Ah, the journalistic life
Express journalists will be getting together to bid farewell to their Manchester office:
The gathering starts at 3pm on Friday, 9 December, in the recently re-opened Crown and Kettle pub.
One long-serving Express journalist said: “The pub will be remembered with fondness by hundreds of executives, reporters, subs, inkies and other staff because it played such a large part in their working lives.
“Many staff were said to spend more time in the pub than they did in the office.
“It was not unknown for someone to pick up a piece of paper and make out they were just nipping to another department, when in fact they would charge down to the Crown.
“There they would have a quick pint and be back before anyone noticed.”
Is anyone still wondering why the office is being closed…?
