Tuesday 28 June: DUNCOMBE ARMS, HERTFORD (Malcolm Allen, Chris Haden, Mike Horsman, Gerry Murphy, Elvis Pile, Steve Stott, Andrew Swift)
COMMENT: a decent cheap lunch in a town centre pub. The Duncombe Arms is named after a local MP, Thomas Slingsby Duncombe (MP for Hertford 1826-32, afterwards MP for Finsbury 1834-61). Like some more modern MPs, he combined radical politics with snazzy dressing, dubious finances, loose women and a penchant for publicity. Naturally all this endeared him to the electorate. We enjoyed our lunch, with the interviewer in our midst establishing that our very nice and unusually on-the-ball waitress was actually a student waiting to take up her university course. Probably not the first or last time we will meet that on the Odyssey..
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