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Post by jimshoo on Aug 7, 2013 11:26:21 GMT
My local has just had a huge telly installed. I will be changing locals!  |
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Post by scorp on Aug 8, 2013 8:22:41 GMT
Commiserations - SKY Sports, no doubt?
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Post by jimshoo on Aug 8, 2013 9:02:25 GMT
Yeh I'm partial to a bit of sport on the telly but I don't want it down the boozer. Trouble is, most of the pubs round here have got it.  |
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Post by goldielox on Aug 8, 2013 9:26:43 GMT
We had a nice local. Mr G used to take me in there for a half of shandy and a sandwich now and again. I can't abide it now. It's more like a betting shop.
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Post by ARENA on Aug 8, 2013 12:04:13 GMT
I fought in the campaign for real ale. It sounds like they need a campaign for real pubs now!  |
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Post by jimshoo on Aug 10, 2013 10:59:18 GMT
Found a new local!
I went for a little walk by the park and found it down a side street by the canal. The only entertainment was a group who performed in the pub garden. They'd come on a boat.
The landlord seems a decent cove (ex copper) and he hates pubs with TVs! ;D
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Post by ARENA on Aug 10, 2013 11:58:57 GMT
In West London? Sounds like a pub I used to frequent in my biking days.
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Post by scorp on Aug 10, 2013 19:50:17 GMT
If beauty is only skin deep, my last wife was inside out...
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Post by jimshoo on Aug 12, 2013 9:00:22 GMT
In West London? Sounds like a pub I used to frequent in my biking days. It's in Hanwell. I live in Southall. |
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Post by scorp on Aug 15, 2013 7:19:37 GMT
My local is about 100m away - it's just been (dreaded word) re-furbished, but it seems they have done a good job: www.thegeorgewraysbury.co.ukWe also have The Perseverance www.thepercy.co.ukThat's two out of the original five - one of which had closed before I came here 40 years ago. Two others have been demolished... |
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Post by jimshoo on Aug 15, 2013 8:58:16 GMT
Cor Scorp I'd have to change my socks before I went to the George. El Posho!
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Post by Prue on Aug 30, 2013 9:25:12 GMT
There are very few proper pubs left in Melbourne, sadly; especially in the CBD. When I first moved here in 1998 there were still several around: The Stork (where I kipped for my first couple of weeks while looking for a permanent place to live - $29 a night!); The Waterside; Young and Jacksons; The Duke of Wellington. Of these The Stork's been demolished and a fucking great apartment tower built in its place, the Waterside and Y&Js yuppified out of all recognition and my favourite lovely darling little pub, the Duke, being on the heritage register so the bastards couldn't knock it down, first had a monstrous fucking apartment tower built on top of it, and then got yuppified out of all recognition... There are still a few proper pubs around the suburbs, but they're bloody few and far between |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2013 15:33:22 GMT
I'm loving the swearing Prue!  My local is great, it's not far and they allow dogs which is perfect after we've been for a walk up Carlton Hill or around Hollyrood Park to dive in there for a leisurely pint. www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g186525-d3239934-Reviews-Cumberland_Bar-Edinburgh_Scotland.htmlHaving read some of the reviews I see that it is under new ownership (no signs inside that state this) I can only hope they won't bung a telly in or any juke or slot machines. The constant flickering and the noise when it spits out coins gets on my nerves.  |
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Post by ARENA on Aug 30, 2013 17:46:16 GMT
Looks like a -place to go downhill nicely in...............  |
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Post by jimshoo on Aug 31, 2013 8:37:13 GMT
Bit posh for me.
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