BS: Pepys Taverns

Subject: BS: Pepys Taverns
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 26 Mar 21 - 12:36 PM

An interesting web page giving an account of the pubs and taverns Samuel Pepys frequented.

Pepys Taverns

Subject: RE: BS: Pepys Taverns
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 26 Mar 21 - 05:48 PM

Anything, as long as it’s not f***ing Wetherspoons.

Subject: RE: BS: Pepys Taverns
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Mar 21 - 05:49 PM

And as long as they didn't have to sup Tartan Keg Bitter...

Subject: RE: BS: Pepys Taverns
From: Raggytash
Date: 26 Mar 21 - 06:44 PM

Or Watneys Red Barrel!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Pepys Taverns
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Mar 21 - 07:41 PM

We're showing our bloody age 'ere, Raggytash!

A Double Diamond works wonders works wonders works wonders

A Double Diamond works wonders so drink one today!

(Or drink eight and you'll get bellyache and fart all the way home on the last bus and wish to Christ that was there was a piss-stop at Little Lever but you still won't be pissed..)

Subject: RE: BS: Pepys Taverns
From: JHW
Date: 28 Mar 21 - 06:10 AM

Don't put your daughter on the 'E' Mrs. Worthington

Subject: RE: BS: Pepys Taverns
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 30 Mar 21 - 02:36 PM

If we're going for old beer ads, allow me to add a link to an earlier thread on Abdul the Bulbul Amir with comical adverts for Whitbread Best Bitter.

Subject: RE: BS: Pepys Taverns
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 30 Mar 21 - 02:37 PM

"How do you do it Stanley?"

"It's Tankard that helps me excel" (also a Whitbread beer)

Subject: RE: BS: Pepys Taverns
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 30 Mar 21 - 03:02 PM

Well, we always gleefully Spoonerised that one. Titbread Wankard...perfect... :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Pepys Taverns
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 30 Mar 21 - 03:07 PM

I wonder whether Pepys and his mates stopped off on the way home for a midnight feast at Mrs Miggins' pie shop...

Subject: RE: BS: Pepys Taverns
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 31 Mar 21 - 01:46 PM

I wish I was in Greenhall Whitley land

Any Tom, Jack or Walt that likes the taste of malt
Will love the malt in a Colt 45

Oranjeboom, Oranjeboom, It's a lager not a tune,

Me and my mate Dave had a campaign as good as any of the above but they never took us up on it.

Holt's bitter gets you pissed.

:D tG

Subject: RE: BS: Pepys Taverns
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 31 Mar 21 - 02:21 PM

Pepys seemwd to know a lot of the landladies by name.....

Subject: RE: BS: Pepys Taverns
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 01 Apr 21 - 08:32 PM

Any pub sounds like a long-lost haven right now.

Including Wetherspoons - just because the owner of the chain might be somewhat of an obsessed monomaniac, that doesn't mean that his pubs dont tend to be quite decent places to frequent. In any strange town, especially if I'm in a hurry I tend to rely on the Spoons. (And in our town centre it's the only watering hole I'd advise anyone to use.)

Subject: RE: BS: Pepys Taverns
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 01 Apr 21 - 08:47 PM

You could always go up to The Owl in Epping Forest, Kevin. Or the King's Oak at High Beach. Harlow was a bit too remote for a pub night out when we lived in Loughton, unfortunately. But, begod, there was a wonderful restaurant in Harlow called the Pink Cottage. Wonder whether it's still there...

Subject: RE: BS: Pepys Taverns
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 01 Apr 21 - 09:19 PM

I could always go to a number of excellent pubs in Harlow and around in driving distance - I'd recommend the Chequers in Old Harrow or the Rising Sun in High Wych. But I like to be able to walk home from a pub, and for me that means the Spoons. Excellent wall of bookshelves, welcoming fire, no canned music, and the TV sound is switched off and the subtitles switched on. And good range of beers at a tolerable price.

Subject: RE: BS: Pepys Taverns
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 02 Apr 21 - 03:22 PM

Correction - not The Chequers, I mean't The Crown, which is a hundred yards furthe4 along, and welcomes Sessions. Roll on the day.