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 […]
Address :10 Strand Rd,LondonderryBT48 7BJ Without a doubt, the finest Victorian Bar front in the city belongs to the Grand Central at the foot of Strand Road. Unfortunately, this fine pub was badly damaged by a bomb, and almost all of it had to be replaced inside.Happily, the reconstructed snugs have been done in a […]
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 […]