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Pubs Named After Important Londoners
There are of course many pub names that honour real people, often heads of state, key military figures or members of the royalty. There could easily be hundreds of entries, about each and every one of...
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Leafy Pubs
I’ve already mentioned decorative tiling on pubs as a feature which helps to improve their appearance and draw people in. This is hardly the only strategy for enhancing the general attractiveness of...
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Monopoly: The Pubs of Whitechapel Road
My first post of 2010 (as many as three posts ago) was focused on the Monopoly board, so now that 2011 has come, perhaps it’s time for the second property along, which is Whitechapel Road, completing...
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Craft Beer Pubs
Since this blog was created, indeed probably since the last time it was updated, the term “craft beer” has become a much-ballyhooed part of the beer scene in London. There are still only a handful of...
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Book Reviews: The Local
London Pubology, you may have noticed, has hardly been awash with content recently, not that I’ve ever managed more than a post every few months, but particularly in recent years. This is due to...
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Former Pubs
There are many posts to be written here about the former pubs of London, and in the fullness of time (which has already been very accommodating) I hope to write about the many uses to which they have...
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Book Reviews: The Search for the Perfect Pub
Figure 87. The Search for the Perfect Pub by Paul Moody and Robin Turner. If there’s one point upon which I can immediately ease the potential reader’s mind about The Search for the Perfect Pub:...
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Monopoly: The Angel, Islington
Moving swiftly along as ever, let’s return to the Monopoly board (UK edition). This is the only property on the board named for a single building, and that building is, thankfully for our purposes, a...
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Pubology Website
So this post isn’t about my usual topics, it’s more of an announcement that my London Pubology website is now up and live, so do feel free to visit it. It’s a fairly straightforward (and rather dry)...
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Reopened Pubs: The Well and Bucket
I wanted to do a quick update with some happy pub news, for two reasons. The first is that I very rarely get around to updating this blog, what with spending my spare time updating my London Pubology...
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Pubs of UB7
*shuffles quietly in* Hello, it’s been a while. So back in the day, when I was actually writing posts (though I never really got above one every month at best), I did round-ups of postcode areas....
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Pub Interiors
Recently, I had beery evenings over three successive nights that took in three very different kinds of pub, almost a tour of London’s pub history in a way. It got me thinking about the internal layout...
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