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.. or you could take more drastic action … http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6912900.stm
Good grief…..
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Grayson,I drank in there occasionally,used to live in Ashwell not far from Hitchin,nice pub.Mainly had a beer in The Vic in Baldock though when I was in Herts.
Coo, small world! The Half Moon has apparently improved beyond all recognition since the new landlords took over (just before I moved to Hitchin, so I can’t compare), and has been festooned with local branch awards accordingly.
Can’t comment on the Vic as yet, alas, although I think Mrs Column is arranging a CAMRA Young Members pub-crawl in Baldock later in the year. Shame I’m probably too old to go, the 32 year-old sack of decreptitude I am!
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
I not sure I like the way pubs in England are going , as the old fashioned drinking dens seem to be getting fewer and fewer each time I visit.
I love the Horseshoes in Newmarket. I sure many people on this site know it. The place is a dump really, but most things seem to be allowed there and nobody seems to care. I think the place qualifies to be called an old fashioned drinking den.
Here in Boston my fav bar is a place called TC’s , which is on Haviland St . It’s another dump ( I’ve got to start mixing in better surroundings) and the inside , which seems to have the dust I encountered on my first visit 20 years ago, always looks the same, day or night, because there are no windows in the place, just a small door for entry. It is one place here where you’ll find regular drinkers and not too many amateurs.
Greetings from sunny Nassau (where it’s currently pishing down).
The boozers here are fine, and they ping plenty of rum into your pina colada.
We were rather forced to move from our regular lunchtime boozer, after a couple of the chaps were found cattled outside it at 3pm on a Wednesday afternoon, by some of the senior bods in our work. Said boozer is ‘Clarks Bar’ at the foot of Dundas Street in Auld Reekie. As the satrightforward name suggests, it is emphatically not the kind of place where you would go to spy crumpet of a lunch-time, or have anything nutritious to eat, but if its a drinking mans boozer you are after, then look no further.
We have since moved about 400 yards round the corner, to the St Vincent Bar. It’s a bit pokey, but thay have an 8ft x 8ft ‘garden’ area, which is covered by a single parasol. Excellent for drinking Guiness and smoking snout in the rain…….at lunchtime, naturally.
Le Goupil del Fol – Brussels
Lowlander – London
Big 6 – Halifax
St Govan’s Inn – Pembrokeshire
De Rokerij – AmsterdamTo have beer, will travel.
Made my first visit to The Cricketers earlier this week, KT. I like the fact that you can take your drink out onto Richmond Green and watch the world go by. Favourite West London pub is probably The City Barge at Strand On’t Green.
Lowlander – London
To have beer, will travel.
Are we on for there on Monday evening, Pruf? The sensible alternative to going to Windsor….
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Made my first visit to The Cricketers earlier this week, KT. I like the fact that you can take your drink out onto Richmond Green and watch the world go by.
Oh yes that’s always a nice thing to do when the sun is out!
Are we on for there on Monday evening, Pruf?
I thought you were the organiser, Jez. Name a time and I’ll be there.
Only place I know of that sells Affligem Trippel (take out a mortgage).
Blue Anchor, Helston, Cornwall
The Bell, Aldworth, Berkshire
The Pot Kiln, Frilsham, Berkshire
White Swan, Doncaster
Only place I know of that sells Affligem Trippel (take out a mortgage).
Affligem Trippel? Sounds like something that’d win the Hickstead Derby.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Was that really slippy blue popped in – a nice blast from the past. Must be a thin skein of cloud apparating across the south london skyline to make me idly come this way so soon after – "london calling".
When I venture back to the ‘smoke’ for the first time since leaving I’m very keen to to go to all the old great city boozers that have everything you could want in a pub but ventilation. Since the smoking ban I reckon they are placed for a true renaissance. Prufrock et al take heed.
Unfortunately I’ve never been able to remember all their names, but you know the ones – old Victorian pubs, glass serving windows, lots of separate rooms, beer, and people spilling onto the pavements. The ones I can actually name without recourse to fancyapint.com.
The Lamb and Flag (Covent Garden/leicester Sq) even in the smoky days was one of the best meeting places.
Argyll Arms (Oxford Circus)
The French House – Soho (once you’ve got over the fact they only serve beer in halves you’ll have noticed that actress from casualty who you can”t name and had only half noticed until you saw her in the flesh but are now dribbling over – literally)
Off Borough Market – The Bunch of Grapes and The Wheatsheaf are excellent for beer and atmosphere, especially on market days and there used to be a sausage cafe between the two – Cumberland Sausage roll and all the trimmings entre beers. Nice
And The Newman Arms – off Oxford Steet – my personal favourite – great beer, cozy atmosphere, sad media geeks in small black spectacles aside, AND upstairs a pie restaurant – really top class pies and beer. Come on!
Shifnal is less blessed.
The Lamb and Flag (Covent Garden/leicester Sq) even in the smoky days was one of the best meeting places.
Ooh, me and Prufrock were in there on Monday evening, having tried the wares of the Lowlander on Drury Lane first. Hic.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Wish I’d been there! Upstairs is very good.
That’s true of loads of pubs in the centre of town. Bunch of Grapes – Drury Lane – terrible pub, possibly the worst in Covent Garden, but a really nice snug upstairs and if not being used for a party a great place to guarantee getting a seat/avoiding music – that’s me getting old!.
Coach and Horses – further down road – very good pint of guiness.
London is woefully short of decent cocktail bars, but Tuttons right in Covent Garden is OK for a manhattan (on the rocks) and is shunned by all the tourists – who assume it’s just a restaurant.
Borough market – I forgot the best one for beer and standing around outside – The Market Porter.
When in that part of town all incomers should of course at least check out Anchor Bankside, and The George, Borough High Street (Chaucer’s finest). I love the old ones with about twenty different rooms. Mind out for the American tourists being entertained by faux irish minstrels though!
Shifnal is less blessed.
I dunno. You could always buy a few cans of Special Brew and pop round to Heather Dalton’s for a quick leer.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Another decent pub to add to the list is The Cat Inn at Enville, near Stourbridge. It’s the home of Enville Ales.
Old Silent Inn – nr Bingley
Three Sisters – EdinburghThe Landsdowne & Bays Hill Inn in Cheltenham mid March would also have been on the list but have both gone down hill in recent years.
Lee
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