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the club in hind st was called the railway, had family parties there and my own wedding reception in 1987. i think it closed not long after.

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was still open in 1990 because i remember haggling the price of my house with the former owner in there,he was having a quiet drink and forgot to meet me so i went to him,he has a couple of pints and i saved £4000 ...happy days,i could not get a mortage for the asking price so he lowered it half drunk in the railway club

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My dad remembers the Railway club in Hind St as well, it was still open in the early 1990's, it was one of few pups that stayed open illegally when all pubs shut in the afternoon. Everyone used to make their way down there just before "closing" and the doors would lock and the drinking would carry on inside.

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there were 2 prices, 4 old pence if it was 3/4 full and 6 old pence if it was full to the top

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Don't remember the price, but I remember me and mum pushing a pram up Borough Rd from the Gasworks to Dingle Rd, wasn't half a long way. Another time mum carried the bag on her back I think I was about 5 years old(funny what you remember). Pfew, women think they have it tough today.
When I worked for the Birkenhead Corporation, we had coke braziers for the billy. I used to love the smell of the burning coke made your head spin, and there was me thinking coke came as little white bags of powder. The burning coke also used to attract bees.

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Never realised the smell of coke attracted bees. Interesting. Coke fumes can be a real barrel of laughs if the ventilation isn't very good. Seem to remember folk being overcome and dying due to the fumes.

The Corpy cocky-watchmen in their little grey huts at road works etc. always had a coke brazier to keep warm, and as you say Mindplayer, to boil up the billycan for a brew. Health & Safety......what ????

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I was just reading and about to post, coke has an high content of sugar and thats why bees are attracted to it, then i thought, hang on thats not coking coal, its the stuff we drink. I can only assume the bees like a warm like the rest of us.


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