Lucky you!Originally Posted by sheffield hatter
I have some lovely pubs within about a 25-minute walk from my flat but I also have some dreadful GK central London muck too. My best/nearest are essentially all lovely places to drink but generally have a poor ale choice and/or charge prices which would scare off Mark Zuckerberg:
The Cock & Bottle
Elephant & Castle
The Elgin
The Hero of Maida
The Ladbroke Arms
The Prince Alfred
Uxbridge Arms
The Warrington Hotel
Warwick Castle
Windsor Castle
Ah to live in a city,now since I've moved a village three miles further south west, I no longer have any favourite pubs in sensible walking distance, pubs yes, but I'd rather not bother.The only upside is now I have a train station two minutes walk from my doorstep as opposed to previously 25 minutes at brisk pace. The two pubs I consider my locals are,
The Waggon & Horses 3.5 miles away
And
The Alfred Free House 8 miles away.
Both are small trad pubs and are going to struggle to open under any distancing rules.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Living in London I have at about1000 pubs within an eight mile radius.Not what I would class as local though.
I am talking about local in the sense of visiting regularly, i.e 3-4 times a week and being part of that particular pub community.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Just visiting fairly often, mode of transport is neither here nor there.
Well, that explains why you chose just two pubs, Mick. After all, none of us are going to be visiting 10 pubs three or four times a week!
My 10 accounted for 214 out of my 847 pub visits last year, and were my most frequently visited pubs in my home town (though I listed them without reference to my spreadsheet). This year the same 10 have accounted for 63 out of 233 pub visits up to 20 March, though if I'd based my 10 on this year's figures I would have to have included the Old Grindstone at the expense of the Ecclesall Ale Club.
Come On You Hatters!
Dubliners, Thornaby
Golden Smog, Stockton
Hope and Union, Stockton
Top of the Hops, Stockton
30 minutes on foot from Chez Quinno and gets regularly visited
The Alehouse
The Allied Arms
Double-Barrelled Brewery Tap
The Fox & Hounds
Nags Head (which probably gets more visits in a month than the rest combined, mind you it is three minutes from my front door)
The Retreat
Given that they have poor ale choices and high prices can they be favourites?
Well...they are very nice places to drink but they are my locals (25 mins). The best ale pubs (and what I'd call proper pubs) are spookily on an almost straight line through my flat, being the Wenlock or the Express, which are hardly local.
My favourite pub within walking distance of home is The Old Cross Tavern,sadly it is small and would struggle to fit more than 15 punters with 2m distancing.
The Black Horse has however a generous back garden ,not at all obvious to non locals so an ideal spot for a bit of social distancing from early July
Out boating ,there maybe a lot of scope for exterior drinking and I do have a supply of leather tankards if take outs are the only option.Lets hope this good weather extends well into July.Canals are due to reopen to more than short hops from June 1st .
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
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