yes the Bell and Pump was there in the years I was starting out. they booked a lot of my favourite artists - Derek Brimstone, Downes and Beer, The Ian campbell Folk Group, Ying Tong John. I seem to remember Victoria Wood getting a gig there. And Richard Stylgoe.

I think for a while Malc Stent's band The Timoneers were resident. Afterwards a bloke called Terry who played piano took over the residency.Agency.

It was a very showbiz sort of place. Run by Derek Grinell, and seemed to be the basis of his Perrots Folly Agency. Later on Derek moved to the Weston area, read on mudcat.

I can't remember playing there - although I was making a nuisance of myself most places asking for floorspots everywhere.