1973: The Death Of The Local Pub?

Meet Charlie Large "Village Poet Laurette" of Old Buckenham in Norfolk who was still welcome in what used to be his local pub even though it had been forced to close and was now a private home.

The former landlady even kept Charlie's old seat where it used to be!

Clip taken from Man Alive: Pop Into Your Local - Before it Disappears, originally broadcast on BBC Two, 7 March, 1973.

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