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Post by tugnutter on Jan 1, 2010 11:55:37 GMT 1
this chinese restaurant is next door to the VULCAN, and was clearly a pub at one time.....what was it,s name, thanks, mike
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Post by davidj on Jan 1, 2010 17:09:00 GMT 1
When I used to live in Merthyr many moons ago we would go around town to all the pubs we could, but always end up in the Chinese restaurant next to the Vulcan, and I'm sure that that was called Hing Hongs. If you ate there BEFORE 10pm the table cloths were out, if AFTER 10pm, down to tables only. There used to be queues waiting to get in there on the weekends.
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Post by tony47 on Jan 4, 2010 9:57:36 GMT 1
quite right , it was once a pub , it was called " Ye Olde Express "
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Post by ynysfachman1 on Jan 9, 2010 22:44:10 GMT 1
paddy fennely ran it yrs ago great pint of scrumpy there..
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Post by lewy on Mar 7, 2010 23:34:26 GMT 1
Yeah, my old crowd drank at the express back room, across the alley from the betting shop and Hing Hongs in the late 60's. It was unpretentious to say the least! One famous patron was an unemployed shepherd who used to collect the empties for a pint of scrumpy.
You could pretty much be left alone and get away with all sorts of stuff in there - The only person that I remember ever getting thrown out was Malcolm Griffiths who came in through the urinal on a horse and ordered a bucket of cider from Jerry.
I can still hear Jerry's "time" call - "that's it en boys"
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