East Kent, Whitstableback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
Shepard Neame pub (keep on down Cromwell road if your arriving by train). Nice, airy interior and large (part covered and walled) garden. Good ambience at night outside, helped by a large pizza 🍕 oven... Only complaint was only one real ale - Masterbrew. I’ll give them the benefit as it was late in day on a summer Friday....
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The nearest railway station is Whitstable, about 0.5 miles away. It's the first pub you come to when coming from the station into the town area. Beer is well kept. It has a large decked rear courtyard area which is protected on all sides by high walls. Good Thai food, served inside or out.
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IF I FALL AGAIN WILL YOU FORGIVE ME?
IF I STAGGER WITHOUT FALLING...WILL YOU FORGIVE ME THEN?
IF I DAB AT THE BROWN SAUCE ON MY SLEEVE WITH A SPITAL MOISTENED NAPKIN...FORGIVEN?
IF I FALL, THEN GET UP, BUT FALL AGAIN MORE CONCLUSIVELY...FORGIVEN OR SENT TO PURGATORY*?
IF I SLIP ON A WET FLOOR (POSSIBLY IN THE LOBBY OF A HOTEL OR THE FOYER OF A POSH OFFICE BLOCK...IN BISHOPGATE, PERHAPS) CAN I CLAIM IT BACK ON THE INSURANCE?
* Purgatory or Ramsgate....same thing really.
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Must try harder! Felt very out of the clique here :-(
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I HAVE FALLEN AGAIN, AWKWARDLY THIS TIME.
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Lieutenant Pigeon was a British musical group popular in the early 1970s. It was fronted by Rob Woodward. The group's sound was dominated by a heavy ragtime-style piano played by Woodward's mother, Hilda.
Hilda was briefly a member of Uriah Heep but was fired after one album and a tour of Japan after a fight in a hotel bar with Mick Box, during which she hit the Heep guitarist over the head with a glass ashtray.
Lieutenant Pigeon achieved two UK hits: "Mouldy Old Dough", written by Rob Woodward with bandmate Nigel Fletcher, reached number one in 1972, followed by "Desperate Dan" (number 17 in 1973). Both tracks were largely instrumental, with the titles providing virtually the only lyrics. "Mouldy Old Dough" (the title being an adaptation of the 1920s jazz phrase, "vo-de-o-do") became the second biggest selling UK single of the year, behind The Band of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards' bagpipe version of "Amazing Grace".
Lieutenant Pigeon scored a further hit, in the autumn of 1974, when it reached number 3 in the Australian charts with a cover version of "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen".
Hilda Woodward died aged 85 on February 22 1999. Mick Box sent flowers.
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I HAVE FALLEN...FORGIVE ME?
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Scruffy but essential pub. time your visit right and you will be served by a barmaid with skin the same colour as the ceiling. Sun bed envy? Not quiet!
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"There wasn't a great deal to grab my attention," wrote HTM69.
The East Kent has a pool table, games machine, bar billiards, darts, board games and a farting dog. The jukebox is good and in summer there is petanque and sumo wrestling in the outside garden. Trains pass close by at regular intervals.
A great pub with something for everyone.
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One has to take advantage of sunny Bank Holidays and so last Monday (5 May) I found myself in the Kent Coast town of Whitstable. The first pub encountered was the East Kent, a Shepherd Neame House situated just far away enough from the main town to detract the tourist hoards. It looks enticing from the outside and it was welcoming and well furnished within. Smart, though with a traditionalist feel. There wasn't a great deal within to grab my attention admittedly, though I did notice a small pool table and a modern-style juke box. The ales on offer included Spitfire and Master brew. To be found at the rear of the establishment is an accommodating enough, though be it, basic beer patio - complete with giant heated umbrellas to please the smoking mob on those days more bleak. The locals noticed, seemed friendly and well acquainted with each other. However, this seemingly and pleasingly, is a place where non-regulars are made to feel welcome. I have to recommend a stop.
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Nice decent sized friendly local with four separate drinking areas.
Well kept Shepherd Neame bitter. Scrubbed boards and an eclectic mix of old furniture. Cosy in the winter. Petanque played in the summer. Large attractive beer garden.
Jon Horne - 23 Sep 2004 16:30 |
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