Your Local Pub

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.

It may have chanbed since, but I doubt I'll go back anyway.

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.

"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?

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

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.

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.

I bet the HTML for "red" isn't [red] (where square brackets = pointy brackets, obv)

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...

Last time in there, I believe I was with Vicky, Ptee and Tim Hoppo.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lastrounds/732301320/

ive never been in

That looks alright!

http://www.myspace.com/newcrossinn

NU RAVE IS DEAD!

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.

court enforced boozing, 23/7

http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/5065

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.

Gareth should've frequented the Bank of Friendship eight years ago, my favourite pub on Blackstock Road easy.

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.

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.

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.

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 :/

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.

I've been permitted to leave the Boston many times, it is possible. There are definitely certain times when it's the only pub that'll hit the spot.

Five years ago I would've called the Pineapple my favourite pub in the area, but it's turned oddly soulless since it changed hands.

http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/22/2213/Shakespeare/Stoke_Newington

I play (badly) for the cricket team.

I like the Shakespeare.