Just for Mark, our resident pub games expert, here’s the billiards table in the Globe at Beaford.
That map will be of no use to you unless you know where Great Torrington is, of course.
What you REALLY need to know is that it’s hilly round here. This is my exercise record for the half hour walking down from the Globe to the Torridge. 19% climb; that’s almost Porlock !
A small but perfectly formed little village, with a pub that looks chintzy,
but turns out to be the most crafty of any place I visited in Devon.
Plain but welcoming, a good all-rounder whose GBG credentials are a bit mystifying till you taste the beer.
That little fridge on the right (below) was packed full of 10% DIPAs and mango sours, though of course I had to have something cask from Taw which touched NBSS 4.
There two young lads on stools, a sharp contrast to 90% of the pubs so far, and the young Landlord popped over for a chat. You rarely get that.
Finding out via torture (he asked me) I was from Cambridge, he exclaimed
“I worked at a club in Cambridge. Fez Club. You know it ?”
“Oh no”
“Oh, was it that bad ?”
“Too trendy for me, mate”
But I know that even as you read this someone will be starting a crowd-funder to buy me a Disco Boss Lady at the Fez this week.
retiredmartin 
“That map will be of no use to you unless you know where Great Torrington is, of course.”
I cheated and used Google. 🙂
“19% climb”
Ah. I thought you meant the actual grade.
“with a pub that looks chintzy,”
Blimey. That roof looks like the pub is being attacked by the Blob!
“someone will be starting a crowd-funder to buy me a Disco Boss Lady at the Fez this week.”
That would be my birthday drink as well! 🙂
Cheers
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Ah! A narrow four pin table, more usually found in the Gedney Hill Snookerette League and Wellingborough (for more top cue-sport geekery, I direct you to the Bar Billiards Forum. Don’t!)
As I was saying to the missus yesterday whilst cooking the Sunday Partridge, some Mushrooms on that and it’d be great game!…
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Gedney Hill, eh ? 3 pubs, all closed. There’ll always be Parson Drove (not for the faint of heart).
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Worked that area for a few years. Flat! If I remember correctly.
I found the Butchers Arms nice enough on a weekday afternoon when the Moon was at perigee, and the Bell at Murrow was excellent for an afternoon watching old folk creak around the Bowling Green. Happy-ish days…
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I do love a Bar Billiards table. They are hard to find in South Wales mind (though not impossible).
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There’s a handy map on the Bar Billiards Forum, though how up to date it is I don’t know.
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Yes indeed.
I’ve played bar billiards but not pool.
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They have the Globe Inn, Beaford, on their list.
Don’t think there is a bar billiard table in the Fez, though !
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I’ll sponsor you to find out !
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As I become older I am appreciating hanging baskets on pub frontages more and more!
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LAF,
But if it was a choice between a hanging basket and a “Draught Bass sold here” sign ?
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A tough one but Bass would just win out!!! 🔺🔺
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