best pub in brixton that isn't the albert

playghirl · May 27, 2004

Sometimes it would be easier to say where you dont like to go. ( yet you do end up there at times) cos where else will you go for the true seedy outing!!
The backstage bar
The Canning
The windmill
The beehive...on a Monday or Tuesday club outing!!!!!

With Fenian starting to prefer some of the more salubrious wine bar places not cos i dont like pubs anymore I do but i have lost heart a bit with Brixton pubs.

* sigh the days of old bradys, Queen .....

IntoStella · May 27, 2004

silentNate said:
-Jack Stamps closed down due to lack of customers not because it was rough

Yeah well we're not all as street and hard as you, Nate.

Come on, it was a TERRIBLE place. And were you living there when the Thurlow Arms was actually open?

You drink in an old mans pub in WN or you pay through the nose at Lancasters- no middle ground

This is true, however.

isvicthere? · May 27, 2004

IntoStella said:
Very similar thing happened in West Norwood. The very rough Thurlow Arms shut down and was boarded up for ages. Then it became a GE Aldwinkle , surreally replete with jazz trio and Grauniad reading whate wane sippers.

But the rot began to set in. It became a Jack Stamps and eventually ended up as rough as the Thurlow Arms had been. And now it's shut and boarded up again. This depressing cycle has been completed in maybe six years.

You cannot impose change on communities with expensive lager and acres of blond wood. it doesn't work. Pubs are not independent of the communities they are located in. And if a community is in trouble because of poverty, crime, unemployment, poor public service provision, despair and, not least, crack, all the perfectly chilled Leffe Blond in the world is not going to stop that eating away the foundations of your ivory tower.

When it was Jack Stamps the landlord tried to start a comedy night there. Imagine! I was on the bill. When I told someone in the Albert I had a gig there, he smiled and just said, "White trash!"

Needless to say, it was the kind of gig where all the acts fought to get the normally "graveyard" first spot, thus giving them a more realistic chance of escaping alive. Because I had another gig elsewhere, I was lucky enough to go on first, and get the fuck out pronto. I don't imagine it ran to a second night (or even a second half!)

playghirl · May 27, 2004

I have just come from a lunch time pint in the Railway it is ok, but as you say in Tulse Hill. It is still a little rough around the edges which is what makes it appealing. Though Steph just charged me 80 pence for a pack of crisps!!

The Horns my closest local is o.k. It is a very clique( sic) pub with its regulars. The ;lancasters is rubbish. So there arent any yuppy pubs up here!

Fenian · May 27, 2004

playghirl said:
With Fenian starting to prefer some of the more salubrious wine bar places not cos i dont like pubs anymore I do but i have lost heart a bit with Brixton pubs.

We're still here though are we no playghirl?

I've lost count of the fellow-travellers who used to go misty-eyed over a bar where there was a high body-count of bleeding slashed casualties every weekend, and who've scurried off to a nice semi in the sticks where they now spend their weekends playing ludo.

silentNate · May 27, 2004

playghirl said:
The Horns my closest local is o.k. It is a very clique( sic) pub with its regulars. The ;lancasters is rubbish. So there arent any yuppy pubs up here!

I drink at the Horns and I reckon you've a problem.....

Clique, shit no :mad:

pooka · May 27, 2004

Ah, but how many of these pubs have 'a selection of food boards and sharing platters .. available throughout the bar to compliment (sic) the drinking occasion'??

The Bedford Arms (end of Landor Road) was never a top notch boozer but didn't deserve the indignity of going first to being 'ba'* and now 'The Clapham North'.

*Yes Anna, ba bah if you will

editor · May 27, 2004

I walked through Peckham today. A main-road pub with a notice saying, "no search - no entry", reminded me why I never choose to drink in the area.

<shudder>

Fenian · May 28, 2004

they used to do that at mingle's - lucky for myself, as I caught myself on dancing with a big dude's estranged girl there and was thankful he didn't have anything to hit me with

playghirl · May 28, 2004

fenian mingles was a hoot...but i found being really really pissed helped being there.

playghirl · May 28, 2004

silentNate said:
I drink at the Horns and I reckon you've a problem.....

Clique, shit no

I wasnt slagging the place off mate...but it does have a wee clique going on. I go there myself a few times a week I have seen it. Bar staff are great though. Alison, Josie etc.

silentNate · May 28, 2004

playghirl said:
I wasnt slagging the place off mate...but it does have a wee clique going on. I go there myself a few times a week I have seen it. Bar staff are great though. Alison, Josie etc.

Interestingly seeing that you've never spoken to us, which means we are the clique

playghirl · May 28, 2004

silentNate said:
Interestingly seeing that you've never spoken to us, which means we are the clique

I never liked being in the popular group anyway!

Bet you were in with the best sports players and hung around all the pretty girls at school. Whilst I was in science and chess club at school. lol

silentNate · May 28, 2004

I was in the chess club though I played football as well- gergl and I are betting you drink in the saloon bar

playghirl · May 28, 2004

Are you betting each other or are you betting me?

playghirl · May 28, 2004

Are you betting each other or betting me?

silentNate · May 28, 2004

Betting each other teach

IntoStella · May 28, 2004

playghirl said:
Bet you were in with the best sports players and hung around all the pretty girls at school.

Nate? ROFL!

I have to admit, I never went in the Horns.

Pie 1 · May 28, 2004

Ms T said:
the Trinity Arms is OK if it's not too rugger buggery.

Ok, this has cropped up a few times. As a Trinity regular, I'm not sure I recognise this accusation all that much, ok there's a few 'smarter' gentlemen in there sometimes and it's quite a draw for suited council workers having an after work pint, but rugger buggers? I've not seen many (if any) in the 2 years I've been drinking there.
I associate rugger buggers with that god awful waterfront pub, The Ship (?) in Wandsworth.

twistedAM · May 28, 2004

Pie 1 said:
Ok, this has cropped up a few times. As a Trinity regular, I'm not sure I recognise this accusation all that much, ok there's a few 'smarter' gentlemen in there sometimes and it's quite a draw for suited council workers having an after work pint, but rugger buggers? I've not seen many (if any) in the 2 years I've been drinking there.
I associate rugger buggers with that god awful waterfront pub, The Ship (?) in Wandsworth.

it's probably referring to my mate with a bad dress sense that goes in there; plus he's got a real Poshington accent so could be mistaken for a rugger bugger but he's cool

oh god wandsworth...The Alma (i think it'c called) at the end of Alma Rd opp the station....jesus we have it good in (even in downtown) Brixton compared to that

Brixton Hatter · May 28, 2004

Minnie_the_Minx said:
So, anyone know anything about the new landlord in the HobCanning yet?

Minnie - check the 'Hobgoblin - Filthy' thread

Old Gergl · May 28, 2004

silentNate said:
gergl and I are betting you drink in the saloon bar

Aye, we drink in the Horns almost daily playghirl, very surprised you haven't noticed a bunch of loud pissheads in U75 Ts before. You must've gone over to the other side...

*shakes head sadly*

playghirl · May 28, 2004

I like to keep a low profile!

Bob · May 28, 2004

Pie 1 said:
Ok, this has cropped up a few times. As a Trinity regular, I'm not sure I recognise this accusation all that much, ok there's a few 'smarter' gentlemen in there sometimes and it's quite a draw for suited council workers having an after work pint, but rugger buggers? I've not seen many (if any) in the 2 years I've been drinking there.
I associate rugger buggers with that god awful waterfront pub, The Ship (?) in Wandsworth.

Every time I go in there it seems to be full of suited council workers & councillors of all three parties... it seems that in Brixton despite hating each other they're all real ale bores / like inoffensive old pubs like the Trinity. Or they share more than they think - externally of course they're all predominantly white middle aged men.

I've got nothing particular against it but find it a little odd that it's so popular.

Mr BC · May 28, 2004

Bob said:
Every time I go in there it seems to be full of suited council workers & councillors of all three parties... it seems that in Brixton despite hating each other they're all real ale bores / like inoffensive old pubs like the Trinity. Or they share more than they think - externally of course they're all predominantly white middle aged men.

I've got nothing particular against it but find it a little odd that it's so popular.

Less of the middle aged, thank you.

playghirl · May 28, 2004

gergl said:
Aye, we drink in the Horns almost daily playghirl, very surprised you haven't noticed a bunch of loud pissheads in U75 Ts before. You must've gone over to the other side...

*shakes head sadly*

Listen pal.....I just had a couple in my regular side which is not the saloon bar...and I still dont know who you are. Bet you sit behind the pool table!!!
Actually I reckon your making this all up!!!! You drink across the road in the Norwood Hotel.

Loud pissheads??? You arent that loud..lol

I usually go for a Sunday roast will look for you covertly then!!

silentNate · May 28, 2004

playghirl said:
Listen pal.....I just had a couple in my regular side which is not the saloon bar...and I still dont know who you are. Bet you sit behind the pool table!!!
Actually I reckon your making this all up!!!! You drink across the road in the Norwood Hotel.

Loud pissheads??? You arent that loud..lol

I usually go for a Sunday roast will look for you covertly then!!

Oh, okay- Epona and I were in there reading papers...
I'm guessing you were in the beer-garden

Jackdaw · May 28, 2004

playghirl said:
I have just come from a lunch time pint in the Railway it is ok, but as you say in Tulse Hill. It is still a little rough around the edges which is what makes it appealing. Though Steph just charged me 80 pence for a pack of crisps!!

He overcharged you the old soak..

Incidentally.. Pride is now on tap.. with a different ale each month.. and they're doing barbies at the weekend, weather permitting..

And the Cambria (my local) isn't too bad imo.. I've never had any bad vibes from the regulars.. quite the opposite in fact.. and now I know them a bit the staff are always very welcoming and friendly, they did seem a bit offish to start with though I have to admit .. and they don't always have the footy on.

IntoStella · May 28, 2004

playghirl said:
Actually I reckon your making this all up!!!! You drink across the road in the Norwood Hotel.

NOBODY drinks in the Norwood Hotel. :eek:

I may have to find a pic of nate and PM it to playghirl to see if it jogs her memory. heh heh.

IntoStella · May 28, 2004

Dammit, I can't find one anywhere. :mad:

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