― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 16 February 2004 12:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 16 February 2004 12:18 (twenty years ago) link
whatever happened to the craic we hear so much about???
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 16 February 2004 12:19 (twenty years ago) link
Also I suspect with very few clubs open I've gotten used to going out where I can walk home as opposed to taking a 40 minute bus journey, so lazy.
― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 16 February 2004 12:20 (twenty years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Monday, 16 February 2004 12:26 (twenty years ago) link
It may have chanbed since, but I doubt I'll go back anyway.
― chris (chris), Monday, 16 February 2004 12:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 16 February 2004 12:31 (twenty years ago) link
there are countless pubs near my house (i live between upper street and essex road), but i hardly go to any of them at all. probably most recently i went into the jorene celeste.
i am, clearly, not using the resources of my locale to the fullest advantage.
― colette (a2lette), Monday, 16 February 2004 12:37 (twenty years ago) link
― chris (chris), Monday, 16 February 2004 12:39 (twenty years ago) link
― colette (a2lette), Monday, 16 February 2004 12:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 16 February 2004 12:59 (twenty years ago) link
"Do you like hospital food?"
That one cracks the pub up usually as the moron wonders what to say and then BAM you smack him in the face with an ashtray eh? You know what I'm saying? It's a proper working class pub right?
― Nutty Nigel (Nutty Nigel), Monday, 16 February 2004 13:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Nutty Nigel (Nutty Nigel), Monday, 16 February 2004 13:04 (twenty years ago) link
the Hobgoblin is the building on the left of both pix altho i think in the old pic it was called "George Canning's Pub"
i also have a swish bar near me w/no name on the front but which the proprietor assures me is called "Mango Landin'" - it's on Brixton Water Lane about the same distance away as the Hobgoblin but in the other direction
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 16 February 2004 13:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Monday, 16 February 2004 13:22 (twenty years ago) link
― toby (tsg20), Monday, 16 February 2004 13:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 16 February 2004 13:53 (twenty years ago) link
The nearest real pub is the Three Wheatsheafs, but there's always boys racers with their tracky bottoms legs rolled up hanging around outside, so I'm scared to go near it.
― Nick H (Nick H), Monday, 16 February 2004 14:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Pete (Pete), Monday, 16 February 2004 14:25 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 16 February 2004 14:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Pete (Pete), Monday, 16 February 2004 14:33 (twenty years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 16 February 2004 14:38 (twenty years ago) link
My local at the moment is The Anchor, and it's handily only about 3 minutes away. I like it, just because it's always empty, even at the weekends, so there's somewhere to sit. And they have a good pub quiz as well, with questions that we can actually attempt to answer.
― jellybean (jellybean), Monday, 16 February 2004 14:45 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 16 February 2004 15:33 (twenty years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 16 February 2004 15:37 (twenty years ago) link
I bet the HTML for "red" isn't [red] (where square brackets = pointy brackets, obv)
― Sarah (starry), Monday, 16 February 2004 15:39 (twenty years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 16 February 2004 15:42 (twenty years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 16 February 2004 15:43 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 16 February 2004 15:45 (twenty years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 16 February 2004 15:47 (twenty years ago) link
Full of hoorays. Unlike all the other pubs in Oxford. You're right Mark -- I can't actually remember the last time i went to a pub in Oxford. Had a swift one in the Grapes one Saturday afternoon in January. Other than that...
― NRQ (Enrique), Monday, 16 February 2004 15:50 (twenty years ago) link
Last time in there, I believe I was with Vicky, Ptee and Tim Hoppo.
― chris (chris), Monday, 16 February 2004 15:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 16 February 2004 15:55 (twenty years ago) link
― chris (chris), Monday, 16 February 2004 15:57 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 16 February 2004 15:57 (twenty years ago) link
― chris (chris), Monday, 16 February 2004 15:58 (twenty years ago) link
― ENRQ (Enrique), Monday, 16 February 2004 15:59 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lastrounds/732301320/
ive never been in
― Filey Camp, Thursday, 16 August 2007 10:36 (sixteen years ago) link
That looks alright!
― Matt DC, Thursday, 16 August 2007 10:39 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.myspace.com/newcrossinn
NU RAVE IS DEAD!
― Sarah, Thursday, 16 August 2007 10:49 (sixteen years ago) link
The Chatterton Arms in Pencoed. The biggest shithole pub I've ever been in in my life. The hand dryer in the bogs (I would never normally use the word "bog" instead of toilet, but there's really no better word for it) hasn't worked for literally 15-odd years.
I've been drinking there my entire adult life - 17 or so years - and I still get ignored at the bar in favour of the landlord's friends.
― nate woolls, Thursday, 16 August 2007 10:58 (sixteen years ago) link
court enforced boozing, 23/7
http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/5065
― nanoflymo (ledge), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 12:32 (thirteen years ago) link
This is my current local. It's been steadily improving for about a decade and now does a decent job of disproving the theory that all pubs called the Railway are crap. I avoid it on a Saturday night but its a decent midweek drinking place.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 12:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Gareth should've frequented the Bank of Friendship eight years ago, my favourite pub on Blackstock Road easy.
― Rejoice that you weren't eaten (chap), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 12:41 (thirteen years ago) link
The Kenton -
http://www.kentonpub.co.uk
takes approx 45 seconds for me to walk to. It is awesome. Proper DJ cubbyhole, back garden, good beers, Thursday jumble sale, friendly staff. PIES.
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 12:45 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/49/4968/Lord_Palmerston/Dartmouth_Park
It's boring.
http://www.spoonfed.co.uk/london/venue/holloway-40/the-hideaway-2586/
About two minutes further, much more agreeable.
― Rejoice that you weren't eaten (chap), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 12:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm also minutes away from renowned bastion of the spit and sawdust boozer The Boston Arms. Not a place you can drink in too often and retain a positive outlook on life, but the day it becomes a trendy gastropub is the day I leave the country.
― Rejoice that you weren't eaten (chap), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 12:52 (thirteen years ago) link
There's also Artifex Wine Bar near me, which seems like it has really awesome music but the number of arrests I see happening right in front of it on an almost daily basis kind of puts me off :/
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 12:54 (thirteen years ago) link
xp ha. i used to live 2 mins from the boston until recently, but was slightly afraid of it: i'm sure you see more people go in than ever leave. i miss how good tufnell park/kentish town is for pubs now i'm in finsbury park.
― joe, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 12:55 (thirteen years ago) link