Holborn Pubs: The Oldest Pub in London?
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- Опубліковано 18 сер 2023
- Too lazy to get out into the countryside today, so instead just did a tour of a few old favourite pubs in London: Ye Old Mitre (albeit closed on Saturdays!), The Cittie of Yorke, The Seven Stars and the Blackfriar.
Could the Seven Stars be the oldest pub in London? I forgot in the video to lay out some of the ground rules of what that actually means, in my opinion. I wouldn't consider pubs where there has been a pub on the site for however many hundred years. It has to be substantially still the original building. When you dig into that you'll find almost nothing survives pre Great Fire of London (1666), pretty much everything either burnt down then, or in some subsequent fire (e.g. the Great Fire of Southwark in 1676), or was demolished and rebuilt for some other reason at some point.
Re-upload, original @tweedyoutdoors video here: • Holborn Pub Tour
Thank you for taking us on a fascinating pub crawl. You are a mine of interesting information.
Seven stars .A pubby pub, that also does pub food to soak up the booze is a big tick ✔️
The Blackfriars. Definitely in my top ten. ✔️
Next time I ought to have a pint in hand. Here’s to the next one. 👏👏👍😀
Thank you for bringing back happy memories. I spent many an hour in your four pubs. I believe the 'Cittie of York' has the longest bar in London. The Seven Stars used to have a resident cat, which sat on the bar and refused to move. In the 1980's I had the honour to use the 'pissoir' in Star Lane, probably having first filled-up in the seven stars. The Mitre and The Blackfriars are quite sensational. All four pubs remain proper pubs, where a proper pint, drawn through a hand-pump is still to be had. I suppose gastro pubs have a place, but they are not for me.
Nice to read a comment from someone who does know London.
Thank you John, and I really hope I have done justice to these four very special pubs. I think if I had to pick just one area of London for a pub crawl it would be this one: in particular the Mitre, the Seven Stars and the Cittie of Yorke are pretty much as good as it gets in terms of London pubs, in my opinion.
Just stumbled across your channel and really happy I did so! Especially loved the Soho one, the slightly grubby Blue Posts always has a special place in my heart! Have you not thought about the old pubs along the Thames in Wapping?
The toilets on Star Yard feature in The London Nobody Knows (1967) with James Mason
Classic Film.
I like the outside of the Shakespeare's Head, in Kingsway Holborn, was formally known as Africa House, has great statues on the roof, the pub is a Weatherspoon, very modern inside.
You retained your composure far better than most following a pub crawl. Seven Stars was fascinating.
I also used to pop into Shervingtons ( now closed) for pipe tobacco.
You and Joolz should team up for a spirited stroll together. He picks the area you pick the pubs. ;-)
Fabulous video of unknown (to tourists like me)pubs and areas begging to be explored when you are next in London
I noticed you finished in Kentish Town. I live there. Just stumbled across you videos. Good stuff. See you around maybe and we'll have a pint in The Assembly House or The Bull and Gate. I wiil check out some of the pubs you were in - love it.
Seven Stars is a cracking pub - it's been done up since the last time I was there. I did hear that the bankruptcy court entrance/exit was opposite the pub, so bankrupts were described as being on 'queer street', a derivative of Carey St.
Excellent group. I usually start at Blackfriar, The Cheese, Mitre, Citti, Seven Stars and maybe Ye Olde White Horse. By then I’m glad I don’t have to drive anywhere. :- )
That is a great list - although I think I've only been to the White Horse once or twice. I think it's quite a studenty pub isn't it (being in the grounds of LSE)...?
I think the word you might have been looking for is garb- a pricy bit of garb!
Agreed re 'gastro pubs'; however in this case soused herrings and potato salad does sound pretty good...
Had many debauched evenings in the Cittie of Yorke. There's also a bar in the basement chiseled into the chalk. Similar to the olde Cheshire Cheese.
I searched for Roxy Beaujolais using the google (as the kids say). I haven't read any results yet, but it seems that she is an interesting character.
Very nice video, thanks.
The Olde Mitre was the set for the opening scene of the movie Snatch.
Indeed it was, and I loved that scene!
@@TweedyPubs maybe do a specific tour of great London pubs in movies…🤣
You really didn't do the Seven Stars and Blackfriars justice. Try them at 11 a.m. next time (& sober). And while you are there, The Bank of England pub is worth a spin.
closed on a Saturday?
Most of the denizens only work in the area, going home at the weekends. And it's off the main drag where tourists aimlessly plod. The Cheshire Cheese, just off Fleet Street, is very interesting historically and well trod by US visitors.
Most “City” pubs traditionally closed at 21:00, let alone weekends…
Please please move the camera around slowly and smoothly. You give me a headache jerking it around like this. Apart from the camerawork the video was very enjoyable.
Sorry about that. This video was from 6 months ago (it's a re-upload, it was originally on my other channel), and I hope in the interim I have slowly started to get at least a bit less messy with the camera work. I'm really not a natural filmmaker - it seems to come so easily to other people but I keep having to remind myself the camera isn't recording exactly whatever my eyes are seeing in any given moment!
@@TweedyPubs I don’t think it comes easily to anyone, but I think it does require some skill.
The video itself was full of interesting facts of which I haven’t heard elsewhere.
The urinals in Star Yard are not very well documented - and are one of London’s hidden gems.
Next time you do one of your videos could you possibly wear quieter shoes?
Sorry about that! This video was from about 6 months ago (it's a re-upload) and rest assured the shoes I had at the time have since died and have been consigned to the bin. If you've watched any of my more recent videos hopefully you won't have heard the loud footsteps any more.
You filmed in a Sam Smiths pub! Humphrey will issue your ban shortly
Freemasonry central!
your in a flaming city what do you expect when i comes to traffic in the world greatest city, its like complaining about cows in a field..................ou vay..............