The Shipwright's Arms (London Bridge - London)

The Shipwright's Arms

A ub with the mission to safe-guard the keep of its flurry of locals and shun away the tourists, thrill seekers and bar reviewers of this world. The toilets display an angry warning about misuse by non-drinkers and the main room is literally a high-ceiled hall with a rounded- skeletal bar filling its centre. The drinks are too expensive, the variety is insufficient for much choice and the offering of sports is thrown to a large, hard-to-see screen at the back. The bar-women are loud and brash and serve all the locals before any other poor souls and it feels defintiely like this is their kept establishment- that they are centre-of-attention for what is essentially a room full of market-stall owners and less-than-common folk.

Overall the effect is far to clique although not to the extent of quiet and nosy as to your prescence but in an ignorant way and with vocal volumes to bowl over the unsuspecting victim who has become dizzy circling the bar looking for an empty stool at 4pm on a friday afternoon. 4/10