Sports Day at The Bedford Arms

Just like the good old Saturday afternoons of Dickie Davies and World of Sport,  there's a diverse range of sport on offer in this Southampton town centre pub...

Footie, pub quizzes, NFL, Lets get Social and Happy Hour - sport for the masses...is Party Bowls a sport or a food?...

Brew House of Horrors...

We discovered, as our Southampton pub walk progressed, that medieval life in Southampton had its horrors as this commemorative plaque shows...

Blazing Sadlers...

This is pub no.2 on our Saturday afternoon Southampton pub walk.  Other than the play on the name, some ‘wild west’ styling, and the possibility they might do beans, frankly there’s not much connection between Mel Brookes’ excellent film Blazing Saddles, and this pub....

Little Grey Cell(ar)...

Poirot would feel right at home in this Belgian style cellar bar, even better with one or two little mysteries to exercise his little grey cells...

Hercule - stout detective...

The Roll of the Dice...

The Borough Arms in Lymington, Hampshire sits on the ‘ring road’, which avoids the town centre and high street, and as such seems slightly excluded from this high brow, high net worth town.....

It’s a Kind of Magic...

On entering this small street corner premises, you could be forgiven for thinking you’d just stepped out of Diagon Alley and entered Olivander’s Wand Shop...

The Steve Davis Effect...

In the same way that 80s satirical puppet show Spitting Images lampooned snooker player ‘Interesting’ Steve Davis in a parody of his apparent lack of personality, the Society Room is about as interesting as....an office...