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The FT Top 25 Pubs of the 00s No 6: The Shakespeares Head, Islington
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— 4 May 2010 Pete Baran 2 comments

Very few pubs attract punters with the promise of shocks which will have you leaping out of your seat. And yet the second time I went to the Shakespeare’s Head, that was the reason I went there. I wanted to see Shakey newcomers surprised when, […]

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The Old Suffolk Punch, Hammersmith
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— 6 Feb 2010 Alan 10 comments

The OSP on Fulham Palace Road has had a chequered past. In its glory days it was a boxer-owned pub “The Golden Gloves” but I first knew it as The Old Suffolk Punch and there was a great, if scuffed, geezer feel to the place — my fav[…]

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The FT Top 25 Pubs of the 00s No 10: The Pakenham Arms, Mount Pleasant
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— 21 Jan 2010 Pete Baran 8 comments

There are two words that according to modern usage I pronounce wrong. I will hold my hand up to “Colander” – which I pronounce “cullander” to rhyme with Wallander* as a throwback to believing it etymology being tied to t[…]

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