LOCAL KNOWLEDGE,PUBS SOUTH DEVON & GUZ AREA

mervyn(ianto)jones · Post by **mervyn(ianto)jones** » Tue 01 Jul, 2003 10:54 pm

Having lived in the Nothern parts for some years,I have decided to take the good lady for her yearly break down to thw warmer climates of South Devon in August ,perhaps you whom have remained in that area could furnish me with the locations of good hostelries providing good ale and excellent sustinance,UNION STREET OUT OF BOUNDS. IANTO.

Black Rat · Post by **Black Rat** » Wed 02 Jul, 2003 8:21 am

Plenty still about!

Try the China House in Coxside, Gus, plenty of nice places round the Barbican (gets loud at nite though!).

If you cross the water into S.E. Cornwall there are loads, lovely grub, good well kept beer, e mail me fopr more!

Archie · Post by **Archie** » Wed 02 Jul, 2003 9:58 am

Try the Vine opposite Stonehouse main gate, it's run by an oppo from way back, he's ex LC but you shouldn't hold that against him.

Lock ins are compulsary it seems, as are monster hang overs, he did have a flat nearby which you could borrow/rent/sleep it off in, he's an all round bon eouf, name of Craig Brian.

OK Brian you cheap bastard, if that ain't worth a free pint what is! :drinking:

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Wed 02 Jul, 2003 10:08 am

By all accounts the places I used to frequent have been closed down by either the Vice squad, fallen down on their own accord or ripped apart by generations of Booties..... However there remains one place I have heard and that is the Minerva in the Barbican, what its like today, I couldn't tell. In my day it was a student/Royal scrumpy den where Royal could Trap(well). It was too good for Anthia, the Trees and Antelope were more her scene

Wully · Post by **Wully** » Wed 02 Jul, 2003 2:43 pm

Try the Union Rooms (A Weatherspoon pub) good cheap booze and food and if you're bringing the kids the can use it. It's a NO SWEARING pub

Jason The Argonaut · Post by **Jason The Argonaut** » Wed 02 Jul, 2003 2:59 pm

Try the Union Rooms (A Weatherspoon pub) good cheap booze and food and if you're bringing the kids the can use it. It's a NO SWEARING pub

The Weatherspoon's pub's I drink at, you hardly find any kids in, and I have never heard of a pub where you cant swear at. You do get a few 15-16 year olds drinking in there because it cheaper than other pub's. When they get tipsy after pint of Fosters they cant stop swearing, until the staff kick the little shits out.

Wully · Post by **Wully** » Wed 02 Jul, 2003 4:49 pm

Read something in the press last week that indicated that Weatherspoon pubs would become 'NON SWEARING' pubs. Anyone caught swearing would be asked to leave :drinking:

Jason The Argonaut · Post by **Jason The Argonaut** » Thu 03 Jul, 2003 10:06 am

Read something in the press last week that indicated that Weatherspoon pubs would become 'NON SWEARING' pubs. Anyone caught swearing would be asked to leave

Well I wonder how they are going to police this NON SWEARING policie.

Archie · Post by **Archie** » Thu 03 Jul, 2003 5:26 pm

Where will this PC crap all end? If you don't want your kids to hear the odd bit of good old Anglo Saxon don't take them to a pub, keep them locked in a soundproof box, away from their friends, and the schoolyard, and the TV, and so forth. Will the next thing be no drinking in pubs in case the poor little darlings see someone a little tiddly?

I was brought up on the outskirts of Newcastle on Tyne, and spent most of my formative years alongside fisherman and dockers. Their language was ripe to say the least, and it did me no harm to hear it. It simply does not follow that it must neccesarily be bad for kids to hear the odd bit of cursing now and again.

On the contrary, this whole over protective Nanny State only serves to create a nation of Namby Pamby girls blouses. What we need in this country are people who are broadminded and tolerant, whilst being personally strong willed and focused on the real issues of life.

Send the kids to the square behind my office here in genteel Bournemouth, where at almost any time of day they will see drunks lying around in various states of stupification, druggies shooting up in public, prostitutes plying their trade on the corners, pimps and pushers hanging around in little knots.

Perhaps we should all stay at home and pretend the world is a soft fluffy place wiv ickle lambs and bunny wabbits skipping about the village green whilst we have cucumber sandwiches with our fwends.

Contractor · Post by **Contractor** » Thu 03 Jul, 2003 5:39 pm

Archie, the pubs you refer to were probably in the days of Lounges and Public Bars.

The Public Bar was where men went for a drink and could enjoy themselves - no women, sawdust on the floor, no juke boxes, a dartboard, bar skitlles and quality beer. The Lounge was where the women went and swearing was a definite no - no.

Better times by far.

sunman · Post by **sunman** » Thu 03 Jul, 2003 5:52 pm

Archie,
sounds like you may have been in The Jungle,
or Wooden Dolley or maybee the Panshop club
at some stage of your career.Northside,or The Brunny,
Mermaids Tail and even The Commando, Southside
mate.

Howay The Lads,
Aye Sunman :drinking:

.

Pilgrim Norway · Post by **Pilgrim Norway** » Thu 03 Jul, 2003 9:28 pm

Mike - As you are also an old Minerva man I can recommend a trip down
memory lane and into Lympstone village. Both the Swan and the Globe are well worth a visit these days. I stayed in the Globe for a weekend in
early May this year. OK rooms if you can get 'em.

One of the students who was a piece of the furniture in the Minerva now has the Whitley Hotel in Bournemouth - also a good base for a visit to that
part of UK with Poole not far away.

The landlord of the Minerva ( Tom ) moved over to a pub at Stonehouse.

'Aye

El Prez · Post by **El Prez** » Thu 03 Jul, 2003 9:48 pm

Ianto, test your iron resolve and wander into the Antelope. I still call it the An Tell Opey after all these years.

bootneck · Post by **bootneck** » Sat 19 Jul, 2003 7:39 pm

Archie wrote:If you want your kids to hear the odd bit of good old Anglo Saxon,Send the kids to the square behind my office here in genteel Bournemouth, where at almost any time of day they will see drunks lying around in various states of stupification, druggies shooting up in public, prostitutes plying their trade on the corners, pimps and pushers hanging around in little knots.

Archie, i thought you`d have kept a tighter ship than that, the things the staff get away with these days

and I bet they still get Luncheon Vouchers as well

Cronkilla · Post by **Cronkilla** » Sat 19 Jul, 2003 9:20 pm

Ive been asked to leave a weatherspoons pub. Having a casual conversation with a friend asked to leave because of the amount of swearing. Sadly i only just got my first pint and replied to being ask to leave with "What the f*ck?,its f*cking pub". Strange considering it was about 9 pm no kids in sight where if there were id understand but jesus.........

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