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Re-reading my review of an abortive visit on St Patricks Day, and also Tris C's underwhelming experience, one does rather wonder what the Evening Standard's pub experts see in The Golden Heart.
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Almost half of your total: 18/50. But it's an interesting list and has given me some ideas for pubs to visit in London.

Well spotted! And it's been closed for nearly four years - still no "small supermarket" as predicted in your note from 2019?

I see there's also a Courthouse in Sedgley that's closed (2016). Has...

OK, hint taken! That's another reason for a visit. Hope it's still open by the time I get there.

How did Alan Winfield miss this one?

Thanks for the list.

I haven't done much in that part of the world, so this has given me a few targets. Forty of them, though the journalist has miscounted (no surprise there).

I haven't been...

That's because, as I pointed out the other day, "This is just a selection from the Sheffield Camra publication, Sheffield's Real Heritage Pubs: only those in the city centre are in this article in...

This is just a selection from the Sheffield Camra publication, Sheffield's Real Heritage Pubs: only those in the city centre are in this article in Sheffield's Star newspaper.

Of these 15 pubs...

That's quite a good bit further south.

The Wuthering Heights Inn

Better altitude than attitude, though this one possibly has both.

Yes, it says Crown, Hawes but then goes on to refer to Westgate and Huddersfield. There is a Crown there, and the description seems a better match for that one than the one in Hawes. (I must admit I...

A newly published list of Yorkshire's 34 Greatest Pubs, at least one of which has already closed and reopened under a different name; several are listed in the wrong town (this one is under...

I had a paltry three out of 10 (Viaduct, Cheshire Cheese and Cittie if York), but I made a note of the missing seven and have done them all today.

Thanks for the list. It's been most enjoyable.

You know you'll never get a straight answer to that. :whistle:

What about Christmas spirit?

Just another four:

11. The Britons Protection, Manchester
18. The Eagle and Child, Oxford
20. Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, London
24. The Dove in Hammersmith

Just the Roscoe Head and the Star Tavern, though I did walk past the Buckingham Arms before opening time earlier this year, and meant to go back but haven't yet done so. Do I get a half for that?

Just found him on Facebook with a post a few days ago, so he seems to have survived Covid.

I wasn't sure on a brief perusal this morning, but yes, it does appear to be the work of just one person. There is very little that's new since the pandemic - hope he's all right! - the New Additions...

This list was compiled before the pandemic by The European Bar Guide, and was recently picked up by the Sheffield Star because Sheffield pubs feature very prominantly.

British pubs in reverse...

Apologies if attention has already been drawn elsewhere on this forum to the release of the final 16 pubs in Camra's Pub of the Year.

The Bell, Waltham St. Lawrence, Berkshire
The Kings Head,...

A list of London pubs from a 1966 guide called Offbeat in London, written by Geoffrey Fletcher - see Boak & Bailey.

Especially this one: The Dickens Inn



Ha ha! A quick skim through got me to about 14 to 16.

Yes, especially Ye Olde Ferrie Inn, which is noted as having "seriously good food". When I was there - ok it was five years ago so maybe it's better now - the beer was "seriously bad".

...or indeed the Hillsborough Hotel? (Reported closed on this site 30/06/2020.)

I counted 49, but I may have missed two or three by skimming and not checking.

Thanks for going there, so that we don't have to!