Address26 Main St,Groomsport,BangorBT19 6JR You’re a stone’s throw from the sea in the Groomsport Inn, so it’s appropriate that there is a strong maritime air in the pub, with a series of dramatic pictures of sailing ships around the walls, and a ship’s bell to sound “Time please”. An old photo shows the pub as […]
Address1-3 Railway St,Comber,NewtownardsBT23 5HG If you are a drinking man at all from the “top end” of the town of Comber, then you will be either a North Down Houseman or a Brownlow Arms man. It’s a mark of indecisiveness, of character weakness, to be seen regularly in both. The irony is that both are […]
Address : 41 High St,BangorBT20 5BE The ‘Golden Mile’ of Bangor’s pubs must be High Street, and one of the most fascinating of these is Jenny Watt’s, about as fascinating as Jenny Watt herself. Nobody is absolutely sure who she is, and in fact, there is a list of the public’s ideas about her identity […]
Address9-11 The Square,Strangford,DownpatrickBT30 7ND What does the phrase ‘a party of people from across the water’ mean to you? Probably visitors from England, or possibly guests from Scotland, but if you worked in the Lobster Pot, Strangford, it would be nothing more than another group of passengers arrived off the ferry from the other side […]