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nashoi

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When I was on an Elephant to Camberwell crawl in 08 we started at The Tankard and finished at The Hermits Cave and included The Castle and The Corrib. Whilst not exactly salubrious, the Castle had quite a friendly bunch in there, unlike the Corrib whose sole customer drunkenly challenged all of us to a fight. There are some quite decent pubs around there though, The Beehive on Carter St was a regular haunt of mine many moons ago. They do seem to struggle to stay open though, since our crawl at least 4 have closed.
StraferJack

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Temple Bar is shut as well now


Corrib is as old-school irish as they come - proper poker machine and everything


I've not had any trouble there but any pub which is home to "lonely men who drink too much" is likely to have stuff like that happen


And no I haven't eaten there either

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SteveUK1978 Wrote:

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> We have recently moved to ED and as is becoming

> tradition amongst my friends, we are arranging a

> pub crawl of our new local area to celebrate.

> Been enjoying doing my research over the last few

> weeks and I have put together the following

> proposed route (see Google Maps link):

>

> http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&msa=0&msid=2

> 12829290048979094436.00049c2b67f02105551f1

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> Would welcome any comments or suggestions on the

> route or venues that may have been overlooked.

>

> The route includes a few of the Lordship Lane bars

> rather than true pubs to keep the numbers up!

>

> Steve


Date?

nashoi

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Back in the early nineties I lived in one of the high rises at the back of Kennington park and Liam Og's was one of my regular drinking venues. It was a fine old boozer back then with quite an eclectic crowd, everyone from the local dealers off the estates to local comedians. I remember seeing Jo Brand at the bar on more than one occasion and Eddie Izzard and Mark Lamarr were part of the same crowd. I'm sure while Izzard is hanging out with Brad and George on Lake Como he's secretly hankering after being back on the Walworth Rd drinking a proper pint.
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SteveUK1978

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Yesterday 8 intrepid drinkers completed the East Dulwich pub crawl (see my original post) - a fine time was had by all. Each crawler gave the venues a score out of 10 so I thought I would share the results with the forum. Some surprising results, not least The Vale coming in at second place. I suspect the Vale's scores were inflated by the fact it was the last venue of the night and the live band caused some excitement.


The Clock House average score 8.6 out of 10

The Vale 8.3

The Bishop 7.8

The Plough 7.7

EDT 7.6

The Actress 7.4

The Magnolia 7.0

Adventure Bar and Lounge 6.6

CPT 6.1

Black Cherry 5.5

The Palmerston 5.5

The Castle 5.0


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SteveUK1978

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Vague impression based on your experience in the pub. Vale certainly benefited from people having had a fair bit to drink already! It was a very nice warm evening to sit in the garden out the back. Certainly not my first choice but there you go....the scores are the scores!
Ingrime

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SteveUK1978 Wrote:

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> Yesterday 8 intrepid drinkers completed the East

> Dulwich pub crawl (see my original post) - a fine

> time was had by all. Each crawler gave the venues

> a score out of 10 so I thought I would share the

> results with the forum. Some surprising results,

> not least The Vale coming in at second place. I

> suspect the Vale's scores were inflated by the

> fact it was the last venue of the night and the

> live band caused some excitement.

>

> The Clock House average score 8.6 out of 10

> The Vale 8.3

> The Bishop 7.8

> The Plough 7.7

> EDT 7.6

> The Actress 7.4

> The Magnolia 7.0

> Adventure Bar and Lounge 6.6

> CPT 6.1

> Black Cherry 5.5

> The Palmerston 5.5

> The Castle 5.0

>

> Steve



I have also been on a few 'crawls' recently and agree with most of your ratings - The Castle is an absolute joke of a pub, no atmosphere and I could have heard a pin drop when I walked in... The Mag is also very similar - there were more staff than customers when I went in! I am a big fan of The Actress, always top staff and beers on offer as well as The Bishop (I think they are both owned by the same person/group?)... get yourself a free Jager 'Bomb' if you go to both in one night as well which is a treat. Black Cherry has good drinks but I think an invalid could have served me quicker, 10mins to get a glass of wine and a cocktail!

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> A free j?ger bomb isn't so much a treat as an

> effort to eliminate certain customers

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> You say no to the freebie you get a hug and a free

> meal



Incorrect. The free Jager is offered outside of food service hours in an effort to get people from The Actress to The Bishop as the latter stays open longer.

SteveUK1978

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I will take note of the free Jaeger.... The Bish (personal ED favourite) is just a short stumble to home on Crawthew Grove in any event. I think The Bishop would have scored higher but the resident dog was a bit moody and not up for a stroke. I had banked on that to get the scores higher from the girls in the group. Good times though. A few weeks to get back into shape for the Barry Road race on the 23rd :)

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