The London Mensa First Friday Pub Crawl

 

Discover London with the First Friday Pub Crawl!

 

 

 

Circle Line map

 

These crawls ran from January 2009 to March 2011.

Click on the stations to see the pub crawls starting from them.
To return to this page from any of the crawls, click on the drunken Mensan logo, as seen at the top of this page. Aldgate Baker Street Baker Street Barbican Bayswater Blackfriars Edgware Road Edgware Road Embankment Euston Square Farringdon Gloucester Road Gloucester Road Great Portland Street High Street Kensington King's Cross St. Pancras Liverpool Street Cannon Street Mansion House Monument Moorgate Notting Hill Gate Paddington Sloane Square South Kensington South Kensington St James's Park St James's Park Temple Tower Hill Victoria Victoria Westminster Westminster

 

 

Some of the regular attendees:

 

         





 






 

  






 







 

 

     
 
 

 



 

DATE START STATION FINISH STATION

HOST(S)
2009 - Jan Temple Blackfriars Tim Andrews
Feb Blackfriars Mansion House Mary Piper
Mar Mansion House Monument Pendar Sillwood
Apr Monument Tower Hill Pendar Sillwood
May Tower Hill Aldgate Tim Andrews
Jun Aldgate Liverpool Street Helen Cass
Jul Liverpool Street Moorgate Mary Piper
Aug Moorgate Barbican Tim Andrews
Sep Barbican Farringdon Tim Andrews
Oct Farringdon Kings Cross Mike Rossell
Nov Kings Cross Euston Square Dennis Thompson
2010 - Jan Euston Square Great Portland Street Chris & Ginny Gilmore
Feb Great Portland Street Baker Street Mark Plant
Mar Baker Street Edgware Road Pendar Sillwood
Apr Edgware Road Paddington Pendar Sillwood
May Paddington Bayswater Pendar Sillwood
Jun Bayswater Notting Hill Gate Anthony Smith
Jul Notting Hill Gate High Street Kensington Tim Andrews
Aug High Street Kensington Gloucester Road Tim Andrews
Sep Gloucester Road South Kensington Pendar Sillwood
Oct South Kensington Sloane Square Pendar Sillwood
Nov Sloane Square Victoria Chris & Ginny Gilmore
Dec Victoria St.James's Park Chris & Ginny Gilmore
2011 - Jan St.James's Park Westminster Tim Andrews
Feb Westminster Embankment John Thorp & Bronagh Miskelly
Mar Embankment Temple Tim Andrews

 

There are various ways to explain the attraction of pub crawls. Getting to know new areas of London is certainly an attraction. As is variety. An interesting viewpoint, reproduced below, is from Cecile Frogh, an American Mensan, who attended the Annual Gathering pub crawl:

I truly enjoyed the pub crawl. This crawl idea is excellent. Specifically, taking a walk between each drink tends to keep the head clearer than does chatting and drinking in one place; it also tends to remix the conversational groupings. Pub crawl - a fine British cultural practice.


Previous First Friday pub crawls

The First Friday pub crawls had an A to Z theme from May 2001.
It worked so well that a second run through the alphabet followed it.
Details of those crawls:

May 2001 - Apr 2006


The crawls reverted back to being non-themed after the two A-Z runs and after this Circle Line theme.
Details of the crawls:

May 2006 - Dec 2008

Apr 2011 - present


 

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