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[EdgeleyRob]

Now thios has my brain cells whirling. Top of the list is a one called 'The Rose Cottage', in a villoage called Alciston, down a land call;ed bop Beep lane!! :) Next is the pub opposite Harveys Brewry Lewes Sussex. There are others...watchy this space!!

I'll have a pint of what you are drinking BBM

[LeMartinPecheur]

NBow in Cornwall, there are at least two pubs that stick out and they are The Ship Inn at Par and The Blisland Inn in Blisland near Bodmin. Bothg are very good for eating and real ale. Doombar being the staple with these two, and ofcourse they may have change now.

bbm: I'm pleased to report that the Blisland Inn is still going strong. Blisland is unusual as a Cornish village in having a village green, and of course the pub gives straight onto it so especially pleasant on a sunny day. Unfortunately we seem to have forgotten how to do those in Cornwall at the moment!

Discovered a delightful new (to me) pub yesterday cunningly hidden away in a back-street of Egloshayle nr Wadebridge, though it is pretty well signposted. It's the Earl of St Vincent. Was there at 1pm but very disappointed not to have been there an hour earlier. The reason? The place, which is big - I'm guessing an ex-coaching inn - is full of clocks, many of them chiming.

I had lunch under a Swiss cuckoo-clock with an inn-scene complete with outside drinker determinedly banging his tankard (Stein?) once on the table. Would have liked to see him do this a dozen times, though I don't suppose that even then a nice Swiss barmaid comes out to give him the refill he clearly craves

There are so many clocks there that when summer time comes or goes I was told they have to start altering them the previous day. I didn't dare ask about winding them all!

[kernelbogey]

Also like some of the Pubs around Covent Garden

A favourite among these for me is The Lamb and Flag in Rose St, between Floral St and Garrick St. Its bar is rather narrow and cramped, but replete with London boozer style. On fine evenings Rose St, as well as the bar, becomes packed with aficionados quaffing their pints, which can be uncomfortable, so I'd recommend going during office hours for a first visit!

[Pabmusic]

A favourite among these for me is The Lamb and Flag in Rose St, between Floral St and Garrick St. Its bar is rather narrow and cramped, but replete with London boozer style. On fine evenings Rose St, as well as the bar, becomes packed with aficionados quaffing their pints, which can be uncomfortable, so I'd recommend going during office hours for a first visit!

I know this! It's delightful.

[Nick Armstrong]

The Lamb and Flag ...I'd recommend going during office hours

Eggwetter gree !!!!

[salymap]

Eggwetter gree !!!!

The Lamb and Flag gives character to that bit of Soho.[or did]. I never visited it but a lovely little side street just leading to the pub apparently.
When I first worked at the Library [1949], Soho retained a sort of village atmosphere in spite of
the 'girls' still roamimg the streets. I LOVE London and have some very good books about it.

Off topic -sorry Cali

[Nick Armstrong]

Off topic -sorry Cali

Not at all! What were your favourite watering holes when you and your chums used to roister around the streets of the Smoke, saly?

[salymap]

Not at all! What were your favourite watering holes when you and your chums used to roister around the streets of the Smoke, saly?

With girl friends or my late partner, anything near the theatre we were visiting or Charing Cross Rd area.

With editor colleagues at lunchtime, near Dean Street, St Martin's area. often with other musicians visiting the office [but mustn't 'name drop' again.] Think Iwas included as the 'token woman'.

I've mentioned several specific pubs earlier Cali.

[BBMmk2]

A favourite among these for me is The Lamb and Flag in Rose St, between Floral St and Garrick St. Its bar is rather narrow and cramped, but replete with London boozer style. On fine evenings Rose St, as well as the bar, becomes packed with aficionados quaffing their pints, which can be uncomfortable, so I'd recommend going during office hours for a first visit!

That looks like certaionly worth a visit! London Pride has to be quafgfed in london!Off tap too!

[BBMmk2]

bbm: I'm pleased to report that the Blisland Inn is still going strong. Blisland is unusual as a Cornish village in having a village green, and of course the pub gives straight onto it so especially pleasant on a sunny day. Unfortunately we seem to have forgotten how to do those in Cornwall at the moment!

Discovered a delightful new (to me) pub yesterday cunningly hidden away in a back-street of Egloshayle nr Wadebridge, though it is pretty well signposted. It's the Earl of St Vincent. Was there at 1pm but very disappointed not to have been there an hour earlier. The reason? The place, which is big - I'm guessing an ex-coaching inn - is full of clocks, many of them chiming.

I had lunch under a Swiss cuckoo-clock with an inn-scene complete with outside drinker determinedly banging his tankard (Stein?) once on the table. Would have liked to see him do this a dozen times, though I don't suppose that even then a nice Swiss barmaid comes out to give him the refill he clearly craves

There are so many clocks there that when summer time comes or goes I was told they have to start altering them the previous day. I didn't dare ask about winding them all!

I am glad to hear that martin! thank you!Has anyone tried their Gentlemen's Mixed Grill? That was an absolute whopper!!

[JFLL]

A favourite among these for me is The Lamb and Flag in Rose St, between Floral St and Garrick St. Its bar is rather narrow and cramped, but replete with London boozer style. On fine evenings Rose St, as well as the bar, becomes packed with aficionados quaffing their pints, which can be uncomfortable, so I'd recommend going during office hours for a first visit!

Pipped me to it, kernel! I haven't been for years, but it's forever associated with my 'courting' days (does anyone say that any more?) I think for some reason it was once known as the 'Bucket of Blood' (shades of Kit Marlowe?) Very difficult to find, though.

Another good London boozer is/was the Lamb in Lamb's Conduit Street north of Holborn, which I hope still has the glass 'snob screens' on the bar. Again, haven't been there for years.

[Nick Armstrong]

And to make a trio of London Lambs, the Lamb Tavern in Leadenhall Market is a fantastic slice of old London with cracking Young's ales on offer (Winter Warmer my favourite!!) http://www.lambtavernleadenhall.com/

[JFLL]

A rather unusual pub is the Sun in Leintwardine, Herefords, about ten miles west of Ludlow. It’s one of the few remaining ‘parlour pubs’ or beer-houses.

Video clip: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8354017.stm

Website: http://www.suninn-leintwardine.co.uk/

[Zucchini]

Ah, the Lamb and Flag! A long while ago I worked for a firm in Upper St Martin's Lane and came up against the renowned Paddy "Three Luches a Day" of The Daily Telegraph.

Being pretty junior I got the first lunch - a midday slice of game pie and a couple of glasses of port at The Lamb and Flag. And very nice it was too.

My boss would get the main course -a handsome lunch at Tiberio, a fine nearby restaurant (which had conveniently given Paddy a bill pad so he could write his own expenses) and those senior enough to be able to take most of the afternoon off would meet him at the Waldorf at 3.45pm for an afternoon tea of port 'n peanuts.

[umslopogaas]

I must put in a good word for my local, 'The Exeter Inn' just south of Bampton in east Devon. The beer is Exmoor Ale and very good too, and they do nice bar meals. I always take visitors there for dinner, so they dont have to endure my cooking. Avoid on Sunday lunchtimes, though, unless you like crowds, it gets very noisy.

See www.the-exeter-inn.co.uk (I hope, got that from the phone book but havent tried it).