People Dancing on the tables and on the wall across the road outside. Marcelle used to pull up in his convertible Mercedes and go in, Hignett was often in too.
Trotsky's tomb in Mexico City Born in the Ukraine in 1879 and later hailed by one admirer as the greatest Jew since Jesus Christ, Lev Bronstein became famous under another name. From 1902 he called himself Trotsky, adapted from the German word trotz, essentially meaning ‘defiance’, which would prove prophetic. He was a leading figure in the Bolshevik movement under Lenin, after whose death in 1924 he was the most important victim of Joseph Stalin’s insatiable lust for power.
In some ways I’d have loved to be the ale rep in Barnsley during those times - the volumes would have been immense. But I know enough about those times to know to that I’m better off with things as they are