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"path": "/2026/05/25/problemes-a-gogo-the-thread-about-the-troubled-history-of-the-bonnington-bridge-bar/",
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"19th Century",
"20th Century",
"Food and drink",
"Strange Happenings",
"Trinity, Bonnington & Pilrig",
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"textContent": "If you're at all familiar with the district of Bonnington then you may well know a burnt-out ruin on Newhaven Road. It's been this way long enough that you might not remember it being anything else. It certainly poses many questions. For a start; what was it, and how did it come to be in this sorry state? What are those over-grown terraces on the riverbank beneath it? And just what does the mysterious plaque for \"Uranus Art Garden\" refer to? This thread has a gogo at trying to answer these questions as it looks back through the annals of the Bonnington Bridge Bar and the troubled last two decades of its life.",
"title": "Problèmes à Gogo: the thread about the Bonnington Bridge Bar"
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