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  • Brewery: Fullers
  • Fullers Chiswick Bitter £1.67
  • Fullers London Pride £2.00
  • Fullers E.S.B. £2.20
  • Dry Blackthorn Cider £2.30
  • (11.viii.1998)

They held a competition to name this pub when they built it in the 1970s, hence the name.

A tall building with ample terracing on the [St. Aldates]? side, and also the only one reachable directly from Christ Church Meadow, it has been done out within the last five years in a nautical theme, and happens on a pair of floors with a tall dais at the northern end of the ground floor.

There is an upside-down rowing eight on the ceiling of the ground floor, and instructions for the obtaining of food (expensive for main courses, reasonable for "light main courses") and accommodation (there are a number of rooms available).

Beer: the London Pride was chilled and not actually recognisable. On top of that, it's pretty expensive too. All of the beers are expensive in here. I'd try the Wharf House along [Speedwell Street]? if I were you, providing it's open.

Packed out in Eights Week, unsurprisingly.

OS X co-ord: 451457     OS Y co-ord: 205603     (Latitude: 51.746305 Longitude: -1.254580)
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