Dream pub. For last Sunday.

[Help-Ma-Boab]

MrB, forgo the fly tieing workshop at your gaff and install your own boozer. I'd happily frequent it.

[Otta]

I was thinking the castle. I Know it has the footy, but it's not usually rammed and too noisy to chat.

[mancity68]

Lord Clyde in Borough. You just want to say in there forever.

[intexasatthe moment]

The Rose ,Forest Hill Rd ?

http://uk.local.yahoo.com/London/SE23_1/Greater_London/Public_Houses/2045392611-e-26351379.html

[Robert Poste's Child]

The Commercial pub pop H Hill station?

[Robert Poste's Child]

Or maybe not on a Sun - farmer's market right outside.

[StraferJack]

of course, Hoopers would have fitted the bill perfectly

[MrBen]

I think the Hermits Cave or Blythe Hill were the answers. But if I also added "easily walkable" those two would have been ruled out. It just hit me that weekends now in SE22 pubs are now ALL pretty much similar food and family orientated target market. But they're also emptier during the week than I remember?

Ah well...

[david_carnell]

A, I believe, unique feature of the Blythe is that to get to the back room you have to, and are permitted, to walk through the bar.

Neat-o.

[steveo]

As you can in the Royal Oak.

It's almost worth going there for that reason alone

[Mick Mac]

Basically what you wanted was a pub that's not doing well enough to be v busy on a Sunday afternoon.

Not too many of those around. Perhaps we should be grateful.

[MrBen]

Er no. What I meant was a pub that was doing well- thats a prerequisite- but in a different way.

[New Girl]

I could have done with that pub last Saturday. Ruggers, ruggers, ruggers every where I went. I just wanted a quiet pint.

[MrBen]

I last went to The Blythe Hill Tavern when DC was in shorts (so about 8 years ago). I recall it having serious grey haired Irish barmen with black trousers and white shirts, amazing Guinness and lots of lone drinkers quietly at their pints, horse racing quietly on in the background. It was like another world.

[bob]

Still like that now MB but sadly the older grey hair'd bar man passed away last year.

Bob S

[MrBen]

Does old Hogie still run The White Horse Bob?

[Mick Mac]

MrBen Wrote:

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> Er no. What I meant was a pub that was doing well-

> thats a prerequisite- but in a different way.

"a quiet pint" ... hard to get the quietness with the busyness :)

[MrBen]

How does "quietly busy" sit with you Mick. You pedant. :-)

[Mick Mac]

Still think Franklins front bar was your best option MB. So much so that I'm going there tonight for a quiet pint with the missus.

[bob]

MB That's a yes last 30+ years.

Bob S

[northlondoner]

david_carnell Wrote:

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> There is a place. On the way to Catford. SJ and I

> have been and it is exactly what you're after.

>

> The Blythe Hill Tavern

>

> Just off the South Circular on the way to Catford.

> Much, much nicer than that description could

> offer.

Yes it really was lovely but closed now ...they've moved to somewhere else in catford but forgotten where .

Liberal Club or something ?

At the risk of ramming out my own local ...the Monty in Peckham has a great vibe.