The Bunch of Grapes door mosaic is truly beautiful. Thank you Tweedy for showing it. Such a lovely collection of London pubs. A great place for a compact pub crawl. 👏👏👍😀🍺
Don't forget The Lamb's greatest moment in the John Wayne film 'Brannigan' - the best cinematic bar room brawl ever - th-cam.com/video/nSnTkfihx_U/w-d-xo.htmlsi=HBTOCHpgMrkXEe_a
It's a bittersweet moment when I see you've released another London Pubs video, because they are currently my favourite series of videos on TH-cam, but it's another knife through the heart knowing I'm not making it back to London until next May. When I do eventually get there, that first pint of Harvey's Best is going to be one to savour!!
Thank you for the Leadenhall memories! It took me back to my City days and lovely lunchtimes. The detail of the pubs and the stories and facts that you glean are fantastic, Tweedy 👌
Thank you Al, much appreciated! Still plenty of room for improvement on the production quality side of things, of course, but hopefully it is gradually nudging forwards.
This takes me back. I used to occasionally meet my sister-in-law in the Lamb during the mid-1970s when I lived and worked in London. She worked in the City (Gracechurch Street) for most of her career. I haven't drunk beer for many years but my favourite tipple in those days was Young's Ordinary, although I doubt it survives with that name these days. I joined CAMRA on my 18th birthday in 1973; only a year or two after its founding. I left about 10 years later when it became a political organisation and I became more of a wine drinker. Good memories, thanks.
Great video which brings back fond memories of my time frequenting the Lamb from the 80's onwards before my stroke six years ago. Old Tom's bar in the basement was a smoky old bar also called the Lamb until Youngs decided to poncify as Old Tom's and charge a premium for certain beers and change the menu to include scotch eggs and cheese for rip off prices. Anyway I miss the place and the atmosphere during lunchtimes and evenings. Cheers!
Thanks Tweedy for showing us this very lavish sight (which I didn't even know of) with nice pubs and for providing a lot of historical detail, despite the challenges of filming in a busy place. I love arcades like this because they combine an indoor and outdoor atmosphere, unlike modern malls.
@@JustcallmeKathi Thanks Kathi! Yes Leadenhall works really well in modern London - some of the best of both worlds of urban space, and the roof helps to hide a lot of the far uglier buildings nearby! It's also really nice to have all this pedestrianised space - there were brief moments where I was slightly reminded of Venice!
I remember the New Moon from my time in the City 1977 to 87. It’s claim to fame for me being that it stayed open late, most pubs shut by 8 or 9 pm, The New Moon would be open til 11, but only the downstairs bar, the upstairs closing at the usual time.
Great memories! I used to work in The Bunch Of Grapes, Lime St. from about '88-'90 (eventually asst. manager. I went on to run a few Charrington's pubs for a good few years). I remember the New Moon and the manager was a huge fella, with blond hair a big scar down his face. The story being, he got thrown through a glass window, back in the day. Oof! Happy days!
Tweedy, another great video with your usual attention to the detail of the buildings and the history of each establishment. I worked in the City from 1989 to 2019 and I have frequented all of these pubs. My favourite was the basement bar of The Lamb, which was given the name Old Toms relatively recently. The Swan was a good place for a light lunch in the upstairs bar, providing I got there early enough to find a space to balance a glass and a plate. The one thing I can remember was that prior to 1997, how smoky these bars used to be apart from the upstairs bar in The Lamb, which was a no smoking bar.
I'm not English but I have been deeply fascinated by English history and enjoy all your videos from here and Tweedy Outdoors! I will be visiting Great Britain in October and will definitely check out some of the pubs you've visited.
Many thanks for this video of Leadenhall Market pubs. When I worked in the City many years ago my lunchtime drinking haunts were The Lamb, and then subsequently with my late friend Jim, The Swan. We were friendly with mine host at The Swan and he took his regulars on a brewery visit to Fullers in Chiswick. He also scored us tickets for the trade day at the Great British Beer Festival one August. Happy days!
Great review Tweedy! It's a very interesting mix of hustle and bustle, old and modern in that area. We stayed nearby on our last trip over and loved the energy and vibe of the area. One day as we were walking through Leadenhall Market we came upon a gentleman who was reapplying some silver foil to some of the building details. He was more than happy to chat with the out-of-towners about what he was doing. You are spoiled with so many great and historically interesting places to sup! Edit. Loved the bit about old Tom! He probably sported a small top hat I imagine.
Hi Tweedy, very much enjoying your videos. Love the research you do into the history of each pub. I live in London and still need to visit some of these pubs. Nothing fascinates me more than old pubs, ships, inns, hotels and theatres. Enjoying a few pints whilst watching. Cheers! P. S: I've also subscribed. Keep up the stellar work :)
Great to see a new pubs video tweedy. Very clever editing as well. I do love London history and London boozers so I always look for your reviews. Funnily enough i was drinking in Leadenhall earlier this summer and will make sure to return.
@@robcoles8493 Thanks Rob, and I really appreciate you noticing the editing! There's of course still plenty of room for improvement but I've been trying to get a bit more polished with each video and it's a very time consuming task!
This a revelation to me Tweedy, I've not heard of or visited this particular area. It is now firmly on my list for my October visit. The Swan looks like a winner indeed and the Bunch of Grapes will surely see my custom as they have wisely stocked Harvey's Sussex Best.
Love your content. Always interesting - great idea to stick the price of your drink of choice up. I spent a bit of time in The Lamb, mid '80's. Ground level there were two bars, split by a screen. On the right hand side was the public bar - old faded red lino and sawdust. 'Ordinary' was our drink of choice. The main loos were downstairs. It was affectionately referred to as the 'Bog Bar' and had cigarette smoke billowing out from it. The dart boards were downstairs too. The Bunch of Grapes, was and still is to some, the BOG...My preference is upstairs in The Swan. Not quite as manic!
Hi John, Excellent video, some great editing, I even got The Prodigy joke, do I win a prize? Some great in depth research, I do enjoy seeing the evolution of the area in the maps👌👌. Great story from the cellar bar, well worth including. Great choice of whisky too, no problems with the stemware either!! A great watering hole which almost looks hidden away in the centre of London, Wiki, says it was the centre of Roman London too!! All the best!!
Thanks David! Yes I have a ridiculous and completely unsubstantiated theory that Christopher Wren started the Great Fire. Nobody else profited so much from it! I really enjoyed learning about Old Tom, and I think he was much needed light relief because it seems the nature of this area (being today of course London's financial district) means that there aren't so many stories of "characters" in this part of town compared to, say, Soho. Yes I was going to include a bit abou Londinium's Forum / Basilica being on this site - apparently a remnant of it is visible in the basement of the barbers a few doors down from the Lamb! ...but I always fear the audience might lose interest if I divert too much from talk of pubs...
I wish they had it out in California. Barely have any English ales even at "British" pubs. Boddington, Speckled Hen, Bass, Fullers. Used to have Watney's Red Barrel.... one of the tastiest ales I had ever had.... at a time when we only had Coors and Bud....and Sam Adams had just broke out on the scene in 1984.
Good afternoon, Tweedy. An interesting video - I have never ventured into Leadenhall Market (I will need to rectify that in the future), but my good lady has ,with work colleagues in the past and said it is well worth a visit. I see there was both Harvey's Best and Landlord available at The Bunch of Grapes. Reminded me of the waiting for a bus cliché, in that you can go to many pubs these days and find no good ale to drink, then you turn up at The Bunch of Grapes and two excellent ales are available at once 😉 !!!! Also see Old Tom's Bar serves a Laphroaig (in a tulip style glass too) 😁. I enjoy many Islay whiskies, like Ardbeg, Lagavulin, and Caol Ila, but Laphroaig will always be my first and favourite. 😁👍
Thanks Steve. Yes I think the Lamb is probably best of the bunch. The only other one from this video I had been to before is the Swan, and I think that has a nice buzz to it. For me personally the Bunch of Grapes had the best beer offering!
Another great video Tweedy!! I used to work very close to Leadenhall Market and The Lamb, The Swan, and The Bunch of Grapes, were regular lunch time / after work spots for me 🍻
Excellent Thanks 🍺👏Very informative and interesting! I must admit my visits there in the past I was more interested in the beer than the architecture 😊i didn’t appreciate how magnificent it was thanks 😊 have a nice weekend 🥂
Funny that has always been my feeling about the New Moon. I unfairly overlook it possibly as you say due to the desire to feel at the heart of Leadenhall
I always love your London pub videos! I've walked through Leadenhall Market on many occasions, but never visited a pub there! Tbh they don't seem to a very good selection of beer! I compare them to the humble Wetherspoons, which always seem to have at least 3 cask ales, mostly locally sourced!
Thank you Tweedy, I really enjoy your videos the history these pubs have is definitely worth the pub crawl! You have even inspired me to get my own beer engine hand pull for my house here in NZ.. which apparently is all the way from Nantwich over your way 👍 cheers Mate, Mike in New Zealand 🍻🍻
@@TweedyPubs I'm not sure on the make of pump.. its a really nice all brass hand pump with a porcelain handle, it has what looks like a glass cylinder as the actual pump mechanism.. apparently from the "Cheshire Cheese Pub" in Nantwich, which unfortunately closed around 2007. The bloke I bought the pump off was a patron at the pub and purchased the pump on its closing. I probably have the coolest beer engine with a story in New Zealand.. I'm quite chuffed about that 😁
Hello again Tweedy, I hope you don't mind but I have a Friend on holiday over in London at the moment... he's staying in the Paddington / Westminster area.. any pub recommendations you can give him? I think I seen a video of "The Hole in the Wall" pub once... cheers Mike.
@@hardyardsbrewers1225 Here's a video I did on Paddington: th-cam.com/video/cgO91onZrbc/w-d-xo.html Maybe others which might be useful for that side of town...? Marylebone: th-cam.com/video/bs4A0YYpH94/w-d-xo.html Kensington: th-cam.com/video/jiVvwlsusDc/w-d-xo.html Mayfair: th-cam.com/video/0SpmcSGX8Wc/w-d-xo.html
Thanks. I sometimes wonder if I'm not making very good use of my time here - I feel like a big chunk of the audience probably just skips through all the bits which take hours and hours of research to see the bar lineup and the prices!
Only in the Victorian era could you have a character like Tom. I bet he had a watch chain and smoked a fag as he waddled from one pub to the next. What with him, a giant boil and a Mangle Wurzel, I’m very surprised the Lamb didn’t feature in a novel by Charles Dickens. There were some nice looking pubs here, but I was a bit shocked by the modern development around the magnificent market building - especially each side of that stunning entrance. The poor old Swan Tavern Passage looked as though the life and character has been rigorously removed. Although, as you suggested, perhaps that process began at the end of the 19th Century. There were some nice features in the pubs. I liked the tiling in Tom’s Bar and that rediscovered ceiling in the New Moon was great. Excellent thorough research again. If TH-cam is still around in 100 years, what a joy it will be for people to see these places. Although they may be watching from a pod on Mars by then!
Yes Tom was a delight wasn't he? It's impossible to imagine Old Tom being able to exist today, in no time at all there would be do-gooders complaining to the relevant authorities about how irresponsible it is to give a goose gin... and yet can anyone provide me with an example of a goose who lived a happier life? Or indeed one still remembered with such fondness two centuries hence? Leadenhall is indeed besieged on all sides by modern monstrosities of glass and steel, so the fact it has a roof is a real blessing that Sir Horace probably never envisaged: it shields you from much of the horror that lies beyond. I honestly found this video quite hard work after my summer hiatus - I haven't done a "normal" Tweedy Pubs video with the standard format (a handful of pubs in one area) since the Wimbledon one in June. It was a reminder of how frustrating it can be when a pub is even moderately busy and I can't find a quiet spot to sit and film, and I've been pretty much living like a hermit the past few weeks so these busy city pubs were a bit of a shock to the system!
@@TweedyPubs The owners of a modern day Tom would be prosecuted and Tom would be "humanely destroyed". I imagine there were late Victorian versions of you and I bemoaning the demolition of the old Leadenhall Market, but I doubt anyone will be complaining about the removal of the glass and steel boxes when watching your video in 100 years time. Goodness knows what it will be surrounded by then! In my mind, London is still like I remember it in the 80s, 90s and 2,000s. I did see it changing in the 2010s, but it still shocks me for some reason. I'll have to dig out my old Sweeney boxset and see if Regan and Carter ever went to Leadenhall. I bet it was still surrounded by down at heel Victorian buildings then. Yes, it did look very busy and must have been challenging. You have my full respect for filming in those sort of situations!
@@WC21UKProductionsLtd That Strand Magazine article I was reading from while at the Swan was exactly that! The author was lamenting that the new Leadenhall Market had lost all its anarchic charm. I've encountered articles like that several times in these videos and a certain cohort of Victorians would likely find it preposterous that we in the 21st century venerate and/or feel nostalgic about Victorian architecture which, to them, was all a bit cold / soulless / grotesque. That said it's still impossible to imagine anyone will look back favourably on the eyesores we churn out in this century.
Hi Tweedy Pubs! Just discovered the channel and love your videos. Could you do one on Putney? My favourite pubs in London are both in Putney: the Eight Bells, and the Bricklayer’s Arms.
In the mid 70's I was working as a stock exchange auditor at a client adjacent to the market. My boss suggested the Lamb for lunch and introduced me to Young's Winter Warmer. Not a very productive afternoon!
Enjoyable content again. One technical question: Do you use digitialzed sources? Or just have enormous amount of time for mining parchments in the library? Thank You.
Thank you! The sources I use are pretty much all digital. Although I have on one or two occasions visited various archives in London for records which weren't available online.
Mr Tweedy, if you ever visit Newcastle, pay a trip to The Botanist. I think you'll like it with it's list of winners of the Polar Bear Wrestling Champions. But go during happy hour so the barman spins the wheel to determine how much you pay. Also the Bob Trollop in one of the oldest surviving buildings on the Tyne.
I agree Dave, it would have been nice if at least one of these pubs could have held out as a freehouse and offered something a bit different. For me personally the Grapes was the best of bunch (if you'll pardon the pun) in terms of the beer offering.
I wish there were pubs like these outside London and the big cities. They've either been closed down, or reinvented as gastropubs, all bright and airy, with an overuse of slate blue paint. A pub should be 'cosy' and make you feel like staying there for hours.
i wonder if there is still a Pret-a-manger in there like there was when i worked just over the road from Lloyds clearing up one of the buildings from the 1st IRA bombing. I was there when the 2nd IRA bomb went off at the natwest tower. Used to love going Leadenhall for lunch.
I'm the same! As mentioned in the video on previous visits to Leadenhall I have always headed straight to the Lamb, although I had been to the Swan at least once before. There's something quite satisfying about being able to do a decent length pub crawl (five pubs at least) without ever really leaving the confines of the market!
Just a piece of useless info. Back in the 1970/80 the Lamb was the only Pub with a non smoking bar long before the smoking ban. Also above where The Pen Shop was the Head Offices of Trust House Forte, Had a few cups of tea in the morning whilst doing some repairs on the switchboard, talking to the Switchboard operator and the Chairman. I didn't know who he was until I listening to the radio one morning and he was being interview and he just mention that every morning he would have a cup of tea with the operator, and yes I have be in every pub in and around Leadenhall Market.
Was that Charles Forte perhaps? A very tenuous connection but I remember a very enviably located house in the Wye Valley, which looked a bit like a face from a distance. We used to drive past it in the 1980s. My Dad told me one of Forte's daughters lived there. I wonder now if he meant Olga Polizzi?
I think it's a reasonably accurate preview of what's in the video: A) Me. Unfortunately a middle aged man, not an attractive young woman, which is what more successful TH-cam channels have. B) Leadenhall Market, and the Lamb therein. C) A goose. It's probably as important to dissuade people who aren't going to like a video from watching it as it is to try and encourage people who will like it to click. Nobody likes having their time wasted, and presumably having a large cohort of viewers stop watching after a few seconds and/or click the thumbs down button tells The Algorithm not to bother recommending it to more people.
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The Bunch of Grapes door mosaic is truly beautiful. Thank you Tweedy for showing it. Such a lovely collection of London pubs. A great place for a compact pub crawl. 👏👏👍😀🍺
Another excellent video,as always,
Don't forget The Lamb's greatest moment in the John Wayne film 'Brannigan' - the best cinematic bar room brawl ever - th-cam.com/video/nSnTkfihx_U/w-d-xo.htmlsi=HBTOCHpgMrkXEe_a
Classic stuff! Thanks
It's a bittersweet moment when I see you've released another London Pubs video, because they are currently my favourite series of videos on TH-cam, but it's another knife through the heart knowing I'm not making it back to London until next May. When I do eventually get there, that first pint of Harvey's Best is going to be one to savour!!
I also go in May every yr
I'll probably never get there (but I really enjoy the performance). You can consider yourself lucky. Patience. 🙂
Love all of those pub, especially Old Tom's.
Thank you for the Leadenhall memories! It took me back to my City days and lovely lunchtimes.
The detail of the pubs and the stories and facts that you glean are fantastic, Tweedy 👌
Great stuff. Keep it going. You deserve a lot more viewers!
What wonderful production quality and research. Thoroughly enjoyed that.
Thank you Al, much appreciated! Still plenty of room for improvement on the production quality side of things, of course, but hopefully it is gradually nudging forwards.
This takes me back. I used to occasionally meet my sister-in-law in the Lamb during the mid-1970s when I lived and worked in London. She worked in the City (Gracechurch Street) for most of her career.
I haven't drunk beer for many years but my favourite tipple in those days was Young's Ordinary, although I doubt it survives with that name these days.
I joined CAMRA on my 18th birthday in 1973; only a year or two after its founding. I left about 10 years later when it became a political organisation and I became more of a wine drinker.
Good memories, thanks.
Great video which brings back fond memories of my time frequenting the Lamb from the 80's onwards before my stroke six years ago. Old Tom's bar in the basement was a smoky old bar also called the Lamb until Youngs decided to poncify as Old Tom's and charge a premium for certain beers and change the menu to include scotch eggs and cheese for rip off prices. Anyway I miss the place and the atmosphere during lunchtimes and evenings. Cheers!
Thanks Tweedy for showing us this very lavish sight (which I didn't even know of) with nice pubs and for providing a lot of historical detail, despite the challenges of filming in a busy place. I love arcades like this because they combine an indoor and outdoor atmosphere, unlike modern malls.
@@JustcallmeKathi Thanks Kathi! Yes Leadenhall works really well in modern London - some of the best of both worlds of urban space, and the roof helps to hide a lot of the far uglier buildings nearby! It's also really nice to have all this pedestrianised space - there were brief moments where I was slightly reminded of Venice!
Thank you for showcasing another fine group of pubs and architecture. Your researches prove to be highly interesting.
Love Leadenhall Market. Thanks for the video. The biggest draw just outside is The Crosse Keys opposite, such an amazing place.
Me and my (now) wife were in the market many years ago… lovely to see it again!
Absolutely wonderful video! I’ve been in The Lamb (way back in 1989) and I always loved that market. Thanks John 👍🏻
Thanks Seán! Yes it's a great spot.
I could see Mr Tweedy visiting the cream palaces and imbibing with dignity too. Absolutely charming vid.
Thanks Phil!
I remember the New Moon from my time in the City 1977 to 87. It’s claim to fame for me being that it stayed open late, most pubs shut by 8 or 9 pm, The New Moon would be open til 11, but only the downstairs bar, the upstairs closing at the usual time.
Great memories! I used to work in The Bunch Of Grapes, Lime St. from about '88-'90 (eventually asst. manager. I went on to run a few Charrington's pubs for a good few years). I remember the New Moon and the manager was a huge fella, with blond hair a big scar down his face. The story being, he got thrown through a glass window, back in the day. Oof! Happy days!
Tweedy, another great video with your usual attention to the detail of the buildings and the history of each establishment. I worked in the City from 1989 to 2019 and I have frequented all of these pubs. My favourite was the basement bar of The Lamb, which was given the name Old Toms relatively recently. The Swan was a good place for a light lunch in the upstairs bar, providing I got there early enough to find a space to balance a glass and a plate. The one thing I can remember was that prior to 1997, how smoky these bars used to be apart from the upstairs bar in The Lamb, which was a no smoking bar.
Sorry should say prior to 2007 when the smoking ban came into force. 😵💫
I'm not English but I have been deeply fascinated by English history and enjoy all your videos from here and Tweedy Outdoors! I will be visiting Great Britain in October and will definitely check out some of the pubs you've visited.
Thanks! Glad to hear the videos are a source of inspiration.
Many thanks for this video of Leadenhall Market pubs. When I worked in the City many years ago my lunchtime drinking haunts were The Lamb, and then subsequently with my late friend Jim, The Swan. We were friendly with mine host at The Swan and he took his regulars on a brewery visit to Fullers in Chiswick. He also scored us tickets for the trade day at the Great British Beer Festival one August. Happy days!
Thanks Jules, and glad to hear the video brought back some good memories.
Great review Tweedy! It's a very interesting mix of hustle and bustle, old and modern in that area. We stayed nearby on our last trip over and loved the energy and vibe of the area. One day as we were walking through Leadenhall Market we came upon a gentleman who was reapplying some silver foil to some of the building details. He was more than happy to chat with the out-of-towners about what he was doing. You are spoiled with so many great and historically interesting places to sup! Edit. Loved the bit about old Tom! He probably sported a small top hat I imagine.
Hi Tweedy, very much enjoying your videos. Love the research you do into the history of each pub. I live in London and still need to visit some of these pubs. Nothing fascinates me more than old pubs, ships, inns, hotels and theatres. Enjoying a few pints whilst watching. Cheers! P. S: I've also subscribed. Keep up the stellar work :)
Thank you - that's great to hear!
Brilliant video as always I’ve always liked that area of the city. Cheers tweedy 👍😎😎🍺
Excellent work. Lots of research. Thanks.
Thanks. I found this one really hard work. Not sure how many of these videos I have left in me!
Another Excellent video
Great to see a new pubs video tweedy. Very clever editing as well. I do love London history and London boozers so I always look for your reviews. Funnily enough i was drinking in Leadenhall earlier this summer and will make sure to return.
@@robcoles8493 Thanks Rob, and I really appreciate you noticing the editing! There's of course still plenty of room for improvement but I've been trying to get a bit more polished with each video and it's a very time consuming task!
Nicely done as usual, Tweedy!
Thanks,
This a revelation to me Tweedy, I've not heard of or visited this particular area. It is now firmly on my list for my October visit. The Swan looks like a winner indeed and the Bunch of Grapes will surely see my custom as they have wisely stocked Harvey's Sussex Best.
Another fine video
Love your content. Always interesting - great idea to stick the price of your drink of choice up. I spent a bit of time in The Lamb, mid '80's. Ground level there were two bars, split by a screen. On the right hand side was the public bar - old faded red lino and sawdust. 'Ordinary' was our drink of choice. The main loos were downstairs. It was affectionately referred to as the 'Bog Bar' and had cigarette smoke billowing out from it. The dart boards were downstairs too. The Bunch of Grapes, was and still is to some, the BOG...My preference is upstairs in The Swan. Not quite as manic!
Good work tweedy👍🏻
Great video. I worked in Lamb Tavern around 10 years ago. Old Toms is entirely part of the Lamb behind the scenes.
Excellent video - thanks so much, Tweedy!
You always do a great job on these videos and this one's a corker. Great stuff. Thank-you.
Very interesting video. I love the story about Old Tom.
Great video. I really enjoy your content.
Thank you!
Hi John, Excellent video, some great editing, I even got The Prodigy joke, do I win a prize?
Some great in depth research, I do enjoy seeing the evolution of the area in the maps👌👌. Great story from the cellar bar, well worth including. Great choice of whisky too, no problems with the stemware either!!
A great watering hole which almost looks hidden away in the centre of London, Wiki, says it was the centre of Roman London too!!
All the best!!
Thanks David! Yes I have a ridiculous and completely unsubstantiated theory that Christopher Wren started the Great Fire. Nobody else profited so much from it!
I really enjoyed learning about Old Tom, and I think he was much needed light relief because it seems the nature of this area (being today of course London's financial district) means that there aren't so many stories of "characters" in this part of town compared to, say, Soho.
Yes I was going to include a bit abou Londinium's Forum / Basilica being on this site - apparently a remnant of it is visible in the basement of the barbers a few doors down from the Lamb! ...but I always fear the audience might lose interest if I divert too much from talk of pubs...
Another interesting vlog Mr Tweedy good also to see the pubs busy in this day and age 🍻
Thanks John - yes they were all doing a thriving trade!
Still quite blokey! Only the lack of ties has changed…
Good to see landlord on tap. one of our great beers ( best drunk in Kiethley.)
I wish they had it out in California. Barely have any English ales even at "British" pubs. Boddington, Speckled Hen, Bass, Fullers. Used to have Watney's Red Barrel.... one of the tastiest ales I had ever had.... at a time when we only had Coors and Bud....and Sam Adams had just broke out on the scene in 1984.
Good afternoon, Tweedy.
An interesting video - I have never ventured into Leadenhall Market (I will need to rectify that in the future), but my good lady has ,with work colleagues in the past and said it is well worth a visit.
I see there was both Harvey's Best and Landlord available at The Bunch of Grapes.
Reminded me of the waiting for a bus cliché, in that you can go to many pubs these days and find no good ale to drink, then you turn up at The Bunch of Grapes and two excellent ales are available at once 😉 !!!!
Also see Old Tom's Bar serves a Laphroaig (in a tulip style glass too) 😁. I enjoy many Islay whiskies, like Ardbeg, Lagavulin, and Caol Ila, but Laphroaig will always be my first and favourite. 😁👍
Another fine video - longterm visitor to both the Lamb and Old Tom, the other's are on my "to do" list 👍🏻
Thanks Steve. Yes I think the Lamb is probably best of the bunch. The only other one from this video I had been to before is the Swan, and I think that has a nice buzz to it. For me personally the Bunch of Grapes had the best beer offering!
Another great video Tweedy!! I used to work very close to Leadenhall Market and The Lamb, The Swan, and The Bunch of Grapes, were regular lunch time / after work spots for me 🍻
Excellent Thanks 🍺👏Very informative and interesting! I must admit my visits there in the past I was more interested in the beer than the architecture 😊i didn’t appreciate how magnificent it was thanks 😊 have a nice weekend 🥂
Well presented video,cheers good watch 🇦🇺.....
Thanks.
Funny that has always been my feeling about the New Moon. I unfairly overlook it possibly as you say due to the desire to feel at the heart of Leadenhall
I always love your London pub videos! I've walked through Leadenhall Market on many occasions, but never visited a pub there! Tbh they don't seem to a very good selection of beer! I compare them to the humble Wetherspoons, which always seem to have at least 3 cask ales, mostly locally sourced!
Thank you Tweedy, I really enjoy your videos the history these pubs have is definitely worth the pub crawl! You have even inspired me to get my own beer engine hand pull for my house here in NZ.. which apparently is all the way from Nantwich over your way 👍 cheers Mate, Mike in New Zealand 🍻🍻
Thanks Mike! Is it an Angram or some other manufacturer?
@@TweedyPubs I'm not sure on the make of pump.. its a really nice all brass hand pump with a porcelain handle, it has what looks like a glass cylinder as the actual pump mechanism.. apparently from the "Cheshire Cheese Pub" in Nantwich, which unfortunately closed around 2007. The bloke I bought the pump off was a patron at the pub and purchased the pump on its closing. I probably have the coolest beer engine with a story in New Zealand.. I'm quite chuffed about that 😁
Hello again Tweedy, I hope you don't mind but I have a Friend on holiday over in London at the moment... he's staying in the Paddington / Westminster area.. any pub recommendations you can give him? I think I seen a video of "The Hole in the Wall" pub once... cheers Mike.
Oh and "The Monkey Puzzle" pub..
@@hardyardsbrewers1225 Here's a video I did on Paddington: th-cam.com/video/cgO91onZrbc/w-d-xo.html
Maybe others which might be useful for that side of town...?
Marylebone: th-cam.com/video/bs4A0YYpH94/w-d-xo.html
Kensington: th-cam.com/video/jiVvwlsusDc/w-d-xo.html
Mayfair: th-cam.com/video/0SpmcSGX8Wc/w-d-xo.html
Great detail here. Good job!
Thanks. I sometimes wonder if I'm not making very good use of my time here - I feel like a big chunk of the audience probably just skips through all the bits which take hours and hours of research to see the bar lineup and the prices!
@@TweedyPubs Those who appreciate your work appreciate your attention to detail and excellent manner. Carpe diem, tempus fugit… Cheers! 🍻
@@TweedyPubsI hope that’s not the case.
Only in the Victorian era could you have a character like Tom. I bet he had a watch chain and smoked a fag as he waddled from one pub to the next. What with him, a giant boil and a Mangle Wurzel, I’m very surprised the Lamb didn’t feature in a novel by Charles Dickens.
There were some nice looking pubs here, but I was a bit shocked by the modern development around the magnificent market building - especially each side of that stunning entrance. The poor old Swan Tavern Passage looked as though the life and character has been rigorously removed. Although, as you suggested, perhaps that process began at the end of the 19th Century.
There were some nice features in the pubs. I liked the tiling in Tom’s Bar and that rediscovered ceiling in the New Moon was great.
Excellent thorough research again. If TH-cam is still around in 100 years, what a joy it will be for people to see these places. Although they may be watching from a pod on Mars by then!
Yes Tom was a delight wasn't he? It's impossible to imagine Old Tom being able to exist today, in no time at all there would be do-gooders complaining to the relevant authorities about how irresponsible it is to give a goose gin... and yet can anyone provide me with an example of a goose who lived a happier life? Or indeed one still remembered with such fondness two centuries hence?
Leadenhall is indeed besieged on all sides by modern monstrosities of glass and steel, so the fact it has a roof is a real blessing that Sir Horace probably never envisaged: it shields you from much of the horror that lies beyond.
I honestly found this video quite hard work after my summer hiatus - I haven't done a "normal" Tweedy Pubs video with the standard format (a handful of pubs in one area) since the Wimbledon one in June. It was a reminder of how frustrating it can be when a pub is even moderately busy and I can't find a quiet spot to sit and film, and I've been pretty much living like a hermit the past few weeks so these busy city pubs were a bit of a shock to the system!
@@TweedyPubs The owners of a modern day Tom would be prosecuted and Tom would be "humanely destroyed".
I imagine there were late Victorian versions of you and I bemoaning the demolition of the old Leadenhall Market, but I doubt anyone will be complaining about the removal of the glass and steel boxes when watching your video in 100 years time. Goodness knows what it will be surrounded by then!
In my mind, London is still like I remember it in the 80s, 90s and 2,000s. I did see it changing in the 2010s, but it still shocks me for some reason. I'll have to dig out my old Sweeney boxset and see if Regan and Carter ever went to Leadenhall. I bet it was still surrounded by down at heel Victorian buildings then.
Yes, it did look very busy and must have been challenging. You have my full respect for filming in those sort of situations!
@@WC21UKProductionsLtd That Strand Magazine article I was reading from while at the Swan was exactly that! The author was lamenting that the new Leadenhall Market had lost all its anarchic charm. I've encountered articles like that several times in these videos and a certain cohort of Victorians would likely find it preposterous that we in the 21st century venerate and/or feel nostalgic about Victorian architecture which, to them, was all a bit cold / soulless / grotesque. That said it's still impossible to imagine anyone will look back favourably on the eyesores we churn out in this century.
Just spent 20 minutes in the School of Tweedy. Great show. Wondering if How to Get Ahead in Advertising was inspired by the lamb.
Thanks.
'80s fantastic steak sandwich + 3 pints of ordinary was considered a quick lunch @ the Lamb! Great decade...loadsa money !
Hi Tweedy Pubs! Just discovered the channel and love your videos. Could you do one on Putney? My favourite pubs in London are both in Putney: the Eight Bells, and the Bricklayer’s Arms.
In the mid 70's I was working as a stock exchange auditor at a client adjacent to the market. My boss suggested the Lamb for lunch and introduced me to Young's Winter Warmer. Not a very productive afternoon!
Enjoyable content again. One technical question: Do you use digitialzed sources? Or just have enormous amount of time for mining parchments in the library? Thank You.
Thank you! The sources I use are pretty much all digital. Although I have on one or two occasions visited various archives in London for records which weren't available online.
Mr Tweedy, if you ever visit Newcastle, pay a trip to The Botanist. I think you'll like it with it's list of winners of the Polar Bear Wrestling Champions. But go during happy hour so the barman spins the wheel to determine how much you pay. Also the Bob Trollop in one of the oldest surviving buildings on the Tyne.
The Lamb also featured as a location for the John Wayne movie Brannigan, where there is a massive free for all fight scene
Tweed could u cover Victoria pubs? Some gems like the Windsor castle etc down the side streets. Please!! 🤞🙏🏻 thanks my mate
I've been in most of them and then there's the Crosse Keys over the road.
Nice spot there John...couple of nice boozers alrhough the beer choice seems standard 👍🍺
I agree Dave, it would have been nice if at least one of these pubs could have held out as a freehouse and offered something a bit different. For me personally the Grapes was the best of bunch (if you'll pardon the pun) in terms of the beer offering.
@@TweedyPubs hang on John I do the jokes😂 fortunately there's seems to be Harvest Best n Landlord on for reliable back up..keep going Tweedy😊👍🍺🍺
I wish there were pubs like these outside London and the big cities. They've either been closed down, or reinvented as gastropubs, all bright and airy, with an overuse of slate blue paint. A pub should be 'cosy' and make you feel like staying there for hours.
Could you do Hitchin pubs one day?
Oh my goodness these pubs are definitely a must to avoid as they are filled with bankers
i wonder if there is still a Pret-a-manger in there like there was when i worked just over the road from Lloyds clearing up one of the buildings from the 1st IRA bombing. I was there when the 2nd IRA bomb went off at the natwest tower. Used to love going Leadenhall for lunch.
Whisky on beer never fear, beer on whisky pretty risky.
this is like, a more interesting segway clip from the BBC London news at 6
Wonderfull to see one can still at least partially escape the rabid jihadists in London
Eyes wide shut. Been there many a time but really only aware of The Lamb….
I'm the same! As mentioned in the video on previous visits to Leadenhall I have always headed straight to the Lamb, although I had been to the Swan at least once before. There's something quite satisfying about being able to do a decent length pub crawl (five pubs at least) without ever really leaving the confines of the market!
Notting Hill pubs?
Maybe Tom, Dick and Harry were three Geese?
Does Tweedy have two heads today? Or am I drunk?
I don't frequent pubs in the UK anymore because of the utterly insane smoking ban.....the great English culture institution is no more
Still exposed open neck eh?
I am profoundly indifferent to other people's rules.
@@TweedyPubs Ha-ha-Well said. But still...
Just a piece of useless info. Back in the 1970/80 the Lamb was the only Pub with a non smoking bar long before the smoking ban. Also above where The Pen Shop was the Head Offices of Trust House Forte, Had a few cups of tea in the morning whilst doing some repairs on the switchboard, talking to the Switchboard operator and the Chairman. I didn't know who he was until I listening to the radio one morning and he was being interview and he just mention that every morning he would have a cup of tea with the operator, and yes I have be in every pub in and around Leadenhall Market.
Was that Charles Forte perhaps? A very tenuous connection but I remember a very enviably located house in the Wye Valley, which looked a bit like a face from a distance. We used to drive past it in the 1980s. My Dad told me one of Forte's daughters lived there. I wonder now if he meant Olga Polizzi?
The thumbnail didn't make me want to watch this video
I think it's a reasonably accurate preview of what's in the video:
A) Me. Unfortunately a middle aged man, not an attractive young woman, which is what more successful TH-cam channels have.
B) Leadenhall Market, and the Lamb therein.
C) A goose.
It's probably as important to dissuade people who aren't going to like a video from watching it as it is to try and encourage people who will like it to click. Nobody likes having their time wasted, and presumably having a large cohort of viewers stop watching after a few seconds and/or click the thumbs down button tells The Algorithm not to bother recommending it to more people.
@@TweedyPubs maybe so I just didn't like it
@@TweedyPubs Your channel is first rate mate!