Believe it or not I did have a metal phase in my youth! Although it was a bit after Black Sabbath's heyday - more early 90s for me. Of course we have Ozzy et al to thank for the fact that the genre even exists.
Hi Tweedy. Thank you for yet another fascinating architectural and historical tour of London pubs, in an area which sadly appears devoid of cask ale. A throw back to the 1970’s and the reason why CAMRA was formed. Thank heaven you were at least able to “enjoy” a keg stout. I hope next time you find some restorative cask beers. The pubs you featured were all very interesting, with much to commend them. I wonder where you will pop up next time. 🤔
Just found this channel, you certainly do your homework. As someone who is an admirer of traditional bars I welcome your informative and entertaining narration.
22:09 A phosphate soda is a tangy or tart fountain drink. Phosphates get their tartness from phosphoric acid. Phosphoric acid is added to carbonated water and fruit syrup to make a phosphate. Cherry, lemon and orange were popular flavors. A syrup called “green river” also was common. This was lime flavored. There were also chocolate phosphates. Phosphates were made to order rather than sold in bottles.
Thanks for that background! I remember now that I've seen phosphoric acid in the ingredients list for Coca Cola. It's interesting that nowadays that's something the manufacturers don't seem to want to draw attention to, but in that late Victorian / Edwardian period it was considered a selling point!
I remember adverts for Idris in the newspapers from when I was a child. It showed an ink drawn lemon with a miserable face saying something like 'I like Idris when I'm dry' or something.
Really enjoyed this. Spent a lot of time in Camden over the years, played with my band in the Dublin Castle late 80's early 90's met Phil Daniels in there, bought me a pint, (lovely chap) he was out to watch a band called "Jo Jo Namoza" on the same bill. Great video and thank you for reminding me of those times.
As always Mr Tweedy, an interesting video and the hard work and research that goes into your videos really comes through. Can I ask, have you ever considered doing the pubs of Richmond, Barnes or Brentford?
My father-in law was an area manager for HH. Greene King took over Hardy's & Hansons (based in Kimberley, Nottinghamshire) in 2006 and closed the brewery, only wanting the pubs. I've never been in a Greene King pub since.
I don't really get a warm fuzzy feeling about the long term ambitions of Greene King either to be honest. Their recent expansion does give me a bit of a sense of a land grab rather than a company born out of the love of pubs.
Green king love buying brewery’s and closing them the first time I had GK beer earlier 70s on a jolly to Yarmouth was when we stopped at a half way house and I thought “I don’t like this “ and I’m still not keen
The imminency of Halloween had passed me by until I saw the heavy metal pub. Thank goodness I live in the country and only go out to film videos every now and then. Excellent historical reporting on these pubs as usual and I was really fascinated to see the first pub in the open countryside on that fabulous map. Great story telling segment there too! The Dublin Castle font and colour scheme put me in mind of Ind Coupe. Do they still exist? Growing up in Kent in the 1970s they seemed dominant. At least in my memory they do. Similarly, I liked seeing that "Take Courage" sign still in situ at The Elephant's Head. I was screaming "church fittings" at my device and then you talked about them. I quite liked the look of that inter-war conservatory at The Old Eagle and the cat there was a typical pub moggy - not bothered and cool. Naturally I associate Camden with Madness and it was good to see that it's not swamped with glass and steel. These videos are providing such an important record for future generations. Assuming they stay available, I can well imagine someone recording videos in 100 years time in which they retrace your footsteps. It really is amazing work you're doing.
@@WC21UKProductionsLtd Thank you! I actually pondered making this a "Halloween special", part of the reason for choosing Camden what with the Mother Redcap story... But thankfully I came to my senses and stuck to talking about the pubs! I recorded the "storytime with Tweedy" segment about Mother Redcap twice! Then realised I didn't have much in the way of visuals (the audio was recorded at home on my sofa) and had to resort to some AI "art". I've found if you prompt it to make a watercolour painting then the slightly terrifying distorted faces and extra limbs / fingers are less noticeable. However I thought the image of Lord Rochester dressed as the devil ought to be more dignified so I asked for an oil painting. I do find making those silly animations quite fun. Ind Coope doesn't really exist any more, swallowed up by multiple acquisitions.
@@TweedyPubs I find I can get very carried away with this AI malarkey. And as I have learnt, one needs to be careful with it! Your AI generated images looked great. Do you produce them in Davinci? I've not tried creating a whole new image in CapCut - I must look at that.
@@WC21UKProductionsLtd I use Canva for the images. I do share your concern about getting carried away with it! If I can find some (out of copyright) real art or photography that would always be my preference, but as I'm sure you know it isn't always easy! You'd think there would be more art of prankish 17th century aristocrats dressed in devil costumes sneaking into tumbledown cottages to taunt alleged witches!
Thanks L&J! Yes I think that's a fair conclusion - but if you do ever find yourself trapped in Camden and in need of a decent "pubby" pub then I think the Old Eagle is not without its charms.
Hi John, food for thought maybe but definitely not ale for thought!! A bit of a real ale desert but what stories you unearthed and a touch of modern history too. The maps you showed us were excellent especially the coloured one showing the bomb damage. By coincidence UA-cam fed me a Madness video just before I saw yours, Baggy Trousers! I grew up as a teenager with the Ska revival and the music always brings back memories. Great to see the Madness plaque on the pub. Incidentally, my first adventure into Tweed came at Camden Market, a nice Harris Tweed jacket!! Very enjoyable video. All the best!!
Thanks David! Yes definitely a real ale desert! I suppose some of these Camden pubs think eschewing it is "edgy" but as I see it keg beers are almost always mainstream, boring, mass produced generic stuff. That doesn't seem very edgy to me! Yes I too have had Baggy Trousers stuck in my head since my visit to the Dublin Castle!
Thank you, Tweedy. Fascinating, as always. Your video reinforces my inclination to avoid Camden whenever I can, but your personality and sense of history make all your videos hugely enjoyable. I've been wanting to ask you why you aren't more full-throated in endorsing Samuel Smith pubs. I've yet to go to a Samuel Smith pub that I haven't liked, and, in fact, my wife and I look for them deliberately. I understand that some people don't like how they enforce an old-fashioned and sociable atmosphere, but I certainly agree that a pub is much better without smart phones, music, and--at least excessive--cursing. Most important, they do a great job in restoring and maintaining the historical character of their pubs. I realize they may not have the most interesting beers, but I actually like several of the Sam Smith's stouts a lot and the price is certainly right.
Thank you! I do like Sam Smith's pubs, particularly the ones where it's more of a restoration rather than a recreation. Some of that latter group can feel a tiny bit artificial to me, but the former group are some of my favourite pubs in London. My ideal London pub crawl is around the Holborn area, and would have to include the Cittie of Yorke, plus quite possibly the Princess Louise. Ye Old Cheshire Cheese is also somewhere I hold very dear, despite being firmly on the tourist trail. To me those three are all beautiful, magical pubs, and I unreservedly take my hat off to Sam Smith's for how they've preserved them. I love that they don't have any piped music, and I suppose that's one thing I should emphasise more in the videos, because I often don't use any of the audio when I record footage of the pub interiors, so it's not always obvious what it sounds like inside. They're also usually quite restrained in terms of things like gaudy fake chalkboards which seem to blight the walls of a lot of other pub chains. As you say though I do wish the beer (and particularly real ale) offering was a bit more varied. In London Sam Smith's pubs there will be at best one hand pump (Old Brewery Bitter) and although that is commendably drawn from wooden casks when it is on the hand pumps, in many London Sam Smith's pubs all they have is the keg version. It's a shame because I think Sam Smith's actually make some nice beers - I like their Dark Mild (a rare treat here in London) and their Extra Stout is also good. I recently discovered their (bottled) Chocolate Stout, which I'm sure some beer purists would turn their nose up at, being a "flavoured" beer, but I thought it was delicious... I just wish they'd serve more of them from cask - a pint of "real" mild from a hand pump in a beautiful location like the Cittie of Yorke would be unbeatable! Having written this I now feel like a "Five Best Sam Smith's pubs in London" could be in the making!
@@TweedyPubs I would love a "Five Best Sam Smith's in London"--the Cittie of York and Princess Louise are on our regular rounds. (To make a pub tour in this area even more perfect, I would extend the crawl slightly north to The Duke on Rogers Street, even though it's not a Sam Smith.) Other Sam Smith's we love are the George and Vulture in the City, the Angel in Rotherhithe, and the Champion and the Fitzrovia Tavern. (What do you think of another of our favorite's in Fitzrovia--but not a Sam Smith's--the Newman Arms?) I didn't know Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese was a Sam Smith! I've long been looking for an opportunity to sit in the old bar room immediately to the right of the entrance there but haven't managed to time it right. As for the beers, I've not yet tried the Chocolate Stout but find the bottled Imperial Stout fairly irresistible.
Thanks for the video Tweedy. I recently had the pleasure of visiting Tapping the Admiral (a little further north-west of the Old Eagle). I'm not sure of it's historic provenance but it does have a really good selection of cask ale, and the home cooked food is very reasonably priced for London. If that isn't enough, they also have a pub cat, Nelson, that is usually in the window by the bar as you come in. If you live nearby, I'd recommend you give it a visit.
Hi Tweedy. Enjoyed this vid, as usual. Black Sabbath is my favorite band, but I don't think I'd visit The World's End. The only pub in this one that really appeals to me is The Old Eagle. Love a calm, quirky atmos, and good prices are a must. The feline landlord settles the matter!
Two thumbs up for The Old Eagle which was recommended by a fellow patron at The Hawley Arms. A true gentleman, you were way too kind in your analysis of The World’s End. I was ready to use the nearest exit when the opening bars of Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water” blared out. Excellent video…thanks so much for sharing…CHEERS!!! 🍻
Thanks Ed! Yes I clearly stuck out like a sore thumb at the World's End, but I'm sure it's somebody's cup of tea! I actually like that there are different pubs pandering to different cohorts, and part of that will inevitably mean some pubs taking on a theme which is off-putting to me. I felt right at home as soon as I walked into the Barge Inn at Honeystreet in Wiltshire - a mecca for people into Avebury / Stonehenge etc... Obviously some people would walk in there, roll their eyes, and leave straight away!
Very interesting as usual TP. Great depth of research and enjoyed the John Wilmot anecdote. Apparently Rochester was so uproariously witty when drunk that his friends would pin him to the ground and pour wine down his throat to get him sufficiently pissed. Maybe just a bit of made-up nonsense at about the same level as the stiffened limbs of OMRC. Great suit again, by the way. Thanks as always. Tom (from France)
Blimey John its a real ale desert. I'll give this area a swerve😂..Hardy & Hansons was a brewery from Nottingham sadly closed over 20 years ago..cheers John🍺
Hi tweedy thanks for the brill vid. I love the worlds end and the Dublin castle great hearing about your excellent historical research had no idea was called the mothers cap! Also thanks for covering the elephants head always love listening to the history behind pubs I thought I knew well!! Excellent as always and thanks so much for your superb videos. I am An avid fan as you know!!!
Good evening, Tweedy. I do not often find myself around Camden Town if I can help it !!!! Whenever I am there, I have never found anywhere that is particularly inviting to my tastes 🤔😒 However, the Old Eagle looked like it might be worth a try when I am next in that area. Thanks for the heads up on that one 😁👍. At least somewhere you can get a cask ale as lagers and fizzy citrusy IPAs definitely not my thing at all 🤨 Have a good evening 🙂
Thanks Lee! Yes as I mentioned in the intro Camden isn't far from where I live, and yet I practically never go there for the pubs. I think the Old Eagle is probably the only one of this bunch I would choose to revisit.
Great review Tweedy. Shame about most of the pubs. Last time I went to any pub in Camden was when I went to the Dublin Castle in the 1990s to see The Groundhogs playing. I don't think I have been to Camden Town since and I can see why you hardly ever go there despite living not far away.
I remember drinking in The Mother Redcap around 1984 in the early days of my relationship with my now wife. As we remarked at the time, "oi's you me, the drunk in the corner and his dog". It was dead on i/t's feet and in that year (I think) it closed and was replaced by the complex around The World's End.
Some of those were dire😢 found it interesting that if you go back in time on maps for the Golden Lion there is a lovely Ghost sign on the side and a Charringtons sign also. For some reason they disappear on later dates😢
Agreed - there's only one or two pubs on this list I would consider going back to again! Yes the Golden Lion is in a precarious state, it isn't a listed building, and it's fortunate it has survived both the blitz and whatever this current wave of development in the immediate vicinity is. It is at least on CAMRA's list of historic pub interiors, and although that doesn't carry any legal weight in the way a listing from Historic England would, I think there are precedents where planning committees have referred to what CAMRA have said about a pub when making decisions. However CAMRA's notes are mainly focused on the interior, so there probably isn't much documentation for things like the signs outside. Part of the motivation for making these videos is to document what these pubs look like today, in the hope that might in some way be useful as a reference and help to preserve them.
@@TweedyPubs I appreciate how you delve into the history of them and love the Architecture of pubs in general. You should pop up to Brum, we have some real crackers! I'm working in one at present..
I agree it was the best of the bunch! Who'd have thought the best pub on the list would also be the one owned by megachain Greene King? What a topsy turvy world Camden Town is!
Some nice buildings, but what a shambolic selection of "beer"! I mostly drink in the wetherspoons, when in Camden, they will have a small selection of cask ales, albeit the building is modern!
Yes the beer side of things was a big disappointment. I actually don't mind Guinness, as pasteurised / keg beers go, but to me there's barely any discernible difference between keg Guinness in a pub versus those "draught" Guinness cans you can buy in any supermarket. Whereas proper real ale is something which is really quite difficult to achieve at home, so it feels like a treat (when done properly) in a pub. I probably should have included a visit to the Ice Wharf!
@@TweedyPubs Yes the Ice Wharf is in such a lovely location, I'd recommend it to any tourist! I've always found it to be such a "chilled" ( pardon the pun) place to go, the spoons breakfast is legendary too!
If you are in the Elephant's Head and looking for an Ale, go across the street to The Oxford Arms, you should find what you are looking for there. And (I know this is about pubs) if you are looking for coffee and cake, give the Luminary Bakary in Chalk Farm Rd a chnace. It's cherity and quite nice.
Yes I thought I was lazy with housework but those cobwebs at the World's End were a bit extreme! Thanks for noticing the transition - I hadn't actually planned it when I originally took that bit of video footage, but I noticed during editing it was close enough that it would more or less work so I couldn't resist it!
If it's a beer I love (e.g. Harvey's Sussex Best) I do get quite disappointed about that sort of thing... By that point in the proceedings though I had just given up a bit.
Hey Tweedy, thanks for another great video! I’m a big fan of your channels. I feel like I’m attending a really cool college class about things that actually interest me. Pubs, wine and the outdoors. I have a suggestion for a cool channel I’d like to see you do. I think it would be cool if you would go to different parts of London and give a history of the neighborhoods. I’ve been to places like Chelsea, Earl’s Court and Kensington but I don’t know anything about their history. I think it would be cool to get a fun tutorial from someone like you. Anyway, just a suggestion. Thanks again for making such entertaining and informative videos.
Thank you for those very kind words! It's a good suggestion but there's already a fair amount of competition out there for that kind of London history video - the likes of Joolz Guides, robslondon, and (my personal favourite) John Rogers already have that well covered. I try and work a little bit of local history into these videos now and again but it's always through the lens of the pubs!
Thanks John! I think Primrose Hill might work, particularly if I strayed into Belsize Park a bit as well to include the Washington - CAMRA give it the full three stars for the interior! I originally considered including the Engineer in this video, but thought I would save it just in case I do a Primrose Hill video at some point. Chelsea might be a bit more of a challenge though! Are there any proper pubs left? The last time I had a look around it seemed to be slim pickings, and pretty much everywhere had gone very gastro. Maybe I missed something though...?
I did consider the Ice Wharf for the Spoons video earlier this year, and I probably would have had a better time there on the real ale front than most of these pubs!
@@matthamilton33 I did consider including the Tapping - but to me it feels more like Kentish Town than Camden Town. I suppose you could also say that of the Old Eagle though - both of them roughly on the border.
The Old Eagle and the Golden Lion are nice pubs. Unfortunately The Stags Head, my all-time favourite Camden Town pub shut down many years ago, but did great Guinness and had great live folk!
A difficult area to find a decent boozer by the look of it. I do remember popping into The Black Cap back in the 90's although it was mostly a drag cabaret bar back then. It was however popularized (well the name at least) in the famous pub scene in Withnail and I. This however was filmed at the Tavistock Arms in Westbourne Park which back then was a decent pub now sadly turned into flats. Thanks for the v.ideo must have been a little bit trying.
Yes it was hard work finding a pub which suited my tastes in this part of town... Although horses for courses and all that - I'm sure other people probably love the pubs here. Yes I'd read that about the Withnail and I connection - I note in recent years putting ice in cider has become fashionable, it still seems shocking to me!
It is a classic pub name! There are several in London I have known. Alas my favourite, the one in Marylebone with the borderline obsessive collection of royal memorabilia (and the venue for the Handlebar Moustache Club) closed a few years back.
@@TweedyPubs haha Good song to have stuck in your head. I'm in Toronto and Madness first invaded us on a live tour in early 1980. It's been Nutty ever since.
Whato Tweedy, I notice you didn't visit the "Prince Albert" on Royal College Street. I don't know what it's like on the inside but it does have some lovely Charrington tiles on the exterior. I have often seen from the 46 bus and wondered if it is worth visiting (in other words: any real ale). Cheers from Mark.
I have been there a few years back and in hindsight that might have been a good one to include on the list as (at least back then) it did have a half decent real ale offering. The interior wasn't quite as nice as the exterior promises, if I recall correctly, but I agree the tiling outside is quite attractive.
Kilburn jaunt would be nice: Colin Campbell ; Black Lion; the Crown (at least nice from outside - mentioned in a Dubliner’s song). Cooper’s Arms…. Outside of London surely a York trip is on the cards.
Yes the Black Lion in particular has been on my radar for a while, particularly after visiting the Prince Edward in Holloway, where the copper panels might have been the work of the same artist (most famously also seen at the Black Friar). I have been in the early planning stages of a York trip several times, and then it always gets waylaid by other stuff... I definitely will get there eventually!
Another enjoyable episode. Accidentally and unfortunately I ended up walking through the busiest part of Camden the other day. It was so crowded I had to walk in the street. I like The World's End from the outside but I never felt comfortable inside... Never been my crowd I guess. And I suppose no matter how beautiful or historic a pub is, if it was in Camden I just wouldn't go to it. Everywhere is loud and crowded. If you walk another 15 minutes north, things quiet and calm down and enjoyment can be restored.
It gets complicated, doesn't it. It's not only the ales and lagers, buildings, architecture, furniture, history and surrounding neighborhood. It's the patrons. Caught in the rain I stepped into a pub near Hampstead Heath station and had an enjoyable, relaxing experience and listened to interesting conversations. A few days prior I was at the Hollybush and left screaming with my hands in the air after listing to the worst conversation in recent memory.
@@eduardo7309 The Garden Gate maybe? I've had some pleasant times in there too. ...and yes I completely agree, the wrong customers can completely ruin an otherwise good pub!
I regurly frequented these pubs in the 80's along with the ones you didn't highlight, funny i can remember all of them being real ale pubs especially the Worlds End, tastes change i suppose, the main reason was you could see any number of bands playing live you also had the Electric ballroom and the Devonshire both venues for us old Goths, it all became very touristy in the 90's and quickly lost it's appeal for me basically it turned into the shithole it is today.
Yes these things come and go. I'd say about 15 years ago I felt I had no reason to go to Camden at all, but in the last 5-10 years some places to eat opened up which I quite like, so I do go there now and again for food... Just not for the pubs. Maybe there will be a Camden real ale pub revival at some point?
Great video. Not many good pubs. Last was the best. Love the history and the reports of fighting etc (how does someone get bitten on the thigh? Thin clothes or long teeth? Or no trousers? I have the press report of my great grandfather's wife dying after running to fetch the police because he was having trouble ejecting a drunk in 1890. from his pub in Ellesmere, Shropshire. He then married my much younger great grandmother and went on to father eight children, having been previously childless. Had that drunk not entered his pub, I would not be writing this.
Thanks Liam! Yes finding a decent pub in this neck of the woods is hard work. I'm glad you mentioned the thigh biting! Really bizarre isn't it? I too was trying to figure out how the fracas had escalated to the point of that happening. I also liked how the article stated the assailant was "described as" a married woman, as though there was some doubt, given her conduct. Crikey, that's certainly a very pivotal sequence of events in your great grandparent's generation! Dizzying to think how life can change so suddenly on a single event like that, and still have ramifications well over a century later.
@@TweedyPubs He was an incredible character being dumped by his family aged only six months and left in Ireland while they moved to the USA. Brought up by relatives, he joined the British army aged 17 and went out to fight in Sudan and other places. He then went into the pub trade in 1915 one of his sons was killed in Ypres and so he joined the same regiment and served as a colour sergeant for the remainder of the war. He was aged 67 on enlisting. In the early 1930s a solicitor contacted him to say he had been engaged by the family in the USA to track him down as they wanted to meet him, having heard all about the baby left in Ireland eighty odd years ago. His refusal was short and blunt and who would blame him? He died in 1934 having outlived his second wife by nine years.
It’s ridiculous that the Black Cap has been closed for so many years now with absolutely nothing being done with the building. Happily, it’s said that it will reopen as a pub before the end of this year. Even though there’s no sign of any work being done hopefully the interior is intact abs not much needs to be done. Unfortunately the old fashioned style pub that it was in the 1980s and earlier has been swept away completely.
Have spent lots of time in Camden the past couple of years as have been going to the yearly "Desertfest" music festival. None of the pubs in the area of Camden Station really stand out as pubby pubs bit I do enjoy the Devonshire Arms when in there for the gigs. The Black Heart has a great stout for a cask free, as are all of the pubs there , pint. Wouldn't go to Camden for a beer if it wasn't for Desertfest, or for that matter , a visit. Way too crap.
I have occasionally thought it might be fun to wander into the Dev in a three piece tweed suit! If I recall correctly Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson is a bit of a real ale buff and Robinson's Trooper (which I think they serve in there) was developed with his guidance. It did sound interesting but on further research it apparently uses Cascade hops, so presumably it has that grapefuity twang I alas really can't get on with.
@TweedyPubs yes, I was quite keen when it first came out and had a super couple of pints, but it seemed to go downhill. Though I had one recently and it was quite decent, though grapefruit hopped beer is rather vile. Darker the better as far as I'm concerned.
The Constitution on St Pancras Way was a fantastic genuine local and hidden gem, recently gastroturfed and poncified by Young's Brewery. The degradation continues.
All tourist traps. There is a proper spit and sawdust Irish boozer with great German beers too heading back south close to the Greek Orthodox Church owned by a chap called Noel. A real pub. It’s a free house.
You missed a trick not visiting the Hawley Arms. Not because it's your type of pub; it most certainly isn't. However, they do sell Harveys Sussex Best in there, or at least they did when I was last there!
Blimey - I haven't seen Kimberley for many a year. It used to be a lovely drop, but I suspect Greene King have made it a pale shadow of its former self.
It was the first time I've had it, so alas I can't compare to what it was like originally. I'm not normally much of a fan of Greene King's beers these days, since they seem to have turned into a corporate behemoth... but I did quite enjoy this one. Quite possibly helped by the fact I had been so starved of cask ale up to that point!
@@TweedyPubs I've just checked and the Kimberley brewery closed in 2006 after Hardy & Hanson was sold to Greene King, who had previously promised to keep brewing there 🙄
Camden Town is one of the worst areas for good ales. The Wetherspoons is all there is really. If I’m in the area I’ll head a bit further north and drink at Tapping The Admiral.
@@TweedyPubs No, but certainly more readily available there then here. I must scout out and travel miles to find any. When I do, they're in the brewery "tasting rooms" that are basically extensions of the brewery warehouse. Woe is me! 🤨
Thanks for this diverse choice of pubs, Tweedy! Extra points for The Old Eagle because of the bossy looking cat. The pubs always tell something about the city's history, as you explain so well. Sometimes it is sad, like the Golden Lion, where the lasting devastation of war is still visible. The old building will likely appear a bit lost, whatever the new development around it.
Thanks Kathi! Yes I love pub cats, and that air they give off of owning the place. I saw the Golden Lion as more of a happy story! Despite all the destruction and redevelopment the pub has survived, and at least some of its interior would be recognisable to the people who frequented about 125 years ago. Unlike some of the other pubs in this video this one really didn't feel like a tourist destination to me, it's a bit out of the way from the centre of Camden Town, and I get the sense most of its customers are people who live locally. It's not impossible that some of the regulars today are descendants of those people who were propping up the bar when Victoria was Queen!
I didn't think it was quite that terrible on my brief visit - the staff were pleasant enough! ...but a couple of the regulars looked a bit menacing, if I'm honest, and I agree there wasn't much to get excited about on the beer front. Personally I probably wouldn't go again, but I'm sure it's somebody's cup of tea!
An original interior, well preserved, should be all the decor a pub needs! I had been asked a short while ago if I was planning a Halloween special, and I briefly considered trying to make this video a bit more Halloween themed but eventually decided that was a bit tacky, and probably wouldn't really gel with the regular viewers, so I should just stick to talking about pubs! I feel as though this trend for pub Halloween decorations is a relatively recent phenomenon - I can't remember it happening much, say, 20 years ago - but perhaps I just wasn't paying attention.
Being greeted by a pub cat would certainly make my day too. More cats in pubs! And dogs! No children! 😂
I always like how angrily Tweedy says HALLO
Tweedy's "Hullo" is most welcome. I feel slightly ripped off on the, very rare, occasions when it does not happen.
@@AnyoneForToast I actually say hello at the start of filming every video, but sometimes I callously cut it during editing.
@@TweedyPubs And that makes it all the more special...
Churchill the cat at the Old Eagle 14:23
You’re so fortunate to find a pub that’s got Sabbath!!! Man….I wish!!
Believe it or not I did have a metal phase in my youth! Although it was a bit after Black Sabbath's heyday - more early 90s for me. Of course we have Ozzy et al to thank for the fact that the genre even exists.
@@TweedyPubs 🤘
Hi Tweedy. Thank you for yet another fascinating architectural and historical tour of London pubs, in an area which sadly appears devoid of cask ale. A throw back to the 1970’s and the reason why CAMRA was formed. Thank heaven you were at least able to “enjoy” a keg stout. I hope next time you find some restorative cask beers.
The pubs you featured were all very interesting, with much to commend them. I wonder where you will pop up next time. 🤔
Just found this channel, you certainly do your homework. As someone who is an admirer of traditional bars I welcome your informative and entertaining narration.
Thanks Keith for that very kind feedback!
22:09 A phosphate soda is a tangy or tart fountain drink. Phosphates get their tartness from phosphoric acid. Phosphoric acid is added to carbonated water and fruit syrup to make a phosphate. Cherry, lemon and orange were popular flavors. A syrup called “green river” also was common. This was lime flavored. There were also chocolate phosphates. Phosphates were made to order rather than sold in bottles.
Thanks for that background! I remember now that I've seen phosphoric acid in the ingredients list for Coca Cola. It's interesting that nowadays that's something the manufacturers don't seem to want to draw attention to, but in that late Victorian / Edwardian period it was considered a selling point!
I remember adverts for Idris in the newspapers from when I was a child. It showed an ink drawn lemon with a miserable face saying something like 'I like Idris when I'm dry' or something.
@@TweedyPubs "phosphoric acid in the ingredients list for Coca Cola" That's why some people try to use Coke as a rust remover.
keep them coming tweedy great stuff
Thank you!
Really enjoyed this. Spent a lot of time in Camden over the years, played with my band in the Dublin Castle late 80's early 90's met Phil Daniels in there, bought me a pint, (lovely chap) he was out to watch a band called "Jo Jo Namoza" on the same bill. Great video and thank you for reminding me of those times.
As always Mr Tweedy, an interesting video and the hard work and research that goes into your videos really comes through.
Can I ask, have you ever considered doing the pubs of Richmond, Barnes or Brentford?
Thank you Tweedy. Always enjoy the history.
Thank you!
My father-in law was an area manager for HH. Greene King took over Hardy's & Hansons (based in Kimberley, Nottinghamshire) in 2006 and closed the brewery, only wanting the pubs. I've never been in a Greene King pub since.
I don't really get a warm fuzzy feeling about the long term ambitions of Greene King either to be honest. Their recent expansion does give me a bit of a sense of a land grab rather than a company born out of the love of pubs.
Green king love buying brewery’s and closing them the first time I had GK beer earlier 70s on a jolly to Yarmouth was when we stopped at a half way house and I thought “I don’t like this “ and I’m still not keen
Hallo ! good job as usual
The imminency of Halloween had passed me by until I saw the heavy metal pub. Thank goodness I live in the country and only go out to film videos every now and then.
Excellent historical reporting on these pubs as usual and I was really fascinated to see the first pub in the open countryside on that fabulous map. Great story telling segment there too!
The Dublin Castle font and colour scheme put me in mind of Ind Coupe. Do they still exist? Growing up in Kent in the 1970s they seemed dominant. At least in my memory they do. Similarly, I liked seeing that "Take Courage" sign still in situ at The Elephant's Head. I was screaming "church fittings" at my device and then you talked about them.
I quite liked the look of that inter-war conservatory at The Old Eagle and the cat there was a typical pub moggy - not bothered and cool.
Naturally I associate Camden with Madness and it was good to see that it's not swamped with glass and steel.
These videos are providing such an important record for future generations. Assuming they stay available, I can well imagine someone recording videos in 100 years time in which they retrace your footsteps. It really is amazing work you're doing.
@@WC21UKProductionsLtd Thank you! I actually pondered making this a "Halloween special", part of the reason for choosing Camden what with the Mother Redcap story... But thankfully I came to my senses and stuck to talking about the pubs!
I recorded the "storytime with Tweedy" segment about Mother Redcap twice! Then realised I didn't have much in the way of visuals (the audio was recorded at home on my sofa) and had to resort to some AI "art". I've found if you prompt it to make a watercolour painting then the slightly terrifying distorted faces and extra limbs / fingers are less noticeable. However I thought the image of Lord Rochester dressed as the devil ought to be more dignified so I asked for an oil painting. I do find making those silly animations quite fun.
Ind Coope doesn't really exist any more, swallowed up by multiple acquisitions.
@@TweedyPubs I find I can get very carried away with this AI malarkey. And as I have learnt, one needs to be careful with it!
Your AI generated images looked great. Do you produce them in Davinci? I've not tried creating a whole new image in CapCut - I must look at that.
@@WC21UKProductionsLtd I use Canva for the images. I do share your concern about getting carried away with it! If I can find some (out of copyright) real art or photography that would always be my preference, but as I'm sure you know it isn't always easy! You'd think there would be more art of prankish 17th century aristocrats dressed in devil costumes sneaking into tumbledown cottages to taunt alleged witches!
Well done! Removed temptation to visit Camden, for pubs at least. Sure there are other attractions.
Thanks L&J! Yes I think that's a fair conclusion - but if you do ever find yourself trapped in Camden and in need of a decent "pubby" pub then I think the Old Eagle is not without its charms.
Hi John, food for thought maybe but definitely not ale for thought!! A bit of a real ale desert but what stories you unearthed and a touch of modern history too.
The maps you showed us were excellent especially the coloured one showing the bomb damage.
By coincidence UA-cam fed me a Madness video just before I saw yours, Baggy Trousers! I grew up as a teenager with the Ska revival and the music always brings back memories. Great to see the Madness plaque on the pub.
Incidentally, my first adventure into Tweed came at Camden Market, a nice Harris Tweed jacket!!
Very enjoyable video. All the best!!
Thanks David! Yes definitely a real ale desert! I suppose some of these Camden pubs think eschewing it is "edgy" but as I see it keg beers are almost always mainstream, boring, mass produced generic stuff. That doesn't seem very edgy to me!
Yes I too have had Baggy Trousers stuck in my head since my visit to the Dublin Castle!
As usual a splendid review 👍
Thank you!
Thank you, Tweedy. Fascinating, as always. Your video reinforces my inclination to avoid Camden whenever I can, but your personality and sense of history make all your videos hugely enjoyable. I've been wanting to ask you why you aren't more full-throated in endorsing Samuel Smith pubs. I've yet to go to a Samuel Smith pub that I haven't liked, and, in fact, my wife and I look for them deliberately. I understand that some people don't like how they enforce an old-fashioned and sociable atmosphere, but I certainly agree that a pub is much better without smart phones, music, and--at least excessive--cursing. Most important, they do a great job in restoring and maintaining the historical character of their pubs. I realize they may not have the most interesting beers, but I actually like several of the Sam Smith's stouts a lot and the price is certainly right.
Thank you!
I do like Sam Smith's pubs, particularly the ones where it's more of a restoration rather than a recreation. Some of that latter group can feel a tiny bit artificial to me, but the former group are some of my favourite pubs in London.
My ideal London pub crawl is around the Holborn area, and would have to include the Cittie of Yorke, plus quite possibly the Princess Louise. Ye Old Cheshire Cheese is also somewhere I hold very dear, despite being firmly on the tourist trail. To me those three are all beautiful, magical pubs, and I unreservedly take my hat off to Sam Smith's for how they've preserved them.
I love that they don't have any piped music, and I suppose that's one thing I should emphasise more in the videos, because I often don't use any of the audio when I record footage of the pub interiors, so it's not always obvious what it sounds like inside. They're also usually quite restrained in terms of things like gaudy fake chalkboards which seem to blight the walls of a lot of other pub chains.
As you say though I do wish the beer (and particularly real ale) offering was a bit more varied. In London Sam Smith's pubs there will be at best one hand pump (Old Brewery Bitter) and although that is commendably drawn from wooden casks when it is on the hand pumps, in many London Sam Smith's pubs all they have is the keg version. It's a shame because I think Sam Smith's actually make some nice beers - I like their Dark Mild (a rare treat here in London) and their Extra Stout is also good. I recently discovered their (bottled) Chocolate Stout, which I'm sure some beer purists would turn their nose up at, being a "flavoured" beer, but I thought it was delicious... I just wish they'd serve more of them from cask - a pint of "real" mild from a hand pump in a beautiful location like the Cittie of Yorke would be unbeatable!
Having written this I now feel like a "Five Best Sam Smith's pubs in London" could be in the making!
@@TweedyPubs I would love a "Five Best Sam Smith's in London"--the Cittie of York and Princess Louise are on our regular rounds. (To make a pub tour in this area even more perfect, I would extend the crawl slightly north to The Duke on Rogers Street, even though it's not a Sam Smith.) Other Sam Smith's we love are the George and Vulture in the City, the Angel in Rotherhithe, and the Champion and the Fitzrovia Tavern. (What do you think of another of our favorite's in Fitzrovia--but not a Sam Smith's--the Newman Arms?) I didn't know Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese was a Sam Smith! I've long been looking for an opportunity to sit in the old bar room immediately to the right of the entrance there but haven't managed to time it right. As for the beers, I've not yet tried the Chocolate Stout but find the bottled Imperial Stout fairly irresistible.
Thanks for the video Tweedy. I recently had the pleasure of visiting Tapping the Admiral (a little further north-west of the Old Eagle). I'm not sure of it's historic provenance but it does have a really good selection of cask ale, and the home cooked food is very reasonably priced for London. If that isn't enough, they also have a pub cat, Nelson, that is usually in the window by the bar as you come in. If you live nearby, I'd recommend you give it a visit.
Hi Tweedy. Enjoyed this vid, as usual. Black Sabbath is my favorite band, but I don't think I'd visit The World's End. The only pub in this one that really appeals to me is The Old Eagle. Love a calm, quirky atmos, and good prices are a must. The feline landlord settles the matter!
As I remember it, The Victoria on Mornington Terrace was an oasis of genteel calm.
Thanks so much for sharing these Tweedy 👍 always enjoy the history you share cheers Mate, Mike in NZ
Just wondered Tweedy, have you ever looked at pubs in Kingston upon Thames? Cheers!
@@hardyardsbrewers1225 Thanks Mike! I haven't covered Kingston yet, but yes that could be interesting!
Another great video… perhaps a haunted pub video for Halloween?
Brilliant photographic trick!. You cut yourself in half like in the old magicians trick! (in the Eliphants Head)
Yes that was weird wasn't it? I'm really not quite sure how that happened...
Two thumbs up for The Old Eagle which was recommended by a fellow patron at The Hawley Arms. A true gentleman, you were way too kind in your analysis of The World’s End. I was ready to use the nearest exit when the opening bars of Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water” blared out. Excellent video…thanks so much for sharing…CHEERS!!! 🍻
Thanks Ed! Yes I clearly stuck out like a sore thumb at the World's End, but I'm sure it's somebody's cup of tea! I actually like that there are different pubs pandering to different cohorts, and part of that will inevitably mean some pubs taking on a theme which is off-putting to me. I felt right at home as soon as I walked into the Barge Inn at Honeystreet in Wiltshire - a mecca for people into Avebury / Stonehenge etc... Obviously some people would walk in there, roll their eyes, and leave straight away!
Very interesting as usual TP. Great depth of research and enjoyed the John Wilmot anecdote. Apparently Rochester was so uproariously witty when drunk that his friends would pin him to the ground and pour wine down his throat to get him sufficiently pissed. Maybe just a bit of made-up nonsense at about the same level as the stiffened limbs of OMRC. Great suit again, by the way. Thanks as always. Tom (from France)
Blimey John its a real ale desert. I'll give this area a swerve😂..Hardy & Hansons was a brewery from Nottingham sadly closed over 20 years ago..cheers John🍺
Thanks Dave! Yes it was a bit of a desert. I doubt I'd go back to Camden for the pubs (with the possible exception of the Old Eagle).
Hi tweedy thanks for the brill vid. I love the worlds end and the Dublin castle great hearing about your excellent historical research had no idea was called the mothers cap! Also thanks for covering the elephants head always love listening to the history behind pubs I thought I knew well!! Excellent as always and thanks so much for your superb videos. I am An avid fan as you know!!!
Thanks Elvis, and happy to hear this was a part of town you're already familiar with!
another enjoyable video as always thank you
Thank you!
Great to see the Old Eagle on the list
Definitely the best of the lot here!
Hey mate just subscribed to your channel much respect and appreciation for your videos Excellent content fantastic channel love from Dublin
Thank you! Much appreciated.
Good evening, Tweedy.
I do not often find myself around Camden Town if I can help it !!!! Whenever I am there, I have never found anywhere that is particularly inviting to my tastes 🤔😒
However, the Old Eagle looked like it might be worth a try when I am next in that area.
Thanks for the heads up on that one 😁👍.
At least somewhere you can get a cask ale as lagers and fizzy citrusy IPAs definitely not my thing at all 🤨
Have a good evening 🙂
Thanks Lee! Yes as I mentioned in the intro Camden isn't far from where I live, and yet I practically never go there for the pubs. I think the Old Eagle is probably the only one of this bunch I would choose to revisit.
Great review Tweedy. Shame about most of the pubs. Last time I went to any pub in Camden was when I went to the Dublin Castle in the 1990s to see The Groundhogs playing.
I don't think I have been to Camden Town since and I can see why you hardly ever go there despite living not far away.
Used the elephants head in the 90s when I worked in oval road had real ale then and not a bad pub
I remember drinking in The Mother Redcap around 1984 in the early days of my relationship with my now wife. As we remarked at the time, "oi's you me, the drunk in the corner and his dog". It was dead on i/t's feet and in that year (I think) it closed and was replaced by the complex around The World's End.
Some of those were dire😢 found it interesting that if you go back in time on maps for the Golden Lion there is a lovely Ghost sign on the side and a Charringtons sign also. For some reason they disappear on later dates😢
Agreed - there's only one or two pubs on this list I would consider going back to again!
Yes the Golden Lion is in a precarious state, it isn't a listed building, and it's fortunate it has survived both the blitz and whatever this current wave of development in the immediate vicinity is. It is at least on CAMRA's list of historic pub interiors, and although that doesn't carry any legal weight in the way a listing from Historic England would, I think there are precedents where planning committees have referred to what CAMRA have said about a pub when making decisions. However CAMRA's notes are mainly focused on the interior, so there probably isn't much documentation for things like the signs outside.
Part of the motivation for making these videos is to document what these pubs look like today, in the hope that might in some way be useful as a reference and help to preserve them.
@@TweedyPubs I appreciate how you delve into the history of them and love the Architecture of pubs in general. You should pop up to Brum, we have some real crackers! I'm working in one at present..
there was a pub called wheatsheaf and bar royal cocktail bar in hampstead road ..near mornington cresent in1994
The Old Eagle - only pub worth visiting in that area, despite it being a Greene King.
I agree it was the best of the bunch! Who'd have thought the best pub on the list would also be the one owned by megachain Greene King? What a topsy turvy world Camden Town is!
Great vid Tweedmiester
Thank you!
Some nice buildings, but what a shambolic selection of "beer"! I mostly drink in the wetherspoons, when in Camden, they will have a small selection of cask ales, albeit the building is modern!
Yes the beer side of things was a big disappointment. I actually don't mind Guinness, as pasteurised / keg beers go, but to me there's barely any discernible difference between keg Guinness in a pub versus those "draught" Guinness cans you can buy in any supermarket. Whereas proper real ale is something which is really quite difficult to achieve at home, so it feels like a treat (when done properly) in a pub.
I probably should have included a visit to the Ice Wharf!
@@TweedyPubs Yes the Ice Wharf is in such a lovely location, I'd recommend it to any tourist! I've always found it to be such a "chilled" ( pardon the pun) place to go, the spoons breakfast is legendary too!
If you are in the Elephant's Head and looking for an Ale, go across the street to The Oxford Arms, you should find what you are looking for there.
And (I know this is about pubs) if you are looking for coffee and cake, give the Luminary Bakary in Chalk Farm Rd a chnace. It's cherity and quite nice.
The World's End could do with a dust. Excellent transition work from 5:20 Must've taken some effort.
Yes I thought I was lazy with housework but those cobwebs at the World's End were a bit extreme!
Thanks for noticing the transition - I hadn't actually planned it when I originally took that bit of video footage, but I noticed during editing it was close enough that it would more or less work so I couldn't resist it!
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Golden Lion. Crime against decency. Guinness in an Estrella glass.
If it's a beer I love (e.g. Harvey's Sussex Best) I do get quite disappointed about that sort of thing... By that point in the proceedings though I had just given up a bit.
Hey Tweedy, thanks for another great video! I’m a big fan of your channels. I feel like I’m attending a really cool college class about things that actually interest me. Pubs, wine and the outdoors.
I have a suggestion for a cool channel I’d like to see you do. I think it would be cool if you would go to different parts of London and give a history of the neighborhoods. I’ve been to places like Chelsea, Earl’s Court and Kensington but I don’t know anything about their history. I think it would be cool to get a fun tutorial from someone like you.
Anyway, just a suggestion. Thanks again for making such entertaining and informative videos.
Thank you for those very kind words!
It's a good suggestion but there's already a fair amount of competition out there for that kind of London history video - the likes of Joolz Guides, robslondon, and (my personal favourite) John Rogers already have that well covered. I try and work a little bit of local history into these videos now and again but it's always through the lens of the pubs!
would you please ever do pubs around primrose hill or chelsea?
love your work
Thanks John! I think Primrose Hill might work, particularly if I strayed into Belsize Park a bit as well to include the Washington - CAMRA give it the full three stars for the interior! I originally considered including the Engineer in this video, but thought I would save it just in case I do a Primrose Hill video at some point.
Chelsea might be a bit more of a challenge though! Are there any proper pubs left? The last time I had a look around it seemed to be slim pickings, and pretty much everywhere had gone very gastro. Maybe I missed something though...?
No Ice Wharf 'Spoons? Outrageous! Great collection of pubs in Camden.
I did consider the Ice Wharf for the Spoons video earlier this year, and I probably would have had a better time there on the real ale front than most of these pubs!
@@TweedyPubs sadly true, Hawley has a couple of hand pumps, but ‘Spoons has several.
@@TweedyPubs Tapping the Admiral has the most pumps in the area. Plus a pub cat!
@@matthamilton33 I did consider including the Tapping - but to me it feels more like Kentish Town than Camden Town. I suppose you could also say that of the Old Eagle though - both of them roughly on the border.
The Old Eagle and the Golden Lion are nice pubs. Unfortunately The Stags Head, my all-time favourite Camden Town pub shut down many years ago, but did great Guinness and had great live folk!
Sorry to hear that - lost pubs are always sad.
A difficult area to find a decent boozer by the look of it. I do remember popping into The Black Cap back in the 90's although it was mostly a drag cabaret bar back then. It was however popularized (well the name at least) in the famous pub scene in Withnail and I.
This however was filmed at the Tavistock Arms in Westbourne Park which back then was a decent pub now sadly turned into flats. Thanks for the v.ideo must have been a little bit trying.
Yes it was hard work finding a pub which suited my tastes in this part of town... Although horses for courses and all that - I'm sure other people probably love the pubs here. Yes I'd read that about the Withnail and I connection - I note in recent years putting ice in cider has become fashionable, it still seems shocking to me!
I worked at the Windsor Castle pub in Auckland New Zealand when I was a student at university ❤
It is a classic pub name! There are several in London I have known. Alas my favourite, the one in Marylebone with the borderline obsessive collection of royal memorabilia (and the venue for the Handlebar Moustache Club) closed a few years back.
@@TweedyPubs Funny but my dad was from Leeds! Have a great day ❤️
The Worlds End hasn’t chance a bit, except for the price of the beer 🍺
Nice transition at 5:26. And, fun, who didn't like some Madness back in the day?
Thanks for noticing the transition - I was really pleased with it! I've definitely had Baggy Trousers stuck in my head since filming this.
@@TweedyPubs haha Good song to have stuck in your head. I'm in Toronto and Madness first invaded us on a live tour in early 1980. It's been Nutty ever since.
Whato Tweedy,
I notice you didn't visit the "Prince Albert" on Royal College Street. I don't know what it's like on the inside but it does have some lovely Charrington tiles on the exterior. I have often seen from the 46 bus and wondered if it is worth visiting (in other words: any real ale). Cheers from Mark.
I have been there a few years back and in hindsight that might have been a good one to include on the list as (at least back then) it did have a half decent real ale offering. The interior wasn't quite as nice as the exterior promises, if I recall correctly, but I agree the tiling outside is quite attractive.
@@TweedyPubs Whato and thank you for your thoughts.
Why no Barbara Castle. Brilliant video as ever Mr. Tweedy.
I wonder if that might have caused confusion with the Barbara Windsor (Castle)?
Kilburn jaunt would be nice: Colin Campbell ; Black Lion; the Crown (at least nice from outside - mentioned in a Dubliner’s song). Cooper’s Arms….
Outside of London surely a York trip is on the cards.
Yes the Black Lion in particular has been on my radar for a while, particularly after visiting the Prince Edward in Holloway, where the copper panels might have been the work of the same artist (most famously also seen at the Black Friar).
I have been in the early planning stages of a York trip several times, and then it always gets waylaid by other stuff... I definitely will get there eventually!
Another enjoyable episode. Accidentally and unfortunately I ended up walking through the busiest part of Camden the other day. It was so crowded I had to walk in the street. I like The World's End from the outside but I never felt comfortable inside... Never been my crowd I guess. And I suppose no matter how beautiful or historic a pub is, if it was in Camden I just wouldn't go to it. Everywhere is loud and crowded. If you walk another 15 minutes north, things quiet and calm down and enjoyment can be restored.
Agreed - I think Kentish Town is a much better area for the sort of pubs I like.
It gets complicated, doesn't it. It's not only the ales and lagers, buildings, architecture, furniture, history and surrounding neighborhood. It's the patrons. Caught in the rain I stepped into a pub near Hampstead Heath station and had an enjoyable, relaxing experience and listened to interesting conversations. A few days prior I was at the Hollybush and left screaming with my hands in the air after listing to the worst conversation in recent memory.
@@eduardo7309 The Garden Gate maybe? I've had some pleasant times in there too.
...and yes I completely agree, the wrong customers can completely ruin an otherwise good pub!
The Magdala. Pints are 3.50 on Mondays@@TweedyPubs
If John wilmot has been there, I'm going! X
I regurly frequented these pubs in the 80's along with the ones you didn't highlight, funny i can remember all of them being real ale pubs especially the Worlds End, tastes change i suppose, the main reason was you could see any number of bands playing live you also had the Electric ballroom and the Devonshire both venues for us old Goths, it all became very touristy in the 90's and quickly lost it's appeal for me basically it turned into the shithole it is today.
Yes these things come and go. I'd say about 15 years ago I felt I had no reason to go to Camden at all, but in the last 5-10 years some places to eat opened up which I quite like, so I do go there now and again for food... Just not for the pubs. Maybe there will be a Camden real ale pub revival at some point?
Great video. Not many good pubs. Last was the best. Love the history and the reports of fighting etc (how does someone get bitten on the thigh? Thin clothes or long teeth? Or no trousers? I have the press report of my great grandfather's wife dying after running to fetch the police because he was having trouble ejecting a drunk in 1890. from his pub in Ellesmere, Shropshire. He then married my much younger great grandmother and went on to father eight children, having been previously childless. Had that drunk not entered his pub, I would not be writing this.
Thanks Liam! Yes finding a decent pub in this neck of the woods is hard work. I'm glad you mentioned the thigh biting! Really bizarre isn't it? I too was trying to figure out how the fracas had escalated to the point of that happening. I also liked how the article stated the assailant was "described as" a married woman, as though there was some doubt, given her conduct.
Crikey, that's certainly a very pivotal sequence of events in your great grandparent's generation! Dizzying to think how life can change so suddenly on a single event like that, and still have ramifications well over a century later.
@@TweedyPubs He was an incredible character being dumped by his family aged only six months and left in Ireland while they moved to the USA. Brought up by relatives, he joined the British army aged 17 and went out to fight in Sudan and other places. He then went into the pub trade in 1915 one of his sons was killed in Ypres and so he joined the same regiment and served as a colour sergeant for the remainder of the war. He was aged 67 on enlisting. In the early 1930s a solicitor contacted him to say he had been engaged by the family in the USA to track him down as they wanted to meet him, having heard all about the baby left in Ireland eighty odd years ago. His refusal was short and blunt and who would blame him? He died in 1934 having outlived his second wife by nine years.
It’s ridiculous that the Black Cap has been closed for so many years now with absolutely nothing being done with the building. Happily, it’s said that it will reopen as a pub before the end of this year. Even though there’s no sign of any work being done hopefully the interior is intact abs not much needs to be done. Unfortunately the old fashioned style pub that it was in the 1980s and earlier has been swept away completely.
Good Evening excellent video but not so much the pubs of Camden 😊have a nice evening thanks 🍺👍😁
Thanks Mick! Yes I think my suspicions about this part of town were more or less confirmed... but I would go back to the Old Eagle again.
@@TweedyPubs yes that looked the best of a bad bunch Haha
Have spent lots of time in Camden the past couple of years as have been going to the yearly "Desertfest" music festival.
None of the pubs in the area of Camden Station really stand out as pubby pubs bit I do enjoy the Devonshire Arms when in there for the gigs.
The Black Heart has a great stout for a cask free, as are all of the pubs there , pint.
Wouldn't go to Camden for a beer if it wasn't for Desertfest, or for that matter , a visit.
Way too crap.
I have occasionally thought it might be fun to wander into the Dev in a three piece tweed suit! If I recall correctly Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson is a bit of a real ale buff and Robinson's Trooper (which I think they serve in there) was developed with his guidance. It did sound interesting but on further research it apparently uses Cascade hops, so presumably it has that grapefuity twang I alas really can't get on with.
@TweedyPubs yes, I was quite keen when it first came out and had a super couple of pints, but it seemed to go downhill.
Though I had one recently and it was quite decent, though grapefruit hopped beer is rather vile.
Darker the better as far as I'm concerned.
Phosphade...an appetising pick-me-up for a 'brain-worker'...methinks Red Bull weren't the first on that band wagon 😂
The Constitution on St Pancras Way was a fantastic genuine local and hidden gem, recently gastroturfed and poncified by Young's Brewery. The degradation continues.
All tourist traps.
There is a proper spit and sawdust Irish boozer with great German beers too heading back south close to the Greek Orthodox Church owned by a chap called Noel.
A real pub.
It’s a free house.
You missed a trick not visiting the Hawley Arms. Not because it's your type of pub; it most certainly isn't. However, they do sell Harveys Sussex Best in there, or at least they did when I was last there!
Thanks for the tip, and I agree - any port in a storm!
Went in the Hawley Arms as a tourist from the north, never met such a miserable condescending bunch of prat’s behind the bar…
@@leecromer3289 Aye, I wasn't keen on the pub itself but any pub that sells Harveys Best deserves a visit!
Old Mother Redcap must have got around a bit as there is a pub (Temporarily closed last I heard - Sam Smiths) bearing that name in Sheffield.
Yes also one in Holloway, only a couple of miles from Camden - alas currently closed.
Not the area for real ales 😢but nevertheless a interesting vlog as usual 🍻
Yes disappointing beer-wise but hopefully some historical interest!
Blimey - I haven't seen Kimberley for many a year. It used to be a lovely drop, but I suspect Greene King have made it a pale shadow of its former self.
It was the first time I've had it, so alas I can't compare to what it was like originally. I'm not normally much of a fan of Greene King's beers these days, since they seem to have turned into a corporate behemoth... but I did quite enjoy this one. Quite possibly helped by the fact I had been so starved of cask ale up to that point!
@@TweedyPubs I've just checked and the Kimberley brewery closed in 2006 after Hardy & Hanson was sold to Greene King, who had previously promised to keep brewing there 🙄
Poor collection of pubs there. Not on my shortlist. Good to know though. Thank you.
Yes I agree - I suffered so you don't have to!
@@TweedyPubs God bless ya, sir! You have highlighted plenty of pubs I will be visiting next time I am back home to England. Cheers.
@@brenallaround1986 That's great to hear - thank you!
Remember seeing 2 girls kissing in the black cap.,1980 ish...shocked!
Camden Town is one of the worst areas for good ales. The Wetherspoons is all there is really. If I’m in the area I’ll head a bit further north and drink at Tapping The Admiral.
Another wonderfully done video Tweedy. Thanks so much for making these lovely vids.
Signed: A jealous American who loves cask conditioned ales!! 🫗
Thank you, I really appreciate those kind words. Although not much in the way of cask ales to be jealous of in this video!
@@TweedyPubs No, but certainly more readily available there then here. I must scout out and travel miles to find any. When I do, they're in the brewery "tasting rooms" that are basically extensions of the brewery warehouse. Woe is me! 🤨
Thanks for this diverse choice of pubs, Tweedy! Extra points for The Old Eagle because of the bossy looking cat. The pubs always tell something about the city's history, as you explain so well. Sometimes it is sad, like the Golden Lion, where the lasting devastation of war is still visible. The old building will likely appear a bit lost, whatever the new development around it.
Thanks Kathi! Yes I love pub cats, and that air they give off of owning the place.
I saw the Golden Lion as more of a happy story! Despite all the destruction and redevelopment the pub has survived, and at least some of its interior would be recognisable to the people who frequented about 125 years ago. Unlike some of the other pubs in this video this one really didn't feel like a tourist destination to me, it's a bit out of the way from the centre of Camden Town, and I get the sense most of its customers are people who live locally. It's not impossible that some of the regulars today are descendants of those people who were propping up the bar when Victoria was Queen!
@@TweedyPubs That continuity among all the change is a nice thought.
The elephants head is the worst pub you could ever choose to visit..The service is terrible and the beer is atrocious..Sorry Tweedy..
I didn't think it was quite that terrible on my brief visit - the staff were pleasant enough! ...but a couple of the regulars looked a bit menacing, if I'm honest, and I agree there wasn't much to get excited about on the beer front. Personally I probably wouldn't go again, but I'm sure it's somebody's cup of tea!
The fake cobwebs are so annoying.
An original interior, well preserved, should be all the decor a pub needs!
I had been asked a short while ago if I was planning a Halloween special, and I briefly considered trying to make this video a bit more Halloween themed but eventually decided that was a bit tacky, and probably wouldn't really gel with the regular viewers, so I should just stick to talking about pubs!
I feel as though this trend for pub Halloween decorations is a relatively recent phenomenon - I can't remember it happening much, say, 20 years ago - but perhaps I just wasn't paying attention.
Not much of a pub crawl, No real ale I walk out
I love your videos but but the filming is off-putting
Not sure I understand what you mean.
@TweedyPubs Sorry Tweedy wasn't meant for your stuff love your filming. Comment was for WW2. Walking the ground 😀
@@manhoot71 Ah OK - thanks!
Half a Guinness in an estrella glass 🤦♂️