It probably won't mean much to you chaps....

[Doctor Phibes]

...but this is a tribute to the pubs of my home town, many sadly gone.

I knew a lot of these places - my girlfriend worked behind the bar of one of the first ones they talk about, the Sumners. He doesn't mention that the beer was absolutely bloody awful.

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A little slice of northern England. Some of those places I wouldn't have dared gone into - they got a bit rough.

[Mik]

Where they search you for guns. If you’re not carrying they give you one. Always loved those places.

[George K]

"It only lasted 33 years...."

In Chicago, that would be a long, long time.

[Doctor Phibes]

@George-K said in It probably won't mean much to you chaps....:

"It only lasted 33 years...."

In Chicago, that would be a long, long time.

I went around Preston on a pub crawl with my brother in 2020, just before Covid closed everything down, and there were a number of pubs that had been there for well over a hundred years, all dark brown wood, but it was really quiet, almost dead. I'll probably never visit the town again. We ended up in a student place where there was actually some life, but very little character.

Where he lives now in Chorlton, near Manchester, is very different. Extremely lively and also plenty of character.

[89th]

Nothing like a good pub.