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Portland Arms Hotel
Cheers, grandpa
This glass must be nearly a hundred years old; it is always used as a champagne glass and that’s how I always think of it, although it’s not the traditional shape. The set I have belonged to my grandpa from when he had a pub called the Portland Arms in Cambridge. He died in 1950 […]
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My locals
I’ve always been a pub person, I guess because my dad Donald was; he had been brought up in a pub, the Portland Arms Hotel, and for him pubs were a place to meet friends and socialise. As we grew up as children, his local was not the Portland; his parents no longer had the pub after 1950, and Donald went to the New […]
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