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sucha shame about the sniff heads in the place now.. well and truely lost what it used to have.
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smelly pub, dont stand by the mens!!!. had a flat pint. not my place of choice unfortunatly.
anonymous - 9 Oct 2007 03:22 |
Been Refurbed and lost the atmosphere, now it has joined the chain pub clone look
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If the ex trax customers would go back it would be better.. its rammed every night now which makes the place hot and takes ages to get served.
still cheapest pub in romford though
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This seems to be a much larger place than the Morland that it used to be (hope I'm not losing my marbles here). Still a bit down at heel, but beer was fine.
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Bit Tatty But @ £1.39 a pint that can be overlooked! 8/10
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Extremely packed, however extremely cheap. Nice beer garden polite bar staff. Would be less packed if punters formely of the firkin returned to the bitter end .
sctyc - 22 Sep 2006 13:22 |
popped in here few thursdays back , and it was packed , wasnt even late was only around 5pm , took ages to get served .
the tempeture in here was akin to a tropical rainforest , too hot for my tastes so drunk up a pityful pint of carlsberg and disapeared
anonymous - 10 Jun 2006 17:43 |
what a great place if you want value for money and a mixed range of clientele, sort of place you could take your parents on a saturday night and spend less than a tenner per round. we sat between a group 50year olds and a group of students and both seemed to have a great night
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this is an ok pub, as has been mentioned the drinks are very cheap, cheaper than even wetherspoons, which takes some doing, and they have a couple of ok ales, and a pretty decent range of lagers.
its a very mixed clientel within the pub, with the older generation of 60+ making a good dent on the percentages, and then the 'goths / grungers' & also the local 'rudeboys' & 'hooligans' also taking up some of the numbers.
i've never encountered any trouble in there.
the only downsides are that it gets very crowded and at times takes absolutely ages to be served because it would appear the bar staff have no memory whatsoever as to who is next to be served, and they just move randomly around the long bar, so being served is a lucky dip, also the toilets are a pretty sorry state, usually overflowing, with a huge dent in the trough, which seems like someone has gone head first into it at some point... lovely....
other than that though its an ok place if you are with friends, or an old man wanting a dark corner to hideaway in.
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Originally the 'rising sun' hotel, then 'the morland arms', this was my first spiritual home and the one place me and my mates spent all our time trying to get into before we hit the legal age. Being the only pub in romford town centre with a geniune beer garden (not a 'patio' which is more common) and so close to the station, it's perfect for either a summer rendezvous, a quiet drink in the evening, or a beer-up before going out properly.
The best thing about the goose is its quality service and afforable alcoholic beverages. They also do favourable deals on Sambuca, Aftershock and the like, making it very easy to get very messy. It's a bit of an old-timer's pub, though, and while a bunch of gents approaching their mid-twenties will quite easily blend into the background, a younger group of lads would be, effectively, stared out of the pub. Which is good. The only criticism that must be levelled is the apparent absence of a suitable air-conditioning system, allowing the venue to become somewhat smokey at the best of times (even when no one's smoking it seems), making it a no-go for asthma suggerers and families. It should be observed that were its location different (i.e. not right outside the station), it's quite possible that I'd never set foot in the place.
duffy - 10 Feb 2006 11:08 |
a lot better since it became the goose was my work local when it was the morland arms and that was crap , like it in here still have a pint in here whenever in romford , nice and friendly normally end up chatting to someone at the bar so the locals are friendly (for romford) , the staff are superb (whenever ive been in) always seems ok in here , bar next door is the worry but heard thats been closed down or something , this pub on my scale will be noted in dispatches , wasnt quite awarded a george cross cause last time i was in i got puked on by some chav idiot .
all in all a good punt worth a visit and the beer aint bad either
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This is the place to get drunk in before hitting the Romford clubs, and trust me, you'll need to be drunk to enjoy the local hospitality.... cheap drinks but full of scruffy looking children in their strange goth outfits... Still, have met a bloke in here before called Hitler and another fella who told us about his mate that died while trying to swim while drunk in a vat in the old brewery, so can be an eye-opener!
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My regular, spent lots of time here with mates
Nice to relax in.. its a lot nicer than it used to be too.. Nice garden too
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this has got 2 be the worse pub in romford
the staff seem ok. cheap beer.
toilets are always wet and dirty.
the boss is very rud and likes 2 bully people smaller then him.
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Old Style, and Cheap Drinks but still a terrible pub!
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Decent pub, true the smoke is way too think in there but its a pub not an oxygen tent, and i dont smoke.
Great place to chill out in the summer in the garden. which is a nice change to the grotty cobbles allyways that all the other pubs in romford seem to have.
Prices are very very good, bar staff are very competant and friendly.
Its a good place to have a few before going to any of the local clubs.
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This must be one of the worst pubs I have ever been in. As you open the door you are greeted by huge clouds of smoke that’s also desperate to get out. It is populated by the type of people that think Weatherspoons pubs are expensive. Burberry and fake bling abounds on the clientele whom wouldn't know a decent Bacardi Breezer as they were bottled by it, never mind a good pint of beer. The rest of the population is made up of old men, looking as if they had been sleeping rough most of their lives, getting quietly drunk around the walls of the pub on one of the knife scarred stools, hacking up as much phlegm as they can muster.
On one of the two quick visits I have made (mainly as a stopping off point to use the particularly smelly toilets) I was able to witness a bar brawl between two young girls – having of course first moved their requisite pushchairs out of harm’s way. And this was at 4pm on a Saturday.
I was gracious enough to give it one point as the beer is cheap and so I didn’t mind leaving most of it as I beat a hasty retreat.
Jon - 22 Oct 2004 12:09 |
Great Pub.. Relaxing, Old Style, and Cheap Drinks.. What more could you ask for.. Gr8 Pub
Dan - 13 Oct 2004 11:53 |
cheap beer, good service but can be full of p**s heads & odd old geeezer asleep over his pint
kevin - 17 Sep 2004 14:47 |
its great for a get together with some buddies....drinks are lovely and cheap for even me to afford rather than having to pay 4 quid for a vodka!!
gemma davies - 2 Oct 2003 12:05 |
Compared with the rest of Romford, I rate the Goose up there at the top. The drinks are cheap, the door staff are inoffensive, the bar staff are competent and they actually have a proper beer garden as opposed to a patio. Plenty of seating inside and out to cater for even the largest parties of friends.
Andrew - 11 Aug 2003 15:32 |
An excellently wonderful pub. The atmospher is like a wetherspoons pub, but with there being no underage people in the pub, it's far more enjoyable to drink there, and at £1.35 for a Carlsberg, you can't go wrong!
Thomas (2pintz) Canning - 24 Jun 2003 01:42 |
