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There's a clue in the comments on the above about what resides where Becky's was. The opening of the Wheatsheaf is mentioned on the former premises of Becky's Dive Bar.

So there's 3 of us here that remember Becky's. One thing I can definitely remember about the place was that thr descent into Hell down the rickety staircase covered by the hopelessly ramshackle...

Snap!
With the demise of Ridleys the Braintree area is by and large a waste of time but Gray's houses are usually worth a look. The Cock at Ongar is the closest one to London.

It's such a shame that Brakspear, Ridley and K&B are no longer independent breweries as the three of them had so many great unspoilt pubs in the middle of nowhere. I remember once encountering...

The old Ridley estate was fantastic. Like Brakspear all their best pubs were slap bang in the middle of nowhere. Also like Brakspear closures started early. I never made it to the Pretty Lady at...

I was delighted to see that PSM had posted a review for this pub. I was also disappointed to note that this was the only PUG review since my review over five years ago. PSM clearly loved the place...

The current 40th anniversary book contains this :-

Taylback n. A traffic jam caused by an ill-timed attack of pancrewatitis in a layby.


This hefty tome has a foreword supposedly by Professor...

Noel Gallagher famously stopped at a café near where I live, It was all over the local rag.

I used to play darts in the now Sam Smiths outlet the Angel in St Giles. The actor Eamon Boland was a...

To cut a long story short can this really be true? Another coincidence is that Bethnal Green was the Kray twins manor and I'm sure people will recall who played them in the film.

You have now and it's NOT cockney rhyming slang!



It happens all the time. Sometimes they are off and you don't even notice them and other times they are so obtrusive you just feel like walking...

I was approached to appear on the show along with Roger Mellie but we politely declined, Actually it wasn't polite. It went along the lines of double the fee or go away.

Cock And Seaman

An appropriately smutty last word by Al Bundy on a pub with a smutty name.

There seems to be a new Northern correspondent called Rob Hunter. He's added loads of reviews today, one of which was this one in North Yorkshire. It seems I visited it at roughly the same time as...

Two million? It might be an obscure joke. If it is I can only assume that you've risen to the bait. If it's not then it's really scary!
The Male Online has become my favourite VIZ column.

He's obviously the real "Male Online" from Viz.

My one says I have a "spectacular aura about" . I regard this as downright insulting as it doesn't specify whether this refers to the Northern Lights or the inferior ones South of the Equator. Hold...

Is it the Punfight At The OK Corral?

Completely unintentional I'm afraid! The phrase "in good shape" is not one I've used or have heard people use. I've only seen it on here!!
I use "in good nick" ad infinitum.

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This was my friend's reaction to Mr Gimlet's. er sorry ETA's closing remark in his review of this Dover micropub.

It wasn't Wonderful for me as it was shut when I passed it on a Saturday afternoon. My name isn't Johnny but I do hate jazz!!

Has she appeared in "Modern Parents" or "The Critics"? What happened to those columns?

Shurely not Lizzie's review???

A Bromley Pub???

I agree totally with Al's sentiments here. This was added by the same person who submitted an off licence in Banbury and a raft of closed pubs in Henley on Thames. I've known...

I think it's the same as a Swamp Donkey, hope that helps.

It's nice to see John McGraw letting us know how City of London pubs really are
here
here
and here.
I think that he has been overly generous with the ratings.