Mine is the Castle Hotel on Oldham Street in manchester. it is amazing and i wanna live there
Reply
The Britons Protection.
Have you seen THAT flag in the Castle, there is an excellent history to it.
The Castle is so much better than the Briton's Protection
i'm gonna make sure I spend loadsa time there when I'm back in Mancland. Write essays in there and stuff.
Well, I disagree, WHAT'RE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?!?!?
punch you in the face
I saw cash machine girl the other day,
in the Friendship.....
I always found the friendship
to be a bit dissapointing.
Its kind of a haven of Mancunia within studentland.
Which can be nice to have sometimes. There are some right roughends in there though.
when shall i come across for more ridiculous fun then?
i quite often work on friday nights. GAAAH!
really?!
did you say hi to her? i forgot to ask my friend what her name was. do you remember
i had forgotten about her!
I said hi, and she just looked stunning. I can't remember her name either.
You decided that you loved 'Muse' anyway, so she's mine damnit!! We'll hit some horrible fun nights soon, I'm sure.
did she recognise you?
Yeah, she called me 'Sainsburys boy'.
She touched my bum once doncha know
The Royal Oak, Bethnal Green.
Just because.
The Marble Arch on Rochdale road
or the dog and partridge in Didsbury.
The Farmers Home in Strabane
It's cosy as fuck and has small rooms with comfy chairs and fires. I've had nothing but good times in there!
The Red Lion
in Greenwich Village, NYC.
the old brown jug
in newcastle-under-lyme
the rochester castle
stoke newington high street, london.
Are you a tramp?
yeah
christ
I have three
1) The Queen's Head, Maldon. I spent about a year in there after finishing university working out how to leave home again.
2) The Old Coffee House, Soho. I have spent a LOT of time laughing and watching football in there.
3) The Blue Posts, Soho. We go to the pub quiz every fortnight and now the landlord knows our names and gives us champagne when it's one of our birthdays. Winner!
did you just sit in the queen's head alone?
i fully intend to start writing esssays in the castle hotel
i wish more people would just hang out in the pub with me. i love the pub.
Sometimes, yeah
I'd take the paper down there on a Sunday and do the crossword and stuff. But I quickly got to know the regulars so there was always banter. And after a few months I bumped into an old school friend there and he became my hardcore pub buddy for the rest of the time.
I love the pub as well. They're great places to be.
yeah
i wanna go SOOOO much right now
It's good when an investment of time
in an establishment is recognised.
I don't have to order in the Town hall tavern most of the time now. Most of the bar staff know what I want.
i want to be 18
]:
do you get thrown out?
pubs are amazing!
come visit manc land and i'll take you to the old men pubs! no corona there lassy!
i often do get chucked out
it depends what sex and age the bartender is.
i find male and 18-22 is the best.
is it just bitter? i dont like bitter.
double G&T? yes? good. im there.
yeah you can get that
i'm gonna make you drink mild tho!
ok.
:D
Mild
Like a meal in a pint glass.
also PUB SURVEY!
how many hours a week do you spend in the pub?
what sort of time of day do you go?
who do you go with?
do you enjoy going to pubs on your own?
not as many as i'd like to.
when i feel like a pint.
whoever will come with me.
yes i do.
the best time to go to the pub is early doors, any day.
11-2ish. Obviously you can't do it every day with work/lectures but you can't beat waking up, jumping straight into your clothes, getting the dailys and having a quiet couple of hours to yourself.
1. 7
2. between 8 and 12
3. my friends or my sisters' friends
4. i've never been to a pub alone unless i was waiting for someone.
ok.
15-20 hours
Early afternnon for papers and book, 9ish for socialising
Lonesome for first sitting, people I was at school with for socials
My local, yes, I can read and as there are so few other customers on a day I don't get looks.
i am pining for the pub so badly
haha aw :(
2 best pubs in the world.
The White Horse in Hedgerly, Buckinghamshire. About two miles out of Beaconsfield.
and The Turf Tavern in Oxford. Just the best.
Old Queens Head
Islington
I just really like the wallpaper in the toilets
yeah and the room upstairs is pretty
Ha! I used to live in Hedgerley!
Charming little place.
The Angel is lovely in Leeds
is that the sam smiths one?
inexplicably staffed by loadsa emos
also, you living in leeds at the moment? wanna go for a drink sometime?
Good idea. I need things to do.
I once offended Napoleon IIIrd by pointing out I had ordered lemonade instead of lager. He looked radgey.
^
this. brilliant, cheap pub. great location too.
The great eastern in brighton
is amazing.
staff are all nice, they have millers gin(the finest gin, ever)
it's not too expensive + its stumbling distance to dominos.
heh
You're mental
It's way too small and cramped.
gonna change your mind, with one statement
they once played papa roach in there.
Gordon Bennett
The 'Johnny Boy'' in Kent
Or 'The Paddle Feet'' in Stoke.
They wouldn't let me drink in mine last night.
THEY.
Even though we walked past it. Twice. I fair near wept.
Stupid THEY.
i was in the castle hotel a few weeks ago
if it's the one on oldham street your talking about. it is pretty great - i got talking to three drunken builders about the controlling nature of time and how we shouldn't teach youngsters to know the clock.
my favourite pub is the coachmakers arms, in hanley. it's a great old terraced house with four different rooms off a cenntral drinking corridor, eccentric drunks playing the grand piano, loads of original tiling, eight guest beers, parsley sauce packets used as ornaments on the mantelpiece .... non-local favourite pub is definitely the three stags heads in wardlow mires, derbyshire. there isn't anywhere like it on the planet, it can't have changed much in the last 200 years. roaring fires in huge imposing iron grates, dusty flagstone floors, the most basic furniture ever, fines for using a mobile phone, dogs (and portraits of dogs) everywhere, mummified cats to ward off evil spirits (not the whiskey) behind the bar, eerie fox heads on the wall, a well full of sheep skulls next to the entrance door ....
yeah on oldham street
i played a gig in the back room once. it was one fuck of a lot of fun!
Bastards.
Who are the they?
&& this one!
the vine in manchester city centre near the tiger lounge
the ale is right good and they sell bacon fries behind the bar...
it even has a rubbish jukebox
x
^It is
a more than acceptable pub.
Oooh
Farnham - The Cobbett, simply because it's nice, big garden and pretty much everyone's under 25 and I know half of them.
Brighton - World's End, as it's well studenty and cheap and near my gaff and I know half the people in there.
Basketmakers Arms - Proper nice old man pub with loads of real ales and ciders and that and chilled out and in the North Laines.
Belushi's - By the sea, not too chavvy and random cheap deals like £1.25 for a Snakebite after 9.
basketmakers arms
in brighton. for the above reason but also all the little messages in the tins that adorn the walls.
the cobbett is ace
they used to do a well good burger.
The Imperial
in Exeter. It has a massive garden on a hillside that looks out over to the other side of the city, and it sells Honey Buzzard, and that stuff is gooood. Also if you get bored, you can stumble down a hill and end up at Mill on the Exe, which is also pretty good.
The Castle Hotel
is also my favourite pub, despite the toilets. The tap room is kind of how I hope the afterlife will be. Getting a half Old Tom afer a few Unicorns is so great.
Its strange in there since Cath died, she was brilliant and it makes me feel sad to go back in there now. Thought that mural of her is incredible.
Its good for gigs too, and its also home to the greatest peice of graffiti I've ever read in my life!
because of the toilets don't you mean?
They're so grim!
And its quite funny that you can't get to the ladies toilet if a band is playing.
Written on the cistern in the mens: "I fucked your mum", and underneath it someone had written "Go home dad, you're drunk" :'D :'D :'D :'D
hehehe
i love that the urinals are flushed by a gutter leading outside.
i wanna go there right now actually.
Its probably the thing I miss most
about living in Manchester.
I once read about it in a book at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, apparently the pub was built in 1897. And its mentioned in a Fall song. Yorkshire Sculpture Park is probably the last place I'd ever expect to be reading abou The Castle.
Home: 60 Million Postcards, Bournemouth
Away: The Montague Arms, New Cross
.....a frankly unhinged yet utterly brilliant clash between skinny jeans indie kid hipster hangout and genuine old man pub with the most bizarre interior decor I have ever witnessed (Stuffed zebra in a carriage? Check). Genuinely lovely OAP staff and a good little venue for bands too complete with geriatric organist. Also, giant roast with dessert for 6.50. ULTRA WIN.
Sounds epic
is it still going?
i kept hearing rumours that it'd been properly closed down, which would be a crying shame. great pub!
the montague, that is
8.9 average rating on Beer In The Evening
Must be amazing.
those rumours are false!
the montague is still open, and it's brilliant!
Oh yes indeed, had lunch there last Sunday
Roast lamb with a lovely strudel.
yeah the montague arms is awesome
havent been there in ages though
i don't really have a single fave in london
though Freuds in WC2 would come close.
Ever in the whole wide world is Ad Here Blues Bar in Bangkok - great music and people and the best of times
Freuds is good
not really a pub though
true
my fave pub pubs are um...
the carpenters arms in shoreditch
the fat badger on portobello
old blue last in shoreditch
maybe the gunn in docklands
errr dunno really.
The King Street Run in Cambridge was a favourite haunt of mine when I was at Uni. It had a great jukebox (9 songs for a quid or something daft like that), beano comics on the ceiling, arcade machines in the back and 3 pool tables upstairs near where part of the ceiling had caved in. Ace.
Mad love for the KSR <3
:D
great wasn't it! I also remember the toilet had the bit you push on the side where the hinge was, so you had to press on the other side. I saw someone walk straight into it once. Classic. I seem to remember the barmaids being rather nice as well. *sigh*
yep, still like that.
you'll be pleased to know it's still like that
except for the jukebox cost. that's gone up.
Hmmm
Belfast - was the Somerton until it got knocked down. Only bar that will actually ever be my local.
Now in Belfast - Duke of York and the JOhn Hewitt, and Auntie Annies when I forget I'm too old for it now.
Melbourne - George Public Bar. Actually if I was limited to a single pub for one last drink, this would be it.
No one's mentioned Big Red?
The Hatchet in Bristol.
It's my cheers
hmmmm
george and dragon for the 'lols'
used to be the enterprise
biddle brothers
gordon's wine bar
coach and horses
wheatsheaf
the island queen
oh yes i do like the George & Dragon
especially the horse head
The Kings Arms, Bury St Edmunds
It's the only one I don't get chucked out of. It's quite nice as well though. One more month...
Hmmm.
The Glen - Babbacombe bay
The White Horse - Rickmansworth
The Cock Inn - Local
The Britons Protection.
Have you seen THAT flag in the Castle, there is an excellent history to it.
The Castle is so much better than the Briton's Protection
i'm gonna make sure I spend loadsa time there when I'm back in Mancland. Write essays in there and stuff.
Well, I disagree, WHAT'RE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?!?!?
punch you in the face
I saw cash machine girl the other day,
in the Friendship.....
I always found the friendship
to be a bit dissapointing.
Its kind of a haven of Mancunia within studentland.
Which can be nice to have sometimes. There are some right roughends in there though.
when shall i come across for more ridiculous fun then?
i quite often work on friday nights. GAAAH!
really?!
did you say hi to her? i forgot to ask my friend what her name was. do you remember
i had forgotten about her!
I said hi, and she just looked stunning. I can't remember her name either.
You decided that you loved 'Muse' anyway, so she's mine damnit!! We'll hit some horrible fun nights soon, I'm sure.
did she recognise you?
Yeah, she called me 'Sainsburys boy'.
She touched my bum once doncha know
The Royal Oak, Bethnal Green.
Just because.
The Marble Arch on Rochdale road
or the dog and partridge in Didsbury.
The Farmers Home in Strabane
It's cosy as fuck and has small rooms with comfy chairs and fires. I've had nothing but good times in there!
The Red Lion
in Greenwich Village, NYC.
the old brown jug
in newcastle-under-lyme
the rochester castle
stoke newington high street, london.
Are you a tramp?
yeah
christ
I have three
1) The Queen's Head, Maldon. I spent about a year in there after finishing university working out how to leave home again.
2) The Old Coffee House, Soho. I have spent a LOT of time laughing and watching football in there.
3) The Blue Posts, Soho. We go to the pub quiz every fortnight and now the landlord knows our names and gives us champagne when it's one of our birthdays. Winner!
did you just sit in the queen's head alone?
i fully intend to start writing esssays in the castle hotel
i wish more people would just hang out in the pub with me. i love the pub.
Sometimes, yeah
I'd take the paper down there on a Sunday and do the crossword and stuff. But I quickly got to know the regulars so there was always banter. And after a few months I bumped into an old school friend there and he became my hardcore pub buddy for the rest of the time.
I love the pub as well. They're great places to be.
yeah
i wanna go SOOOO much right now
It's good when an investment of time
in an establishment is recognised.
I don't have to order in the Town hall tavern most of the time now. Most of the bar staff know what I want.
i want to be 18
]:
do you get thrown out?
pubs are amazing!
come visit manc land and i'll take you to the old men pubs! no corona there lassy!
i often do get chucked out
it depends what sex and age the bartender is.
i find male and 18-22 is the best.
is it just bitter? i dont like bitter.
double G&T? yes? good. im there.
yeah you can get that
i'm gonna make you drink mild tho!
ok.
:D
Mild
Like a meal in a pint glass.
also PUB SURVEY!
how many hours a week do you spend in the pub?
what sort of time of day do you go?
who do you go with?
do you enjoy going to pubs on your own?
not as many as i'd like to.
when i feel like a pint.
whoever will come with me.
yes i do.
the best time to go to the pub is early doors, any day.
11-2ish. Obviously you can't do it every day with work/lectures but you can't beat waking up, jumping straight into your clothes, getting the dailys and having a quiet couple of hours to yourself.
1. 7
2. between 8 and 12
3. my friends or my sisters' friends
4. i've never been to a pub alone unless i was waiting for someone.
ok.
15-20 hours
Early afternnon for papers and book, 9ish for socialising
Lonesome for first sitting, people I was at school with for socials
My local, yes, I can read and as there are so few other customers on a day I don't get looks.
i am pining for the pub so badly
haha aw :(
2 best pubs in the world.
The White Horse in Hedgerly, Buckinghamshire. About two miles out of Beaconsfield.
and The Turf Tavern in Oxford. Just the best.
Old Queens Head
Islington
I just really like the wallpaper in the toilets
yeah and the room upstairs is pretty
Ha! I used to live in Hedgerley!
Charming little place.
The Angel is lovely in Leeds
is that the sam smiths one?
inexplicably staffed by loadsa emos
also, you living in leeds at the moment? wanna go for a drink sometime?
Good idea. I need things to do.
I once offended Napoleon IIIrd by pointing out I had ordered lemonade instead of lager. He looked radgey.
^
this. brilliant, cheap pub. great location too.
The great eastern in brighton
is amazing.
staff are all nice, they have millers gin(the finest gin, ever)
it's not too expensive + its stumbling distance to dominos.
heh
You're mental
It's way too small and cramped.
gonna change your mind, with one statement
they once played papa roach in there.
Gordon Bennett
The 'Johnny Boy'' in Kent
Or 'The Paddle Feet'' in Stoke.
They wouldn't let me drink in mine last night.
THEY.
Even though we walked past it. Twice. I fair near wept.
Stupid THEY.
i was in the castle hotel a few weeks ago
if it's the one on oldham street your talking about. it is pretty great - i got talking to three drunken builders about the controlling nature of time and how we shouldn't teach youngsters to know the clock.
my favourite pub is the coachmakers arms, in hanley. it's a great old terraced house with four different rooms off a cenntral drinking corridor, eccentric drunks playing the grand piano, loads of original tiling, eight guest beers, parsley sauce packets used as ornaments on the mantelpiece .... non-local favourite pub is definitely the three stags heads in wardlow mires, derbyshire. there isn't anywhere like it on the planet, it can't have changed much in the last 200 years. roaring fires in huge imposing iron grates, dusty flagstone floors, the most basic furniture ever, fines for using a mobile phone, dogs (and portraits of dogs) everywhere, mummified cats to ward off evil spirits (not the whiskey) behind the bar, eerie fox heads on the wall, a well full of sheep skulls next to the entrance door ....
yeah on oldham street
i played a gig in the back room once. it was one fuck of a lot of fun!
Bastards.
Who are the they?
&& this one!
the vine in manchester city centre near the tiger lounge
the ale is right good and they sell bacon fries behind the bar...
it even has a rubbish jukebox
x
^It is
a more than acceptable pub.
Oooh
Farnham - The Cobbett, simply because it's nice, big garden and pretty much everyone's under 25 and I know half of them.
Brighton - World's End, as it's well studenty and cheap and near my gaff and I know half the people in there.
Basketmakers Arms - Proper nice old man pub with loads of real ales and ciders and that and chilled out and in the North Laines.
Belushi's - By the sea, not too chavvy and random cheap deals like £1.25 for a Snakebite after 9.
basketmakers arms
in brighton. for the above reason but also all the little messages in the tins that adorn the walls.
the cobbett is ace
they used to do a well good burger.
The Imperial
in Exeter. It has a massive garden on a hillside that looks out over to the other side of the city, and it sells Honey Buzzard, and that stuff is gooood. Also if you get bored, you can stumble down a hill and end up at Mill on the Exe, which is also pretty good.
The Castle Hotel
is also my favourite pub, despite the toilets. The tap room is kind of how I hope the afterlife will be. Getting a half Old Tom afer a few Unicorns is so great.
Its strange in there since Cath died, she was brilliant and it makes me feel sad to go back in there now. Thought that mural of her is incredible.
Its good for gigs too, and its also home to the greatest peice of graffiti I've ever read in my life!
because of the toilets don't you mean?
They're so grim!
And its quite funny that you can't get to the ladies toilet if a band is playing.
Written on the cistern in the mens: "I fucked your mum", and underneath it someone had written "Go home dad, you're drunk" :'D :'D :'D :'D
hehehe
i love that the urinals are flushed by a gutter leading outside.
i wanna go there right now actually.
Its probably the thing I miss most
about living in Manchester.
I once read about it in a book at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, apparently the pub was built in 1897. And its mentioned in a Fall song. Yorkshire Sculpture Park is probably the last place I'd ever expect to be reading abou The Castle.
Home: 60 Million Postcards, Bournemouth
Away: The Montague Arms, New Cross
.....a frankly unhinged yet utterly brilliant clash between skinny jeans indie kid hipster hangout and genuine old man pub with the most bizarre interior decor I have ever witnessed (Stuffed zebra in a carriage? Check). Genuinely lovely OAP staff and a good little venue for bands too complete with geriatric organist. Also, giant roast with dessert for 6.50. ULTRA WIN.
Sounds epic
is it still going?
i kept hearing rumours that it'd been properly closed down, which would be a crying shame. great pub!
the montague, that is
8.9 average rating on Beer In The Evening
Must be amazing.
those rumours are false!
the montague is still open, and it's brilliant!
Oh yes indeed, had lunch there last Sunday
Roast lamb with a lovely strudel.
yeah the montague arms is awesome
havent been there in ages though
i don't really have a single fave in london
though Freuds in WC2 would come close.
Ever in the whole wide world is Ad Here Blues Bar in Bangkok - great music and people and the best of times
Freuds is good
not really a pub though
true
my fave pub pubs are um...
the carpenters arms in shoreditch
the fat badger on portobello
old blue last in shoreditch
maybe the gunn in docklands
errr dunno really.
The King Street Run in Cambridge was a favourite haunt of mine when I was at Uni. It had a great jukebox (9 songs for a quid or something daft like that), beano comics on the ceiling, arcade machines in the back and 3 pool tables upstairs near where part of the ceiling had caved in. Ace.
Mad love for the KSR <3
:D
great wasn't it! I also remember the toilet had the bit you push on the side where the hinge was, so you had to press on the other side. I saw someone walk straight into it once. Classic. I seem to remember the barmaids being rather nice as well. *sigh*
yep, still like that.
you'll be pleased to know it's still like that
except for the jukebox cost. that's gone up.
Hmmm
Belfast - was the Somerton until it got knocked down. Only bar that will actually ever be my local.
Now in Belfast - Duke of York and the JOhn Hewitt, and Auntie Annies when I forget I'm too old for it now.
Melbourne - George Public Bar. Actually if I was limited to a single pub for one last drink, this would be it.
No one's mentioned Big Red?
The Hatchet in Bristol.
It's my cheers
hmmmm
george and dragon for the 'lols'
used to be the enterprise
biddle brothers
gordon's wine bar
coach and horses
wheatsheaf
the island queen
oh yes i do like the George & Dragon
especially the horse head
The Kings Arms, Bury St Edmunds
It's the only one I don't get chucked out of. It's quite nice as well though. One more month...
Hmmm.
The Glen - Babbacombe bay
The White Horse - Rickmansworth
The Cock Inn - Local