CLOSED Renamed: The Corner HouseAddress:2 Main Street, Stonard St,Moneymore,MagherafeltBT45 7PN Moneymore is a typical Plantation town. It owes its existence and development to the London Drapers’ Company, which completed a distinguished group of buildings in 1819, including a market house, a coach arch, a dispensary and the subject of this piece, a hotel. Today that […]
Address : 142 Lecky Rd,LondonderryBT48 6NP Every city has its sportsman’s bar, one long associated with the great sporting figures and occasions of yesterday and today, somewhere to rub elbows with a few of the major names of the sporting world.Derry is doubly fortunate in this respect because the Bluebell Bar in the Bogside not […]
Renamed : Thirsty GoatAddress :33 Shipquay StLondonderry, Northern Ireland Notes : AKA Downeys/Quay Bar Slightly below street level, snugly ensconced behind railings, in Shipquay Street sits a modest little Edwardian pub, The Townsman. Well, what’s so extraordinary about that, you may wonder. Only this, that if you wanted a night out at one of the […]
DemolishedAddress ;2 Church LaneColeraine,Co Londonderry,BT52 1BD There’s nothing to beat the ambiance of a good modern public bar, whether it’s an old pub revamped or a brand new purpose-built establishment.In the case of Brook’s Wine Bar, the latter is the case, as there was nothing here up until June 1987, when the bar was opened. […]