The heritage of pubs

[Dec66]

Do any of our Liverpool contingent know if the Canarvon Castle still has all the old Dinky toys on display in the glass cabinets?

I nearly got chucked out of there once for letting an eff-word slip out in general conversation at the bar. I apologized for the unintentional conversational tic and was allowed to stay.

Lovely toasties.

 

[Blue Hills]

The New Inn in Clitheroe has several small rooms warmed by coal fires and a great selection of real ales. All are popular thriving pubs, while all around are plastic.

oo, the New Inn. Those small back rooms always seem like something from a gran's parlour. Meant in the best way. I saw England get knocked out by Germany in that pub's big back room

 

[bancrobba]

He'd have loved the Western Approaches on the Crocky/Noggsy border. "Not for the faint hearted", is the best way to describe it.

Oi....that's my neck of the woods! A most salubrious country pub the Western! Nah!
When I lived in London my local was the Hope and Anchor in Brixton, but used to love a few in Chandos by Trafalgar Square, on the big leather Chesterfields.

Anyone visiting Scouseland should pop into the other Grapes, on Roscoe St. Great small pub, Paul who runs it has a cracking selection of beers. Good mix of locals and students. Advertised as Liverpool's best kept secret.

 

[Globalti]

While we take pubs for granted, they can be confusing for foreigners. There are several guides to pub etiquette online. Here's an example:

http://www.sirc.org/publik/ptpchap1.html

 

[Blue Hills]

The Philharmonic in Liverpool

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Even the bogs are amazing!

was told about this years ago by a native. Thanks for the amazing pics. One to see before I die.

 

[Blue Hills]

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This pub is full of old charm ...It was about £1.80 a pint so it was full of old timers
I think it has the smallest toilet in country (not in use) its very small and its haunted

where is it?

 

[AndyRM]

While we take pubs for granted, they can be confusing for foreigners. There are several guides to pub etiquette online. Here's an example:

http://www.sirc.org/publik/ptpchap1.html

Comin' over here...

 

[Blue Hills]

yes! Which reminds me, I moved to catford, deep se London in the summer and there's a great pub called the Blythe Hill Tavern, not posh but old school Irish...staff in pressed white shirts and black ties, nothing too much trouble and Guinness to the table.

Pipped at the post in this play-off.

a great scurrilous blog as well - enjoy:

http://deserter.co.uk/2015/12/world-cup-of-pubs/

 

[Pennine-Paul]

where is it?

It looks like the Queens Head,on Little Underbank in Stockport,Never been in despite it being
just down t'road

 

[Blue Hills]

The Black Horse Preston:

scroll down for gallery.

https://www.robinsonsbrewery.com/pubs-inns-and-hotels/find-a-pub/a-e/blackhorse

Perfect place to while away a lost afternoon amongst its tiles and glass.

Trouble is the perfect drug for such an afternoon was draught Old Tom - 8.5 per cent so they would only usually serve it in halves which was of course mad. But, oh woe, last time I was in they said they had stopped serving it draught as the brewery had made the price uncompetitive.

What's the point of going to a pub to buy a bottle?

Anyone know where you can still find it draught? Though I wouldn't advise cycling after much of it.

 

[TissoT]

where is it?

Stockport city centre (Manchester)

 

[sheddy]

World of Pub tis back on the iplayer. Possibly the best 15min ever of radio comedy.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ffy9w/episodes/player

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I'm tee-total, & have been since (making the decision to be so) passing my driving test back in 1983

That said, I like the older pubs, for the sociological aspect, & the archtitecture

Leeds' hidden gem is The Garden Gate in Hunslet. I remember visiting it as part of an extended pub crawl through Hunslet and and East End Park back in the late seventies. All the Tetleys pubs over that side of Leeds served consistently excellent pints of Tetleys bitter and there was a plethora of pubs within staggering distance of each other.

The Garden Gate stood out as being the most ornate and best kept pub on the circuit. The gents toilets had copper and brass plumbing that was polished to a mirror finish. I assumed that it had perished with the dismantling of the tied pub estates and redevelopment but it still survives and is owned by Leeds Brewery.

I've been in there a couple of times, mainly to gaze upon its magnificence
Here's the website; http://www.gardengateleeds.co.uk/

I have this book in my collection, which is very good indeed
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Yorkshires-...6242&sr=8-2&keywords=yorkshires+heritage+pubs


'Nellies' in Beverley is also another of great renown, for its non-modernism
http://www.nellies.co.uk/


Then, there's The Leopard, at Doncaster


The Black Rock, in Wakefield

 

[PK99]

The Black Horse Preston:

Next door to the famous Umbrella Shop - Preston is officially the wettest city in England, both in terms of inches per year and days of rain.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/rpsmithbarney/6919461842

Back in the day the Black Horse switched from a Tart's pick up joint to a Gay cruising pub. It's now back to being a great heritage pub

 

[stephec]

Next door to the famous Umbrella Shop - Preston is officially the wettest city in England, both in terms of inches per year and days of rain.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/rpsmithbarney/6919461842

Back in the day the Black Horse switched from a Tart's pick up joint to a Gay cruising pub. It's now back to being a great heritage pub

When was back in the day?

I used to go in there around 1989/90 when I was at Lancashire Polytechnic.

A pint of black death - half Guinness/half Old Tom - went down very nicely, happy days.