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The Waggon and Horses

Pubs were a central part of life in the early Eighties, much more so than today. When we were aspiring Mods, still at school or just started work, we would visit The Railway (now a nursery) where the scooterboys who actually had scooters drank. Of course, under-age drinking was just as illegal then as it is now, it was just that the social view was a little more relaxed. Police raids were a regular occurrence though, and I was in The Railway on two separate occasions when it was raided. As the police went in

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