The Jingle Mile - A Christmassy East Angular FetchEvent.

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Apr 2017
10:42am, 5 Apr 2017
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Ceratonia
They are big houses though, and Cambridge is expensive. One of the local papers has various dignitaries tutting over the decline in education standards. Not only is the Latin wrong, but some words are randomly capitalised.

I used to play in an Irish music session in the Penny Ferry pub which was previously on the site of these houses. That's 3 out of 5 Cambridge pubs I've played in that are now closed. Look out the Earl of Beaconsfield and the Golden Hind.
Apr 2017
11:17am, 5 Apr 2017
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GlennR
Yup, if you want to drive customers away from a pub put on live Irish music. ;)

The Cricketers is now a Thai restaurant.
Apr 2017
11:31am, 5 Apr 2017
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Ceratonia
Yes, run by Noi, who is the auntie/sister/cousin of most of the other Thai chefs in the area. I suspect she doesn't 100% pass on her secrets though, as her cookery is always a notch above the others.

I think it's that pubs that don't have any customers and are on the way to closing down anyway are more likely to let a random bunch of people turn up once a week and sit round a table to play music, provided they actually buy some drinks.
Apr 2017
11:38am, 5 Apr 2017
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HellsBells
I used to live opposite The Cricketers and between The Elm Tree and the Free Press - I always wondered how 3 pubs managed to survive within 10 yards of each other. In those days Chris Lloyd had the Press before he moved on to the Cambridge Blue, it was the first non-smoking pub in Cambridge and Debbie his wife did great veggie food. There was a photo of my husband coxing in 1972 on the wall - wonder where that went
Apr 2017
11:40am, 5 Apr 2017
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GlennR
Are you sure it's not still there? Still plenty of that paraphernalia - I was there on Sunday.
Apr 2017
11:53am, 5 Apr 2017
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HellsBells
We might have to pop in to look :-)
Apr 2017
3:07pm, 5 Apr 2017
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ndellar
My old school (Parkside) was in the middle of those 3 pubs. Probably had good custom from the teachers!
Apr 2017
3:12pm, 5 Apr 2017
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GlennR
That's the Grammar School for Girls as far as I'm concerned. Before your time I know.
Apr 2017
10:30pm, 6 Apr 2017
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RichHL
Why does everybody* think I'm scribbling shitty Latin on walls?

(*Okay, two of you.)
Apr 2017
6:59am, 7 Apr 2017
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GregP
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About This Thread

Maintained by RichHL
Okay, here it is. Again. And again. And yet again. And once more. And this time with feeling. And this time in the summer which probably means it's going to piss it down. And now again at Christmas. And this time not even in East Anglia, really (which is probably just as well). And back in Cambridge with bells on. And this time it's a bit Disnae. Yet again, eighth time for luck. Like Tokyo 2020, Jingle Mile 2020 has been postponed to 2021 but we can't afford a rebrand. Instead there is a Virtual Jingle Mile. Make up your own swears. And back for a Not The Jingle Mile 2020 In 2021 thanks to Hells Bells. The Jingle Mile 2020 is happening in 2022, thanks to the magic of television. (It's not the magic of television.)

fetcheveryone.com/races/jingle-mile-2022-it-apos-s-happening-again-7105729

Saturday 3 December 2022
12:00pm - 2:00pm

Cost £5.00

Directions to the track:

DON'T ENTER WILBERFORCE ROAD FROM MADINGLEY ROAD!

It's blocked off about a hundred yards down.

From M11 - Exit at J12 (A603, Sandy & Cambridge), follow the A603 along Barton Road to Grange Road on your left. Up Grange Road to Adams Road on your left. The entrance to the track is at the end of Adams Road.

From A14 Eastbound - Exit at J31. Follow A1307 Huntingdon Road towards Cambridge city centre. Follow signs for A1134 Ring Road and turn right onto Mount Pleasant and follow the one-way system down onto Madingley Road. Turn right onto Madingley Road, first left onto Grange Road, and second right onto Adams Road. The entrance to the track is at the end of Adams Road.

From A428 Eastbound - Exit for Cambridge and American Cemetary. Follow the signs for Cambridge city centre past the American Cemetary, across the M11 bridge, Churchill College on your left until you reach Grange Road where you turn right. Take the second right onto Adams Road. The entrance to the track is at the end of Adams Road.

From A14 Westbound - Exit at J31 onto the M11 Southbound and follow the directions above.

For anyone who is coming by train, there is now a bus service U from the railway station to Robinson College, Grange Road, which leaves a half mile walk along Adams Road to the Wilberforce Road University Track.

You could also walk from the station. It's a couple of miles. Head out of the station and onto Station Road, right onto Hills Road then follow that all the way into the city centre to Petty Cury. Turn left there and go down onto the Market Square. Cross the square diagonally then bear down the side of Great St Mary's. Turn right at the end then immediately left down Senate House Passage. Follow Trinity Lane round to the right and then left onto Garrett Hostel Lane. Over the bridge then straight on over Queens Road and up Burrell's Walk. Bear right at the end and up onto Adams Road. The track is at the end of Adams Road.

Swimmers and paratroopers, you're on your own. Weirdos.

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