I’ve been wanting to get to know Tottenham better for a while. Trips to White Hart Lane seem to coincide with torrential rain, a flood of goals, and the sense that there isn’t much there, at least till you reach Seven Sisters. Predictably, I was met at Tottenham Hale by a downpour. And a bit of ancient-looking street art.
Tottenham hasn’t had much pubby to shout about for a while; in fact the Wetherspoons is the only thing to drag me this way in two decades, and even the Gilpin’s Bell can’t get in the Guide now (and it’s been sold).
I reckon the Beavertown Tap Room is worth a trip out with Mrs RM, but even if their wonderful beer was real the Tap isn’t getting in the Beer Guide with opening hours of Saturday 2-8. Mind you Sixpenny Hadley isn’t open much longer.
I wish I could bring you exciting pictures of multicultural Tottenham High Road, but even I have my limits. Luckily, new GBG entry the Beehive is a gem.
Not just because of it’s gorgeous “Brewer’s Tudor” style, but as a genuine community local able to accommodate professional drinkers, beer tourists and mums due to its multi-roomed layout. I often comment on how difficult it is to find somewhere I want to sit; here I was spoilt for choice. Only the beermats were missing.
The overall look is unmodernised, except for a craft-friendly beer range with a decent Pale from local Redemption (NBSS 3). That apart, it could almost be a Blackpool Sam Smiths pub,which is meant as high praise.
Of course you wouldn’t hear Blondie’s Atomic in a Sam Smiths pub. Very 1980.
retiredmartin 
The Beehive certainly is not buzzing. Where is everyone?
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I was first in when it opened at 4pm Richard ! It filled up, but several children so hard to take photos.
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Always like to hear that a pub fills up.
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“torrential lane”
I think that should be “rain”?
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You’re correct Russell, though if you’ve ever been to White Hart Lane you’ll know Spurs away has a certain horror, so torrential Lane make some sense !
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The Beehive looks a great pub, I wonder why it has only attained GBG status this year? Perhaps the local CAMRA branch has been taken over by hirsute chaps of a certain age and the tattooed hipsters have been eased out?
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Acquired by Camden Bars in 2014, local Redemption etc added, hard to ignore. Suspect the beer quality was just as good when it just served Courage, mind.
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When we going to see your first blog post, by the way. Pic is a good start.
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Progress very slow as am a bit busy at the mo, although I keep being diverted by existing bloggers….
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Ah, golden memories of pints of OBB in the Bispham hotel. Lovely place.
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Bispham my favourite Sam Smiths, Victoria in Cleveleys good but quieter !
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Used to be a superb old school local called the Mariner just a couple of streets away from the Bispham, sold some of the best John Smith’s I’ve ever tasted. Watched a guy in full Klingon battle gear, with one of the thickest Mancunian accent’s I’ve ever heard, try to chat up a barmaid in there about 20 years ago. Unfortunately burnt down a decade or so ago.
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