Not my usual boozer but have been down to watch away matches when we used to be on Sky and when I've been waiting to colect a takeaway. I thought it had been done up in the last year but I popped in this lunchtime and it looks like the fixtures and fittings have been gutted, anyone know what's happening there?
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royal eltham, welcome inn, king and queen.......................
King & Queen went years ago
probably trying to do a Royal then..
Thats a 5min walk from my house aswell, I never knew I had some many pubs within walking distance :O
them pubs within walking distance soon become 'definately need a cab home' pubs.
Nice enough looking boozer from the outside but the vermin that infest it need castrating to stop their kind ever breeding again.
I know because I lived in the road next to it and could see the bar from my bog window.
Shitheap khazi and I would never set foot in there again.
Apart from that .....
Nice enough looking boozer from the outside but the vermin that infest it need castrating to stop their kind ever breeding again.
I know because I lived in the road next to it and could see the bar from my bog window.
Shitheap khazi and I would never set foot in there again.
Apart from that .....
I used to go in The Farmhouse years ago when I had relly's living in Beanshaw.
Then after we used to go to The White Horse, Chislehurst.
Long time since I've been anywhere near though.
From 1971 - 1996 it was a Courage managed pub and the Tenant "Landlord" was a man called Terry Freak.
He ran the place superbly, there was no scum and no trouble there at all. It had a defined Public and Saloon Bar area. There was no TV, no Jukebox, no Pool Table, and most importantly for a real pub - no food! Apart from a few cheese rolls at lunchtime.
You never saw Terry at lunchtime but he'd open the pub at 5.30 Mon-Fri, he'd serve till 7pm and then you wouldn't see him again till after 9pm when he'd run the pub from the punters side of the bar.
On a Saturday night it wouldn't open till 7pm, just like Old Kent Road pubs in those days, after closing at 3pm. Terry would always appear later in the evening in a smart suit, collar and tie. The pub was packed on a Saturday night, local people used it for a meeting place before parties or dinner at restaurants etc.
The best thing about the Beehive was Sunday Lunchtimes, in the good old days before the new licensing laws came in, 12-2pm on a Sunday was fantastic. The place was choca, snacks on the bar, loads of bar staff and if you were lucky you got served after 2pm. The atmosphere was cracking. Again Terry, and all his crew, were suited and booted. The change in drinking hours has ruined the traditional Sunday IMO.
Terry would occasionally lay on some entertainment on a Saturday night. Obviously Frank Carson's appearance in 1985 was the big one but also we had Joe Goodman and other comics and singers.
I had my 21st Birthday drinks in The Beehive, and also my Stag Night in 1991, which to Terry and all those who were there remains a legendary night.
Terry and Joan left The Beehive in 1996 and the place basically went downhill immediately.
The Beehive was in those days a proper Old Kent Road pub in SE9.
Terry, sadly now widowed, runs a smaller pub in SE London these days, probably now the best pub in London as a whole. If you know pubs in SE London you know which one.
I have known Terry since I was a small boy and will be enjoying a drink in his pub later on today.
When I drive past the Beehive these days, it almost makes me cry.
The Dacre Arms, in case you were wondering ref Mr Freak.
Yeah it was a nice boozer when Terry had it....looks like Chavs 'R' Us now
Barney the resident West Highland Terrier is also a real character.....some folk think he's the landlord....well to be honest he often acts like it!
Was in there the night of the heavy snow fall back in Feb, bit run down but great atmosphere (karaoke/dsco). all the crowd that used to drink in the Porcupine on a Sunday now go in there apparently, as the guvnor moved pubs, god knows why, Porcupine much nicer IMO