So sad as I grew up directly opposite it, and helped em empty the barrels when it closed, but this tends to happen when an old pub sits on prime building plots, allegedly....
What was the name of the pub that is now a vets....down by the Thames barrier?
Lads of the Village first, then changed its name to Thames Barrier Arms in 1982
Had some mental times in the Barrier Arms. You had to call em or do a special knock to get in there in the end.
Had an engagement party there back in 1981. Was the landlords name Tony? Think one of my uncles used to holiday with him and their respective wives. Got a feeling a couple of my uncles were in the darts team too.
Looks OK to me. I've lived in Manchester and Newcastle and definitely drunk in worse pubs. The Victoria even seems to have a roof.
I concede that the pool table is likely to have a bit of a slope, but stop whingeing.
Used to live in a rough part of Sheffield in early 90's (still do but that's beside the point). My old next door neighbour was 82, had lived in the area pretty much all his life. He had his lawnmower nicked out of his garden shed. He 'heard' that a load of mowers were being sold in the bar of the pub at the end of the street, which was also his local for a lifetime, so he bowls up there. Seeing a bloke with a pile of mowers, he recognises one to be his. He tells bloke, "that's my mower, it was nicked out of my shed". Bloke knows neighbour and knows this to be true, but still picks up his pint glass and throws it at my neighbour hitting him flush on the head. Neighbour said no matter what happened I couldn't go down as I wouldn't have made it out of there. Neighbour walks out blood pouring from his head and never goes back in, never reports it.
A year later that pub was raised to the ground. Nothing ever got build on its plot. Nobody ever really missed the place.
I used to love it in there before a match. With it's topsy-turvey floor it felt like walking into the Crooked House on Southend seafront. The last pub I know to sell cheese rolls from one of those plastic boxes at the back of the bar. They were shrink wrapped in cling film and sometimes quite tough to chew like they'd been there for days, but they always tasted divine.
Ebbsfleet do the cheese rolls wrapped in cling film behind the bar. you even get options like with onion or tomato with your cheese, or even a bit of ham, though during the summer that ones not to be recommended.
Trying to think of the name of another pub round there, going towards Woolwich? The Victoria it is just read the rest of this thread....nice little pub back in the day.
Looks OK to me. I've lived in Manchester and Newcastle and definitely drunk in worse pubs. The Victoria even seems to have a roof.
I concede that the pool table is likely to have a bit of a slope, but stop whingeing.
Used to live in a rough part of Sheffield in early 90's (still do but that's beside the point). My old next door neighbour was 82, had lived in the area pretty much all his life. He had his lawnmower nicked out of his garden shed. He 'heard' that a load of mowers were being sold in the bar of the pub at the end of the street, which was also his local for a lifetime, so he bowls up there. Seeing a bloke with a pile of mowers, he recognises one to be his. He tells bloke, "that's my mower, it was nicked out of my shed". Bloke knows neighbour and knows this to be true, but still picks up his pint glass and throws it at my neighbour hitting him flush on the head. Neighbour said no matter what happened I couldn't go down as I wouldn't have made it out of there. Neighbour walks out blood pouring from his head and never goes back in, never reports it.
A year later that pub was raised to the ground. Nothing ever got build on its plot. Nobody ever really missed the place.
Luxury.
I saw a fight break out in a pub in Longbenton in Newcastle after a bloke accused someone of 'looking at my pint'.
Trying to think of the name of another pub round there, going towards Woolwich? The Victoria it is just read the rest of this thread....nice little pub back in the day.
thought you might of meant the Albion but i've seen that its still open but as an African bar. It never looked great but from google images it looks like a right dump now.
Trying to think of the name of another pub round there, going towards Woolwich? The Victoria it is just read the rest of this thread....nice little pub back in the day.
thought you might of meant the Albion but i've seen that its still open but as an African bar. It never looked great but from google images it looks like a right dump now.
Looks perfect for a first date.
"I thought we might try that new little African place down by the Dockyard. Such a fusion of naval history and modern world cuisine. What do you think?"
Trying to think of the name of another pub round there, going towards Woolwich? The Victoria it is just read the rest of this thread....nice little pub back in the day.
thought you might of meant the Albion but i've seen that its still open but as an African bar. It never looked great but from google images it looks like a right dump now.
Trying to think of the name of another pub round there, going towards Woolwich? The Victoria it is just read the rest of this thread....nice little pub back in the day.
thought you might of meant the Albion but i've seen that its still open but as an African bar. It never looked great but from google images it looks like a right dump now.
I do remember that but I've never been inside it.
Something you might hear on the Katie Price thread…
Trying to think of the name of another pub round there, going towards Woolwich? The Victoria it is just read the rest of this thread....nice little pub back in the day.
thought you might of meant the Albion but i've seen that its still open but as an African bar. It never looked great but from google images it looks like a right dump now.
I'm not it's still open. It got got raided by the Police whilst holding parties during the lockdown.
Must have walked past Le Wouri five hundred times, but while you can promise all the Nigerian cuisine you like, if your place doesn't have windows I'm not going in
Trying to think of the name of another pub round there, going towards Woolwich? The Victoria it is just read the rest of this thread....nice little pub back in the day.
Trying to think of the name of another pub round there, going towards Woolwich? The Victoria it is just read the rest of this thread....nice little pub back in the day.
thought you might of meant the Albion but i've seen that its still open but as an African bar. It never looked great but from google images it looks like a right dump now.
What have we done to our streets? Architect designed 1960s/70s homes of the future.
Architects earned their living designing buildings like these, but they were damned sure they weren't going to live in them.
It’s remarkable how much of it is boarded up yet it’s still open, get the feeling if you boarded up the door someone would kick a hole in it and it would carry on in use with folk climbing in through the hole!
Trying to think of the name of another pub round there, going towards Woolwich? The Victoria it is just read the rest of this thread....nice little pub back in the day.
thought you might of meant the Albion but i've seen that its still open but as an African bar. It never looked great but from google images it looks like a right dump now.
What have we done to our streets? Architect designed 1960s/70s homes of the future.
Architects earned their living designing buildings like these, but they were damned sure they weren't going to live in them.
It's a pub not a home and the flats in the photo have been demolished.
But flat roof pubs are terrible designwise and usually rough as sandpaper
Trying to think of the name of another pub round there, going towards Woolwich? The Victoria it is just read the rest of this thread....nice little pub back in the day.
thought you might of meant the Albion but i've seen that its still open but as an African bar. It never looked great but from google images it looks like a right dump now.
What have we done to our streets? Architect designed 1960s/70s homes of the future.
Architects earned their living designing buildings like these, but they were damned sure they weren't going to live in them.
It's a pub not a home and the flats in the photo have been demolished.
But flat roof pubs are terrible designwise and usually rough as sandpaper
It's still been designed, whether it's a pub, house or whatever. And we still have to look at it.
Same with the block of flats. If they've been demolished already, then they were built not fit for purpose.
Trying to think of the name of another pub round there, going towards Woolwich? The Victoria it is just read the rest of this thread....nice little pub back in the day.
Was that the Million Hare? Edit, just read the above properly.
Re Henrys comment on pubs with flat roofs, went in one near Maine Road and couldn’t help noticing on the block attached to the pub they had what looked like the Hound of the Baskervilles prowling about on it. To be fair, they were quite affable inside, although it was a bit like walking into an episode of Shameless.
Trying to think of the name of another pub round there, going towards Woolwich? The Victoria it is just read the rest of this thread....nice little pub back in the day.
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Was the landlords name Tony?
Think one of my uncles used to holiday with him and their respective wives.
Got a feeling a couple of my uncles were in the darts team too.
A year later that pub was raised to the ground. Nothing ever got build on its plot. Nobody ever really missed the place.
I saw a fight break out in a pub in Longbenton in Newcastle after a bloke accused someone of 'looking at my pint'.
"I thought we might try that new little African place down by the Dockyard. Such a fusion of naval history and modern world cuisine. What do you think?"
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Architects earned their living designing buildings like these, but they were damned sure they weren't going to live in them.
But flat roof pubs are terrible designwise and usually rough as sandpaper
Same with the block of flats. If they've been demolished already, then they were built not fit for purpose.
Re Henrys comment on pubs with flat roofs, went in one near Maine Road and couldn’t help noticing on the block attached to the pub they had what looked like the Hound of the Baskervilles prowling about on it. To be fair, they were quite affable inside, although it was a bit like walking into an episode of Shameless.