Bishop sold

[Floating Onion]

I kind of agree with Marmora Man & Keef. I love the Bishop for food & a pint during the day or Sunday Roast. I do tend to avoid it on Friday & Saturday nights as the crowd & line at the bar puts me off somewhat. During the day it's one of my favourite places on the lane.

[EDOldie]

It was much better when it was the Foresters. Full of old geezers, pool table, no nasty short skirts, in fact no women. Beer was rubbish, food non existent (part from the crisps) and they call this progress! Honestly, you young people.

[nbn]

me too , its fine in the day and weekday nights but weekends avoided !

lets hope the capital pub co have the buffer for a nasty rent hike and understand and retain the weekend clientele !

[Brendan]

I kind of agree with mockney, oxymoronic (which sounds like acme cream for the mentally challenged). So if I go to the Bishop on Friday do I have to join in the hideously short skirt and floral undies wearing or can I go just as a spectator?

What about the pit bulls? I normally don?t mind them but they are in my bad books at the moment after some shmuck?s feral mutt tried to take a chunk out of me down the Brixton beach 2 weekends back. But that is another story the telling of which is for another time and involves builders, pirates and a monkey.

One more thing: Does this Prince Albert business Big Phil is promoting have something to do with men wearing hideously short skirts? If I use my imagination I can see the practical application. Although it has left me a little disturbed.

[BigPhil]

Brendan Wrote:

-------------------------------------------------------

> Isn?t the Castle in Camberwell run by the same

> people who do/did the Bishop and the Florence?

>

> What?s happened to the Castle then? Has it also

> been flogged to the Pub Co?

the castle is owned by Enterprise Inns

the currrent tennant is a holding tennent only

The lease is for sale ( see enterprise inns website)

[Mick Mac]

EDOldie Wrote:

-------------------------------------------------------

> It was much better when it was the Foresters. Full

> of old geezers, pool table, no nasty short skirts,

> in fact no women. Beer was rubbish, food non

> existent (part from the crisps) and they call this

> progress! Honestly, you young people.

Spot on ED - the Foresters was shit -the Bishop is a huge improvement - I think its great anytime I'm lucky enough to be in there, which unfortunatley is not that often.

[Jeremy]

You could get a meal and a pint for something like ?4 in the Foresters.

It wasn't very nice though. (the food, or the pint, or the pub).

[JetSetWilly]

christ i remember the old sofas, they were like something taken from a skip.

[matthew123]

I quite liked visiting the Forester's to watch the live football as at the time the EDT had a naff projection screen set-up with sun shining on half the screen..

[EDOldie]

The good old days of East Dulwich. It was all so much better then. I really think that the new owners should do a revamp and rename it the Foresters. Retro is soooo in these days.

[Brendan]

Yep. Sarcasm was so much better back then

[EDOldie]

No it wasn't.

[Brendan]

Yeah, retro sarcasm.

[SteveT]

mikese22 wrote:- we pride ourselves in providing comprehensive training and personal development courses for all members of our team.

Does that mean sh+gging the barmaids, fnar fnar!

[BigPhil]

Brendan Wrote:

-------------------------------------------------------

>>>

> One more thing: Does this Prince Albert business

> Big Phil is promoting have something to do with

> men wearing hideously short skirts? If I use my

> imagination I can see the practical application.

> Although it has left me a little disturbed.

No Brendan , men in skirts is not required , although you are more than welcome to express your individual dress sense if you visit.

[Brendan]

Well I suppose if I?m going to be checking out Big Phil?s Prince Albert I may as well be wearing a skirt.

[BigPhil]

i'll remember to take you up on that :-S

[diwhy]

OK, you can blame EDOldie for waking me up :)

The first time I went in the "Foresters" they still had a wood panelled back bar ;-)

Me and my brothers went there on Boxing night and basically got wrecked, apparently we were also singing - Oh dear.

When we left, I remember falling over and having trouble getting up again, my brother-in-law thought it would be fun to dive through a hedge - we had to pull him out by his ankles - silly bugger nearly made it all the way through..................

The thing that really sticks in my mind, that still gives me a warm glow, an old couple came over to us and said "Thanks, you really made our Christmas"

However, the way we were behaving, we were the sort of people that annoy the hell out of me now :-$

I returned there as my local quite a few years later to a mixed bag of staff and clientelle.

The End, time for another nap

[BigPhil]

In the old days ( pre 2000 )The foresters used to be the place to score drugs, I remember being there and going to the gents only for some little pukestain to try to bar my way and tell me that i couldnt use the toilets. ( this again fell into the "little weedy person telling me no" problem ) there was 4 guys all doing lines when i went in , they just about shit themselves when i walked in and told them the cops were here

that is probably my only lasting memory of that pub