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There is heating - if you sit next to a rad in winter it's pumping. But there ain't enough of them and there are massive insulation problems (you can practically hold a conversation with eye contact with anyone in the beer cellar in some parts)


I won't go in the winter it's so darn cold

Agree, it's utter shite when the temperature drops and I would give the place a swerve in the winter months, but in the warm weather a couple of cold Addlestons really hit the spot after a hard day.

Staff are very nice too.


Also agree with SM regarding the Goose & Granite and I've been in the Tankard in Kennington, never mind the young un apparently vandalising the new playground at Goose Green, the real 'dregs of society' could be found there any old day of the week.

William Hone writing in 1838:


On a pane of glass, in the parlour window of the pleasant little road-side public-house called "The Plough" in Lordship Lane, leading from West Peckham to Sydenham, there is the following inscription :?


March 16, 1810

Thomas Mount Jones dined here

Eat six pounds of bacon, drank nineteen pots of beer.


It is a question for discussion, whether, in the hereof this frail memorial, the love of distinction and desire for fame were not greater than his love of brutal gluttony.

A little about


William Hone was prosecuted three times for blasphemy.


William Hone was an English social reformer. he was born in 1780 at Bath and died in 1842. He began life in a law-office and became imbued with freethinking opinions. In 1800 he abandoned the law and made ventures as a writer, bookseller, and publisher, which were all failures. In 1817 he was prosecuted by government for the publication of alleged irreverent parodies and lampoons, when he defended himself with great acuteness, and was acquitted. He subsequently had a large sum subscribed for him as a champion of the freedom of the press. He gradually abandoned freethought and the writing of satires for religion and antiquarianism. His chief publications are the Every-day Book (1826), Table-book (1827-1828), and Year Book (1829), perfect mines of antiquarian lore. In all William Hone was prosecuted three times for blasphemy for writing a travesty of the Prayer-book, but was acquitted each time.

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> West Peckham! tee hee


Well, Hone was a little strange.


The place name "East Dulwich" is a modern invention. Bottle of wine for anyone who can produce an authenticated reference that pre-dates 1811.


NB: The Wikipedia entries are not authenticated.


John K

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