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Old 15-09-2010, 19:46   #31
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Its situated on Union Road Ossy Doug, opposite the end of Haworth St. was one of my locals in the 70s as a lived on Monarch St and our back doors were close was the watering hole for St Mary's Choir after 11 o'clock mass every Sunday they also had quite good darts teams and amateur football teams too, was a very busy little pub in those days
Did Billy Birtwhistle take a gill in there back then. Nice bloke that lived up Sharples St.
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Did Billy Birtwhistle take a gill in there back then. Nice bloke that lived up Sharples St.
doubt it doug, mosta them wouldn't be seen dead wi a gill.
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Old 16-09-2010, 08:56   #33
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Did Billy Birtwhistle take a gill in there back then. Nice bloke that lived up Sharples St.
Don't ring a bell Doug, mind you it was a real local, all the regs came from nearby, very few outsiders came in, can't even think where Sharples St is, or was
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Don't ring a bell Doug, mind you it was a real local, all the regs came from nearby, very few outsiders came in, can't even think where Sharples St is, or was
Sharples St is in Spring Hill runs off Pickup St.
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Sharples St is in Spring Hill runs off Pickup St.
Thanks Beni, had a mental block Think it threw me when Doug asked if that bloke went in the Foxhill, its miles from Sharples St
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Thanks Beni, had a mental block Think it threw me when Doug asked if that bloke went in the Foxhill, its miles from Sharples St
Strangely enough if you ignore the Printers Arms (and most people do ) it' the nearest pub to Sharples St.
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Strangely enough if you ignore the Printers Arms (and most people do ) it' the nearest pub to Sharples St.
Ya but it wasn't in those day Beni, Pickups was on the corner of Pickup St. and Moscow Mill St. plus Springhill club was only a cock stride away
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