Wonderful video i'm a huge Jeffrey Bernard fan, i visited the Coach 2 years ago and none of the staff had a clue who he was, his photos are all gone from the wall, Soho is long finished.
I think that place was like tales about a Great party. People that weren’t there just get bored after a while. It’s all long gone now. I have friends that are great to drink with but scratch beneath the surface and what you find isn’t very pleasant. I do enjoy the nostalgia though. Thanks for sharing.
@andrewwilson3327 Can you elaborate about what you find when you scratch beneath the surface? Pub culture is dying on its feet for too many reasons to go into here and when I used to frequent pubs I always found the people who spent vast amounts of their time in them lived pretty tragic lives. Finally if you study the lives of "bon viveurs" (they are rarely referred to as alcoholics) : Jeffrey Bernard, Keith Floyd, Keith Moon, Peter Cook, Dylan Thomas, Oliver Reed, Richard Burton - few people who really knew them had much of a good word to say about them.
Andrew? No more truer word was ever written. I loathed the way Richard Harris and Peter O'Toole would rehash seriously unfunny anecdotes on chat shows about the "craic" they had getting utterly shitfaced. As to the damage it did to their wives and especially their children, traumatized for life...not a word. I guess that would be a bit of a downer.
@@derekedge6975 most of the regulars there both in front and behind the bar were all dead by their early 60's due to lifestyle choices - including Balon and Bernard.
You are oblivious to the fact that your comment confirms that you have no knowledge whatsoever of this famous establishment, and that you are therefore a complete idiot.
