London Boozer near St Pauls advice

Yu remind me of a young Diana.

There's a bookie in the crypt at St Pauls from memory

The Rising Son in Carter Lane show all football games, Billy Hills a short walk away. They do decent grub as well.

http://www.allinlondon.co.uk/clubs_bars/venue-488.php

Do pubs around the city still close at weekends. They used to when I lived in London but that was decades ago.

Yup.

Do you live in Ealing Leopard

The Rising Son in Carter Lane it is. Cheers SB. Plan for tomorrow is:

Borough Market for breakfast
1. 7 Stars pub, WC2
2. Cheshire Cheese, Fleet St, EC4
3. Black Friar, Queen Vic St, EC4
Somerset House Gallery
4. Viaduct, Newgate St, EC1
5. Rising Son, Carter Lane, EC4

Aiming to get to The Rising Son for the 3pm kick offs. Not sure how much we'll remember by then...

Good guess Dobbo, yes.

Why do you ask?

I vaguely remember you mentioning it.I lived there until 1998ish.Haven't been back but from what I here its changed quite a bit.

Yes, I arrived in 1991, do you remember the road you lived in?

Marychain....you're getting some great feedback from Slippy !

Darwin Road, South Ealing. I ran an Antiques Market in the Broadway Centre every Friday.It was a nice place to live. Like a lot of people I cannot believe the value of the house I lived in. 120k then 650k now.

Ealing Park Tavern.....200m north of Darwin road just been refurbished (used to be called Flying something) and they renovated the estate opposite pub, looks a lot better.

I've been there since 1991 so probably saw you somewhere.

It was called The Flies Home because the bit they built the estate on used to be a sewage works.

Found this :

Rumours abound about the fate of the Ealing Park Tavern (EPT) (formerly known as the Penny Flyer(what I remember it as), or the Fly's Rest, or the Fly's Home, or the Fly's Own...). Having apparently been taken into administration by the brewery that supplied it it is apparently set to close soon for a refurbishment that will see the removal of the pub leaving a restaurant and an establishment that rents out rooms above it - a kind of hotel?
Yesterday they were charging £4.40 for a pint of Heineken, and £5.50 for a pint of strong lager so the closure of the pub isn't unexpected.

It was always The Ealing Park Tavern but everyone called it the Flies home

It used to be my old haunt marychain1 when I worked in the city, it's a very deceent pub you'll have a good craic in there and should be very busy.

(My feedback comment was related to Jesus and Marychain combo who were famous for their use of feedback) in case your're wondering Slippy.

mary
There is the Holborn Viaduct pub which is directly facing diagonally to the right to Cor@l's bookies and closes by 10 saturday and 6pm on sunday, there's ye old london on ludgate hill which closes 11pm saturday an sunday and has willi@m hill's facing diagonally left. Holborn Viaduct is the quieter of the two.

Borough Market for breakfast

I am so jealous

I lived in Ealing (Chapel Road) 1987 to 1995

Bought a studio flat for £52k, within a year it was worth £25k

I was there just before last Xmas, in estate agent window I saw a studio in the same house on the market for £295k.

We had a thursday drinking club which visited a different pub every week. Ove the years we visited every single pub in W5 amd W13. We used to fill in a form rating the pub and leave it behind on the bar when we left .

I remember the Ealing Park Tavern was one of the worst pubs in the area.

My faves were the Wheatsheaf, and the Haven just off Ealing Broadway and a pub just opposite Ealing Film studios ( forget the name) where the Thursday drinking club once had a few beers with Mel Gibson

The area around Ealing Park Tavern was not so good  but a lot better now.

Don't go there myself.

Red Lion is opposite Ealing Film studios ...good beer

http://redlionealing.co.uk

Featured in the Good Beer Guide, The Red Lion was also awarded the local Campaign for Real Ale's pub of the year prize five years running.

yes the Red Lion - lovely pub

Thanks for all the help guys, the Rising Sun. Top quality. After that we had a beer on the way back to the hotel, somewhere near Borough tube station. On the way back out again shortly.

Didn't do to well on the footy or the hosses today but I've got the first 3 right scores right on the £10million Colossus so fingers Xd for 2-1 West Ham and 1-1 or 1-3 City v Arsenal tomo

im getting train into Paddington Tuesday and Wednesday then district line to west Brompton then overground to olyimpia for trade show..anyone know anywhere round there I can get good breakfast or lunch

Hand & Flower | Olympia London



www.olympia.co.uk/visiting/food-drink/hand-flower




Ideally situated opposite Olympia London, Hand & Flower is a beautiful Victorian pub with plenty of fresh food and real ales. If you're looking for traditional pub ...

thanks for that cc..think I went in that one last year as its next to the bridge that train line runs under..had nice pint in there so will probably return