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As mentioned by Konk in the Morhinio thread. Flat roofed pubs are normally shiteholes which are suited to and are normally frequented by a good few Scum supporters. Here's my offering as one of the roughest ,worst boozers I've ever been in . The Beaver in Beaver's Estate Hounslow .Now that was a REAL shithole!! Looks like its closed down.Thank F@ck...
Add your own wonderful flat roofed watering holes...
I delivered on this estate in West Drayton, there’s a bit of paper on the door saying “members only” so you know what that means. I had a second peep just to check the roof was still flat and lo and behold...
Eyes right.
My new local.
It’s worth the link - if anyone (alright dan?) can do the thing, you are my new best mate.
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I like this pub. Need one of the exterior Mick.
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Flat roofed pubs.. on 13:01 - Jul 14 with 2049 views
I've hunted high and low to find this one... I can find no photo's on the interweb but there's a couple of vids on YouTube... Part of the Feltham Centre redevelopment in the late 60's was a really weird pub built with a sticky outy bit on Stilts. I think it was called the Cricketers (cant be 100% sure tho). The whole centre redevelopment was typical 1960's bleak, faceless, grim architecture. To get to the bit on stilts you had climb a set of steps in the main building. That sticky outy bit part was glass all round and I'm pretty sure you couldn't open any windows, so in the summer was just like a huge smoky green house.... dis-coloured net curtains were the only protection from the beating sun. Feltham ain't great today but its way better than it was when I were a lad. The pub is now a Spoons and the bit on stilts is no more.
Can be seen here 3:24ish and 3:38ish in.
& 1:18 into this vid...
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I had my 21st birthday party in the upstairs room in the Cricketers. What an outstanding venue it was.😜😜
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Flat roofed pubs.. on 13:07 - Jul 14 with 2031 views
The Pig & Whistle in Latimer Road should have been built in Jaurez, Mexico. On a good night the odd stabbing but generally during the 70’s people came just for the insane levels of violence, all while the DJ kept the disco going!
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Flat roofed pubs.. on 13:50 - Jul 14 with 1936 views
Can't believe I worked round the corner from there for like sixteen years, and never came across it.
I mean West Drayton / Yiewsley already does have a number of classy establishments...
Same here, never heard of the place, but we clearly should have. As I said further up, the notice on the door said members only. To stop the likes of us getting killed to death.
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Did I ever mention that I was in Minder?
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Flat roofed pubs.. on 14:03 - Jul 14 with 1902 views
It’s the little details, mate. To me, if I’m posting a review on Tripadvisor, that’s a guaranteed maximum mark. Well spotted - not everyone would have noticed.
Grow their own vine leaves in the hanging baskets too. Localism in action.
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Flat roofed pubs.. on 14:07 - Jul 14 with 1890 views
Grow their own vine leaves in the hanging baskets too. Localism in action.
It can’t be that Greek as they appear to have finished the flat roof rather than leaving the sticky up metal rods and all poking skywards. I think konk is lying again.
It can’t be that Greek as they appear to have finished the flat roof rather than leaving the sticky up metal rods and all poking skywards. I think konk is lying again.
I remember seeing a lot of buildings like that in Morocco. Apparently they build the downstairs first before they can afford to build the upstairs!
Anyway I’ve walked past this one in the back streets of Paddington quite a few times but never been in yet.
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Flat roofed pubs.. on 14:55 - Jul 14 with 1781 views
It can’t be that Greek as they appear to have finished the flat roof rather than leaving the sticky up metal rods and all poking skywards. I think konk is lying again.
Mate, get yourself down there. 5/10 minutes walk from Temple Meads. Honestly, on a summer’s evening, tucking into the Kleftiko, a nice cold beer, the traditional blue and white tower blocks just behind the car park, the sound of sirens, stolen motorbikes being raced on the pavement, street drinkers shouting at passers-by, the muddy banks of the New Cut just across the road… it’s like Santorini 60 years ago. Get there before the tourists ruin it. We’re going for a fortnight in August. Full board. Oy-oy!
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Flat roofed pubs.. on 15:35 - Jul 14 with 1770 views
Ok, not flat-roofed, but I didn't know where else to put the oddest-looking pub in history, The Rifleman in Edmonton, North London:
Thing is, it's quite an interesting story behind it:
At the end of a dank alleyway on the boundary of Tottenham and Edmonton stood the abandoned Rifleman Public House. It had closed during the war, its heavy pint glasses no longer in need of a polish, its pumps no longer worthy of the name. Since then its piano had been wheeled away, its frosted window panes had been broken by little boys' stones and its bar top chopped up for firewood. On 19th June 1947, two men made The Rifleman their headquarters, their office and their factory floor. Pooling their savings of £600 Leslie and Rodney Smith, no relation to one another, bought a second hand die-casting machine and installed it in one of the rooms of the old pub. When they had done that, they die cast their Christian names at Companies House and became Lesney Products. In 1953 the year after the Korean War had ended and with zinc restrictions lifted Lesney Products designed a miniature replica of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation carriage. Lesney Products sold one million of them and The Rifleman had suddenly become a goldmine. Initially they were oblivious to the financial implications of their million-selling carriage and, when the daughter of one of the partners returned home from school one day complaining that the only toys she could take into the playground where ones that fitted inside a matchbox, they set about making a replica of a diesel road roller that would fit the spec. When they then saw the commercial possibilities the Matchbox Series was launched.
(I said "interesting", meaning to people of a certain age and idiosyncratic range of interests, I suppose)
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