Westminster Pubs
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- A tour of pubs in Westminster, and a hunt for "division bells".
Taking in:
The Albert, Victoria Street
The Two Chairmen, Dartmouth Street
The Speaker, Great Peter Street
The Westminster Arms, Storey's Gate
St. Stephen's Taverm, Parliament Square
The Red Lion, Parliament Street
Ah! The Albert. Thankyou for that. Always wondered what the upstairs looked like. Always seemed too busy to climb the stairs. Simply a great pub. Handsome granite. Had to wonder if The Grafton could be included as a Westminster supping place? If you are an old BBC Goon Show fan you may have visited it with all it's Goon memorabilia and the home to the genesis of many a Goon Show. Worth a two pint visit.
love the two chairmen, i once sat outside there for 6hrs watching the world go by
i admit i only had a few ales though and felt terrible the next morning
great video mr tweedy keep them coming
Thanks you! Yes it does seem like a very interesting corner of London from which to watch the world go by...
My notes on the Speaker, from 2006, say "Four real ales, no music, no TV. Lovely." Stonegate seem to be taking over everything, including Hippo Inns who ran some interesting pubs. There was another Westminster Arms in SW1 - in Page Street, hence my confusion when my notes said "Demolished"!
Thanks a lot for all your great videos. You deserve many more followers. As a typical anglophile Scandinavian, I love traditional British pubs. Proudly, I have visited many of the pubs you present. Apparently, I have many good ones left. But I will not tell anyone 😀 (I prefer British murmur at the pubs I visit and not hoards of Scandinavian tourists). I come from Norway and live in Sweden, but I didn't know that our granite found its way to British pubs! Totally agree with you on music, TV and other nuisance. Keep up your excellent work. Looking forward to your next one. Cheers! Skål! 🍺
Thanks for that lovely comment and also thank you (as a representative of both Norway and Sweden) for the granite! It's a beautiful thing, and I think it helps date the frontage of the pub to within a few decades (around the 1890s?) as I believe it was only fashionable to use in pub exterior design around that period.
Great video thank you, I will catch up with your others. Top work sir!!!☺️🍺🍻
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
Another interesting selection. I have been in all of them other than the St Stephens tavern which I have never even noticed. The Two Chairmen was once my local when I worked in St Anne's Gate in the 1990s. A pal and myself would sit in the window seat at lunchtime for a swift pint and a sandwich. They had some interesting guest ales, one of which was called 'the dog's bollocks'. We took one sip and took it back to the bar saying it might be called the dogs b....s, but didn't expect it to be brewed from them. The barmaid was happy to give us am alternative, but as she did so, two other pundits brought back their beers, having been suffering in silence. Always take a beer back if it is clearly not right.
Thank you for that one. A nice interesting tour. 👍
Blimey the Albert, this was the last Pub I had a pint with my late Bro in Law...cracking boozer. I've only been to London twice...think I'm due for another visit, cheers John👍
BROTHER-in-law.
In the Ian Fleming parody novel "Alligator" (1962) by the Harvard Lampoon, in the first chapter, James Bond is in the downstairs (if it exists?) of St. Stephen's Tavern reflecting on things and sipping his favorite cocktail, The Anagram. It was a concoction of Gordon's Gin, rum, Falernum, Wolfschmidt Kummel, creme de menthe, vodka, sugar among other things, I believe. Always served with "exactly 3 ice cubes". It is tasty once you realize you do NOT put in a half-cup of sugar, just a cube. The first "parody" cocktail. (He then orders 2 more "just like it" as he refills his pig iron cigarette case (from Langouste's) from his 12 packs of cigarettes he always carries in his jacket pocket. It is well written and can stand alone as its own novel. However, Mr. Fleming was not amused and in his Will forbade the 2 main editors who wrote it, Michael Frith and Christopher Cerf from every writing anything else about James Bond. (Cerf, who has composed multiple songs for Sesame Street, is the son of the late and great Bennett Cerf, the publisher of Random House and hosted "Who's line is it?")
Thank you for that very interesting snippet! Yes there is definitely still a downstairs vs an upstairs in St Stephen's Tavern - I haven't been to the upstairs room but I think it's more of a dining room. I'm not sure they would have ever served cocktails, but that said if the novel is a parody that probably doesn't matter!
Great info and another great vid, so
Much good content and depth , thank you sir and well done 👍
Thank you Mark! Glad you enjoyed it.
Is the Albert not London’s most photogenic pub? The juxtaposition is sublime. 👌🍺😀
But shame it’s Green King 😢
Oh to be in one of those pubs and to hear The Division Bell. 🛎️
Yes it still catches my eye every time I pass it - surreal almost.
Great to see the new channel doing so well. It's on fire! This is what they want! Really pleased for you and an interesting video - although that first poor pub surrounded by glass and steel was a little difficult to watch.
Thank you! Yes this one does seem to be off to a good start, I think it probably helps that the subject matter is of fairly broad appeal and also people know exactly what they're getting if they choose to subscribe: pubs!
@@TweedyPubs it says what it does on the tin, as they say!
@@WC21UKProductionsLtd It is interesting to see the different patterns of "engagement". The Covent Garden pubs video I did last week has about 1K views now, 55 likes and 7 comments (that includes replies from me, so actually only 3 people who aren't me have commented). Whereas my Avebury winter solstice video from last year has a similar number of views, but twice the number of likes and ten times (!) the number of comments.
So I think the pubs channel is getting a lot more "drive by" kind of viewers - perhaps in part because the subject matter is broader? Any kind of audience is nice to have of course, but I get the sense a lot of people watching these pub videos aren't really finding quite the sort of thing they were looking for here.
People often talk about the outdoors theme on TH-cam being a bit overcrowded but I get the sense there is a real thirst for videos about pubs, which is actually quite under-served... However my particular style of making pub videos probably isn't exactly everyone else's cup of tea. It beggars belief but I have a sense your average pub goer may actually not be overly concerned at differentiating between the two different types of Scandinavian granite in the pilastered frontage...?!
@@TweedyPubs on the couple of occasions I’ve had videos score highly on views, the average view duration is lower than the norm. It must be that algorithm. For some reason it decides to recommend a video and although the view rate is higher, a lot more people seem to quickly decide they don’t want to watch a slightly unhinged old duffer getting angry about ‘experts’.
There certainly are a lot of outdoors channels. It amazes me that I’m still getting served up new ones. This week I’ve seen 2 that seem to have had a frenetic burst for a year or two and then given up.
A channel with ‘pubs’ in the title is a smart move, I reckon. I think you’ll pick up viewers who just like getting hammered, those of us who like the history and architecture and Americans who find anything English inherently fascinating.
Do you ever feel a bit pissed after filming these? Although I think you’re doing halves in some of them?
@@WC21UKProductionsLtd I think disproving things "experts" say is a cornerstone of TH-cam though isn't it?
With the last few of these pub crawl type videos I've done, as you observed, I mostly stuck to halves. Given that, covering 5 or 6 pubs with some gaps / walking between doesn't seem to be too arduous, and when I watch the later stages of the footage back I feel I'm still fairly coherent! There have been instances in the past where I've watched footage back and discovered I was alarmingly slurry (last year's summer solstice springs to mind). There's only so much you can compensate for with editing...
I was pleasantly surprised by the St. Stephen's Tavern. A great pub.
7:35 That WC21 (UK) Productions Limited face...
Thanks again for the guidance.
The dog is apparently called Dr Frankfurter, or Frank for short. He looked like a character.
We don't know what you're saying!
Another good one John, thanks I enjoy them all
Thanks Stuart!
Brilliant 👏 😊
I could never understand how so many people in these Central London pubs could sit around boozing at midday, while I had to quickly drink up and get back to work. All of them great little pubs though 5 star vid.
Thanks Jim, and I know what you mean! I remember many years ago taking an afternoon off work for a pub crawl thinking after the lunchtime session I'd have the pubs all to myself. Even at 3:30 (surely too late for lunch and surely too early to be finishing work for the day already) the pubs were anything but empty - lots of people in suits as well.
Imagine you could make a video of the bars inside the Houses Of Parliament.
The first pub looks like Bert from sesame Street.
I hadn't seen that until now - brilliant!
I was drinking Blacksheep last week and it cost me £3.00 a pint! lol.
Interesting stuff. I would like to see a Tweedy recommended pub crawl centred around Kings Cross, St. Pancras and Euston for the occasional visitor to the capital . Cheers !
Thanks Garry, that's a bit of a tough area though! I've always struggled to find places I like around there, particularly in recent years. There has been so much development that pretty much anything which might have been decent is either changed beyond recognition or gone altogether. I'm still quite sad about the Bree Louise (a victim of HS2 I believe).
Always call something by its correct name.
@kevinengland7444 you are correct Kevin. It was very sloppy of me..👍🍺
Very interesting; it is a shame that a few big Pub Co's & big breweries dominate in the centre of town as there are now over 80 breweries in Greater London. And it is not just tropical IPAs that they chuck out. There are lots of real ales in all her manifestations being produced by the better London brewer, and take it out to the home counties then there are top notch real ales in every style. But you will not get it in Westminster, sadly
What about the Members Pubs in the Houses of Parliament?
How many jobs allow you to get pissed and then “work” apart from MP?
(Apart from DJ, musician or TH-camr.)
😂 It sounds great until you remember they're supposed to be actually running the country!
I can't comment on DJs / musicians but of course I see no problem with TH-camrs drinking in the daytime...
You should rename this video The Division Bell Pub Crawl ... or maybe not!
It's almost that isn't it? Although I think if I wanted to just go to pubs with division bells I should have chosen a slightly different itinerary - I think there are one or two other pubs which have (had?) them that I missed out.