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Sidney Sussex?
Liz | 05.03.21 - 8:23 a.m. | #
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I think DG is an Oxford man
TomH | 05.03.21 - 8:46 a.m. | #
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No, I think he went to Salford. 60s brutalism was indeed under-appreciated architecture back then. But then again, 'the pub where it all kicked off' would be unhelpfully non-specific.
mark addy | 05.03.21 - 9:04 a.m. | #
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He went to Oxford and Hull, as he has described here before. As Hull doesn't feature, perhaps it was a commute by bus.
Paul | 05.03.21 - 9:06 a.m. | #
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Merton?
Huw | 05.03.21 - 9:37 a.m. | #
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Watford Grammar School for Boys?
As my son did in the 00s/10s.
MikeK | 05.03.21 - 9:50 a.m. | #
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If Oxford, would the pub where it all kicked off be a reference to the formation of Oxfam?
Nige | 05.03.21 - 10:00 a.m. | #
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An interesting piece: a mix of the commonplace and the profound.
I think it could quite easily be polished into a Larkinesque poem.
PB | 05.03.21 - 10:10 a.m. | #
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I think I can recognize at least part of that Oxford walk, am fairly sure where the pedestrian crossing is, and suspect the pub might be the Kings Arms.
Dominic H | 05.03.21 - 10:17 a.m. | #
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Where I live it seems it is all dodging and passing nasty bits and very little world of variety spreading out!
Cornish Cockney | 05.03.21 - 10:25 a.m. | #
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I also leapt to the conclusion "Merton", but the "in the back way" then suggests "not Chemistry".
Martin | 05.03.21 - 11:07 a.m. | #
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I suspect Corpus rather than Merton. I think I remember DG once mentioning a geography field trip, although I can't remember whether that was at school or university. Oxford's School of Geography is off South Parks Road, so perhaps that was DG's destination.
Oxonian | 05.03.21 - 11:37 a.m. | #
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Barrowfield JMI?
Texaco??
St Edward's???
Greyfriars????
Lord Stanley's Head?????
Bradders | 05.03.21 - 11:59 a.m. | #
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Narrowing alleyway = Magpie Lane?
LS | 05.03.21 - 1:40 p.m. | #
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I must have done the opposite journey to DG during my secondary school days at a slightly earlier period. Underground train and then a walk to Rickmansworth Grammar School from just down the road from Watford Grammar School.
Tones | 05.03.21 - 2:15 p.m. | #
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As an out of towner I think there was a certain pub in Oxford that had a reputation in the 80’s for things “kicking off”. Although I suspect DG may have used a subtly different meaning
Difficult to describe walks, without doxxing yourself
A possible synchronicity I might have experienced.
We’d be “late, late, late, late, late” for school, when passing under the railway bridge at the same time a train passed over. The same timed train I also used to catch, when late for work.
Late again | 05.03.21 - 2:24 p.m. | #
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Uni looks like the line at about 12 o'clock and could be Oriel or BNC - Maths Institute
John | 05.03.21 - 4:32 p.m. | #
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My most common walk in the last 6-7 years hasn't changed, even over the pandemic. Before I was walking to the station to go to a job, but now I walk to and from the station as something to do.
R2 | 05.03.21 - 5:45 p.m. | #
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Apart from my first school none of my journeys have been much under an hour, mostly by train.
I'd wondered about the Hull year as I might have recognised some of the landmarks (former tram depot, chippy, a couple of churches, cream phone box). DG said a while back it was half a mile from the uni so definitely not a bus job.
Andrew S | 05.03.21 - 10:57 p.m. | #
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Step forward DG, le Ray Davies de nos jours. Add some "characters", real or imaginary, and...le Charles Dickens de nos jours.
tunnelscansufferclosures | 08.03.21 - 6:30 p.m. | #
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