The Jolly Farmers, Purley - pub details
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Address: 7, Purley Rd, Purley, Surrey, CR8 2HA [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 917 0007 (ref 6908)
Purley (0.1 miles), Reedham - Croydon (0.7 miles), Riddlesdown (0.9 miles)
Pub facilities/features:
- Food served, Real ale
- Outside seating
Pub suggested by hannibal on 2 Mar 2004
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> Current user rating: 5.9/10 (rated by 26 users)
> Local guide: Surrey pub guide
other pubs nearby:
Ryans Bar, Purley (0.1 miles), Foxley Hatch, Purley (0.1 miles), Rectory, Purley (0.1 miles), Royal Oak, Purley (0.6 miles), Kenley Hotel, Kenley (1.1 miles) - see more nearby pubs
user reviews of the Jolly Farmers, Purley
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| Come on Jaffa, get a grip. The place is fine - I go in several times a week on the way home frm work and the staff are, without exception welcoming and polite. The beer is kept well - Pride and Bombardier generally sound. The bands on a Friday are all from pretty much the same mould, but mostly they are good musicians and entertaining. Cant find much to fault what is, after all, a town centre pub. Its certainly the best in Purley turbohorsebox - 30 Nov 2008 18:50 |
| Don't know about "going downhill rapdily", but agree the rock thing is being really rather overplayed. Last night's lot - 'Rock the Boat' - were particularly mundane. Not much better than the average 6th Form band, perhaps less so. It has rendered Friday a dull, noisy finish to the week, rather than a 'jolly' one. That said, two leading bluesmen - Samuel James and David Gogo - were on recently; and it seems that Wednesday nights (occasional only) are the ones to focus on. Bombardier and Pride were in good order yesterday. grovetown - 30 Nov 2008 18:12 |
| Sadly the Framers is going down hill rapidly. What was a decent local has become a very grotty music pub, serving up very average blues / rock covers almost every day of the week and the prices are a joke - £3.25 for Guinness! It wouldn't be so bad if the bands know more than a few songs but it's the same thing day in day out - it's not as if the practise is helping them get better either. If you're tempted to try the food have a look at the loos first - if they're in such a state and are on show to everyone imagine what the kitchen's like. It's a real shame as 6 months ago it was a great place and I went there a few times a week. These days to enjoy yourself in the Farmers you need to think "Smoke on the water" is the greatest song ever, and your girlfriend/wife needs peroxide hair JaffaCakesAreMega - 28 Nov 2008 09:02 |
| Best pint of ruddles "county" i have quaffed in yonks served up in a proper tankard, u beauty!!! 7/10 fat_beer_badger - 26 Nov 2008 20:58 |
| I sometimes wonder, from some reviews on the site as a whole, where 'common' people are supposed to drink? While there's a geezer element to this pub, it is surely behaviour that matters - not tattoos or dress? I think the below must be a disgruntled ex-member of staff. Yes: things have loosened up since the manager (but not owner) changed; yet since the new regime began, I have not seen any problems in this pub - and I go roughly twice a week. In fact, there was more yobbery to be seen in the Grandstand Bar at Lingfield one recent Saturday than there has been in the entire two years since the new owners arrived. It's not the greatest pub in the world, but it's not bad - and certainly the best in Purley. grovetown - 5 Aug 2008 12:16 |
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