{"id":12550,"date":"2023-01-21T18:31:59","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T18:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=12550"},"modified":"2023-01-21T18:31:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T18:31:59","slug":"molly-and-the-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/21\/molly-and-the-captain\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Molly and the Captain<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Molly and the Captain is the name of a pub<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;On the Late West Green Harbour Arm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was built in the mid nineteenth century&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And for many years was a fisherman&#8217;s pub&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But as the industries declined in the town&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It became the watering hole of the glitterati&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not much as changed as one still meets&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Writers and poets actors and musicians&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Behind its green black green walls&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many enquire about its unusual name&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the answer is quite simple&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Molly and the Captain&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Were a queer couple late of the sea&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who purchased its freehold<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just after the Great War&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They died within three years of each other&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the late fifties and for a while&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Molly and the Captain was called&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Harbour Arms&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But as the result of local pressure&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The then owners of the pub&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Returned it to its original name&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet what is not so well known&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is that the ashes of Molly and the Captain&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Were laid to rest behind plaster&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a small space above the bar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Molly and the Captain is the name of a pub &nbsp;On the Late West Green Harbour Arm It was built in the mid nineteenth century&nbsp; And for many years was a fisherman&#8217;s pub&nbsp; But as the industries declined in the town&nbsp; It became the watering hole of the glitterati&nbsp; Not much as changed as one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12551,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12550\/revisions\/12551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}