Dave.P
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« Reply #420 on: February 03, 2012, 11:23:19 AM » |
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Is The Red Lion gone for good then?  Seems odd . I would have thought that its proximity to the canal , its fame as a music pub and the historical influences would have made it a positive going concern and enterprise A sign of the time .. housing developement rules!! |
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JJ (Joanna)
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« Reply #421 on: February 03, 2012, 12:47:06 PM » |
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Shame...Do you think it will become a cottage, wonder how much?! Do think the problem is most pubs these days just have to be restaurants in order to survive?
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« Reply #422 on: February 03, 2012, 01:00:08 PM » |
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There are all sorts of reasons why pubs are closing across the country. Drinking laws, smoking bans, more and more diverse entertainment at home, cheap supermarket booze, high rents, low returns, unrealistic targets. No pub could survive on being guaranteed to be busy for one weekend. The Red Lion already did a good food trade before it closed. It was obviously not enough.
I'm afraid that running a pub nowadays is seen as a mugs game and if we are not careful we'll lose even more. Support your local before it's too late, I say.
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GubGub (Al)
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« Reply #423 on: February 03, 2012, 01:08:51 PM » |
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I appreciate that this is slightly off topic but I was watching Time Team the other evening and the location was a village that had no pub and no shop. I couldn't help thinking to myself, what is the point of being there? Without a central point of focus at which the villagers can get together it is presumably a community of strangers or perhaps not a community at all in any real sense. It is just a dormitory. This seems to be happening to an increasing number of villages and Cropredy could easily become one of them.
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Jules Gray
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« Reply #424 on: February 03, 2012, 01:12:25 PM » |
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Agree with Sandra and Al. All very sad.  Jules |
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Paul
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« Reply #425 on: February 03, 2012, 01:17:12 PM » |
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I appreciate that this is slightly off topic but I was watching Time Team the other evening and the location was a village that had no pub and no shop. I couldn't help thinking to myself, what is the point of being there? Without a central point of focus at which the villagers can get together it is presumably a community of strangers or perhaps not a community at all in any real sense. It is juat a dormitory. This seems to be happening to an increasing number of villages and Cropredy could easily become one of them.
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Polly Oxford (Andie)
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« Reply #426 on: February 03, 2012, 01:37:47 PM » |
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We're going through our summer morris programme at the moment: - Plough? - new owner; Old House? - closed in the autumn; Red Lion? - gastro, landlord not keen... and yet they're busy building more houses in every available space, the doctor's surgery and primary school are overwhelmed.
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« Reply #427 on: February 03, 2012, 01:41:15 PM » |
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For Fairport lovers I think this year's festival might be really special but it is possibly the final opportunity for the band to celebrate their past to this degree. For me as a fan and a Cropredy regular it feels like this may be the last time.
Then again of course, it may not.
I remember first having this conversation (or something similar) with someone back before the 1987 festival... |
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Tim Fletcher
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« Reply #428 on: February 03, 2012, 01:47:45 PM » |
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Just in (13:51) from @FairCropFest on Twitter: We'll be announcing some Cropredy Friday night acts in about an hour or so. Are we sitting comfortably?  |
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GubGub (Al)
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« Reply #429 on: February 03, 2012, 01:53:25 PM » |
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For Fairport lovers I think this year's festival might be really special but it is possibly the final opportunity for the band to celebrate their past to this degree. For me as a fan and a Cropredy regular it feels like this may be the last time.
Then again of course, it may not.
I remember first having this conversation (or something similar) with someone back before the 1987 festival... Fair point but everybody is 25 years older now and certain realities will have to be faced sooner or later. |
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« Reply #430 on: February 03, 2012, 03:05:34 PM » |
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Saw Doctors, RT and Joan Armatrading! Sounds good to me
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« Reply #431 on: February 03, 2012, 03:12:31 PM » |
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I suspect a certain Jim Campbell to come by shortly with extreme pleasure at the return of the Sawdoctors to Cropredy!  |
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« Reply #432 on: February 03, 2012, 03:12:51 PM » |
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Tarras, too.
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"Tradition must be respected, convention can be broken; but only when you know which is which."
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« Reply #433 on: February 03, 2012, 03:15:30 PM » |
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I suspect a certain Jim Campbell to come by shortly with extreme pleasure at the return of the Sawdoctors to Cropredy! Nice one |
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« Reply #434 on: February 03, 2012, 03:16:03 PM » |
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DOX rock crops again! and not before time, its the mosh pit for me, again, and i thought that was it after last year you lot know me far too well |
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« Reply #435 on: February 03, 2012, 03:24:56 PM » |
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I'm sure they've booked them specially for you Jimbo |
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« Reply #436 on: February 03, 2012, 03:28:35 PM » |
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DOX rock crops again! and not before time
I couldn't agree more! Weren't they headliners last time round though? That is a great line up for Friday and with Joan Armatrading headlining that presumably means that Bellowhead are indeed playing on Thursday. |
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Polly Oxford (Andie)
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« Reply #437 on: February 03, 2012, 03:35:32 PM » |
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All coming along very nicely!! We just need Edward II on Saturday afternoon and I shall be one extrememly happy bunny  |
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Addie
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« Reply #438 on: February 03, 2012, 03:52:34 PM » |
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Horses for courses, not really my cup of tea this year. Pretty sure we'll be giving it a miss this time.
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« Reply #439 on: February 03, 2012, 03:55:54 PM » |
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Pretty good friday so far, saw docs are awsome!! and been wanting to see joan for years
RT is always good value
just got to get the dosh together now
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