Monday, 17 August 2009

Another Chelmsley Pub closes

The Bluebell formerly known as Woodies and the Old Aquarius as shut down,can't ever see it reopening with the state of the pub trade today. I have some fond memories of this boozer had many a piss up in there in my youth. That makes it now 4 pubs left on the Wood, the Centurion, the Kingfisher, the Prince Hal and the Greenwood.

The Old Aquarius pub

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In Flanders Fields

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander McCrae, MD (1872 – 1918)