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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]I was very interested to see that it was still called "t' Navi" by your grandad. The modern trend for renaming pubs may not be that modern after all!!!! I have heard the story of moving from one room to another at closing time before. I'm not sure that it can have been the Great Northern though - I've looked at quite a few old maps, and the county boundary never seems to have strayed that far from the Erewash. But who can be sure? Perhaps a more likely candidate would have been the New Inn, that was next to the river (on the Notts side), or the Old Navigation (as opposed to the Junction Navigation), which was also next to the Erewash. The story of the fiddle with the raffle is a new one on me - I bet the landlord was really popular! [/quote]
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Re: The Great Northern
replied on: 12/17/2002 12:10:31 AM

I was very interested to see that it was still called "t' Navi" by your grandad. The modern trend for renaming pubs may not be that modern after all!!!!

I have heard the story of moving from one room to another at closing time before. I'm not sure that it can have been the Great Northern though - I've looked at quite a few old maps, and the county boundary never seems to have strayed that far from the Erewash. But who can be sure? Perhaps a more likely candidate would have been the New Inn, that was next to the river (on the Notts side), or the Old Navigation (as opposed to the Junction Navigation), which was also next to the Erewash.

The story of the fiddle with the raffle is a new one on me - I bet the landlord was really popular!

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