Pubs of London

[Nearly Sane]

Been to most of those and indeed met a fellow forum member in one.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-38384519

[Walter]

Been to most of those and indeed met a fellow forum member in one.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-38384519

wow! that really was a coincidence.

great pics .

[Nearly Sane]

wow! that really was a coincidence.

great pics .

not really, it was organised. Does make me think of a pub crawl though

[Walter]

not really, it was organised. Does make me think of a pub crawl though

Ill get mi coat . I do like a good pub. My daughter took me to one last summer , I wish  I could remember the name of it, down an ally way off Fleet Street. IT took about 10 minutes before I could see anything inside it was so dark, only candles in the basement sitting area and a wooden stair case ready to break your ankles . We had a great time, it was the first time in her young life she'd bought me a pint, with her on money too. Very special day.

[Nearly Sane]

Ill get mi coat . I do like a good pub. My daughter took me to one last summer , I wish  I could remember the name of it, down an ally way off Fleet Street. IT took about 10 minutes before I could see anything inside it was so dark, only candles in the basement sitting area and a wooden stair case ready to break your ankles . We had a great time, it was the first time in her young life she'd bought me a pint, with her on money too. Very special day.

Wasn't by any chance Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese - another favourite


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ye_Olde_Cheshire_Cheese

[floo]

Never in my life have I ever been to a pub just for a drink, nor has my husband. We only go to one very occasionally for a meal.

[Aruntraveller]

Never in my life have I ever been to a pub just for a drink, nor has my husband. We only go to one very occasionally for a meal.

Quelle surprise.

[Nearly Sane]

A good pub is a place of worship, a place of companionship,  somewhere to go with friends, somewhere to go to make friends. It is never judging, always welcoming, both a home from home, and a place to forget about home. It is where we are all Jock Tamson's bairns, and where we can be like Tod Sloan in a solitary uniqueness. There time stops and we escape the mundane, surrounded by the ghosts of our former selves, and the shades of the us yet to come. It is a community bounded by place but universal in character.

[Walter]

Wasn't by any chance Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese - another favourite


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ye_Olde_Cheshire_Cheese

Yep, that's the one , thanks mate .

[Walter]

A good pub is a place of worship, a place of companionship,  somewhere to go with friends, somewhere to go to make friends. It is never judging, always welcoming, both a home from home, and a place to forget about home. It is where we are all Jock Tamson's bairns, and where we can be like Tod Sloan in a solitary uniqueness. There time stops and we escape the mundane, surrounded by the ghosts of our former selves, and the shades of the us yet to come. It is a community bounded by place but universal in character.

very well said , and to those who don't understand , you don't know what you're missing.

[Humph Warden Bennett]

Yep, that's the one , thanks mate .

I used to drink in there as a young man in the late seventies. Most of my other watering holes in that area are either closed, or turned into gastro pubs :-(

[Walter]

I used to drink in there as a young man in the late seventies. Most of my other watering holes in that area are either closed, or turned into gastro pubs :-(

I too was a young man in the late seventies , where did it all go ?

[Humph Warden Bennett]

Quelle surprise.

Floo does not seem to understand what pub drinking is about. NS obviously does. A few words about those vanished pubs that I have mentioned above, most of them had no distinctive "theme', Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese" was an exception, the "character" of the pubs was in the character of those who drank in them. A good example was the former "Clachan" just off Fleet Street, to a casual observer the place was nothing special at all, but many of us spent many happy times in there.

[Walt Zingmatilder]

A good pub is a place of worship, a place of companionship,  somewhere to go with friends, somewhere to go to make friends. It is never judging, always welcoming, both a home from home, and a place to forget about home. It is where we are all Jock Tamson's bairns, and where we can be like Tod Sloan in a solitary uniqueness. There time stops and we escape the mundane, surrounded by the ghosts of our former selves, and the shades of the us yet to come. It is a community bounded by place but universal in character.

That's beautiful.

[jeremyp]

It's shameful. I've only been in one - possibly two - of those pubs. I must rectify that at some point.