Comments on: The FT Top 25 Pubs of the 00s No 12: The Bricklayers Arms, W1 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/pumpkin/2010/01/the-ft-top-25-pubs-of-the-00s-no-12-the-bricklayers-arms-w1 Lollards in the high church of low culture Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:38:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Matt DC https://freakytrigger.co.uk/pumpkin/2010/01/the-ft-top-25-pubs-of-the-00s-no-12-the-bricklayers-arms-w1/comment-page-1#comment-669096 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:38:26 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=16776#comment-669096 This was an early doors Exciting New London Pub for me when I returned to London in late 2001 and I spent *a lot* of time here in the first half of the decade, pretty much leading up to that post-Glasto ticket buying pint. And I think I’ve only been in there once since… it feels like one of those early 00s pubs that’s gone a bit out of fashion since.

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By: Mark M https://freakytrigger.co.uk/pumpkin/2010/01/the-ft-top-25-pubs-of-the-00s-no-12-the-bricklayers-arms-w1/comment-page-1#comment-668911 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:58:33 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=16776#comment-668911 “Next on right, round the cobbled curb of Gresse Street, stood the Bricklayers Arms, better known as the Burglars Rest because a gang of burglars had once broken into it and afterwards slept the night on the premises, leaving behind as evidence even more empties than the landlord of the Horse, but the burglars did not die and, incidentally, were never caught.
The Burglars was a quiet house, useful for business talk or to take a young woman who one did not know well, unlike the Marquess of Granby at the foot of Rathbone Place, where at that time the most fights broke out…”
Julian Maclaren-Ross, Memoirs of the Forties

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By: Pete Baran https://freakytrigger.co.uk/pumpkin/2010/01/the-ft-top-25-pubs-of-the-00s-no-12-the-bricklayers-arms-w1/comment-page-1#comment-668903 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:04:00 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=16776#comment-668903 Yes it was, me and Matt in identical red T-Shirt’s toasting our final luck.

I had forgotten the cigars, but yes, there was something about the upstairs that almost demanded a panatella.

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By: CarsmileSteve https://freakytrigger.co.uk/pumpkin/2010/01/the-ft-top-25-pubs-of-the-00s-no-12-the-bricklayers-arms-w1/comment-page-1#comment-668899 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:40:10 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=16776#comment-668899 aw, nearly ten years on and no change of opinion:

https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/pumpkin/2000/10/platter-sightings/

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By: CarsmileSteve https://freakytrigger.co.uk/pumpkin/2010/01/the-ft-top-25-pubs-of-the-00s-no-12-the-bricklayers-arms-w1/comment-page-1#comment-668895 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:36:40 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=16776#comment-668895 one of my favourite sam smiths i think, many happy memories.

i think after the day of panicked glastonbury ticket buying (april 2004?) we spent the evening upstairs here, recalling stories of 20 hours of pressing F5 and praising the goddess Freya, but i think the round table out the back is still my favourite. you can squeeze a lot more people round it than you expect and you effectively get the whole back room to yourself (a constant stream of blokes going to the loo notwithstanding)

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By: a tanned rested and unlogged lørd sükråt wötsît https://freakytrigger.co.uk/pumpkin/2010/01/the-ft-top-25-pubs-of-the-00s-no-12-the-bricklayers-arms-w1/comment-page-1#comment-668894 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:27:51 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=16776#comment-668894 You can only be “objective” about pubs you have never been in*

*PROVIDED YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN IN ANY OTHER PUBS EITHER <– trufax

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