By popular demand, I explore the pubs of Hammersmith in West London, focusing here on some well known watering holes along the river, most of which are popular spots to watch the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race.
At the Dove I try to get the bottom of how that famously small public bar room came about, and I wonder how you tell when a pigeon is melancholy? Did James Thomson write "Winter" at the Dove? We also meet a member of the royal family who had a house next door just for smoking in. As one does.
At the Black Lion we wonder if the purportedly 400 year Chestnut Tree in its garden is featured on a 1746 map? We discuss how a pub ghost story set a nearly two century long legal precedent, and learn how Sir Alan Herbert first satirised divorce law in a novel, then became an MP and went on to reform it.
At the Old Ship we learn about "Peter Boats", and a one time Champion of the Thames who later became a pub landlord and eventually filed for bankruptcy. We also look at some of the pubs which were lucky - and not so lucky - in the dark days following the dreaded Licensing (Consolidation) Act of 1910.
At the Rutland Arms we found a one time hotel which was bombed in WW2, lost its upper floors, and consequently turned into a pub.
Finally at the Blue Anchor we see evidence of an old bar back no longer behind the bar. We examine the curious habit of the locals in the late 18th century of roasting sheep on the river when it froze over. Finally we consider the archaic "copyhold" system of land ownership because this odd mixed bag of themes wasn't already eclectic enough.
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:23 Dove
5:08 Black Lion
8:46 Old Ship
11:46 Rutland Arms
15:36 Blue Anchor
20:08 Outro
