Chromatic
Legendary Member
- Location
- Gloucestershire
Where was this place then? I'm Gloucester born and brought up and many years ago drank in the Golden Cross, amongst other places, with my mates on a Friday and Saturday night .
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Where was this place then? I'm Gloucester born and brought up and many years ago drank in the Golden Cross, amongst other places, with my mates on a Friday and Saturday night .
subaqua
What’s the point
- Location
- Leytonstone
pinged this to the Junior Engineer in work who is from swanley. jokingly asked if it was his local. It is ! and he says it isn't that bad. which i don't believe
Donger
Convoi Exceptionnel
- Location
- Quedgeley, Glos.
I seem to recall it was somewhere on Northgate Street, possibly near Sainsbury's. Wouldn't like to guess at the name - and probably wouldn't be fair to the current owners! Like I say, I seem to have blanked it, and don't really want to remember it in any more detail!
Chromatic
Legendary Member
- Location
- Gloucestershire
That bad was it?
Possibly the Kings Arms just inside Hare Lane, thats the only place around there I can imagine fits the bill, it is long gone now. The first pub I ever bought a pint in, about 40 years ago when I was about 14 or 15, and looked about 12, but that didn't seem to bother the landlord.
[QUOTE 3038953, member: 1314"]
Yep - they supplied the batch that provided the E for Leah Betts [/QUOTE]
What's the E provided for Leah Betts got to do with anything? The water board are the guilty ones in that particular case as the cause of death was the 12 pints of water she drank resulting in hyponatremia. According to Chumbawamba, eating a bay leaf constitutes the same danger as taking an E.
Yep - they supplied the batch that provided the E for Leah Betts [/QUOTE]
What's the E provided for Leah Betts got to do with anything? The water board are the guilty ones in that particular case as the cause of death was the 12 pints of water she drank resulting in hyponatremia. According to Chumbawamba, eating a bay leaf constitutes the same danger as taking an E.
Donger
Convoi Exceptionnel
- Location
- Quedgeley, Glos.
Better late than never ..... I was chatting to a work colleague earlier today about the pub with the dog eating the rotten maggoty eel and peeing on the seats. It was (and still is) the Imperial in Northgate Street. My colleague remembered the dog also occasionally peeing on customers' legs! He also remembered being relentlessly quizzed by one of the regulars as to what his job was. After several guesses, the guy shouted "I know, your'e bastard CID!" With that, two of the other customers nervously kicked bulging holdalls further out of sight under the benches and looked uncomfortable until he left. The place is still there, but I've no idea what it is like these days.... that was at least 25 years ago.
Chromatic
Legendary Member
- Location
- Gloucestershire
I did wonder whether it was the Imperial originally but thought the old place I mentioned sounded more like it. It's not a place I've been in, in fact I only have a very vague recollection of only going in there once and that may be a false memory. As you say it is still there, and the last time I went past it was looking just the same as it did all those years ago when we went to town every weekend.
As a little bit of an aside the Gloucester pub with the most notorious reputation was probably The County Arms, not for violence or anything like that as in the OP but just as the least salubrious place around. It was well known as a cider house and as with so many of the old pubs is long gone.
[QUOTE 3040842, member: 1314"]Without going too ot about this, I know Es are safe enough. There was something up with that particular batch though. If I can be bothered I'll research it again but I'm not particularly interested in revisiting the details of Leah Betts case or of Es' safety in general. It's something I was aware of at an informed level at the time in a professional capacity (I was a professional Youth and Community Worker throughout the 90s).
I was mainly posting about them gangsters puncturing my wheels.[/QUOTE]
At the risk of deviating the thread...
These drugs are NOT safe at all.
They may be safe in theory, but when you buy something made in a kitchen or warehouse with dodgy components and manufacturing conditions it is a problem
Then there is the safety of dosage.... In an analysis of tablets confiscated in the NorthWest of England the content varied dramatically:
When you can take two tablets and have a fivefold increase in dose then there is also asafety issue.
I was mainly posting about them gangsters puncturing my wheels.[/QUOTE]
At the risk of deviating the thread...
These drugs are NOT safe at all.
They may be safe in theory, but when you buy something made in a kitchen or warehouse with dodgy components and manufacturing conditions it is a problem
Then there is the safety of dosage.... In an analysis of tablets confiscated in the NorthWest of England the content varied dramatically:
When you can take two tablets and have a fivefold increase in dose then there is also asafety issue.
Which is exactly why they should be legalised. But of course they won't be because the beerage's profits will be threatened and we can't have that, can we?
