Originally Posted by
Doris Mousdale
....I think one of the reasons for stopping this great fund raising event was the infamous pub crawl when the students tried to visit as many pubs on a designated list and drink them dry around Liverpool 8. The Cracke Phil, Augustus John, Blackburn etc all made a donation. Strated about 10 in the morning and went on until closing time which used to be 10pm in those days.
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I remember two events, one was the Engineers Beer Race - a set course of of around 2 miles and about 8 pubs. Timed event, with a minimum time in each pub and time subtracted of your total time for each pint drunk after the first one at each pub. To make it trickier it was a partners race and you had to enter and leave each pub with your race partner - towards the end the less drunk one had to carry the other to the last pubs...
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Scoring was difficult beacuse the score keepers kept consuming beer at ther respective pub and couldn't read their writing...
A separate event was the "drink the pub dry" and we actually did it one night by picking a small pub the day before their delivery. I think it was a little pub on Mulberry St. - does that sound right?
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