The Bike Stop has the grungy decor you would expect, and serves cheap beer in big mugs to leather-clad gentlemen.
Most of the rest came from small shareholders with addresses in southern England: from bankers, barristers, spinsters, retired army officers and people known simply as "gentlemen".
(Teddy Kollek, a long-term mayor of Jerusalem, was reported in the 1980s to have told a group of clerics who were hectoring him about access to the holy sites: "Gentlemen, gentlemen! Spare me your sermons and I will fix your sewers!") The US government closed twice in the last several years, and few ordinary citizens even noticed.
Success would mean the beginning of the end of these gentlemen who have forgotten what democracy means and the principles upon which a united Europe was founded".
Some gentlemen are watching Liverpool-Man U on a laptop.
Here, you can ride the escalators, take snaps and engage the wardrobe-shouldered gentlemen in conversations about architecture.
gentlemen have brought with them as a boon from the nether world is rejected with fervent contempt by the fairy inhabitants of "the Happy Land".
For women there is more to do with things like knitting groups, but for gentlemen there is nowhere to go".
Walter counts himself part of the village community, but – appropriately for a book that is all about power and belonging and ownership – will find himself alienated from gentlemen and labourers alike when the timeless certainties of village life are overturned.
"Ladies and gentlemen, if we shout loud enough he might just hear us in hospital," he added, as the crowd broke into the most deafening roar of the evening, then chanted "Philip, Philip, Philip" as the Queen was visibly moved.
This week, we're offering you a second chance to win a copy of The Druids Lodge Confederacy, by Paul Mathieu, which recounts the amazing century-old story of five gentlemen gamblers who tried to make the game pay through the use of a remote stable on Salisbury Plain where the staff were locked in to ensure secrecy.
