What is hacking you off today?

[Massimo Giovanni]

That's a pub?!!

Jesus, I'll never slag off The Foresters again.

May it RIP, along with The Ship, The Minerva, The Woodgrange, The Brittania, how many ex pubs closed within 500 yards!

 

[GBJ]

May it RIP, along with The Ship, The Minerva, The Woodgrange, The Brittania, how many ex pubs closed within 500 yards!

We’ve had quite a few close in our area over the past decade or so.

 

[Special Blue]

Social Club/Hovel to give it its true definition.

The type of place where people would get offended if you had the audacity to get glassed and bleed on the sawdust.

That being said, I don’t know what the place is like these days.

Can't be that bad it's got a pitched roof!
It's the places with flat roofs you have to be wary

 

[GBJ]

Can't be that bad it's got a pitched roof!
It's the places with flat roofs you have to be wary

We’ve got (had) one of those in Chadwell St Mary, called Daniel’s (now called Chadwell Arms, and is supposedly much better these days)

Could have doubled as The Jockey Pub from Shameless.

 

[Ricky Otto]

We’ve got (had) one of those in Chadwell St Mary, called Daniel’s (now called Chadwell Arms, and is supposedly much better these days)

Could have doubled as The Jockey Pub from Shameless.

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Yeah there is one in Chelmsford called the red beret which will be my local when we complete on the new house. Used to have a very bad reputation but the area has improved over the 10-20 years, still the only place within walking distance of Chelmsford station we could afford though so obviously still not the best area.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Yeah there is one in Chelmsford called the red beret which will be my local when we complete on the new house. Used to have a very bad reputation but the area has improved over the 10-20 years, still the only place within walking distance of Chelmsford station we could afford though so obviously still not the best area.

The roughest pub I ever went into was The Chequered Flag in Hulme.

It made the Red Beret look like a poncey craft beer gastropub.

 

[Benfleet A1]

The roughest pub I ever went into was The Chequered Flag in Hulme.

It made the Red Beret look like a poncey craft beer gastropub.

The Dolphin in Exeter can trump that. The landlord left there in the middle of the night while the punters were still inside drinking.

 

[GBJ]

All this talk of pubs is making me thirsty

 

[Napster]

The Dolphin in Exeter can trump that. The landlord left there in the middle of the night while the punters were still inside drinking.

Portsmouth pubs are well dodgy. Meat raffles, topless tattooed barmaids, blood on the walls...

 

[blues exile]

I was manager of NatWest Tilbury in the 80s and the pub next door had plastics glasses and the tables and chairs were nailed to the floor, to minimise any possible violent behaviour.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Just left Barcelona and never saw @Tangled up in Blue . I bet he really lives on a council house on Canvey.

 

[Benfleet A1]

Portsmouth pubs are well dodgy. Meat raffles, topless tattooed barmaids, blood on the walls...

Navy town, matlows play hard.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just left Barcelona and never saw @Tangled up in Blue . I bet he really lives on a council house on Canvey.

Ha.Just got back in SC from Helsinki.You should have pm'ed me you'd be around.

 

[RHB]

Just left Barcelona and never saw @Tangled up in Blue . I bet he really lives on a council house on Canvey.

Shame you missed him though.

 

[Ricey]

Yeah there is one in Chelmsford called the red beret which will be my local when we complete on the new house. Used to have a very bad reputation but the area has improved over the 10-20 years, still the only place within walking distance of Chelmsford station we could afford though so obviously still not the best area.

Melbourne? That used to be a right **** hole back in the day. They moved a lot of the scummy lot out of there and dotted them all over the place. A lot ended up in the nice (new at the time) Beaulieu park.

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

I was manager of NatWest Tilbury in the 80s and the pub next door the tables and chairs were nailed to the floor, to minimise any possible violent behaviour.

As they were in The Criterion on Southend seafront around 1970.

 

[Ricky Otto]

Melbourne? That used to be a right **** hole back in the day. They moved a lot of the scummy lot out of there and dotted them all over the place. A lot ended up in the nice (new at the time) Beaulieu park.

Even 315k there for a 3 bed end of terrace. Think the fact that it's so close to the station has seen a lot of more desirable residents move in. Meadgate appears to be the **** hole of Chelmsford now, everyone is trying to sell their property there at the moment. Big drug problems apparently

 

[Ricey]

Even 315k there for a 3 bed end of terrace. Think the fact that it's so close to the station has seen a lot of more desirable residents move in. Meadgate appears to be the **** hole of Chelmsford now, everyone is trying to sell their property there at the moment. Big drug problems apparently

Places go through phases. I have bought on the fairview estate in Braintree. My wife has lived in Braintree all of her life and when she was growing up fairview was an estate to avoid. Now it’s highly sort after and we managed to get our house for a really good price.

My aunt lived just outside Melbourne and it was really nice friendly family area. But years before she moved there it was horrible.

 

[Ricky Otto]

Places go through phases. I have bought on the fairview estate in Braintree. My wife has lived in Braintree all of her life and when she was growing up fairview was an estate to avoid. Now it’s highly sort after and we managed to get our house for a really good price.

My aunt lived just outside Melbourne and it was really nice friendly family area. But years before she moved there it was horrible.

It's not my no 1 choice of neighbourhood, but at the end of the day I can't afford to buy where I'd ideally like to live. I've had a few mates who have moved to Melbourne over the past few years and they say it is fine. My other half lives in Tottenham at the moment so it's gonna be a big improvement for her haha

 

[Mad Cyril]

I live in Royal South Benfleet and Chelmsford is my preferred destination if I want to buy something or go out for a meal.

Live Dosa is my restaurant of choice and the Bond Street area caters for people like myself even if nine times out of ten I am just trying to ponce free samples in Hotel Chocolat.