Hi, > Does Bruce's Breweries still exist? I remember frequenting the Frog and > Firkin
there are still some Firkin pubs around but I don't think they're owned by Bruce's anymore. Haven't been into one in years. I remember going to one somewhere near Waterloo once with a friend who wasn't familiar with the Dogbloater Experience. At the end of the evening we got a black cab back and I distinctly remember sitting in the back of it on the way up Haverstock Hill while my mate leaned out the open door leaving a trail of puke all the way up to Hampstead. That must have been in the early 80s. He was working for nothing as an assistant to quite a well-known studio photographer, and living rent-free sleeping on my carpet. In the next door flat lived a nurse whose boyfriend was in the SPG (historical note: an elite police squad not noted for their liberal sympathies towards alternative life styles). PC Plod used to growl and snarl every time he saw one of us because he thought we were gay. To wind him up we used to put 'YMCA' on the stereo very loudly and sing along to it raucously. <g> Glad I was never on the other side of a riot shield & truncheon from him! --- Bob
