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As I remember it there was also a bar right on the corner of the Strand and Northumberland Avenue. You had to go downstairs to it but I can't remember the name of it. Bit of a "shady" gaff, a good few cauliflower ears and sharp suits. |
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I think the Salisbury was a bit like what you describe in the 60,s |
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Whilst like everybody who ever served at the Admiralty I also frequented the Chandos, but my favourite pub in the sixties was the Salisbury, halfway up St Martins Lane. |
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We've come full circle again - back to President, the Chandos and big Bierta, who you loved, or we wouldn't have spent so many hours in there, with you chatting her up. |
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Getting closer Ray Stranger on the shore came out in late 1962,I had left Seahawk in 1961. I remember in the Shower room at Seahawk a cloud of Foo Foo, I did indulge in the Aromas of Bougie when on the Hermes in Oct 1962 before returning to President in Aug 1963 in the Asweps Office, you were there then Ray. |
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You're dead right of course - I was on my 4th consecutive year at sea in 1968, and I didn't even see an Albatross, much less hear one. i tbink it must have been 'Stranger on the Shore' by Acker Bilk that I was thinking of. No doubt you'll both correct me again.....I too used a lot of Eau de Bugis Street, now just a station on the Singapore Metro system, with not a Kai-Tai in sight. |
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Ray one other thing you got wrong. I never ever used Old Spice, the only aftershave I ever used and still use to this day was "Aromas of Bougis Street" a smell you would never forget. |
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Ah, Mr Brooker Johnny has caught out your memory! Fleetwood Mac released Albatross in November 1968 a goodly few years after we were at Culdrose. |
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Ray I may be wrong but I think Albatross by Fleetwood Mac was released on 1968, a bit after my time and Kens. At Seahawk I was madly in Love with a trainee Met Wren, Married but alas after leaving the Mob to go into a Pub it didnt last. however we still keep in touch. |
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Ah, it's all coming back to me now! I also remember quite clearly some Wren continuously putting money in the jukebox and playing the same tune - Albatross by Fleetwood Mac. I bet that's too specific a memory for anyone else to recall....... |
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