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Oh, ye gods, I feel nostalgic.
Does anyone visiting this site remember me...?
22 Oct 2009 18:06
Nothing since the end of July... Has everybody stopped caring?
19 Nov 2007 10:26
I can't comment on the 2007 Crescent, not having seen the pub for well over a decade, but I do have many memories of all sorts. Being the 'Colin' mentioned in a previous review, I wouldn't mind a pound for every pint that I pulled during more than two years behind the Crescent's bars.
Almost opposite the University... an end-of-shift stroll from the main police station... surrounded by all manner of workplaces... close to the heart of working-class Salford... From tax inspectors to taxi drivers - literally, in both cases - the clientele probably represented the most mixed bunch one could ever want to find.
The bill of fare, equally eclectic, drew custom from throughout Lancashire; I recall one pair of young couples who travelled every Saturday evening from Preston, Bolton or somewhere equally remote (and well-served with pubs), simply for the ever-changing delights chalked upon the blackboard. I still remember vividly the ladies' ire at my allowing their beaux to round off one visit with the over-potent Enoch's Hammer, rendering them useless for their traditional end to a Saturday night out...
How long ago was this? Well, our Joseph Holt's bitter was considered expensive by some, at 74p per pint. Today, my 'local' (in, admittedly, the outskirts of pricey Croydon) charges more than three times that for its cheapest beer. The times, they have a-changed.
I suspect that most of my '87-89 regulars will have moved on; one or two, I know, have passed on. Some were friends, more were acquaintances, a very few were merely tolerated. I miss them all, of course, because I miss the Colin that was. To borrow a line, I was a barman, once, and young...
29 Jul 2007 15:19
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The Marble Arch, Manchester
If I were to ask what happened to John Worthington and the curries, would anyone know what I'm talking about?
22 Oct 2009 18:15