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	Picture source: MJ Crook
The Greyhound was situated between Worcester Street and the Gloucester Green bus station. This pub was present by 1794 when the publican was William Pingree. It closed in the mid 1980s and has now been converted to apartments.
Source: Keith Stevens.
I remember the Greyhound on Gloucester Green from my student days at Oxford in the mid-1970s. On one evening in the week - I can't remember which one - there was an open session of political song in a room on the first floor. The evening was presided over, as I remember, by two Catholic priests (though not wearing dog collars) and the songs - sung with great gusto by those present - were broadly left wing and Irish Republican. The evening usually ended up with Bandiera Rossa - and there would be a competition between Communists and Anarchists to out sing each other in the concluding lines: 'e viva communismo/anarchismo e la libertad'
Andrew Whitehead (April 2020)
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Picture source: Colin