The Beehive pub, Prospect Hill, Swindon
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The Beehive pub, Prospect Hill, Swindon
Image: © Brian Robert Marshall Taken: 28 Jul 2007
A popular and quirky little pub on a flatiron site halfway up the hill to Old Town. For a while before the Berlin Wall came down it had a resident poet who was a refugee from Czechoslovakia. As long as he was in employment in his capacity as poet he could avoid being repatriated.
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Image Location
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51.556696
Longitude
-1.781067