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location:
address:
Petersfield Avenue, RM3 9PP
phone:
0871 984 1123*
* calls cost 10p/minute, click here for more about 0871 numbers.
bus route:
496 
how to find it:
Probably the easiest way to get here is by the 496 bus here from Harold Wood or Gidea Park (or Romford) overground stations.
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Located on the same road as William the Conqueror, the survival of this Saxon King defies both history and good taste. (Indeed, both pubs are perhaps among the finest adverts for republicanism I've seen for a long time.) It's not the worst zero pinter, but we really couldn't find any reason to award it a pint. There's no chance of any privacy in the one long, narrow, and very grey room, which smelled strongly of disinfectant on our visit. The sense that we were intruding was intensified by the loud and expletive-laden conversations of some regulars. There's a rather unkempt beer garden and we sensed a vague air of menace. Perhaps we are overreacting. Free bar food, in the East End tradition, is apparently provided on Sunday lunchtimes, and there's a fish stall (skate knobs a speciality) outside. But this is very much a place for regulars, with the atmosphere of a residents' association club, not that of a public house.
24/10/2004
beer garden
pool table
jukebox
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