The Angel

Pubs that give you a wink and a smile on the way in are those pubs with the truest character. The angel in old street is a prominant pub of old form and style with carpet, comfy chairs and bright pub lights under the watchful governing of a fast bar service. The toilets are [...]

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The Waterfront

This bar is accessible from the street and from the edge of the river. Its back garden overlooks the banks and in a flood of chrome lights up this whole area. One of the most wonderful of beer gardens for the summer. When entering from the front you come up some side stairs into [...]

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The Claddagh Ring

Come through the wooden mock-up front - an array of flowers, tables and smiles in the midday sunlight and step into a large room with a slightly small one adjoining to the left.The first room has a large number of tables to eat at and a half semi-circle of a bar which follows [...]

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The Old Peacock Pub

Okay the worst picture on the face of the earth right? Don’t be fooled, this is a lovely bit of pub set on one of Nottingham’s busiest roads heading straight into the city. Entering you find yourself looking at the corner of a bar with a chamber to your left with stumpy [...]

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Hogs Head - The blacksmiths arms

Is it just me or is this chain exactly the same country-wide?? The place is very wooden and lively even early in the evening but its full of teenage mothers, sleazy 30-something-men and expensive drink. At about £2.80 a pint these feel more like London prices than St. Albans. Even [...]

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The Green Man
This is a chav-hole. Approaching the place it is cast in mysterious shadow- a large building but upon entering you feel like you are ina  cottage with a bar. The cheapest thing served here is a £1.69 pint of carlsberg and everythign else is rather ripped off. Goign around the corner brings you [...]

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Edgware Gentlemens Club

Well if you have the privalge to go inside, do. I hear there arent enough members to even quarter fill the place. It got a bit of a low ceiling at the fron bar but behind some more doors there a nice pool table setup and more bar. The drinks would have been [...]

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the Merryhills

September 2007 - The Merryhills is now called The Maze Inn
October 2007 - The Merryhills has re-opened at a Maze Inn
I think when you drive past the merryhills its looks rather small and out the way but its literally a stones throw from Oakwood underground on the picaddilly line. And it pretty big [...]

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The Snooker Lounge

Its supposedly members only but I’ve been in many times before and its not that strict. The owners are a group of smokers in the corner of a large, dark snooker room at the top of the stairs behind the tally-ho discount and its dimly lit except by the large snooker lights above [...]

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The Bridge

Okay I have no pictures of the actual pub but this is the view from the pub on the day of the potters bar rail crash as its on the bridge parallel to Potters Bar train station. It a Small pub, big car park, overlooking the potters bar overground line. Yes the average age [...]

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