
22,416 posts
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HellsBells
We might have to pop in to look
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Apr 2017
3:07pm, 5 Apr 2017
3,408 posts
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ndellar
My old school (Parkside) was in the middle of those 3 pubs. Probably had good custom from the teachers!
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Apr 2017
3:12pm, 5 Apr 2017
26,545 posts
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GlennR
That's the Grammar School for Girls as far as I'm concerned. Before your time I know.
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Apr 2017
10:30pm, 6 Apr 2017
12,781 posts
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RichHL
Why does everybody* think I'm scribbling shitty Latin on walls?
(*Okay, two of you.)
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Apr 2017
6:59am, 7 Apr 2017
91,729 posts
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GregP
three
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