Australia’s longest-serving Labor prime minister was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford between 1953 and 1956. In 1954, he drank a yard of ale
Bob Hawke’s legendary claim to fame - skolling a yard of ale in world-record time – has been commemorated by an Oxford pub and an iconic glass returned to the front bar 70 years after the famed event.
Australian students at the University of Oxford gathered at the Turf Tavern this week to mark 70 years since Bob Hawke’s world record beer skol. The foundations of the pub, a longstanding favourite among Oxford students, date back to 1381. It has been frequented by many famous guests including actors Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, British prime ministers Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher, author C. S Lewis and theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. The pub also claims it was the place said to be where Bill Clinton “did not inhale” from smoking a marijuana joint in the 1960s.
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