Haunch Links
We have to have some Haunch links - some for the lottery and some for the Pub.
Lottery links....
Haunch Links....
Have you heard about the renovation of the Haunch of Venison ? It's enough to make your blood boil. Does "The lounge" sound familiar? Now that we have had our very own renovation I wonder if "The Lounge" is pretentious. Or chic, or....
Adam Edwards has seen the refurbished Haunch. The real one. My! He did enjoy it! "Redolent of pledge and shaved parmesan." And I thought that was the Courage Best Bitter?
There are many leaflets in the Haunch recounting how
Churchill and Eisenhower
met
for a session in the Horsebox. This seems to me -
unlikely. One group of people who did meet in the Horsebox appear to
have been the founders of the Salisbury Amateur Operatic Society. Founder
members are said to have come up with the idea in the "small
room" in the
Haunch in 1908. The first performance, given the following year, was
"The Pirates of
Penzance". This maintains my long held view that the
Horsebox is indeed the Function room.
Now - the late Rupert Willcocks asked me to include a link to the Official HoV Website. He wanted to draw your attention to the 1909 brochure which you can see on the right hand side of the page. Do have a look at it.
Netgoth advises Goths on where to go drinking. And the Haunch
has lots of Gothic features, so it does. Netgoth tells us that the hand was actually found
in a corner of the Pub. (What will
people leave behind next?) They say this happened during renovation in 1911.
Roger Protz edits the Good Beer Guide and writes on Pubs and beer. Roger says that you can see the "mummified hand of an unfortunate card player who was caught cheating in the 18th century and had his offending limb hacked off." He goes on to tell of a ghost - the White Lady - as described to him by Vicky Leroy, giving off a smell "like newly dug earth, or washing up liquid". I thought that was the Courage best too. On second thoughts - perhaps it was the Directors?
Alas poor hand.....it's been pinched. So it was reported by the BBC. Was it really stolen? Was it a dastardly plot by Smersh? Or was it simply the hand deciding that as everyone else had left it was time to wave a couple of fingers, and go travelling?
Kelly's Directory has been in print since 1799. It still is. The directory is used for listing industrial and service sector information. In the nineteenth century this included - lists of Pubs and where they were in Salisbury. There are lists for 1848 and 1880. Which ones have you been in?
And finally....not so much of a link. Long ago, there was a place you could go and sit away from the hordes. John Pengleaux took himself there one night when he thought he was about to expire. When licensing laws were licensing laws, people hid here before 6pm, unseen from the street. Anyone who is anyone (Churchill and Eisenhower excluded) has had a deep, meaningful, perhaps emotional, conversation in this little room - and then been unable to remember the next day just exactly what it was about or even who was there. It's all gone now of course.
The House of Lords
Rest in Peace
That's enough links for now....