The Plough and Horses, Cove - pub details
Address: 90, Fleet Rd, Cove, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 9RG [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 18536) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
Farnborough (1.4 miles), Farnborough North (2 miles), Frimley (2.2 miles)
Pub facilities/features:
- Real ale
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> Current user rating: 4.4/10 (rated by 20 users)
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user reviews of the Plough and Horses, Cove
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| This used to be my local and from time to time i go back only to be reminded as to why i stopped going there. It seems rather odd to me that these hard working business men find customers, (the very life blood of their business) an inconvenience, we the customers obviously ruin the smooth running of the place. On my last visit i stood with a friend at the bar and not a soul was seen for ages the other side. In the end i rang the pub from my mobile and you guessed it, no one answered. To walk further to another pub is a minor inconvenience but at least I get served. It won't be long before this pub becomes a Macarthy Stone granny stacker! jediknight - 31 Dec 2009 11:49 |
| I can only concur with the Mighty Cidermaster. the Plough now can only hold a half-dead Fire-fly compared to beacon of light of 5-10 years ago, and a relative black hole compared to the Halcyon days of 20 years ago. How can a pub that, until Pete (sob) left was great and not full of 'undesirables' have dropped so far. The few times I have been in recently there appears to be some major discrepancy with how when the pub shuts the bar and the time. why would I want to buy 4 pints at 10 and have until 12 to drink them just so they can shut the bar? Try crystallising some ideas of how to make a pub that sells real-ale actually get some people in to drink it instead of peddling poor lager. You hear of so many pubs going to the wall, not sure which one, but some wall, why can't the plough actually attract more people for where it is situated. Admittedly, I live 50 miles away now, in a 'rough' part of London, and the pubs here are much better! Lads.............. JockStrap - 5 Dec 2009 20:25 |
| Hmmmmmmmmmmm, bitter old men? 30 isn't all that old I dont think, is it? Nasty rumours and blatant lies? Everything I have written is the full truth as witnessed by my own eyes, and as for being jealous, I must really stop you there. You're ability to utilise adaptive camoflage is admirable as I've never seen you or anyone else for that matter in the Plough and apparently enjoying the 'lively discos' or 'open shite' nights, other than the staff themselves. Oh, hang on, it all becomes clear. I'm all for increasing revenue, and breathing life back into what was once a lively pub (I'm only going back 5 years, not 25), but this is not the right setting for what the landlord is trying to achieve. When the cash cows of myself and assembled friends visit a pub you can guarentee a good ammount of cash per person over the bar, by shutting early and forcing us elsewhere it's not just our bodies that leave, it's our custom also. Thats not good business sense. There's no denying that the landlord is a hard worker, when he strolls back in the pub after spending much of his drinking time down the Courthouse, only to promptly call lasts as he wants to get upstairs with his McChina Wok-Away and the pretty waitress, you know he's had a tough day. I feel sorry for poor mugs like me that are up at 6, do a full days work and just want the opportunity to drink until midnight in a nice atmosphere, not with a slavering mutt relieving itself up the side of the fruity whilst some toothless crone bangs your ankles with her hoover. So, I dont go to the pub every day, but I do get the opportunity to visit many other pubs now, and I'm in them a damn sight more often than I'd be in the plough in the near future. Oh, and there's an incredible invention called a spellchecker, you 'young folk' are supposed to know how to use them.... Cidermaster - 13 Nov 2009 18:15 |
| I read the last review and felt that something needed to be said to dismiss the nasty rumours and blatant lies that have been expressed here by bitter old men who have nothing better to do than criticise those who they are jealous of. Since the pub gained a new manager a year ago there has ben nothing but improvement. From lively discos to the introduction of open mic nights, the new manager has done nothing but increase revenue and polularity for a once boring pub full of good for nothing busy bodies who have nothing better to do than moan. I may be the only one that thinks someone of 'her majesties forces' should be applauded tather than mocked, but other than that I think someone who goes into a pub once a day maximum has absolutely no right to criticise anything. You may see the plough as somewhere wehere you can have a pint but to people who have a bit of ambition and a bit of common sense it is a business. To run that pub means being up at 8am and going to bed no earlier than midnight EVERY DAY. If someone can not only do that but bring in new custom and bring a sparkle to the place which it has never had before, that should recieve nothing but comliments on a site like this. To be quite frank, if you don't like it, DRINK SOMEWHERE ELSE! Your custom and constant moaning will not be missed. Farewell :-) mrsdpurcell - 4 Nov 2009 23:58 |
| I used to write on B.I.T.E reasonably regularly, adding my two penneth where and when I felt it necessary. But in recent years I have been living away from Farnborough, where there are actually some decent pubs. Sadly a change of circumstance has led me back to 'the farn' and thus my once vibrant, fun, friendly local. I say once because the plough is truly in shocking decline. Gone are the days of the bar being 4 deep on Friday and Saturday nights with people out for a good time and drinking in a good atmosphere. Now the place is most likely empty on either of those nights, or if there are people in they are the chavvy scum mates of one of the bar staff. Last night for example the bar shut early, there was no warning to those patrons who dont live in locals corner and when this was raised with the bar staff it was not greeted with an apology or a smile, just some terse words and a frank rebuttal. I wouldn't have minded but the bar staff in question was, until a couple of weeks ago at least, charged with getting everyone out of the pub early on a Sunday by hoovering at them and closing off the toilets with fully 90 minutes of opening hours still on the clock. The much vaunted regeneration of the Farnborough town centre may just prove the undoing of this once fine pub. The promise of over priced, warm, flat characterless drinking in chain gastropubs is surely more appealing than another night of watching your memories get shot down in flames by a maxi-muscle swilling, beer bellied, ex member of her majestys forces' attempts to bring a little Guy Ritchie to northern Hampshire. Dont get me started on the racist scum that appears to make up one eleventh of the football team either. I cant wait to move away again. Cidermaster - 28 Sep 2009 18:01 |
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