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Trouble Brewing at London’s Brewing
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— 13 May 2013 CarsmileSteve 2 comments

To say at the start, I did eventually enjoy my Saturday afternoon at London’s Brewing and I have definitely been to events more badly organised (Glastonbury 2007 springs immediately to mind), but to my mind some of the criticism has been a bit […]

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Old Fountain, Old Street
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— 25 Jan 2012 CarsmileSteve 5 comments

One of the pubs unfortunately missed from our ‘tween christmas and new year pub crawl, for to because it was shut, partly due I suspect to lack of passing trade over the festive period, but also to finish off their very nice renovation work, Th[…]

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This Is No Place Like Holmes
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— 8 Jan 2010 Pete Baran 9 comments

Sherlock Holmes does give the reviewer plenty of options on the Holmes based puns. In probing the homoerotic subtext we even get the Guardian crying about Holmesophobia (nice work – cheers). And all of this is hung on some sort of idea that the[…]

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