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1 posted on 02/14/2022 11:14:48 AM PST by Red Badger
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https://www.foodandwine.com/news/britains-oldest-pub-closes-ye-olde-fighting-cocks-st-albans


2 posted on 02/14/2022 11:14:57 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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A rare instance of a “Ye Olde” something actually living up to the name.


3 posted on 02/14/2022 11:18:01 AM PST by irishjuggler
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I’m sure it’s been closed down in its history.

It just came back. Can’t tell me anything operates for 1200 years with nothing bad happening.


4 posted on 02/14/2022 11:18:14 AM PST by Celerity
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“The Ye Olde Fighting Cocks”

There’s a joke or 10 in there somewhere


5 posted on 02/14/2022 11:18:27 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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Angles and Saxons hardest hit!


7 posted on 02/14/2022 11:19:58 AM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: Red Badger; Gamecock; SaveFerris; PROCON; mylife; Rebelbase; Army Air Corps

I call dibs on the Frogger game!


8 posted on 02/14/2022 11:20:09 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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More pics here: Ye Olde Fighting Cocks. Oldest pub in England
9 posted on 02/14/2022 11:20:11 AM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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Now that’s what I call destroying a business!

Who should they sue?

The British government or the PRCs/CCP?


10 posted on 02/14/2022 11:20:28 AM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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Even before the pandemic pubs were in trouble as immigrants shunned British traditions and even Brits went gaga for vindaloo. Midsomer Murders is a British mystery TV show where almost every episode included a side plot of a couple struggling to keep a pub afloat.


11 posted on 02/14/2022 11:22:04 AM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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Longer story:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/pubs-and-bars/inside-battle-britains-oldest-pub/#:~:text=Bingley%20Arms%2C%20Leeds%20(953),surviving%20pub%20in%20the%20UK.

12 posted on 02/14/2022 11:24:29 AM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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Someone will buy it.


18 posted on 02/14/2022 11:29:29 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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Hope the truth comes out about how much everyone has been lied to about Rona, and all the destruction TPTB DELIBRATELY inflicted on the entire world.


20 posted on 02/14/2022 11:30:37 AM PST by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. Never be a peaceful slave in a new socialist America.)
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it’s not a National /Historical Landmark?

and the Brits are tooo cheap to kick in a few penny’s to keep it afloat?

a pox on them...


21 posted on 02/14/2022 11:31:19 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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selling the naming rights to viagra might perk things up...


22 posted on 02/14/2022 11:36:45 AM PST by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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“The Ye Olde Fighting Cocks in St Albans, which poured its first drink in 793, has run into financial difficulties as a direct result of the pandemic.”

No.

Direct result of ill-advised, useless restrictions imposed by overreaching government.


25 posted on 02/14/2022 11:42:31 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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Say it isn’t so!


26 posted on 02/14/2022 11:46:01 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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I gotta believe the Brits could find 2Million Pounds to keep this place open. Heck, I wonder if President Trump could put something together to re-open the place.


29 posted on 02/14/2022 11:52:16 AM PST by Honest Nigerian
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793, the year Vikings absconded with St. Cuthbert’s relics.


30 posted on 02/14/2022 11:52:32 AM PST by SJackson (I just think COVID is God's gift to the left, Jane Fonda)
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Modern politics kills what no one else could.


31 posted on 02/14/2022 11:54:34 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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Oh no! Some of my fondest memories of GB were at their pubs. They let owners bring their dogs in and tell you to watch your kids. Loved it.


32 posted on 02/14/2022 11:56:25 AM PST by Whatever Works
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