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Lest we forget - The Empress on Thoday Street

Still scruffy & grumpy after all of these years - your corrospondent, and Dave of the Empress

So, to an impromptu visit to the fens over the weekend, where the longest established landlord in Cambridge, Dave of the Empress, was hosting a party to commemorate his retirement from the trade after 27 glorious years, 21 of which were spent at the Empress. We were not the only people to have made the visit especially, and he was quite touched at the turnout, as the pub as rammed. Those who have visited the pub over the years will recall a couple of Sober’s old lecturers, John James and Pat were a permanent fixture on the pub’s wooden benches, and Liz decided that an occasion such as this would be a good time to present Sober’s compliments to them. “Ah yes”, John James recalled when Liz mentioned Sober, “he wrote a dissertation on Martin Scorsese called “The Badfella”. As if he could ever forget such a memorable piece of work. And such a bad pun.