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| Pub | Comments | Location |
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Bridge Inn |
The enormous main room is nicely done out in this busy, friendly pub which was full of a mixed age clientele when I visited on a Saturday afternoon. There's a snooker room at the back. LSTV. This used to be a Salvation Army Hall, I'm told. Now closed. Last visited 2003. |
Townsend Avenue / Utting Avenue |
| Broadway Country Club | Four function rooms, says the sign.
Not visited. |
Broad Lane / Broadway |
| Cabbage Hall |
A very pleasant partly wood panelled interior to the lounge area in this large opened out pub. Function room. The large garden is probably a former bowling green. After being closed for several years, re-opened in 2015.
Last visited February 2023. |
Townsend Lane / Walton Breck Road |
| Canon |
A plain, well cared for traditional boozer with bar, lounge and back room. Busy with cheerful regulars. A little tatty on the outside, much better inside.
Last visited November 2022. |
Townsend Lane / Canon Road |
| Clarence | A rather imposing inter-war roadhouse, sadly closed by 2012 and since demolished.
Not visited. |
Cherry Lane / Utting Avenue |
| Clubmoor |
This early thirties estate pub appears quite well preserved inside and out to my eye. Inside the layout is two-sided, with a further two rooms off the lounge side. Dark wood panelling, ceiling plasterwork and decorative ceramic panels seem original. Very quiet on a Tuesday afternoon, and the whole place has a tatty, run-down feeling to it. Closed by 2022. Last visited 2017. |
Townsend Lane / Vallance Road |
| Edinburgh Park Docker's Club | A classic working men's club with a small pleasant bar and an enormous plain function room with tables in long rows. LSTV in the bar. Noted closed and derelict in 2017. Last visited 2002. |
Townsend Lane, opposite the Clubmoor |
| Elm House |
Formerly a two sided pub, the back room is currently out of use. The front room is spotless and well cared for and was ticking over with cheerful locals when I visited. Noted closed in 2022. Last visited 2017. |
Townsend Lane / Lampeter Road |
| Farmers Arms |
A bit of an architectural gem, built in 1925 and extended in 1930. Much of the impressive neo-Georgian frontage survives as built. The interior is less well preserved but still retains many original features. Architecture aside, this is a popular friendly two-bar boozer.
Last visited November 2022. |
Townsend Lane / Larkhill Lane |
| First Base | This was formerly the Royal Ancient Order of Buffaloes Club. Now it's a down-market, slightly grubby, cheap one-room boozer. It's very unusual nowadays to see oversize glasses and a free-flow pump. Now closed and boarded up. Last visited 2002. |
85 Townsend Lane / Canon Road |
| Liverpool Supporters' Club | Not visited. |
Breck Road / Priory Road |
| Mexican House (King of Hearts) (Larkhill) |
This fairly new pub in what looks like a former shop has one room divided by a low partition. At the front is the posh part, a very nicely decorated lounge while behind is the slightly plainer (and a little grubby when I visited) bar. The counter is in the bar half. The walls are covered with a wide selection of sporting photographs plus a few large mirrors. There are lots of TVs showing sport. Not visited since it was renamed twice.
Last visited 2002. |
Queens Drive / Larkhill Place |
| New Broadway |
The bar side is plain, clean and tidy. The lounge side is very nicely done with dark wood panelling all around. (Shame about the rope-lights, though). LSTV. The only way to get between the two halves is outside.
Last visited 2003. |
Broad Lane / New Hall Lane |
| Rourke's Tavern | A large plastic nicely decorated wine bar, called Rourkes Wine Tavern when I visited, but they've dropped the Wine since. Now closed. Last visited 1998. |
Broad Lane / Broadway |
| Stadium (Cockwell Inn) | In 1998 I noted the Cockwell Inn as a very plastic and tacky one bar pub with a polished stone floor. Returning in 2017 it's now called Stadium, still a bit of a down market shed, but well cared for and spotless throughout.
Last visited November 2022. |
Breck Road / Priory Road |
| Willow Bank |
In 1998 I described this place as scruffy and tatty, but by 2017 it was much tidier. A bar at the front and a superb wood panelled lounge with a dance floor, stage and arched ceiling at the back. This looks to me like a genuine 1920s interior, but what do I know?
Last visited November 2022. |
Townsend Lane / Priory Road |
| Winchester (Townsend Lane) |
A plain, cheap and cheerful friendly two sided local boozer.
Last visited November 2022. |
Townsend Lane / Winchester Road |
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