Shore road Belfast The first time I met Norrie Sharpe, the popular owner of the Tudor, was way back in 1968, when he and his brother Jack were the proprietors of The Talk of the Town in Bridgend. At that point in time I was running a voluntary organisation called Belfast Entertainment Network, which provided […]
12 Bradbury Place Thomas Lavery, the great grandfather of the present owners, came to Belfast from Dromara in County Down where he had owned a bar. Here in 1875 he opened the first Public House of the Lavery Clan in May Street. Over the years he and the family opened other bars like the Bradan […]
Status : Closed 38 lisburn road Bob Cratchit’s is a new licence granted to Croft Inns in 1987. The bar takes up the entire ground floor of the former Russell Court Hotel. What a lovely approach; up brown tiled steps, along a tiled ramp and into a beautiful glass conservatory with appropriate greenery and fan […]
Status : Ryans 116-118 LISBURN ROAD The Four in Hand on the Lisburn Road in by-gone days was an old coaching Inn. In the Public Bar embossed windows depict various old stage coaches and above the fireplace, there is a print from which the pub was named. Another talking point in the bar was a […]