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The Golden Rule was situated on Main Road South. This pub is now in residential use.

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For much of the late 20th century this was a thriving free house although it didn't initially sell real ale. In 1976 Tim Amsden (I believe it was he) found it to be 'groaning at the floorboards with gimcrack nonsense of the 'you don't have to be mad to work here but it helps' variety'. But despite this it soon joined the fold and on Friday and Saturday nights it was very much 'standing room only' that was if you could even get through the door. It went on to grace several Good Beer Guides but somehow or another it lost its way and when I last visited it on the way back from a football match in 2007, I found it sadly down at heel. It closed the following year and is much mourned.

Chiltern Tapler - Spring 2016 edition

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Name	Dates	Comments
Allan Friswell	mid 1970s	Bernie was in charge and there were many lock-ins. Fabulous evenings with good real ales whose names, I'm afraid, escape me. He was somewhat eccentric in his approach to even his best known customers, barring anyone on a whim and then welcoming them back next day without any sign of the previous night's conviction. Great evenings.