BS: Best Pub in the World

Subject: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: Raggytash
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 09:22 AM

On another thread someone mentioned a bar in Brandon, County Kerry.

Murphys Bar is, to me, the best bar in the world and I been in a few.

It's location is simply beautiful, the landlady kindness personified, the bar small and simple, the hospitality ....... legendary is the only word that will fit and the Guinness first class.

So which pubs do you good people consider to be the best.

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 09:34 AM

Well it were me wot mentioned it, and we do indeed have fond memories of many a night spent there in August 1977. The landlady of the time was an oldish lady, the sister of Nellie O'Neill who ran the guest house in Cloghane that we stayed in for two weeks. It could well have been Nora. Nellie's granddaughter was called Ellen, a lovely young girl who served us at breakfast. If you managed to eat all of Nellie's vast breakfast you got an even bigger one next day. The funniest thing was that I, being the man, always received two eggs, whereas Mrs Steve only got the one! We even got chips. We didn't have to think about food for the rest of the day. We had a great time in spite of the ropey weather and the infestation of sheep ticks I endured on parts of my anatomy that you really don't want to know about...

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: meself
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 09:50 AM

'Sheep ticks' on your .... It must have been a little awkward explaining that one to Mrs Steve!

Meanwhile, my favourite is The Moon Under Water. Especially since the new management started piping in the really loud Classic Rock ....

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 09:59 AM

I picked them up one afternoon sunbathing on a gorsey, grassy slope near Ardgroom. It took me a while to realise that I'd been colonised by over thirty of 'em. I was nowhere near any sheep, though I don't expect you to believe me. They went mostly for the bits with softly-folded thin skin. I won't dwell. No long-term harm ensued, is the happy ending.

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: Charmion
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 10:10 AM

The Royal Oak on Bank Street in Ottawa, circa 1986, with my Dad perched on the stool at the corner of the bar, his hat on the one next to him saving it for me.

Nuff said. *Sniff*.

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 10:11 AM

My favourite memories of pubs are where one would meet one's friends for specific purposes:— The Princess Louise in High Holborn, so long the centre of the London Folk Scene; The Spaniards in Hampstead, where my Hendon County School friends and I would meet pre-lunch on Sunday mornings in my long·since Sixth Form days (I'm still in touch with quite a # of them); The Mill & The Anchor by the weir at Silver Street Bridge in Cambridge recalled from university days; the Globe where the London sci·fi set met in the 50s on the first Thursday [iirc] of each month; the White Lion in Sawston, Cambs, where I used to hold my folk club in the early 70s...

Pubs are pubs -- it's surely our associations that make any of them special?

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Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 10:27 AM

When we lived in east London in the early 70s we'd go to the Hollands in Exmouth Street in Stepney, a short stride away from Sidney Street. The pub's proper name was the Exmouth Arms but no-one called it that. It was a fabulous old-style East-End pub which, sadly, burned down in 1997 and never reopened. Another London pub in which we spent many a great evening was the Nell Gwynne at World's End, close to Stamford Bridge football ground. They had a pianist on Saturdays called Josie who always got the whole pub singing. Half way through the evening the man came round selling little trays of vinegary prawns, cockles and mussels. And Guinness was three bob a pint. The lock-ins were terrific!

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 11:28 AM

I just found out that my beloved Nell Gwynne pub is now a bloody "gastropub" called the Jam Tree. Jesus wept. The only gastro I know about is gastroenteritis. Well, apart from Fidel Gastro, of course.

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 11:36 AM

Dunno about best pub in the world..

but my favourite Brit pubs have all either been taken over and run down by crap managers,
demolished by property speculators..
or burnt to the ground... [..hmmm.. insurance job... allegedly..]


So here's raising a mug of tea to packing in boozing almost entirely
except for the occasional bottles on our sofa in front of the telly.... 😞

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 11:41 AM

Half my post went missing there. I was going to mention the Bishop Bonner in Bethnal Green on Wednesdays in the early 70s. It was always packed to the rafters because Chas & Dave were on, before they got famous. Jaysus, they were a good turn. It wasn't easy to get a pint - best bet was to buy 'em in twos! Rabbit rabbit rabbit...

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 11:41 AM

That's the way it goes, Steve. The 3 Kings in the village here used to do a nice simple lunch where I'd often go midday during my widowerhood before remarriage, & one could take visitors to without bankrupting oneself; but now it's changed hands and gone bloody gastro with right outa·sight prices, so now we just don't go there any more.

chunterchunterchizpoopoobum....

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 11:45 AM

God, this thread's doing me 'ead in! I've just found out that the Bishop Bonner isn't a pub any more either! Bastards! 😡😢💩

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 11:51 AM

Sod it, I've checked that the next one's still there before posting about it - the Buck Inn at Malham, where we had some cracking good nights on our university field course in 1970. Great pub, great atmosphere. I took my old mum there for a pub lunch a few years ago, and it was very nice. Dunno what it's like full of tourists, but if I ever go to find out I'll be a tourist, so what the 'eck...

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 11:56 AM

.. then.. there's Wetherspoons....

.. a bit like the Labour Party..

... the good.. the bad.. and the at least it's mostly not so shite as the more miserable alternatives... 😜

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 12:02 PM

I just remembered an amusing incident on that field course that wasn't so funny at the time. We were staying in the field centre at Malham Tarn and were on our way back up from The Buck in our mate's Morris Minor. The clutch started slipping round the hairpin bend and the bugger wouldn't go round it. I can still smell the smoke from his clutch. 6000 approx. rpm just about held the car on the bend. Us four passengers had to get out and shove the bloody thing up the 1 in 4. I tell you, they are bloody heavy cars, especially with Jules in the driving seat, and us being as pissed as rats didn't exactly help. We were well knackered, but by some miracle it got us back the next three miles to the centre. We didn't risk going with him again...

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: Lester
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 12:34 PM

The Fleece Inn Bretforton, v folky, base for three different morris sides, fab choice of beer and food and owned by the National Trust.

http://thefleeceinn.co.uk/

You can close the tread now!

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: Senoufou
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 12:47 PM

There was a magical pub in Heydon, Norfolk called the Earle Arms. It always had a contingent of absolutely genuine Norfolk farmworkers, real men of the earth. And the ale was served from a small hatch, straight out of a tap in the side of the barrel, mounted on a trestle.

There was always singing, and one old man once treated me to a rendition of 'On the ball City' (Norwich FC's supporters' song, which dates way back, and ends with, "Hurrah we've scored a goal!", so you can tell it's a very old team song, still sung on the terraces!)

The 'decor' was pale cream and Georgian green and hadn't been re-done for decades. The ceiling was nicotine-coloured from years of pipe smoke. The small log fire had never been changed or updated, and burned lovely logs which you could replenish yourself if you were chilly.

I went back not long ago....

It's now a foodie pub. Twee tables set for dinner. Twee people looking at a twee menu on a poncey blackboard. The walls repainted. A huge new log fire trying to look traditional. Wine was being ordered. I turned on my heel and left, and actually sat in my old Fiesta and cried. I've never been to Heydon again; it's still a pretty village, but I can't bear it.

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 01:15 PM

Had a pint of Old Peculiar in the Buck last Saturday, Steve. It is still good :-)

When the fish man came round in London did you get the same cry as in Salford? "Have you got crabs?" :-)

And, in answer to the opening question, the best pub is always where you are currently enjoying your self the most!

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 01:32 PM

I have actually never 'enjoyed myself' much in pubs: or not since I was very young and they were still something of a novelty. I went to them in general when there was something special, like a folk club or a meeting of my sf-writer friends [sf-ers reading this might like to know that John Brunner was a close friend -- I was sharing a flat with him until my first marriage]; but just spending an evening in the pub tout court has never been my idea of fun. Not meant as any sort of general principle or anything; just observation of my own tastes in entertainment, in which pubs as such did not intrinsically figure.

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Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: Raggytash
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 01:36 PM

I have to give an honourable mention to the OLD DG in Langdale. The Old DG for the uninitiated is the Old Dungeon Ghyll.

Last time I was there, 15 years ago, it was still a fabulous pub for climbers and walkers. At one time if you could circle the inside of the bar without touching the floor you got a free pint. Ice Axes and pitons abounded !!

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 01:47 PM

There was a very nice old pub near one of the Heaton Park entrances on Bury Old Road but I'm blowed if I can remember its name. Another good 'un was the Hark to Dandler going out of Bury up Walmersley Road. I see it's still there.

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: Senoufou
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 01:49 PM

When I was a bit younger (!) I used to follow several Morris dance sides around Norfolk, and they always danced outside a pub. I used to get a half of ale (big spender, me, but I was driving) and sit on a bench to watch. I watched Kemp's Men and Gold Star, and some North West Clog sides of ladies. The pubs were nearly always great; old traditional places, where a woman on her own could sit quite happily inside or out and not feel too odd. If they had a nice log fire, I could warm myself up before heading off home.

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 01:54 PM

One of the worst pubs I ever went in was the Gipsies Tent in Dudley in 1973. Everybody stopped talking to stare at you, and, apart from a horrible keg beer, all they had on draft was an extremely warm, extremely flat, extremely suspicious cider that had a sort of cheesy scum on top, breaking up like ice floes. Just the once. Ah, the bad old days of Double Diamond, Watney's Keg and Brew XI...

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 01:58 PM

The Old DG is still going strong. We walked past it last year but couldn't stop, as we were trying to get back to Cornwall!

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: Will Fly
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 03:10 PM

1965. The Turks' Head Diner in Turks's Head Yard in Leeds - locally known as The Whitelocks. Hams hanging from beams over the bar. Sandwiches and rolls made while you waited, from dishes on the bar counter. The bar counter a solid piece of copper, with a tiled front. Young's Scotch Bitter on draught.

Probably all changed now.

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 03:34 PM

Well I hope they're not the same hams.

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: Will Fly
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 03:45 PM

Oh I think those two little lads Elf and Safely will have seen to that.

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: Spailpin
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 05:22 PM

I have to agree with the first post of the thread ..Murphy's bar, Brandon ..now been looked after by a grandson of the original owner , Padraig Murphy ... Something to behold is the view from the front door , the wild Atlantic , with the sliabh Mish mountains in the background .. We have had some amazing sessions there over the last 30 odd years ...and it's the pub where Christy Moore penned St Brendan's voyage !!

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 08:04 PM

Well I'm pleased to have mentioned it! My son went on holiday there a few years ago, retracing our seventies footsteps. I'll ask him next time I see him whether he went to the pub. By the way, Mrs Steve and I climbed Brandon Mountain and Brandon Peak too!

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 08:07 PM

By the way, Mrs Steve seems to think that the landlady in the late 70s was Nora Murphy. We stand to be corrected. In those days the pub was nearly all locals, and we were there in August.

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: Raggytash
Date: 20 Apr 16 - 03:30 AM

Back in the 70's it may well have been the eponymous Nora. I didn't visit until the mid 90's by which time Mary was the landlady.

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: Mr Red
Date: 20 Apr 16 - 06:34 AM

as Lester says, the Fleece Inn, Bretforton. (nr Evesham)

Nigel the Landlord is (was?) a Morris dancer and in case you didn't know he is the landlord of the beer tent at Warwick & Bromyard FFs.

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: olddude
Date: 20 Apr 16 - 10:13 AM

Naw anyone that is open is the best

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Apr 16 - 10:24 AM

The Fly By Night Club in Anchorage, Alaska.

Costigan's (Larry's), on 18th Street in Quincy, IL.

The Silver Moon, 10th Street, Quincy, IL (but not now).

The Bridge, Dingle, County Kerry, Ireland (among others there).

The Laurels, Killarney, County Kerry.

Portneuf Valley Brewing, Pocatello, ID.

Snake River Brewery, Jackson Hole, WY.

Headframe Spirits, Butte, MT.

There are so many...!

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: Senoufou
Date: 20 Apr 16 - 12:46 PM

Sigh...so many pubs, so little time...

There used to be a fabulous pub in Norwich called the Fat Cat, near Nelson Street, which was one of those real ale places. They used to have twenty or more on tap at any time. I don't know if it's still there, or if CAMRA is still active. The Plasterer's Arms was another much the same.

My husband is only now getting used to English pub names. He nearly fell off the sofa laughing at Jamie Oliver travelling around in a mobile pub called the Cock In Cider. (I was rather red-faced explaining it to him)

I do love real ale, me...

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: saulgoldie
Date: 20 Apr 16 - 12:57 PM

I wuz gonna say, "The one I'm in." But Olddude beat me to it, at least in spirit. Speaking of which...Must be 5 o'clock somewhere, eh? Yeah, then it's either Gordon Biersch, Dogfish Head, or Growler's, who, BTW all have some really decent grub to go with the brewskies.

But, sadly, my employer wouldn't appreciate my "take" on time-keeping. So I guess I'll have to stay, just a little bit longer.

Saul

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: Iains
Date: 20 Apr 16 - 01:30 PM

Back in the 60's the Prospect of Whitby on Wapping Wall by the Thames was a place to be on a friday/saturday night. Full of students, a flagstone floor ankle deep in broken glass, a group fenced in with scaffold poles and the coarsest set of rugby songs ever heard. Pure Magic.

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: MikeL2
Date: 20 Apr 16 - 02:35 PM

Hi Dan

< Naw anyone that is open is the best >

Completely agree especially on a very hot afternoon when you've been walking for hours and " dying" of thirst.

Regards

MikeL2

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: Senoufou
Date: 20 Apr 16 - 02:50 PM

Iains, I visited the Prospect of Whitby in the sixties, with a rather drunken boyfriend. It was very rough but fascinating. I remember two ladies fighting furiously, pulling each other's hair, while people chucked beer over them.
I seem to recall that Jack the Ripper (whoever he may have been!) was reputed to frequent it. Hardly surprising if so, it was rowdy enough for anything!

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 20 Apr 16 - 05:02 PM

Don't mention the Spanking Roger to your hubby then, Eliza! :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: Iains
Date: 20 Apr 16 - 05:51 PM

@Senoufou
It was not only fighting ladies had beer thrown over them, it also frequently happened to the immaculately dressed customers who frequented the restaurant upstairs if they came downstairs slumming.

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 20 Apr 16 - 06:15 PM

Back in the 60's the Prospect of Whitby on Wapping Wall by the Thames was a place to be on a friday/saturday night.

Wow, thanks for jogging my memory! When I was at university I was treasurer of the Lancastrians' Association of the Universify of London (far less arduous than it sounds). We had occasional nights out with an eminent Lancastrian guest, and one night in 1970 we invited Thora Hird and her husband for dinner at the Prospect. I sat next to Thora all evening and she was a very amusing guest. I remember her complaining to the waiter that her cheese was too ripe!

I spent many an evening at the Prospect and I remember all too well the 96 steps you had to climb out of Wapping station which made you feel that you'd earned your pint. Another Thames pub that was really good in the early 70s was the Angel at Rotherhithe. That was our watering hole of choice in the evenings of the long hot summer of 1976.

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: Leadfingers
Date: 21 Apr 16 - 04:49 AM

The Brewery Tap in Brentford is one of my favourite Pubs , especially on a Friday night , with Johnny Bull and John Coverdale serving a very varied mix of excellent music , coupled with the chance to do a couple of numbers yourself .

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: theleveller
Date: 22 Apr 16 - 04:42 AM

I'm amazed at how many of my favourite pubs are mentioned here. When I lived in London in the 60s and 70s I regularly went to The Spaniards and The Prospect of Whitby, but The Brewery Tap in Brentford was my local when I lived near Kew Bridge, opposite the old Brentford Fruit Market. In those days it was a bargee's pub with wonderful Fuller's beer and a cockney singaround on a Friday and Saturday night, accompanied by an old chap on a banjo. Can't believe it's 40 years since I was last there.

Back in Yorkshire, I stayed at The Buck Inn in Malham on one of my honeymoons and Whitelock's was a regular lunchtime haunt when I worked in Leeds.

Now, the best pub in Yorkshire (and, therefore, the world) is the Goodmanham Arms in the village of that name near Market Weighton. We often call in after a long walk on the Wolds. It's an unassuming exterior but inside it's dark and heavily beamed and filled with eclectic curios, with wooden floors, big open fires and tatty but comfortable chairs, settles and wooden tables. It's owned by an Italian and the food is superb with, in winter, a spit roast or a black iron pot of game stew cooking on the fire. They serve a range of excellent real ales including some from their own micro-brewery on the premises. Also a good selection of wines. They even have their own local weekend folk festival every year. What else could you ask for in a pub?

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: Senoufou
Date: 22 Apr 16 - 09:22 AM

I think there's nothing better than a traditional British pub at Christmas time. Tree lit up, log fire going, cosy and warm, old wooden beams glowing in the firelight... (happy sigh)...It's one of the long list of things I'd miss dreadfully if I emigrated to warmer climes.

(One of the other things of course is crumpets.)

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Apr 16 - 09:54 AM

As long as they're the superior Waitrose ones made with buttermilk. In the 70s we used to frequent a pub near Waterloo Bridge, which required you to go down an extremely narrow stone staircase into a cellar. There was no furniture, and you sat on upturned barrels or metal casks. The atmosphere was claustrophobically terrific. I'm blowed if I can remember its name, though I wonder whether it was called the Dive Bar. Acknowledging that that's a bit of a generic name.

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: Raggytash
Date: 22 Apr 16 - 10:49 AM

I fear that your cosy little picture of an English pub at Christmas is wide of the mark Senoufou. I find them to be full of "once a year men" who think they are doing the licensee a favour by going into the pub. It can spoil a decent pub.

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Apr 16 - 11:32 AM

I don't like pubs that are all hot and stuffy myself. You can get that when the landlord decides to light a roaring fire in the middle of a warm spell outside the summer months. Makes me feel weary.

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: Stu
Date: 22 Apr 16 - 11:52 AM

The Harringtion Arms in Gawsworth, Cheshire. Home to a session for over thirty years, this pub was part of a working farm and had been in the same family when for a century or so before they left, a week after I had my 40th birthday party there.

Basically unchanged since the 17th Century, it smelled of cow shit, had flagged floors, ancient forms and tables and the first time I went in during the early 1980s still drew it's ale from barrels behind the bar, an innovation given a few years before beer was brought up from the cellar in jugs. There was no food (apart from local pork pies, devilishly hot English mustard and superb homemade pickled eggs), and no ice (much to the dismay of those ordering their G&T). It was fantastic.

We had some mighty sessions in the tap room over the years. I love the Irish music best, but the Harry sesh was open to any music and we would play just about any traditional music, there were no music police. We had double basses, didgeridoos and just about everything else in between play with us at some point, we would sing and drunks would dance. Rock stars would pop in for a drink and during the summer folk (including the acts) from the hall down the road pop in after the shows to listen and drink. 30+ musicians crammed into a small room on a hot summers night playing traditional music with spirit and gusto for the sheer joy of it and nothing else. Sometimes other sessions would start up if folk could't get into the tap room.

Unfortunately, time caught up with the Harry and whilst the pub is still my absolute favourite, in order to survive it had to change and now offers food and this has meant the session is less vibrant. I don't go as the tories axed my evening bus service and I can't get there or back. The farmer (a relative of the landlord) stopped farming and left for a job in the council and very sadly died a couple of years ago.

The couple who took it over are wonderful folk and have done a great job with the place, modernised it sympathetically and with due respect for it's age and history. Like I say, I love it more than any other pub in the world, but it's not the same since it lost it's smell and the fact it was almost totally unchanged in the centuries since it opened.

I always left when the session was still going. I would stand across the road from the pub waiting for my wife to give me lift home and enjoy the sound of the music drifting across the road and into the fields behind. Truly magical.

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: Senoufou
Date: 22 Apr 16 - 12:50 PM

Perhaps we're lucky, Raggytash, because there are quite a few pubs round here that are lovely at Crimbo. I can't feel much affection for the extremely posh 'foodie' ones, which you get up in North Norfolk, but there are still plenty of 'ordinary' but delightful places to go. My husband doesn't drink, and I usually just have a half, so the poor landlord doesn't get much out of the visit!

Steve, we're completely immune to heat, so the hotter the better. I may take my scarf off, and my husband may take off his gloves, but we're quite happy in hot rooms. We're quite happy in 30-40 degrees in W Africa; it's chilly places we can't bear!

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: theleveller
Date: 22 Apr 16 - 01:03 PM

Does anyone know The Bricklayer's Arms near Putney Bridge. Again, it's over 45 years since I was last there (I had my 21st birthday party there in 1970 and later got arrested for trying to walk along the parapet of Putney Bridge - but that's another story). It used to be a big, heaving, scruffy place with lots of weird stuff hanging from the ceiling and utterly disgusting toilets. I used to go there with singer/songwriter Kevin Coyne and Nick Cudworth (who were then in a band called Siren) and a bloke called Billy who'd come second in the British Beer Drinking Competition and liked it because it was the only place where he could get his beer in quart glasses.

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: MikeL2
Date: 22 Apr 16 - 02:26 PM

Hi Stu

Completely agree with Harrington Arms. Great place fantastic atmosphere.

Took part in several sessions there and did a few solo spots too -never ended up as solo though!!

Sorry to hear about the changes.

Fond Memories

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Best Pub in the World
From: Mrrzy
Date: 22 Apr 16 - 03:12 PM

Are we allowed time travel? The 1985-2005's St. Maarten's, in my adopted town. It's mutated into a sports bar now, but back then, it was tops.