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The Viaduct Inn was situated on Brassknocker Hill.

Source: Richard White

I associate The Viaduct with my 2 years in the Bath Cycling Club in the early 1970s. As a racing member, four of us went for a hard training ride every Wednesday evening of around 30 miles in the hilly Mendips direction. On the way back we often stopped for a pint of shandy at the Viaduct, drinking it outside as feeling a bit embarrased wearing tracksuits in the bar. The location was also the starting point of the club's annual hill climb time trial championship up Brassknocker Hill, which climbs steeply by about 400 feet from the picturesque Avon valley up to Claverton Down on the southern outskirts of Bath. It was also the venue for our Xmas club dinners, and a few evening drinking sessions in between. Out in the sticks the landlord seemed to interpret "closing time" as the time to close the black-out quality curtains; nevertheless I remember about 11 o'clock one evening suddenly seeing (in a bit of a haze) two policemen standing by the bar with their backs to it looking over us, whereupon we all promptly drained our glasses and quietly filed out. Like many of these closed pubs, it is now residential.

John Keaton (April 2024)

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Name Dates Comments G Devereux 1985 I was a temporary landlord from january to september, with many tales to tell, itis the most haunted place i have ever lived.

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