Abby Sale- Bit late tonite but I will do my best, and PM you in due time. Don't forget the round competitions of improvising verses in a Crowd. This one got me thrown out of the East Kent PH in Whitstable (KENT) some 15 years ago. (I think "Dead Horse" might have been present)

" Oh the Land lords name is Dicky
And his singing's very Trickey
It is very thin and flat,
And his beers a lot like that !.

Have you ever saw etc."

My late father new many, both 'Rugby' and satirical, I wish I'd recorded them.

Barford Hatches - a google search just returns various forms of "Cosher Bailey". Local, very hazey, 'folk memories' sugests it may have been Dowlais Common Near Merthyr, but a search of a modern ordinance survey map gives no match. I will try some of the older maps in the Glamorgan record office in Cardiff one weekend.

Dead Horse, half the hoodeners, including Mark Lawson were present that night in the East Kent - And if I was drinking Bass in the 'Royal Oak in Ystrad Mynach it's becos the Landlord there only has "Spitfire" in as his guest Ale one week in 5 !

Gareth