Thursday, 2 July 2020

Letter in today's Daily Telegraph:

SIR – Lists of user-friendly bars (Letters, July 1) will always lead with Maurice’s Peacock Inn in Nottingham, during the swinging Seventies.
Bells on the wall would bring pints of Shipstone’s in a jiffy, delivered with banter from another era.

I knew the pub well.  It was located on Mansfield Road, just up from the site of Nottingham Victoria station and opposite York House where I worked.  Many a happy lunchtime and after work sessions.  The lounge bar had a bell system.  Activate the bell push and Maurice would appear, tea-towel over his shoulder, take your order and reappear with tray and drinks and non PC banter.  Happy days.


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