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Thread #73745   Message #1285026
Posted By: GUEST,skipy
30-Sep-04 - 01:11 PM
Thread Name: UK Folk festivals
Subject: RE: UK Folk festivals
Stanford in the Vale Folk Festival ceased to be when the landlord started charging £1-00 for tap water in 1994.
What made it worse was the fact that he was selling it to the morris teams in sweltering heat while they where dancing outside his pub.
This was also a Sunday lunch time with teams due to DRIVE to various parts of the country after drinking his beer & eating his food since Friday.
The Oxford Mail carried the story on it's Monday front page saying "boycott this pub"
Then we set up White Horse & the rest is history.
Sorry it's a bit of a tangent but I am still MAD!

Anyone feel a "bad landlord tghread coming on"?

Regards Skipy