the goverment is a very tightly sealed club in which powerfull indeviduals fight for the right to lead the great nation out of its great problems right?

i highly doubt that one ,,

we are voting for a select few “party candidates”  who seam to come out of nowere with strange backgrounds, and with no real knowledge of who they are, and we as a society vote them into power! doesent this all seem a little strange to anyone else but me?

we follow their rules , and obide by their laws at all costs or we are punished, we are frown into jail and labeld a convict, when many times people were only demonstrating their right to protest against something that is wrong. the goverment has the nation wrapped round its finger, as it grows further and further into bankrupsy we as citizens pay more and more tax to fund their debts to the other nations who strangle the people for their currency.

change is needed, and needed soon

soon the pound will be worthless and people will starve and perish for the mistakes of the so called goverment that we so badly trust, they have got the world so distracted by going to work, paying bills, providing for the family, so that we dont see the big picture. that the goverment doesent want us to be free, no not at all. 

The center’s technical director, Felix Rodriguez Lloret said yesterday this newspaper that having started from a photograph in the book located Strait of Joaquin Čeština, the author interviewed, searched newspaper archives, shipping records, they located “infinity” of pages Internet and even make hiking in different outputs different places on the coast, in addition to coastal navigation. Now, he said, “we can only dive in the defined area only to discover the wreck of the Queen Steamship Company.

This is a shipwreck more on our shores, of a ship, who suffered “the fury of the sea” when he sailed for London after having sailed from Calcutta, led by their captain, Vallace. However, it reached its destination.

Documented in the story of what happened to the boat, Lloret Rodriguez refers to operation in a difficult geographical area and even in 1874 and worked the lights of Punta Europa, Gibraltar, Isle of pigeons in rate and Isla Verde, Algeciras, “the dangerous shoals and reefs near Punta Carnero were not marked up that same year, when the lighthouse was officially opened.”

In late February, the British steamer, with its 371.4 meters in length, 36, 2 meters wide, a depth of 9 meters and a gross tonnage of 2,630 tons, crossing the Suez Canal, opened in 1869. On board were 56 crew of the ship and a passage of 13 people, including HJAllardice religious, missionary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, his wife and three children.

In the second week of March, the Queen Elizabeth enfiladed the entrance of the Strait of Gibraltar. A strong gale from the southeast, which usually brings heavy showers darken the sky, “the drift towards the Spanish coast.” The lookout spots a beacon, the new lighthouse at Punta Carnero. A lighthouse, which the unknown story the captain, who mistakes him for the Punta Europa, “turning maneuver to starboard, believed to be already in the Bay so badly that at 20:45 hours, the town plays a rock the shoals of Punta La Parra, northern Guadalmesí Cove, heading directly Cala Parra “, causing a major leak, leaving the ship adrift.

It mentions the possibility that the police of Cala Arenillas give the alarm, while the boats are lost auxiliaries. Calafate police arrive, Arenillas, Tolman and Cala Strong and the few inhabitants of the town of Guadalmesí and Dehesa de la Punta, but can not afford.

With the first light of day, the captain ordered the only boat hauling the rest. Make three trips complete with eight people. The second feature three Spanish sailors who run the dinghy with a rope from the ground. But in the fourth, the boat capsized due to overload of 23 people, including religious, family and the three Spanish. The 25 latest castaways are saved after the British consul at Algeciras achieve a device capable of launching a life cable with rockets, transported on the backs of mules, perhaps via Pelayo-Hub, Tolman, taking two days to arrive.

Prince Philip, 90, was flown to Papworth Hospital Cambridgeshire on December 23 after suffering chest pains during preparations for the Royal family’s Christmas celebrations at Sandringham.

A “minimally invasive procedure of coronary stenting” was successfully performed on the Prince and he was said to have had a “good night” in hospital.

The Queen arrived in one of three green Range Rovers at around 11am on Christmas Eve – a day before her annual Christmas speech extolled the virtues of the family.

She was flown from Sandringham by helicopter, which touched down near the hospital, and visited the Duke of Edinburgh for around 45 minutes. She was joined by the Duke of York, Earl of Wessex and the Princess Royal.

The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall also travelled to Papworth Hospital by car from Highgrove to visit the Duke.

Four vehicles pulled into the Cambridgeshire hospital at around 11.50am – including a silver estate carrying the Duchess in the front and Prince Charles in the back. The Queen left around midday.

The Duke was described was in “good spirits” according to a spokesman for Buckingham Palace, but he is expected to remain under observation overnight at the hospital.

The spokesman said: “The Duke is in good spirits. I suspect that he will stay overnight but imagine he will be eager to leave knowing him.

“The Queen has left reassured – knowing he is in good spirits. Christmas plans tomorrow will go ahead with or without Prince Philip.

“I’m not aware of any change. I’m sure the Queen is very concerned of course – but is now reassured.

“We are not commenting further on his condition. There has been no indication at all that there will be any further visits.

“We do not know when he will be released but I imagine he will remain here for a short time.”

A crowd of around 40 well-wishers gathered outside the hospital on Saturday morning.

Emma Swadling, 36, who lives near Papworth Hospital with husband Keith, 40, said: “We heard the helicopter coming over last night at about 7pm – it shook our house.

“It is a huge thing to have him here. We’ve lived here all our life and never known a royal at this hospital before.

“It is not a complicated surgery so we hope he will be fine.”

Terry Hutt, 76, a retired carpenter, turned up at the hospital wearing a smart red, white and blue suit.

The grandfather-of-three said: “I think he’s a strong old boy – he speaks his mind and he’s hardworking and I respect that.

“Some people like what he says and some people don’t. I have brought him a Father Christmas ornament as a gift today – I don’t think he’s man of flowers.

“I hope this will cheer him up. I’m here to show respect. About three months ago I was here myself – it is a good place to be and I’m sure he will get better.”

Papworth is the UK’s largest specialist cardiothoracic hospital and the country’s main heart and lung transplant centre.

It treats more than 22,800 inpatient and day cases and 53,400 outpatients each year.

Buckingham Palace said he was treated for a blocked coronary artery and had a successful “invasive procedure of coronary stenting”.

“The Duke of Edinburgh had a good night,” said a spokeswoman for the Palace.

Prince Philip had been due to spend Christmas with members of the royal family – including grandson Prince William and his wife Catherine – at the Sandringham royal estate in eastern England, but he may have to spend the holiday in a hospital bed.

In no other part of society would this be acceptable. In work it is illegal to openly discriminate against women.

Looking at history, we can see that Queens have been just as effective rulers as Kings. Queen Elizabeth 1 and Queen Victoria, have been two of Great Britian’s most successful and famous monarchs.

Being King or Queen is not about going to war, or anything else that men may be more fitted to. it is

Emma returns home to finish her night by celebrating her birthday alone. Just as she blows out the candles to make a wish, her doorbell rings. She finds a young boy, Henry, who drops a bomb on her. He’s the child she gave up for adoption ten years ago. After Henry tries to bluff Emma about not caring if she calls the cops, Emma tells him she has a skill, “let’s call it a superpower. I can tell when anyone is lying. And you, kid–are.” He stops Emma and pleads with her not to call the cops but to take him home, back to the town of Storybrooke, Maine. Emma reluctantly agrees. On the way, she notices Henry holding a fairy tale book. Henry insists all the stories in it are true. When Emma scoffs at that assertion, he tells her she should know they’re true because she’s in it. Emma just shakes her head at him, “Kid, you’ve got problems.” Henry confidently replies, “Yup. And you’re gonna fix them.”

In Fairy Tale Land, Snow White and Charming make a deal with the imprisoned and malevolent Rumpelstiltskin to find out the future in an effort to save their unborn child. He agrees to give them the information as long as he gets the name of their unborn child in return. Snow White agrees. They learn of the Queen’s inevitable magic curse that will stop time and send everyone from Fairy Tale Land to a place where there will be no more happy endings. He tells them to get their child to safety. In 28 years she will return to find them and the final battle will begin. As Snow and Charming leave, Rumpelstiltskin demands to get his end of the deal. With great reluctance Snow White turns, “Emma. Her name is Emma.”

Once in Storybrooke, Henry introduces Emma to Archie, his psychiatrist. Once Archie leaves, Henry tells Emma that Archie is really Jiminy Cricket from the fairy tales in his book. Henry goes on to tell her that everyone in Storybrooke is actually a fairy tale character from his book but that they are trapped and frozen in time because of the Evil Queen’s curse. He points to the clock tower and tells Emma that it hasn’t moved all his life. No one in the town remembers their fairy tale lives. When Emma asks why anyone doesn’t leave, Henry says that bad things will happen.

Back in Fairy Tale Land, Snow White and Charming have been given a way to save their child by the Blue Fairy. She gives them a magical tree that when made into a vessel can ward off any curse, but the catch is it can hold only one–perfect for Snow and her unborn baby. Emma takes Henry home and meets his mother Regina–it’s the Evil Queen from Fairy Tale Land. She is not at all happy to see Emma and suggests that it’s time for her to go back to where she came from. Emma takes the hint and leaves. While on the road out of town a wolf appears in front of her.

She swerves and crashes on the side of the road. She wakes up to find herself in jail and is told by the sheriff, Graham, that he found her on the road leading out of town. Regina shows up and tells them Henry is missing again. Emma agrees to help find him. The trail leads him to Henry’s teacher, Mary Margaret, who looks exactly like—Snow White. Mary Margaret tells Emma she can probably find Henry at his “ castle.” In Fairy Tale Land, the Queen has enacted her curse, which is engulfing the land. As Snow delivers baby Emma early, the Queen raids the castle with her forces searching for the newborn. Since the magical vessel can hold only one person, Snow and Charming make the heartbreaking decision to put their newborn child Emma in it in an effort to get her to safety. Charming battles the Queen’s men and gets Emma into the safety of a wardrobe carved out of the tree. As he is struck down, he sees that Emma is gone when the Queen’s men break into the wardrobe. He closes his eyes with a quiet satisfaction. Snow finds Charming as the Queen bursts in. But just as the Queen thinks she’s won, she learns that Snow White and Charming were able to save their daughter and get her to safety. No matter, as the Queen laughs manically as the mist created by her curse swirls in a vortex around them. Snow asks where they are going. The Queen says, “Somewhere horrible.

Absolutely horrible. A place where the only happy ending will be mine.” Then the blackness consumes them all. Emma finds Henry at his “castle”, a rundown playground by the water’s edge. She notices he’s a little down because the clock tower still hasn’t moved. He thought once he brought her back to town the clock tower would move and things would start to change. When Emma gets impatient with his belief that everyone in town is a fairy tale character, he just smiles and tells her it’s okay. She’s only acting that way because she feels guilty for giving him up. Henry tells Emma that it’s okay she gave him up because he knows she wanted him to have the best chance.

This hits Emma hard. She admits that he’s right, “I wanted you to have your best chance. But it’s not with me.” Henry pushes for her to stay, to help break the curse. Emma still doesn’t believe him but smiles at his insistence and tells him it’s time to go home. Once home, Henry blows right by Regina without saying a word and heads to his room. Regina thanks Emma for bringing her son home, and then lays into her.

Regina reminds her that she is his mother because Emma gave up that right a long time ago. She tells Emma it’s time for her to leave town, “Because if you don’t? I will destroy you if it’s the last thing I do.” Emma stands resolute as Regina heads into the house but before she makes it in, Emma asks Regina, “Do you love him?” Regina is surprised by the question and Emma asks it again. Regina replies, “Of course I love him.” It’s a stare down. Regina then slams the door on Emma.

What did Emma take away from that? Did her “superpower” reveal it to be the truth or a lie? Later that night, we find Mary Margaret volunteering at the hospital, placing flowers by sick patients’ bedsides. She enters a room to place flowers next to a John Doe coma patient, as we pull back we see that it’s none other than Prince Charming. Mary Margaret sets the flowers down, turns and leaves. She has no idea this is her Prince Charming.

Meanwhile, Emma decides to stay in town and gets a room at Granny’s Bed & Breakfast. While she’s checking in, Emma meets Mr. Gold, who looks eerily like a cleaned up version of Rumpelstiltskin–every bit as intimidating. When asked how long she plans on staying in Storybrooke, Emma replies, just a week. As she’s handed her key, we cut to Henry, looking intently out his bedroom window at the clock tower. And then… the big hand moves. As the clock ticks Henry breaks into a big grin, hopeful that everything is about to change.

Summary by Bryan Gracia

In 1492 Columbus set off from Spain to the Unknown across the  Blue Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. He was an Italian by birth whose spirit of adventure into the unknown was phenomenal. Many great historians dispute the story that he discovered America-a good number however agree that he opened up the way into the Americas and helped other nations in Europe at the time explore the American continents.

His earlier attempts to sail to America were turned down three or four times even when he demonstrated his determination by making an egg stand on its sharp edge on the royal table. He later took his lobby tactics to  Queen Isabella of Spain, playing on her  religious sentiments all the way until he won her over with such well dressed words:

“God gave you all of this and made you Queen of Spain with a healthy marriage and a successful mother and a queen and all this things,….. I believe God’s wish is for you to convert the ignorant masses of Asia,”

He got his way to the Americas with ship and crew and became the first European to set foot on the American continent. Yet it is interesting to note that when he left Spain, he didn’t know where he was going and when he got there and came back, he didn’t even know where he’d been and he did it all on borrowed money.

To the eyes of many scholars, he is both a hero and a villain of history. He exported atrocities to the Americas and from the very day he set foot on the American shores, a systematic policy of  extermination of the indigenous peoples began. To the Italian Americans, he is the “Man” who wrote the Italian version of history in the Americas.

Today the world celebrates Columbus Day in the eternal remembrance of this great and brave Italian explorer. While New York City hosts the largest Columbus Day parade every year, San Francisco hosts the oldest, yet amazingly, on his very death bed, Columbus was still convinced that his journeys accross the Ocean blue had actually taken him along the east coast of Asia.

Walter Raleigh was born on 22 January, 1552, near Budleigh Salterton in Devonshire. He was the youngest of 5 boys, 3 of whom were his half-brothers by his mother, Catherine Champermowne’s, previous marriage. His family were wealthy landowners who were also Protestants who lived in fear of their lives during the reign of the Catholic Queen Mary. They were friends of Agnes Prest who was burned to death for practising her faith at Exeter, and at one point Walter’s father, also Walter, was forced to go into hiding to avoid execution. So early in his most formative years he developed  a life-long hatred of Roman Catholicism. Despite the family’s perilous position, however, they had connections to the Royal Court; Raleigh’s mother was the niece of Kat Ashley, the Governess of the future Queen Elizabeth.

Little is known of Walter’s early life but in 1568, aged 16, he was registered as an Undergraduate at Oxford University, though he never attended. Likewise, in 1575, he was down to study Law at the Middle Temple but again never attended. It would appear that throughout this time he was on the Continent serving as a soldier of fortune.

By 1579, Walter Raleigh was in Ireland where he helped put down the so-called Desmond Rebellions against increasing English influence in the country. On 12 September, 1580, 600 Italian troops who had been dispatched by the Vatican to support the Rebellion were forced to surrender at the fortress of Dunan Oir. Disarmed they were then summarily put to death. Raleigh was a pivotal figure in the massacre and personally killed a great many, giving full vent to his fury at anyone associated with the Roman Catholic faith.

Raleigh was richly rewarded for his loyal service in Ireland. He was granted lands and estates of more than 40,000 acres and became one of the wealthiest landowners in the newly-established colony of Munster, and he was by all accounts an unremittingly harsh and unsympathetic landlord.

His 17 years as an Irish landowner were not particularly profitable, he had little head for business, and did little to assist his tenant farmers. He was, however, credited with having introduced the potato to Ireland. During his time there he also became friends with another Englishman who had profited from the colonisation, the poet Edmund Spenser, who encouraged him in his own writing and introduced him to many influential people.  His estates in Ireland did though provide him with the money to pursue his seafaring activities.

There were great rewards to be had raiding the trade routes between South America and Spain. Spanish Galleons laden with gold were easy prey, and Raleigh was eager to take his share. Like both Sir Francis Drake and Sir Martin Frobisher, his contemporaries, Raleigh was committing piracy. But it was a piracy that Queen Elizabeth was willing to turn a blind eye to as long as the money kept rolling into her coffers.

Raleigh was desperate to become an accepted member of the Royal Court. He loitered around its corridors, begged for an audience with the Queen, wrote poetry in her honour, and it was said in 1581 that he lay a cloak across a puddle in the Queen’s path. Whether it was true or not (and a cloak does appear on his coat-of-arms) it failed to get him the introduction he so desired. As a commoner he knew that would be almost impossible for him to do so. Something more had to be done.  

In 1584, along with some business associates, he financed and led an expedition to North America where he established the first European Colony at Roanoke in an area he named Virginia in the Virgin Queens honour. Upon his return to England he was lauded as a hero. Now he got his much-cherished audience with the Queen and proceeded to charm her with tales of his adventure and with exotic goods such as tobacco and the potato. The expedition, however, had made no money, and nothing was closer to Elizabeth’s heart than money. Still, she was flattered and in 1585 she knighted him Sir Walter Raleigh on the deck of his flagship the Golden Hind.

Raleigh now had what he had always desired, a place at Court and the confidence of the Queen, but he was not popular.  At over six feet tall he was strong, athletic, a fine swordsman, and behaved with a swagger that made him few friends. He never lost the strong West Country accent that singled him out at Court, was often outspoken, and liked to have the last word in any argument. The enmity he caused would not diminish with time.

In 1587, a second expedition to Roanoke was led by Raleigh’s business partner, John White. The fleet carried supplies and more settlers with the intention of establishing a formal Colony with White as its Governor. Their arrival at Roanoke was delayed by some weeks as they went in pursuit of Spanish treasure. The delay may have been fatal because when they finally disembarked at Roanoke they found the Colonists gone. They had been told that should they have to relocate at any time then they should etch the name of the place they were going to etched in the bark of trees. The only clue to their whereabouts was the word CROATAN. No trace of them was ever found.

Earlier in 1586, Raleigh commissioned the building of a ship to be built in Deptford he named the Ark Raleigh. A year later he cashed in on it when with the threat of the Armada the Queen felt obliged to purchase it from him for the sum of £5000. She renamed it the Ark Royal, one of the most iconic names in the history of the Royal Navy.

Raleigh did not play a significant role in the events of the Spanish Armada. He was given command of the defence of Devon and Cornwall and did not participate in any of the sea battles.

In 1591, Raleigh secretly married Elizabeth Throckmorton, one of the Queen’s ladies-in-waiting. Elizabeth was always intensely jealous of her suitors and was furious when she found out. She had Bess Throckmorton dismissed from her service and Raleigh imprisoned in the Tower of London. Bess would get her job back a year later but Sir Walter would have to wait longer to receive again the Queen’s favour. Even so, Bess and Sir Walter were to remain devoted to one another and she would run the family estates during her husbands frequent absences from home.

Sir Walter Raleigh was elected to the House of Commons on a number of occasions but the business of politics bored him. In 1594, he came into the possession of an account of a great Golden City that existed in what is now Venezuela. He set out to find it, he failed, but the attempt and the story of his adventures only served to further to enhance his reputation. His star continued to rise. In 1596, he participated in a successful attack upon the Spanish port of Cadiz, and in 1600, was appointed Governor of Jersey. 

On 24 March, 1603, Queen Elizabeth died. Her death left Sir Walter in a perilous position. He had never been popular at Court and his overbearing manner had made him a great many enemies. Elizabeth had always been his protector, now she was gone the knives were out. On 19 July, 1603, he was arrested and imprisoned in the Tower of London for his alleged involvement in a Catholic led conspiracy to replace the recently enthroned James I with his Catholic cousin, Lady Arbella Stuart. The allegations were based on hearsay only and everyone knew that the very idea that the rabidly anti-Catholic Sir Walter Raleigh would be involved in a plot to replace a Protestant King with a Catholic Queen were absurd. Nevertheless, the trial went ahead. Despite defending himself well, and at times even mocking his accusers, he was needless to say found guilty and sentenced to death. King James, however, commuted the sentence to one of imprisonment.    

Raleigh was to remain in the Tower, though he lived in great comfort, for the next 13 years. He spent his time composing verse and writing of his adventures. His wife was a frequent visitor and she would often stay overnight. Indeed, Raleigh’s son Carew was conceived whilst he was in prison. 

In 1616, he was released from the Tower on the promise that he could find El Dorado, the City of Gold. But there was no City of Gold, only the ever enticing prospect of being able to steal it from the Spanish. He attacked and ransacked the Spanish outpost at San Tome on the Orinoco River. But the days when arbitrary attacks upon Spanish possessions were seen as patriotic acts, were lauded, and reaped rich rewards were over. He returned home to London with little to show for his latest adventure and was met by the wrath of the Spanish Ambassador who demanded that James reimpose the death sentence upon Raleigh for this latest act of piracy. James was no friend of Raleigh’s, he remembered all too well his frequent and violent fulminations against his mother, Mary, Queen of Scots. He did not take much persuading.

On 29 October, 1618, Sir Walter Raleigh was taken to the Old Palace Yard in the Palace of Westminster to await execution. He was eager to get it over with, ” Let us dispatch Executioner; at this hour my ague comes upon me. I would not have my enemies think I quake from fear.” Upon seeing the axe that was to be used to behead him he touched its blade and remarked, ” This is a sharp medicine indeed.” His last words as his head lay upon the block were, ” Strike man, Strike!”  

Though his popularity had waned since his Elizabethan heyday, Sir Walter Raleigh remained the great English hero and the execution of this evidently aged 66 year old man did not go down well with the public, and his death was viewed by many as an act of vindictiveness on the part of James. Indeed, a leading Judge of the time remarked, ” Never has English justice been so degraded and injured as in the condemnation of the Honourable Sir Walter Raleigh.”   

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The unforgettable, iconic superstar Freddy Mercury, singer, songwriter, and amazing musician, was born Farookh Bulsara September 5, 1946, in Zanzibar, becoming famous as front-man of the iconic rock band Queen, strutting his mesmeric stuff with a unique and unforgettable style.

Who could ever forget the swagger, the incredible Adonis-like male beauty or the mastery of showmanship that was the signature of this most talented and innovative of singers. Having studied piano at a Bombay boarding school in India, this charismatic young man soon joined the Hectics, his first band.

Freddy studied at Ealing College of Art. his family reaching London in the 1960s, where he met and became firm friends future Queen members Roger Taylor and Brian May. In 1969, Mercury was lead singer with a group called Ibex, but in1971,with Taylor and May, met bassist John Deacon, the quartet dubbed Queen by Freddy started playing together.

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Queen’s music took a couple of years to really catch on, third album, Sheer Heart Attack , released1974,being their first big seller. The first hit Killer Queen was about a high-class call girl, perfectly mirroring the lifestyle of the openly gay Mercury, whom the song seemed to describe to perfection.

UK No. 2 and US No. 12 in the charts, a sound described as hard/glam rock, Queen had the perfect front man in the outrageous Freddy, in1975 coming up with album A Night at the Opera, featuring Bohemian Rhapsody, a seven-minute rock operetta written by Freddy.

It was the the skilful overdubbing of his voice that truly showed off his immaculate four-octave vocal range, and- this innovative track  hit no1 in the UK charts, becoming a big hit worldwide, and epitomizing everything that was iconic and magical about the inimitable Freddy Mercury.

He was always very open about his bisexuality, but kept his relationships to himself, being very private out of the limelight, though this rock icon did live a lavish lifestyle, loving champagne and an avid art collector, to the extent of once spending in excess of $400,000 for hand-painted china.

 Freddy was a party animal,throwing elaborate celebrations, flying friends to Ibiza on a particular birthday, to include fireworks and flamenco dancing in his planned festivities. His Lifestyle was what killed him, though, as he contracted the horrendous AIDS virus, no longer touring with the band after 1989, on November 23, 1991, releasing a statement confirming to the world what they already knew, made extra poignant by the fact that on the following day, AIDS-related bronchial pneumonia claimed his life at only 45 years of age at his London home.

Freddy had never wished to be an object of pity and curiosity, keeping his afflictions to himself, and rock lovers round the world mourned the loss of one of the most iconic performers of all time. Freddy would have been the most outrageous O.A.P. of them all, had he lived, and I for one would have loved to bear witness to that. What a loss his death truly was.

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Normally when a pub closes its doors for the last time, the first thing to vanish is the pub sign. Not so with The Empress. Queen Victoria, head of the British Empire in its heyday, survives over what is now a furniture store – an Empress without an empire.

It seems apt that she is isolated in the midst of the Asian community who’s lands she once dominated in life.  Her sign carries an air of sadness and lament for a by-gone golden age when Britain ruled the waves before the counties under her control flexed their muscles and fought for their right to independence. Queen Victoria, Empress of nothing.

Here  she is at her least amused, looking very sorry for herself, at the height of mourning for her love, Prince Albert. That the pub named in her honour has gone adds to the aura of sadness around this sign, but it is fantastic to see a sign survive so long after the pub has gone.

Arthur Chappell