please empty your brain below
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Sorry, this one's a bit long.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 03.01.24 - 12:24 a.m. | #
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Still admire the effort - sorry there was no pint payoff!
(Typo in #9 - King's Arms / Head)
AC | 03.01.24 - 2:56 a.m. | #
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If you didn't have a pint in the Haywain, did you really achieve your goal?
Martin | 03.01.24 - 7:07 a.m. | #
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The Clapham Windmill is a Youngs house, so the Devonshire the second one.
butackshly | 03.01.24 - 7:32 a.m. | #
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Many years ago, I and a friend spent hours walking round twickenham looking for a pub he 'remembered'. It always seemed to be 'just round the next corner'. We never did find it and ended up going home w/o too!
Ian J | 03.01.24 - 7:32 a.m. | #
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I suspect you’ve thought of this already, but why don’t you do the other end of the A24 in the summer then save it for Dec 31st?
Jimmy | 03.01.24 - 7:53 a.m. | #
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Ah, the Leg..... my local growing up. It's a shame you didn't get that far!
H SE18 | 03.01.24 - 7:54 a.m. | #
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Your miscounting created the jeopardy in the story - otherwise I doubt I’d have read to the end.
Tea is often better than a pint, imho.
Tom | 03.01.24 - 8:03 a.m. | #
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Ah.. pubs. An aspect of the streetscene often overlooked in the reporting your urban wanderings.
Frank F | 03.01.24 - 8:24 a.m. | #
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I’ve visited the first 10 on this list; I’m sure someone else can go higher!
David | 03.01.24 - 8:33 a.m. | #
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Now if you'd had 24 pints in each of the 24 pubs, followed by 24 cubic tons of vomit, 24 hours in A&E, 24 days' hangover, etc.
Matt | 03.01.24 - 8:48 a.m. | #
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If you're counting the Watermill, it seems perverse not to count the Merton Apprentice next door.
The Holden may not have tube nostalgia, but it has several photos of his stations, with long captions about the architecture.
Morden drinker | 03.01.24 - 8:51 a.m. | #
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Good luck on the A41
Mike | 03.01.24 - 9:15 a.m. | #
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I look forward to… <snip>
dg writes: spoilers :)
Paul | 03.01.24 - 9:16 a.m. | #
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So you didn’t get a pint in the 24th, but you certainly get a round of applause from me! All that walking in that awful weather, well done. Btw how did you manage to keep up your umbrella? 👏🏻👏🏻
Jo W | 03.01.24 - 9:50 a.m. | #
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Being a (former) resident of the area, The Prince of Wales used to be a regular haunt of mine - it was for many years a Youngs pub and known as the Princess of Wales.
The Watermill always was more of a cafe than anything - slightly above a greasy spoon. But not much. The Merton Apprentice is just next door though so would be an easy substitute.
Andrew Bowden | Homepage | 03.01.24 - 9:56 a.m. | #
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Seven. Pound. A. Pint.
Scott | Homepage | 03.01.24 - 9:56 a.m. | #
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I bet the Haywain doesn't sell Becks either.
Andrew Bowden | Homepage | 03.01.24 - 9:57 a.m. | #
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You could have saved a lot of effort and done the 1st pint on the A1.
Dave Jones | 03.01.24 - 10:55 a.m. | #
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Not exactly appealing weather for such an exercise! I wouldn't have waited until pub 24 (or 21) for a pint...
It also raises the question as to which of London's arterial roads would be the nicest to walk along. I guess the south London ones like the A23 and A24 have the advantages of being more interesting than those upgraded to wide dual carriageways like the A13 and A40.
Mikey C | 03.01.24 - 10:58 a.m. | #
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The 'new' bypass around Ewell was opened in 1932. Granted, Ewell was settled by the Romans, so on that scale I suppose 1932 is pretty new. Had you done the trip 5 years ago there were two more pubs in East Street, Epsom and probably you wouldn't even have got that far before reaching 24.
Peter | 03.01.24 - 11:34 a.m. | #
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The Star in Ewell closed down a long time ago, possibly 5 years or more.
Looking down the list, I’ve had a pint in 14 of these pubs, most of those I’ve missed are for very good reasons.
Paul Costa | 03.01.24 - 11:44 a.m. | #
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Very good effort on a filthy day in my neck of the woods (I live round the corner from The Cyclist in Balham and have been to 15/24 of those pubs). To confuse things further, the Firefly on the otherwise barren stretch between Balham and Tooting Bec would have been worthy of inclusion, together with the Mayfair Tavern on Upper Tooting Road (the entrance is just off the main road so easily missed if you are heading from north to south)
Graham T | 03.01.24 - 12:25 p.m. | #
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Only visited 2 of those pubs, and one was The Cyclist in its former Wetherspoon guise. Not my part of London, though I have drunk in a couple of nice pubs "near" the A24.
Mikey C | 03.01.24 - 12:27 p.m. | #
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Oh dear! Still it made entertaining reading!
Already anticipating tomorrow's tale!
Cornish Cockney | 03.01.24 - 12:33 p.m. | #
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If you had said you were coming, I would have bought you a Becks in The Kings Head. Do give us a heads up next time you are in Tooting.
south london lad | 03.01.24 - 1:02 p.m. | #
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That actually makes me rather sad. It was my stomping ground when I was growing up, and The Windmill would have been the fifth proper pub on your journey, or the sixth if you counted The Plough which is just on the junction. That now seems to be half Starbucks and half Irish-themed dining room, (it's where our pub crawls to The Windmill started).
You definitely wouldn't have had to venture as far as Tooting Broadway!
Dave Howes | 03.01.24 - 2:19 p.m. | #
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Given the absence of one particular pub just before Epsom - which I'd always wanted to visit simply because the exterior tilework gave it a homely appearance - I've just looked at the road on Streetview to look for an explanation: it seems, since my last trip to Epsom, that what was once the Plough and Harrow is now a bar restaurant called Rock Salt.
(I also saw, for the record, that the Bar XLR (opp Church Rd) is also now gone.)
RogerW | 03.01.24 - 5:07 p.m. | #
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My apologies for...
...making several errors
...not counting the right pubs
...counting some wrong pubs
...writing too much about pubs
...not writing enough about pubs
...not telling you I was coming
diamond geezer | Homepage | 03.01.24 - 6:00 p.m. | #
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I think I'd have gone for the "traditional" route of the A24 if that can be regarded as a thing. Pity about the Charles Holden; I added it to my "must visit" list purely on the name then quickly removed it as I read on, sports pubs not being my thing at all.
Andrew S | 03.01.24 - 6:22 p.m. | #
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This conveys well the sheer stylistic breadth of what can constitute a pub. Musing about what boundaries between what is and is not a pub reminds me of a Japanese volunteer who was part of our work team some years ago. One of his favourite new words was "pubby" - describing that feel that speaks of being in a pub. The crux is that a venue can feel "pubby" without necessarily being a pub; but a pub can never be a pub unless it is indeed "pubby".
cau1khead | 03.01.24 - 9:13 p.m. | #
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Plenty of memories here at the beginning of your trek. When Young’s beer was brewed in Wandsworth, the deliveries of beer were by horse-drawn dray carts.
The Chairman of the company,’Mr’ John Young, insisted that it was cheaper to use horse power rather the horsepower of the lorry if the pub was less than five miles from Wandsworth.
In 1970s and 1980s there was a continuous challenge to join the ‘135 Club’, ie visiting all the brewery’s tied houses and consuming a pint. By the time I completed the course for a third time the 135 had become close to 150!
Kenneth Morton | 03.01.24 - 11:13 p.m. | #
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I wonder what's the highest value of n for which an "nth pub on the An" exists...
Anonymous | 04.01.24 - 8:41 a.m. | #
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