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MG: My first day there, on the Monday, a certain lady walked in and said, "Oh, you must be the new manager! My name is so-and-so." And I said, "Yes, I've heard of you." And she said, "What is your background, and then da-da-da...", and wanted to know. And I said, "I do now, I run as a publican and a licensee. I bear by the rules of the licensing laws.

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MG: My first thing is, I'm not serving you." And she said, "Why not?" And I said, "Because I know you are a prostitute. And I'm not allowed to serve you." - "How do you know?" - And I said, "Because I used to live in..." - ah, I forgot the name of the street, its near Paddington Station - I said, "You used to accost me, coming home from the theatre every night."

Shaina: You really only recognised her from then?

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MG: (Nods) And I said, "So there are going to be changes here, in the Old English Gentleman. And so you might as well put the message out now, it won't be tolerated. Its not longer for pimps, its no longer for drugs, or anything like that. That is out."
So, uh...the message got around that I wasn't for messing with. And at the time it was full of, I should say middle-eastern people....well...ethnics...from around the world. But they tried to control every manager they had. They were trying to run the pub. And it wasn't to be, and I decided I would change it completely.

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MG: As the name suggested -'The Old English Gentleman' - so, that's what I was referred to as well - 'The Old English Gentleman. Don't mess with him.' - And then I got the local community, which was the Maliban Association. They came. They used to have suppers there, we used to have coffee mornings there. And I changed the whole atmosphere. I had tables and chairs in that whole area, but trees have grown now. Then I had 36 tables and chairs out there...until the council said, "Excuse me, we weren't paying for it." (?)...I got greedy.

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MG: Tony,.. that's Tony Osbourne. (pointing to a picture) Now the first time, he actually taught Danny La Rue how to walk down steps in high heels. He would come in and nobody would recognise him. He would come in, and he would go upstairs, into my flat, change and entertain from , I think it was 8 o'clock to 11 o'clock - 3 hours of nonstop pianists, sing away, and I have to say, the people on Edgware road - the English or the British people - knew it was a drag artist.

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MG: The Arab persons here weren't sure, they couldn't believe this - they still weren't sure that he was actually what they thought - but he was a woman! An old woman. "Is the old woman coming on again next week?" I would say, "Yes he will be here." - "Oh, is she going to be here?" - and I'd say, "Yes." 
And ofcourse he always wore a different dress, and someday he would look sparkling. And they began to...so, in a way, that was educating them.

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MG: ..."Maurice don't be a bit surprised, if the windows are broken into. Because you're not going to be popular. You're going to upset people. And don't worry about them." ... And he said "Just be careful of yourself." Well, I was attacked once, physically...well, almost physically. An ashtray was thrown at me.
Shaina: Why?

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MG: Um...because I suspected that dealing of drugs was going on. (?) There was a bit of an animosity. And it was actually a bodyguard - er wasn't a bodyguard... supposedly, someone prince, with his bodyguard. And he ran out an mauled me. And fortunately, I got favoured, because in those days I had the officers were on the beat. The police officers just walking up and down Edgware road. And they were rather nice actually. I got on very well with them. And they would just come in here and have a tea, "Everything all right Maurice?"

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MG: Fortunately they were just walking by when this happened. They chased after him. He tried to run off. They actually ...him stop, "Wait! We want to question you." And he ran off. And I think drugs were found on him. And his bodyguard actually had the audacity to try and come back in later to have a drink. And I said, "Excuse me, you are barred. And when I mean barred, you are barred all the time, from here." And that's what I used to say to people. "If I bar you, I bar you and you're barred all the time I'm here."

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MG: And obviously when it was - came through here in the year 2000, ..they knew it was up for sale. Fair enough. And I said, "I'm still here. I'm still here. I would tell you when I'm gone." - That's exactly what I said to him. ...And I put the last notice on the window as we exchanged with the new people was "I'm gone." And within a week, alot of the ones I'd barred, ofcourse were back in there.

