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RUDEBOX #850154 14th Jan 2014 12:00am
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I am with you there rude, some lovely old buildings are disappearing very quickly and being replaced by concrete soul less buildings, the good old days yeah.

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Originally Posted by sunnyside
You are funny yin yang,if you know where to go there are places where you can smoke...


Yeah, they're called doorways! Anyway, don't smoke anymore.

Used to drink in the Oak, and The Brom as well once upon a time, but the Oak was a bit of an old man's pub as I seem to remember. oldman


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No not doorways inside the pub, i used to work in the oak yrs ago went it was lively, before the travelodge spoiled it, i also worked in the bromborough hotel for a short while.

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Originally Posted by sunnyside
No not doorways inside the pub, i used to work in the oak yrs ago went it was lively, before the travelodge spoiled it, i also worked in the bromborough hotel for a short while.

I used to go to the Royal Oak all the time, in fact it's where I met my husband! I think for a time it was called the Twilight Cafe? I'd be in there most Thursday nights boogie-ing away to Alan Bates playing his records smile
Also, I wish I knew which pubs allow you to smoke indoors now? I know you prob can't say on here but oh, to be able to sit in a pub puffing on a fag is my idea of bliss !

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Originally Posted by Elizabeth
I used to go to the Royal Oak all the time, in fact it's where I met my husband! I think for a time it was called the Twilight Cafe?


It was more like the Twilight Zone whenever I went in there! I don't think I remember any music nights at all but then I never went in there all that often. Always seemed a bit cold in there, as well. Remember someone telling me it was haunted but they were probably just winding me up!

Will be sorry to see The Archers get replaced by a Nursing Home or flats.


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I used to go to the Royal Oak all the time, in fact it's where I met my husband! I think for a time it was called the Twilight Cafe?


It was more like the Twilight Zone whenever I went in there! I don't think I remember any music nights at all but then I never went in there all that often. Always seemed a bit cold in there, as well. Remember someone telling me it was haunted but they were probably just winding me up!

Will be sorry to see The Archers get replaced by a Nursing Home or flats.


Maybe we're talking of a different decade? During the mid 80's the back part of the Royal Oak (the doorway faced the A41) was known as The Twilight Cafe and was a pub disco.

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Lived across from that place until i was 25, some 15 years ago not many weekends without a fight outside or the police in the Car Park, went in to the Archers a couple of years ago more of a drug den than a pub and if anyone was asked for ID they wouldn't be drinking


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Originally Posted by sunnyside
I was one of those characters who went in the archers,many moons ago it was my local as i lived in palatine rd where did you live yin yang, maybe i know you.
My husband lived in brom in Hadley Ave with a brother and sister, all over 60 now.... and drank in said pubs.

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i bet i knew him missmahjong, did he go to acre lane school in the sixties? what was his name?

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No sorry ,he went to st johns new ferry till 65, he lived at hadley ave till 1975, charlie, brian and ann .

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what was his surname miss m ?

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Originally Posted by missmahjong
No sorry ,he went to st johns new ferry till 65, he lived at hadley ave till 1975, charlie, brian and ann .


MMM think i lived in the same house grin


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Surprize surprize!!!

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lol. small world.

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