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The Greyhound
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Picture source: Colin |
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The Greyhound was situated between
Worcester Street and the Gloucester Green bus station. This pub closed in
the mid 1980s. |
Source: Keith Stevens. |
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I remember the Greyhound on Gloucester
Green from my student days at Oxford in the mid-1970s. On one evening in the
week - I can't remember which one - there was an open session of political
song in a room on the first floor. The evening was presided over, as I
remember, by two Catholic priests (though not wearing dog collars) and the
songs - sung with great gusto by those present - were broadly left wing and
Irish Republican. The evening usually ended up with Bandiera Rossa - and
there would be a competition between Communists and Anarchists to out sing
each other in the concluding lines: 'e viva communismo/anarchismo e la
libertad' |
Andrew Whitehead (April 2020) |
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