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| 1988 |
Cathy & Clive make the commitment to their own business.
Clive's interest in cricket continues with the Old Forge becoming a Martin Speight Gallery.
Pr. Hawkings book strangely makes no mention of the effect of time compression in restaurant service. |
Graeme Hick makes English cricket history by scoring 405 runs in a county championship match.
New licensing laws allow pubs to stay open for 24 hours in England and Wales.
The England cricket team's tour to India is cancelled after Captain Graham Gooch and seven other players are refused visas because of involvement in South African cricket during the apartheid boycott
Physicist Stephen Hawking's book A Brief History of Time. |
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| 1993 |
Surprised we are still here at Five Years.
We still haven't visited BP but then HRH hasn't come to one of our Food & Wine Evenings either.
Fermat's Last Theorem just needed to be in a bain-marie at 65C for 20min.
Back to Basics being the philosophy of The Old Forge; good food well cooked, properly presented and served with professional style and courtesy. Clive would have been a Downing Street Advisor but had no time for such frivolity.
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The British government declares the official end of the recession after revealing that the economy grew by 0.2% in the first three months of this year.
The Queen announces that Buckingham Palace will open to the public for the first time
Andrew Wiles announces a proof to Fermat's Last Theorem at the Isaac Newton Institute. The proof was slightly flawed, but Wiles announced a revised proof the following year.
John Major launches his Back to Basics campaign.
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| 1994 |
Pet shop purchased.
And so we can now drive to France for lunch - and another successful business starts.
Bad choice gentlemen. You would have been assured of privacy at The Old Forge. We are very discreet and have hosted various persons in our private 'back room'.
Despite the occasional investment in the Lottery we remain working for a living. |
The Channel Tunnel, a 51 km (31 mile) long rail tunnel beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover, officially opened.
Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have dinner at the Granita restaurant in Islington and allegedly make a deal on who will become the leader of the Labour Party, and ultimately, the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
The National Lottery is launched in Britain. |
| 1998 |
Ten years already.....
Well we don't have the parking space for a Rolls in any case.
First Son very pleased: So begins a football fanatics life.
That dress seemed a bit expensive - and the price didn't even include a meal at the Old Forge. That would have made it much better value.
But does Mr Pope know anything about sou-vide cookery. We start to use it for certain of our dishes to guarantee flavoursome and succulent meats.
HP looks as though he should eat bettter. Hogwarts should engage Clive as a consultant chef. |
Rolls-Royce Motors acquired by the German car manufacturer BMW.
Manchester United TV begins broadcasting, making Manchester United F.C. the world's first football team to have its own television channel.
The Union Jack dress worn by the Spice Girl Geri Halliwell is sold at Sotheby's for £41,320.
John Pople wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry".
J. K. Rowling's novel Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. |
| 2000 |
Hairdressers purchased.
Our own celebrations in family and restaurant served some wonderful wines.
But the Beeb missed out on our hot news story about opening up our wine shop.
Good on yer Sir Michael - he keeps a decent restaurant as well.
But the Forge stays warm and dry welcoming diners from the cold. |
Millennium celebrations take place throughout the UK. The Millennium Dome is officially opened by the Queen.
The BBC's main evening news show moves to 10:00pm in direct competition with ITV1.
Actor Michael Caine receives a knighthood from the Queen.
Arctic weather conditions blight Britain, with heavy snow and temperatures as low as -13C plaguing the country and causing extensive gridlocking on the roads and railways. |
| 2003 |
Fifteen years of great food - wow.
Concorde was such an elegant airplane but we never got to book flights for our Grand Cru trips.
Superconductors must mean Cathy running the restaurant and of course the superfluid will be one of our delicious sorbets or ice creams.
No raw sprits here. But we do have some lovely malts and of course the smoothest of vintage wines. |
Supersonic aircraft Concorde makes its final commercial flights after 27 years.
Anthony J. Leggett wins the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov and Vitaly Ginzburg "for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids"
Iain Banks' book Raw Spirit. |
| 2008 |
Has it really been 20 years!
Perhaps Storrington is just too far to travel for good food. Ah no- it's because we are not Kosher.
Our customers who continue to enjoy the midweek and evening menus without ill effect.
Congrats to all the Team GB. We at The Old Forge and Grand Cru Travel are already planning our event for 2012. |
Israeli diamond magnate Lev Leviev buys a new-build house in Hampstead, London for a record £35 million.
Number of people affected by novovirus stomach bug in the UK reaches an estimated 3 million.
8 August–24 August - Great Britain compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. The team wins 19 gold, 13 silver and 15 bronze medals finishing 4th in the medal table. It is the best performance for the Great Britain team in a century |
