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The Greyhound

 

Picture source: Colin


 
The Greyhound was situated between Worcester Street and the Gloucester Green bus station. This pub closed in the mid 1980s.
Source: Keith Stevens.
 
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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