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The Cogers was situated at 9 Salisbury Court. The name comes from the word 'cogitate' as it became a place for discussion, food and drink.

Source: Mary Spacey

I worked at The Press Association as a trainee reporter in the mid-1960s and The Cogers was the regular drinking hole for PA staff, especially the editorial staff. Another trainee and myself thought it would be a great joke to put a memo on the message board: An editorial decision that, following complaints from the Cogers management, PA reporters were henceforth banned from drinking in the bar. It was only there a minute or less before one reporter read it, told his colleagues, and had organised a protest group which was soon openly confronting the editor who denied all knowledge of the order and was totally disbelieved. There then followed a witchhunt to discover who had perpetrated this fraud. We never did own up to the joke which had totally backfired.

Roy Arber (October 2020)

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