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The Parson & Clerk

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Once called the Royal Oak as a reference to King Charles who watched a Civil War battle from nearby Kingstanding renamed the Parson & Clerk by John Gough of Perry Hall who fought a lawsuit with a local cleric and won and after Gough placed two figure on top of the house of a parson bowed in prayer and a cleric with an axe about to chop off his head
 

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We went to The Parson and Clerk last year for a cavery on Sunday. It was like a cattle market and the lads serving the meat had obviously been to charm school their manners were awful:rolleyes: We would have gone elsewhere but were meeting family there!:(
 
The Parson & Clerk was the first pub I ever went to... not into, because I must've only been about seven or eight years old!

My Dad was a devil for going blackberry picking in Sutton Park on a Sunday morning... we used to cycle there and stop at the pub on the way back. He didn't drink but quite liked a shandy on a warm summer's day. He always got me a glass of lemonade... and after I'd drunk half of it, he'd pour some of his shandy into it! I was convinced I was drinking beer! :rolleyes:

He always bought me a bag of Nibbets too... anyone else remember those? Like crisps but kind of bubbly crispy strips, with a flavour all of their own! The nearest I've ever found to that taste is Smith's Square Shaped Crisps... plain, of course! ;)

Many years later, my sister had her wedding reception there... I was the Best Man, looking super-cool in my flared jeans and cheesecloth shirt! Oh, come on, it was 1974! :cool:
 
I don't either Alf. I was amazed at how many flavours that are sold now. I once went into the Three Tuns in Pershore and asked for a bag of crisps.
The barman reeled off at least a dozen flavours and then said to me "Where have you been for the last few years?" This was in 1972!
 
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