Bob Walkden wrote: > > Hi, > > > Does Bruce's Breweries still exist? I remember frequenting the Frog and > > Firkin
Where IS one? I have a small replica Frog and Firkin pub sign I hang up above my wine rack. Got in England a couple of years ago. I'd like to visit one, if for nothing more than to add to some of the photos of pub signs I have! ;^) Of course, I'd have to stop in for a pint! keith whaley > > there are still some Firkin pubs around but I don't think they're > owned by Bruce's anymore. Haven't been into one in years. I remember > going to one somewhere near Waterloo once with a friend who wasn't > familiar with the Dogbloater Experience. At the end of the evening we > got a black cab back and I distinctly remember sitting in the back of > it on the way up Haverstock Hill while my mate leaned out the open door > leaving a trail of puke all the way up to Hampstead. > > That must have been in the early 80s. He was working for nothing as an > assistant to quite a well-known studio photographer, and living > rent-free sleeping on my carpet. In the next door flat lived a nurse > whose boyfriend was in the SPG (historical note: an elite police squad > not noted for their liberal sympathies towards alternative life > styles). PC Plod used to growl and snarl every time he saw one of us > because he thought we were gay. To wind him up we used to put 'YMCA' > on the stereo very loudly and sing along to it raucously. <g> Glad I > was never on the other side of a riot shield & truncheon from him! > > --- > > Bob
