Hi Tweedy as you know i really enjoy your brilliant pub tours - the history, the architecture, the pubby environment (or not). Notting Hill is not a part of town I've visited often but i may be up that way before long and will certainly be dropping into a couple of those pubs. Cheers.
I remember bumping into Lemmy in the Lonsdale in the eary 1980's. He was very pleasant and drinking pint bottles of Old Brewery Brown while chain smoking.
That is a fantastic anecdote, and quite surreal to imagine Lemmy in there! I assume if they were serving OBB that means it was already a Sam Smith's pub by then...?
@@philcollinson328 When you say "verbiage" - I've only watched a couple of Gary's videos but I thought the way he describes things is quite different to how I typically would... and we're mostly talking about different subject matter to start with! Very interested to hear that you find things in common there! In that Ploughman's Lunch video I did somebody commented something to the effect of "Not a patch on Gary Eats"!
@@TweedyPubs 'Let's give it a go!' as Gary says.....seriously, I think not. Two great channels but on entirely different planes. The day I see Tweedy informally dressed, grinning like a Cheshire cat and trotting across the road to a pub is the day I reluctantly unsubscribe! I love the sedate descriptive nature of this channel and its unique nature. Gary's channel is enjoyable at another level. Horses for courses and courses for horses.
Hi Tweedy. You undersold the tour of Notting Hill Pubs. They got better and better. Not a bad one amongst them. Perhaps the beer was the disappointment. 👏👏👍😀🍺
Thanks Andrew - I am constantly grateful for your positive take on things! I always try and be somewhat upbeat for these videos, and as I said in the closing summary here there are probably two of these pubs I would consider going back to again, but the rest, to be honest, I could take or leave... Still, two pubs in a neighbourhood that I like is significantly better than zero!
@@TweedyPubs Watching your videos I cannot but feel positive, and my outlook is therefore definitely that of a “glass half full” and not a glass that is “half empty “.
The best pub around there was the KPH which had a great crowd and a legendary landlord who was a highly successful music tour operator and brought many big name acts to the Uk from the USA. An Irish guy. I think he’s still got his live music venue elsewhere. He fought a long and expensive battle with the brewery and had lots of high profile supporters. Just across from the Elgin which is an ok place. Very close to the infamous Rillington Place
An enjoyable tour, and I was eager to see if you would feature a pub I had in mind. I'm a British ex-pat and have lived in the US since 1973. In about 2005 I took my wife, son and daughter to London. We stayed at a hotel just along Bayswater Road and on the day of arrival we set out on foot to find a pub where I could buy my daughter her first legal drink. She was 18, so still not able to drink legally at home. From my vague recollection of where we went that day (to Portobello Road market first) I think it may have been the Old Swan at the junction of Notting Hill Gate and Kensington Church Street. I recall her ordering a cider for her first tipple.
Great video as always Tweedy. Back in the 1980's Notting Hill was one of the most inexpensive areas in London to live. You were never more than 6 feet away from a drug dealer in The Elgin. I think the Clash played one of their first gigs there.
Thanks Steve! Yes when I was searching through old newspapers for clippings about the Elgin I did find quite a few references to that sort of thing - including one of a mother leaving her baby with a drunken stranger outside the pub while she went off to buy some illicit substance or other. Somehow when the people involved are likely still alive I feel a bit uncomfortable about mentioning it in the video! Part of the reason I tend to stick more to 19th century history...
@@TweedyPubs I was in The Elgin, early 90's, and there was a massive police raid - dogs, riot shields etc. A lot of stuff sold in there that wasn't real ale. As an FYI, there is what used to be a pub in that area on Tavistock Crescent. It is now flats. It was famously the Mother Black Cap (after the Camden pub) in Withnail and I and had the famous "perfumed ponce" scene. If you really want to see that whole area, pre-gentrification, old episodes of Minder (and a decade earlier, The weeny) are brilliant.
Hi John, mustard comes to mind for the Sun in Splendour but not because it was particularly outstanding of course!! I noticed on a couple of the maps that the nearby churches indicated the seating capacity, not sure if I've seen that before, seems a curious thing to do. The Elgin looked absolutely amazing and made up for the others which were perfectly fine but simply not outstanding. Bit of a desert for real ale too on today's showing. You always manage to unearth interesting stories attached to these pubs, the sting at the Elgin was a classic!! All the best!!
Thanks David! Yes the church seating capacities caught my eye too! I struggle to imagine what the rationale was for including that detail on the map. I wonder if it may just be that they tended to be bigger buildings (often with larger surrounding grounds than, say, a pub) so they had some extra space on the page and wanted to make use of it...? I'm glad you liked the article about the sting at the Elgin - I often waver over whether or not to include those news clippings because they sometimes veer off topic a bit but that particular one amused me so I was keen to keep it in. I always have an image of courts in that era of history as being extremely severe and sombre so it was surprising to see an account with documented laughter!
Absolutely brilliant. I worked in Notting Hill for 16 years. The cock name meaning a tap fitting was very interesting. Thanks for covering the earl of Lonsdale which is one of my little go to favs. Also the Elgin which has the beautiful original features. Keep them coming my friend. I’m an avid fan! 😎👍👍🍺
It is good isn't it? We think of Victorian justice as being very severe but it seems at least some of the time in the courts they were actually all having a bit of fun.
Thank you for the videos, sir, always entertaining. I'm in London a couple of times per year and have been keeping a list of some of the pubs you highlight. I'll be giving some a try next visit!
Your research around London pubs goes way beyond pubs, I thoroughly enjoyed that. Do you have a theory about the aristocratic carving up of London? Did they really just each buy a few thousand acres and get their tenants to name everything after themselves? Is it just one surburban band around London in one period? This is a real insight into the political-economic environment of the 19th Century you are giving us here.
I remember in the 1960s, some pubs did a pile of pennies charity fundraiser. Old pennies, of course, stacked up in a pile on the bar. 12/6 would have been 150 old pennies.
It is a great photo isn't it? I love the way in lots of photos of that era people in the street stop whatever they're doing and pose for it. It was clearly a big event when somebody took a photograph.
Good to know that there are pubs worth visiting in Notting Hill. Thanks for pointing out all those architectural details, as always. I'm in two minds about the addition of modern elements when original features are missing, like in the Duke of Wellington. It can be an interesting contrast.
Thanks Kathi! Yes I am similarly in two minds, and if I'm trying to be charitable to the current owners of the Duke of Wellington then I suppose it's possible to imagine a scenario where the original features were already in a poor state of repair due to some calamity (a fire / a flood / a plague of woodworm) and the only way to save what was left was to introduce some new materials to support them. In that (hypothetical) scenario it's definitely better that they kept whatever they could rather than throwing it all away.
Some good finds. My Dad was for years a Potman at Dirty Dicks, a job he combined with being a News Vendor outside, and consumer inside. I think potman has more dignity than potboy, but sadly I suppose all must now be potpersons
My Dad was similarly a man of many jobs for a period of time - I think at one point he was a cook in one pub, a barman in another, as well as doing gardening and (I may have got the timing mixed up here) a milk round. All of that makes for a far more interesting person than someone doing a 9 to 5 office job.
It is a visual feast! ...and given the bizarre world of beer economics it actually seemed to be one of the cheaper pubs in the area. (...possibly that's an apple to oranges comparison there, as cask beer always seems to be inexplicably cheaper than keg beer.)
Did you know that Lady Lowther painted the last picture of prehistoric Shap Avenue before its destruction in the 18th Century? Sadly, they don't like sharing it with TH-cam antiquarians. Hugh was, as you say, quite a character. Described in his day as a socialite. However, he left things in a bit of a state and his successor removed the roof of the magnificent Lowther Castle, leaving it to fall to pieces. The ruin is striking and worth a visit. There are some Roman columns in the grounds and a view across to Moor Divock with its prehistoric monuments. I was intrigued by those weird serving optics in the Cock and Bottle. Thought for a moment they were connected to barrels in the cellar, but they can't have been, surely? What a magnificent pub interior at the Elgin. The screen, mirrors and that bar back! I do wonder if such features were reviled by traditionalists back in the day?! I worked close to this area for a period and used to wander the streets to escape the tedium of my job some lunchtimes. The main thing I remember was finding the location of 10 Rillington Place, which you could pinpoint because of the roof of a garage that had survived the redevelopment. Bit morbid, now I come to think about it, but it does indicate how much I hated my work - that such a discovery lifted my spirits! Thanks for another great video and positive to see a good run of traditional pubs surviving in this area.
Thanks Mr WC21! One comment on Hugh Lowther I liked was that he was "almost an emperor, but not quite a gentleman". I took a bit of footage of the column in which those optics are house at the Cock & Bottle around 5:11, and intriguingly it looks like there was also a lower panel near the ground in at least one. I almost wondered if that suggested the columns were hollow, and that lower panel was an access hatch where bottles could be taken in and out...? ...but that all seems a bit farcical, even for the Victorians - so presumably bottles were just fixed to the exterior on those panels, as some are today a little higher up that same column. Interesting to hear you worked in the area - presumably you found a way to manage the nosebleeds back then!
@@TweedyPubs that's a great quote! One I might appropriate to describe myself! I think the two years I actually worked in London - which was very late in my corporate career - may actually be responsible for the nosebleeds and dizziness that now afflict me. Things got so bad that, after I'd exhausted finding famous murder sites and classic Doctor Who filming locations in my lunchtime escapes, I ended up seeking out the places where Madness videos were shot. Desperate stuff!
@@WC21UKProductionsLtd That must have been quite an undertaking as the descriptions of the locations given in the songs are often maddeningly vague: "Our house... in the middle of our street". Really not much to go on there.
I don't think I've ever seen the film! ...but I was vaguely aware the Notting Hill Bookshop features in it, and there were some tourists standing outside it taking photos.
The Cock and Bottle was my local when we rented a flat in Notting Hill in the late 90s, nice to see it hasn’t changed much since then, I always liked it.
9:38. Large jar of Cheese puffs???? Whose is their food supplier? Office Max? (But, of course, I would be guilty of purchasing a small sabot of puffs ...and extra napkins. I am sure the working class punters in Victorian-era Notting Hill would like eel pies, mash, and puffs for after work snack)
I was also intrigued by why there was that bend in the road, especially as it seems in the mid 1800s they were starting from scratch - predominantly open fields. I think I read somewhere there was a race course for a short while in the first half of the 1800s prior to all the housing developments, and that possibly influenced some of the other street layouts, but I don't think that would have been the case around where the Sun in Splendour is today. Trams would make more sense!
A good instinct! That visit to the Uxbridge Arms in the Kensington video I did a while back was actually my first time there. It did seem like it had something a bit special about it.
I agree. What I didn't feature in the video was a sign just inside the entrance to the Sun in Splendour saying "please wait here to be seated". I nonchalantly marched straight past that to the bar and ordered a beer and nobody seemed to question it, perhaps because it wasn't particularly busy, but that sign is the sort of thing that makes a pub no longer a pub.
@@TweedyPubs Quite right, it's a little sad how infrequently I head into West London anymore but the quality of pubs in Borough, Wapping etc are just so much higher overall. Not that I blame the landlords so much, it's just the costs of the West London pubs demand PubCo and Private Equity money these days. I've been helping a friend re-open a rural village pub in the midlands recently and such signs were on our 'absolutely not' list.
@@TweedyPubs sounds about right. Up here in Durham, my local Sam Smiths charges - wait for it... - £3.60 for a PINT of their Extra Stout. On the downside, it's full of Oxbridge rejects called Horatio and Jemima, replete with attitude 🤨. Anyway, recent subscriber here and loving the content, especially the architectural notes and dive in to history.
Hi Tweedy as you know i really enjoy your brilliant pub tours - the history, the architecture, the pubby environment (or not). Notting Hill is not a part of town I've visited often but i may be up that way before long and will certainly be dropping into a couple of those pubs. Cheers.
I remember bumping into Lemmy in the Lonsdale in the eary 1980's. He was very pleasant and drinking pint bottles of Old Brewery Brown while chain smoking.
That is a fantastic anecdote, and quite surreal to imagine Lemmy in there! I assume if they were serving OBB that means it was already a Sam Smith's pub by then...?
@@TweedyPubs It was indeed, I lived round there from 80 to 83. It was a lot less gentrified in thise days
Tweedy Pubs and Gary eats would be a marvelous collab' ...
Thanks Phil, but I'm not sure what's in in it for Gary with his 162k subscribers!
@@TweedyPubs Location, verbiage are similar, whereas a slightly differing take would be marvelous.
@@philcollinson328 When you say "verbiage" - I've only watched a couple of Gary's videos but I thought the way he describes things is quite different to how I typically would... and we're mostly talking about different subject matter to start with! Very interested to hear that you find things in common there!
In that Ploughman's Lunch video I did somebody commented something to the effect of "Not a patch on Gary Eats"!
@@TweedyPubs 'Let's give it a go!' as Gary says.....seriously, I think not. Two great channels but on entirely different planes. The day I see Tweedy informally dressed, grinning like a Cheshire cat and trotting across the road to a pub is the day I reluctantly unsubscribe! I love the sedate descriptive nature of this channel and its unique nature. Gary's channel is enjoyable at another level. Horses for courses and courses for horses.
Your vids are much better structured and less rambling than gary eats.
The Elgin was stunning! The others would not be worth the trip. Great work!
Hi Tweedy. You undersold the tour of Notting Hill Pubs. They got better and better. Not a bad one amongst them. Perhaps the beer was the disappointment. 👏👏👍😀🍺
Thanks Andrew - I am constantly grateful for your positive take on things! I always try and be somewhat upbeat for these videos, and as I said in the closing summary here there are probably two of these pubs I would consider going back to again, but the rest, to be honest, I could take or leave... Still, two pubs in a neighbourhood that I like is significantly better than zero!
@@TweedyPubs Watching your videos I cannot but feel positive, and my outlook is therefore definitely that of a “glass half full” and not a glass that is “half empty “.
The best pub around there was the KPH which had a great crowd and a legendary landlord who was a highly successful music tour operator and brought many big name acts to the Uk from the USA.
An Irish guy.
I think he’s still got his live music venue elsewhere.
He fought a long and expensive battle with the brewery and had lots of high profile supporters.
Just across from the Elgin which is an ok place.
Very close to the infamous Rillington Place
Another enjoyably informative film and some very pleasant interiors - good work once again sir 👍🏻
Thank you for the video as always Tweedy! Makes my week every time a new video comes out
An enjoyable tour, and I was eager to see if you would feature a pub I had in mind. I'm a British ex-pat and have lived in the US since 1973. In about 2005 I took my wife, son and daughter to London. We stayed at a hotel just along Bayswater Road and on the day of arrival we set out on foot to find a pub where I could buy my daughter her first legal drink. She was 18, so still not able to drink legally at home. From my vague recollection of where we went that day (to Portobello Road market first) I think it may have been the Old Swan at the junction of Notting Hill Gate and Kensington Church Street. I recall her ordering a cider for her first tipple.
Thank you Sir. As a regular tourist, that area is my favorite.
Great video as always Tweedy. Back in the 1980's Notting Hill was one of the most inexpensive areas in London to live. You were never more than 6 feet away from a drug dealer in The Elgin. I think the Clash played one of their first gigs there.
Thanks Steve! Yes when I was searching through old newspapers for clippings about the Elgin I did find quite a few references to that sort of thing - including one of a mother leaving her baby with a drunken stranger outside the pub while she went off to buy some illicit substance or other. Somehow when the people involved are likely still alive I feel a bit uncomfortable about mentioning it in the video! Part of the reason I tend to stick more to 19th century history...
@@TweedyPubs I was in The Elgin, early 90's, and there was a massive police raid - dogs, riot shields etc. A lot of stuff sold in there that wasn't real ale. As an FYI, there is what used to be a pub in that area on Tavistock Crescent. It is now flats. It was famously the Mother Black Cap (after the Camden pub) in Withnail and I and had the famous "perfumed ponce" scene.
If you really want to see that whole area, pre-gentrification, old episodes of Minder (and a decade earlier, The weeny) are brilliant.
Hi John, mustard comes to mind for the Sun in Splendour but not because it was particularly outstanding of course!!
I noticed on a couple of the maps that the nearby churches indicated the seating capacity, not sure if I've seen that before, seems a curious thing to do.
The Elgin looked absolutely amazing and made up for the others which were perfectly fine but simply not outstanding. Bit of a desert for real ale too on today's showing.
You always manage to unearth interesting stories attached to these pubs, the sting at the Elgin was a classic!!
All the best!!
Thanks David!
Yes the church seating capacities caught my eye too! I struggle to imagine what the rationale was for including that detail on the map. I wonder if it may just be that they tended to be bigger buildings (often with larger surrounding grounds than, say, a pub) so they had some extra space on the page and wanted to make use of it...?
I'm glad you liked the article about the sting at the Elgin - I often waver over whether or not to include those news clippings because they sometimes veer off topic a bit but that particular one amused me so I was keen to keep it in. I always have an image of courts in that era of history as being extremely severe and sombre so it was surprising to see an account with documented laughter!
Absolutely brilliant. I worked in Notting Hill for 16 years. The cock name meaning a tap fitting was very interesting. Thanks for covering the earl of Lonsdale which is one of my little go to favs. Also the Elgin which has the beautiful original features. Keep them coming my friend. I’m an avid fan! 😎👍👍🍺
Thanks Elvis, and thanks also for the suggestion!
That article about The Elgin is brilliant.... (laughter) ....
It is good isn't it? We think of Victorian justice as being very severe but it seems at least some of the time in the courts they were actually all having a bit of fun.
Thank you for the videos, sir, always entertaining. I'm in London a couple of times per year and have been keeping a list of some of the pubs you highlight. I'll be giving some a try next visit!
Looks like Notting Hill is another one to add to the list, great video cheers!
Your research around London pubs goes way beyond pubs, I thoroughly enjoyed that. Do you have a theory about the aristocratic carving up of London? Did they really just each buy a few thousand acres and get their tenants to name everything after themselves? Is it just one surburban band around London in one period? This is a real insight into the political-economic environment of the 19th Century you are giving us here.
I remember in the 1960s, some pubs did a pile of pennies charity fundraiser. Old pennies, of course, stacked up in a pile on the bar. 12/6 would have been 150 old pennies.
20:34 Fantastic photo showing the horse drawn buses and people. I hope one day AI can turn a photo like that into life.
It is a great photo isn't it? I love the way in lots of photos of that era people in the street stop whatever they're doing and pose for it. It was clearly a big event when somebody took a photograph.
Good to know that there are pubs worth visiting in Notting Hill. Thanks for pointing out all those architectural details, as always. I'm in two minds about the addition of modern elements when original features are missing, like in the Duke of Wellington. It can be an interesting contrast.
Thanks Kathi! Yes I am similarly in two minds, and if I'm trying to be charitable to the current owners of the Duke of Wellington then I suppose it's possible to imagine a scenario where the original features were already in a poor state of repair due to some calamity (a fire / a flood / a plague of woodworm) and the only way to save what was left was to introduce some new materials to support them. In that (hypothetical) scenario it's definitely better that they kept whatever they could rather than throwing it all away.
Some good finds.
My Dad was for years a Potman at Dirty Dicks, a job he combined with being a News Vendor outside, and consumer inside. I think potman has more dignity than potboy, but sadly I suppose all must now be potpersons
My Dad was similarly a man of many jobs for a period of time - I think at one point he was a cook in one pub, a barman in another, as well as doing gardening and (I may have got the timing mixed up here) a milk round. All of that makes for a far more interesting person than someone doing a 9 to 5 office job.
Never let down by the smart, fascinating pub tours of yours ! Cheers for the upcoming 10K !
Thank you! Yes hopefully 10K not too far away now. 🤞
The Earl of Lonsdale is about a 7 minute walk from George Orwell’s house. I was at the Earl 22 years ago.
Enjoyed this one. The Elgin certainly looks like it would be worth a trip across London just to see it. Thanks.
It is a visual feast! ...and given the bizarre world of beer economics it actually seemed to be one of the cheaper pubs in the area.
(...possibly that's an apple to oranges comparison there, as cask beer always seems to be inexplicably cheaper than keg beer.)
£8 a pint at that first one. you go so we don't have to!
Did you know that Lady Lowther painted the last picture of prehistoric Shap Avenue before its destruction in the 18th Century? Sadly, they don't like sharing it with TH-cam antiquarians.
Hugh was, as you say, quite a character. Described in his day as a socialite. However, he left things in a bit of a state and his successor removed the roof of the magnificent Lowther Castle, leaving it to fall to pieces. The ruin is striking and worth a visit. There are some Roman columns in the grounds and a view across to Moor Divock with its prehistoric monuments.
I was intrigued by those weird serving optics in the Cock and Bottle. Thought for a moment they were connected to barrels in the cellar, but they can't have been, surely?
What a magnificent pub interior at the Elgin. The screen, mirrors and that bar back! I do wonder if such features were reviled by traditionalists back in the day?!
I worked close to this area for a period and used to wander the streets to escape the tedium of my job some lunchtimes. The main thing I remember was finding the location of 10 Rillington Place, which you could pinpoint because of the roof of a garage that had survived the redevelopment. Bit morbid, now I come to think about it, but it does indicate how much I hated my work - that such a discovery lifted my spirits!
Thanks for another great video and positive to see a good run of traditional pubs surviving in this area.
Thanks Mr WC21!
One comment on Hugh Lowther I liked was that he was "almost an emperor, but not quite a gentleman".
I took a bit of footage of the column in which those optics are house at the Cock & Bottle around 5:11, and intriguingly it looks like there was also a lower panel near the ground in at least one. I almost wondered if that suggested the columns were hollow, and that lower panel was an access hatch where bottles could be taken in and out...? ...but that all seems a bit farcical, even for the Victorians - so presumably bottles were just fixed to the exterior on those panels, as some are today a little higher up that same column.
Interesting to hear you worked in the area - presumably you found a way to manage the nosebleeds back then!
@@TweedyPubs that's a great quote! One I might appropriate to describe myself!
I think the two years I actually worked in London - which was very late in my corporate career - may actually be responsible for the nosebleeds and dizziness that now afflict me. Things got so bad that, after I'd exhausted finding famous murder sites and classic Doctor Who filming locations in my lunchtime escapes, I ended up seeking out the places where Madness videos were shot. Desperate stuff!
@@WC21UKProductionsLtd That must have been quite an undertaking as the descriptions of the locations given in the songs are often maddeningly vague: "Our house... in the middle of our street". Really not much to go on there.
Thank you tweedy 😁👍I watched the film many years ago 😁but exploring the pubs much more interesting 😁thanks have a nice weekend 🍺🍷👍👏
I don't think I've ever seen the film! ...but I was vaguely aware the Notting Hill Bookshop features in it, and there were some tourists standing outside it taking photos.
@@TweedyPubs you haven’t missed much haha
There is a Cock and Bottle in Preston, Lancs (or at least there was 30 years ago when I lived there).
Great root around the pubs John...beer selection wasn't the best for u today was it..can't win 'em all mate😊
Clapham/SW needed
The Cock and Bottle was my local when we rented a flat in Notting Hill in the late 90s, nice to see it hasn’t changed much since then, I always liked it.
You have good taste! My favourite pub of this outing.
am surprised you didn't feature "The Cow" or is that outside notting hill 🤔
9:38. Large jar of Cheese puffs???? Whose is their food supplier? Office Max? (But, of course, I would be guilty of purchasing a small sabot of puffs ...and extra napkins. I am sure the working class punters in Victorian-era Notting Hill would like eel pies, mash, and puffs for after work snack)
Need to go to the Cow
He prefers to stay out in the pubs. 😄
I divorced her years ago.
2:50 I assume the rounded corner of the road was built to make turning easier for trams.
Surprisingly, no trams near there.
I was also intrigued by why there was that bend in the road, especially as it seems in the mid 1800s they were starting from scratch - predominantly open fields. I think I read somewhere there was a race course for a short while in the first half of the 1800s prior to all the housing developments, and that possibly influenced some of the other street layouts, but I don't think that would have been the case around where the Sun in Splendour is today. Trams would make more sense!
Thanks!
Interesting vlog as you say poor choice of Real Ales 🍻
Thanks John. Yes it was a particularly poor show on the real ale front for me!
My own thoughts has always been to head to the Uxbridge Arms if caught in (Southern Notting Hill). I see that was covered in the Kensington vid
My thoughts. Wouldn't class that as Kensington though
A good instinct! That visit to the Uxbridge Arms in the Kensington video I did a while back was actually my first time there. It did seem like it had something a bit special about it.
Hard job to find West London pubs not wholly given over to resturaunts these days, especially outside of Youngs and Fullers.
I agree. What I didn't feature in the video was a sign just inside the entrance to the Sun in Splendour saying "please wait here to be seated". I nonchalantly marched straight past that to the bar and ordered a beer and nobody seemed to question it, perhaps because it wasn't particularly busy, but that sign is the sort of thing that makes a pub no longer a pub.
@@TweedyPubs Quite right, it's a little sad how infrequently I head into West London anymore but the quality of pubs in Borough, Wapping etc are just so much higher overall. Not that I blame the landlords so much, it's just the costs of the West London pubs demand PubCo and Private Equity money these days.
I've been helping a friend re-open a rural village pub in the midlands recently and such signs were on our 'absolutely not' list.
Watching it on the tv right now
Sam Smiths every time. Unpretentious, budget-friendly and good quality.
I do like their pub interiors but at least here in London they're no longer noticeably cheaper than all the other pubs!
@@TweedyPubs sounds about right. Up here in Durham, my local Sam Smiths charges - wait for it... - £3.60 for a PINT of their Extra Stout. On the downside, it's full of Oxbridge rejects called Horatio and Jemima, replete with attitude 🤨. Anyway, recent subscriber here and loving the content, especially the architectural notes and dive in to history.
Another excellent video as always, can't believe beer prices in London especially Sam Smith pubs , excellent prices up hear in Leeds
No Uxbridge Arms?
I covered it in a video on Kensington: th-cam.com/video/jiVvwlsusDc/w-d-xo.html
@@TweedyPubs Cheers. I'll give that a watch tomorrow