BS: Great British Pubs

Subject: RE: BS: Great British Pubs
From: GUEST,Lyle
Date: 07 May 02 - 09:20 PM

I *loved* the few old pubs in London that we had time to visit.

I know this is thread creep, but one of the things I enjoyed most was just hearing the names of the places. Could we get a thread on favorite names of English Pubs?

Lyle

Subject: RE: BS: Great British Pubs
From: GUEST,Dave Hunt
Date: 07 May 02 - 10:40 PM

My local is one of the best pubs EVER! The Coalbrookdale Inn, Coalbrookdale, Nr. Ironbridge, Shropshire Winner of the CAMRA [Campaign for Real Ale] National Pub of the Year in 95 and runner up in 96. Mike, our wonderful landlord has had over TWO THOUSAND different beers on in the ten years he has been there....all premium beers too..i.e all over 4%. Always seven beers on hand pumps, plus lagers, Stouts, Draught traditional Cider etc Brilliant food [Mike was a chef on cruise liners for years]lunchtime specialising in hot baguettes eg Pork and Stuffing...known to everyone as Stork and Puffin! ..Pear and Stilton..SpicyLamb [lots of chili sauce] Then in the evenings food is only available from 6 - 8 which means that by 9 the whole place is available to drinkers! I run a monthly music session there (3rd Sunday evenings) and we have lots of other 'events' eg St. Beards Night in Jan, Titanic Night in April, and lots of other silly events. The pub is probably a hundred feet above the River Severn, butwith the aid if some faked pics, Mike managed to convince lots of people that it had originally been a lifeboat Station! No Juke box, no piped music, no gaming machines.....a proper pub....well worth a visit...if you are in the area mail me at daverhunt@aol . com and I'll meet you there for a jar. They do have a website at www.coalbrookdale-inn.com Check it out!

Subject: RE: BS: Great British Pubs
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 08 May 02 - 04:21 AM

Jim Dixon: Naught/ aught; this is another example of older English words which have lost the initial 'n' through lazy speech. Similarly, 'A norange' (IIRC naranja in Spanish, from whence this fruit came) is now known as 'an orange'
Never mind Thread Creep, this is linguistic creep! Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: Great British Pubs
From: Ringer
Date: 08 May 02 - 05:57 AM

A nuncle -> an uncle

Subject: RE: BS: Great British Pubs
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 08 May 02 - 08:20 AM

URL alarm! www.coalbrookdale-inn.com is wrong also.
Whenever a British URL *.com is given, change it into *.co.uk, and hope it will work.
So let it be with http://www.coalbrookdale-inn.co.uk/.

Wilfried

Subject: RE: BS: Great British Pubs
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 08 May 02 - 08:31 AM

Nice site for the Coalbrookdale! pleasant to have music while the site is loading!

Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: Great British Pubs
From: Sarah the flute
Date: 08 May 02 - 09:35 AM

Ringer - yes it was the priory come to think of it - knew it had something to do with churchy things - maybe I was never fully aware of my surroundings at the time anyway - come to think of it think the priest house or even priest hole may have been the name of the watering place I frequented as an impoverished student in Salford!

Subject: RE: BS: Great British Pubs
From: Ian Darby
Date: 08 May 02 - 08:58 PM

The Packet House in Eccles Manchester, and the Wellington Hotel, Boscastle, Cornwall.

Subject: RE: BS: Great British Pubs
From: GUEST,Mr Red down memory lane
Date: 09 May 02 - 07:16 AM

Wellington Hotel? doesn't that have session on a Wed?
I nominate the Black Swan - in York the have (had?) a Thurs club night there, oak beams good venue then again there is a Black Swan in Much Dewchurch near Hereford, oak beams and a fantastic singaround on a Thursday probably every week if I remember, on my site - cresby.com
Fleece at Bretforton (owned now by the NT) is a nice old place.

Subject: RE: BS: Great British Pubs
From: Peg
Date: 09 May 02 - 09:38 AM

I went to one in the Cotswolds once called the Slug and Lettuce; which is my fave for pub names...

Subject: RE: BS: Great British Pubs
From: GUEST,Owain
Date: 09 May 02 - 10:05 AM

The Malt Loaf in Conwy, N. Wales has a consistant mix of performance/sessions every night, except Sundays, I believe. Monday is an open stage/session w/all attending taking turns onstage. Great pub w/warm people and a good mix of abilities. The Cambrian Hotel in Aberystwyth has Tuesday night performance/open stage sponsored by the Cambrian Folk Club. Usually there's a featured guest along with the open stage, but not always. On Wednesdays there's a 'session teaching' gathering led by a gentleman by the name of Peter. He's a gifted teacher/player and loves traditional music. He conducts the session like a class and if you're an experienced player you may be a little bored as he gears things to the person of least ability. There's another session at the 'Tap and Spile' in Bangor, but I'm not too sure when it's held. These were my personal favorites for a variety of reasons.

Subject: RE: BS: Great British Pubs
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 09 May 02 - 10:44 AM

I didn't know the Malt Loaf had that amount of music. It used to have acts on all week for events such as the Conwy Festival but other than that, it just had the Folk Club on a Monday night. There may have been changes but the Conwy club was a formal folk club having a guest aritist approximately 1 in 4 weeks and singer's nights the rest of the time.

The Tap and Spile in Bangor used to have a Welsh session on a Monday night but again that may have changed. The only venue in North Wales I can be certain of is the Friday night mostly Irish session which takes place in the Nelson.

I was in the Nelson a couple of weeks ago for an excellent weekend of music with people from Ireland, Holland, London, Manchester, Leeds, etc as well as the regulars. Over the whole weekend, I only met up with one of the Conwy/Llandudno area player and didn't get to find out about what was going on round that area.

Jon