The Shires Bar, St Pancras Station [Closed] - pub details
Closed
Address: St. Pancras Station, London, N1 9AP [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 917 0007 (ref 611)
King's Cross St. Pancras (0.1 miles), Euston Square (0.6 miles), Euston (0.6 miles)
London Kings Cross (0 miles), London Kings Cross - Thameslink (0.1 miles), London St Pancras (0.2 miles)
Pub facilities/features:
- Pool table (1)
> Current user rating: 5.2/10 (rated by 4 users)
> Local guides: London pub guide, North London pub guide
other pubs nearby:
Duke of York, Kings Cross station (0.0 miles), Lincoln Lounge, Kings Cross (0.1 miles), Fellow, Camden (0.1 miles), Waiting Room, King's Cross (0.1 miles), Masque Bar, Kings Cross (0.1 miles) - see more nearby pubs
user reviews of the Shires Bar, St Pancras Station
please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
| Happy times spent here waiting for the train back to Derby - it felt more like something from there than a London pub. Not tried the replacement Betjeman Arms, but somehow I don't think it will quite match the character of this place. Still, it beats the portakabin temporary replacement on platform 12 which I guess has (thankfully) gone. OldRogue - 2 Jan 2009 11:19 |
| I totally agree with Loz, and so the closure of this pub is a great shame. It will no doubt reopen properly one day but I expect it will reappear as a swanky bar instead. As someone who regularly passes through St. Pancras, this pub felt like a local. It was smelly, old-fashioned with bad beer but friendly none the less. As a result it was far more like a locals pub than a tourist or business one. The one downside was the prevelance of beggars in the pub or beggars from outside who came in to use the fruit machines. anonymous - 7 Jul 2005 23:07 |
| Note, that this has now been closed because of the St Pancreas station re-build for the channel-tunnel link and has been replaced with a like-named portakabin affair at the end of the new platforms. One assumes that this is temporary until the old station is re-opened (though that's a while off yet). stabbogaz - 2 Aug 2004 15:13 |
| Pubs on railway stations are either transient and soulless (e.g. Coopers), or expensive, aimed at the passing posh City totty (e.g. Reef Bar). In contrast, this feels like a local pub, old fashioned, dark and dingy, and might not be to the taste of people with 21st century expectations. However, I would consider this pub not to be solely for passing trade, more than just a Quicksnacks with a license. Loz - 18 Aug 2002 01:52 |
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