Oxford Circus - Pendar Sillwood

Fri 4 March 2005 - 6.15pm

 

Pubs 4a & 4b were too small to handle the number of people that turned up (at least 30,
which was very good considering the inclement weather). Not wanting to miss the small pubs out, my
solution was to run them concurrently. As far as I know, it worked reasonably well.

 


#1

6.15pm - 6.50pm

The Windmill
6-8 Mill Street
London W1S 2AT.



 

 

 

(Click on the image for a larger version)
 

 

#2

 

7.00pm - 7.45pm

 

 

The Clachan
34 Kingly Street
London W1B 5QH.

- In the 1960s, Kingly Street had a night club called the Bag O' Nails, which is where Paul McCartney first met Linda Eastman, his wife to be.


 

(Click on the image for a larger version)

 

 

 

(Click on the image for a larger version)

 

#3

 

7.55pm - 8.40pm

 

Porter's Bar
21-22 Poland Street
London W1F 8QL.

- More of a wine bar. It actually wasn't as posey and pretentious as it looks and was relaxed and comfortable once inside. The drinks weren't expensive either (for the area).


The crawl split at this point. See the next two pubs below:

 

#4 (a)

 

8.50pm - 9.30pm

(see below)

 

The Cock
27 Great Portland Street
London W1W 8QG.

 

 

#4 (b)

 

8.50pm - 9.30pm

(see above)

 

The George
55 Great Portland Street
London W1W 7LP.



(Click on the image for a larger version)

 

#5

 

9.35pm - 10.05pm

 

All Bar One
289 Regents Street
London W1B 2HJ.


 

#6

 

10.10pm - 11.00pm

 

Old Explorer
23 Great Castle Street
London W1G 0HY.


- -