Ian Moore – Going to Le Havre overnight

So, good memories of Emma’s then?

Oh fantastic, some great nights in there. Absolutely brilliant nights, oh my God. Yeah, we went in there and decided that we’d all go in there dressed in black tights except what we’d done was, we went round some of the Charity Shops and collected a whole load of suits and makeshift things that we could do, get a bow tie so we all had bow ties, and there was probably about a dozen of us, but we’d cut the trousers off at the knees and we had 18-hole Doc Martin boots on when we went in the place.

It was just a bit of a riot, just for something to do.

It’s the sort of thing you did.

Back in those days when the Pubs used to shut at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, there was actually a 4 o’clock sailing from Portsmouth Harbour going over to Le Havre, and it was overnight and then it would come back again, and it would get back here at 6 o’clock the following morning, so we’d jump out of the Pub here, go straight across the other side and we’d jump on the Ferry, all take our passports with us, because the Bar opened as soon as you got onboard.

So, we carried on drinking in there and we’d drink all the way through the night and all the back until 6 o’clock in the morning ‘til it came back again. We’d never leave the boat. And then everybody would go back to Dolphin, we’d all have a shower …