Comments on: THE FT TOP 25 PUBS OF THE 00s No.23, The Shipwrights Arms

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:41:46 +0000

The Globe did not make the cut.

By: pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør

pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:30:52 +0000

Alex you should come out and meet us all some time! Drag D^D along and make it UnfoggedCon East…

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:43:09 +0000

Will we be hearing anything about the Globe just across Borough High St?

By: Richard J

Richard J — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:23:52 +0000

I worked round the area too for a couple of years. I went there once and had a Deuchars. It wasn’t very nice. That’s pretty much the end of my pub-based anecdotes, bar mentioning that there’s a Balls Brothers in Hays Galleria as well as the big mega-pub.

By: Matt DC

Matt DC — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:30:41 +0000

I’m a big fan of this one, it’s a good unpretentious pub in an area otherwise almost completely lacking in them.

It also looks like I imagined all pubs to be when I was a child.

By: Ewan

Ewan — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:21:47 +0000

That is alas the only time I visited and I rather took against the place, though it’s not fair to judge any pub for how it is on a Friday evening. It’s unfortunate though that the phrase “locals’ pub” has taken on pejorative connotations, as that’s usually the best kind of place to go (depending on the locality, to a certain extent).

By: CarsmileSteve

CarsmileSteve — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:48:25 +0000

The other thing to factor in is that, although tom’s cow-orkers may not have fancied it, it gets amazingly busy on a friday after work. As we’ve almost always gone during the week when a table is almost always available with a few minute’s pubcraft, I was quite surprised when it was quite so busy at the end of the week.

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:26:21 +0000

Mark is correct if you factor in “pubs we ever go to!” Oh prejudiced we.

By: Ewan

Ewan — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:09:40 +0000

No, Skinkers and The Cooperage are under the station, the Oast House is in the station, and the Barrowboy & Banker, the Bunch of Grapes,the Old King’s Head and the Southwark Tavern are all very close to various entrances to the tube station, probably more than the Shipwright’s.

By: a tanned rested and unlogged lørd sükråt wötsît

a tanned rested and unlogged lørd sükråt wötsît — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:57:47 +0000

It’s actually closer to the station than any of the other London Bridge pubs, though, isn’t it?

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:26:47 +0000

I remember an odd night in there where a discussion of knots* roped in an American couple who were sure all the knots had different names in the States. The man claimed that he knew all the knots because he went to “Knot Camp” when he was a kid, and then failed to be able to tie a reef knot. I think we shared a few pints before they went off looking for food, and they did not get my Reef / Reef Knot joke regarding Place Your Hands. Obv.

I like it, but it feels fantastically inconvenient in a way that some of the other London Bridge pubs don’t seem to be.

*The pub has an unshowy selection of naval paraphernalia on the walls, including a display case of knots.