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Warning! Just don't go there. TV screens everywhere. They advertise food outside in great big billboards and there is NO food! Nip up the road to the Montpelier.
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An update due, as no-one else has put in their tuppence worth. Much better nowadays at the WW; keen young chap at the helm, hopfully for a while and lots of beer on tap, plus couple of ales too, Pride & Trojan.
Some music nights on the go to keep us locals entertained. Im rating it upwards.
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Bombardier now on at the WW - things looking up...
http://www.bombardier.co.uk/bombardier/about-the-beer
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The 'Well' has had some bad management of late - not enough pub experience or even interest from the new owners. Despite this it remains a lively and liked real pub, with types from all walks of life as regulars and in and outers; young and old, horserace watchers and football shouters, students to business men, muscians and moaners. There are beer and wine drinkers, builders and artists (often argueing), tradesmen alongside gents and ladies, loners and bon vivants. Come along if you're around Peckhams Bellenden road area. Almost every other pub has been altered away from 'a boozer' round here, mostly good, but not 'a boozer'. Anyone keen on taking on this place could; the owners have the 2 bars up for let to interested parties. They would keep the B&B rooms on above.
If you do - just run it well. Dont change too much.
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The landlord used to be a man called Pat. He went back to Ireland. There are two Paul tables in the back and a little bed and breakfast upstairs. Some boys come in here from round the corner to watch the football matches.
hertz - 28 Jan 2008 19:30 |
Stayed for 3 days in their B&B with my girlfriend and had a lovely time. Enjoyed the pub which had a relaxed atmosphere and even though the pool room was busy we had a few games of pool without anyone bothering us at all and if anything people were quite friendly. We would certainly stay there again.
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What's happened? Gone into meltdown last two months. Good luck getting an ale, and good luck without protective armour. Was nice before.
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This is one of the nicest pubs in the area
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Oh my Gawd. This pub is dreadful. The staff actually wear uniforms!!! Customers are inundated and assaulted by tv screens everywhere. It could be such a good venue, for example the back room could host a comedy club or live music. Get someone with some intelligence, education, imagination to run the place and it could be a grand venue.
anonymous - 29 Apr 2007 15:12 |
Bloody awful noisy place. TV screens everywhere. Customers that look like they died last year. AVOID AT ALL COSTS. A drink in here would drive you nuts and terrify you with the screens that dominate the place. Horrible,they even have all the screens on when noone is watching.
anonymous - 25 Nov 2006 16:21 |
Brilliant pub, but some mopey bar-staff. Guess they must be "human" or something. Hur hur!
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Nice pub, probably the best traditional pub in Peckham, well kept original bar with ornamental clock and mirrors. Separate pool room, which is not very relaxing. But other room is relaxing, good overall.
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Top pub. I especially like the games room where I am regularly whipped on a Saturday afternoon by north london's finest. 10/10 for pub. 0/10 for my pool/darts.
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Used to have a snooker table in back! Those were the days, that and happy hour so you could drink your afternoons away playing snooker in a happy, smokey haze!
The Wishing Well is still a top pub which I often pop into. Great for Footy Matches - friendly too!
Should not have got rid of the Wishing Well outside though!
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An unusual place ! - served as the boozer in the film version of Last Orders (with Michael Caine's and Helen Mirren's Butcher shop - now Lucius & Richards, a deli - gentrification in action), filmed in Bellenden Road, but only the exterior was used. Decorated inside in a deep Victoriana/tarts boudoir style with old masters on the walls and curiously dressed bar staff. Very good, and increasingly rare original c1880 bar fittings, although they ruined the exterior of the pub by replacing the sash windows with plastic a few years ago - the fools.....
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Lovely pub. Nice Victorian intererior, pool tables around the back, which is good if you want a game but because they are in a seperate room they are are not intrusive. Not much ale to be had but it is looked after well and it is always nice and cold. Good friendly pub. The tv screens are not blaringly loud as has been described, though it is usually on. There are several large wooden tables outside to chill on on a sunny day.
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This pub is awful. There are TV screens blaring out from every possible corner. There used to be a Wishing Well outside which they took away. They then spent a fortune on revamping the place and it all looks hideous. There are horrendous pictures of horses and all sorts of stuff on the walls. It just goes to show that money can't buy style or good taste. Dreadful place.
anonymous - 22 Aug 2005 17:47 |
Good traditional London boozer. Once upon a time it was all we really had around these parts for a decent pint...but thank god all that has changed! Still thouugh, i do have a major soft spot for the place, and their wicked happy hour all day up until 6pm rocks!
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