some pub help...

[spikesgirl58]

I started this conversation with Beanie and then Rosy offered some suggestions, so I thought I would open it up a bit more.

I am taking part in the ‘Into a bar’ challenge.  In which a character of your choice walks into a bar and meets a character from the list of fandoms you are comfortable writing in.

My choice was Steel walking into a bar

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[bluemeanybeany]

Can we also embrace the awesomeness of the pub name "Portman and Pickles" in Yorkshire. Which sounds ye olde pub foodie, but in actually named for two Yorkshiremen - the film actor Eric Portman and Wilfred Pickles, a radio announcer during the war who was picked for his Yorkshire accent because it was harder for the Nazis to imitate than Queen's English - hence it was easy to tell who to trust because regional accents can only be done by regional Brits of trustworthness. Again, epic name for a pub.

All pubs should have a story behind the name.

Have I told you why the place I live [for a week or two anyway] is called Nunhead - the area is named after the pub. And the pub is named after a sexual act two members of the clergy were supposed to have performed in the pub in the Middle Ages.

[spikesgirl58]

Where is the pub located? Is in in London? I need it to be relatively close to where Jackie lives.

Also, what sort of accent would Jackie have?

[bluemeanybeany]

Oh Jackie is so very South London. Her and Rose live on an estate, I think US word for estate is "the projects"

Poor people live in South London [I live in South London] Rich people don't often come south of the River. Steel's accent is North London - McCallum is a posh little thing. Jackie is more a Chav.

[spikesgirl58]

I remember a comment about Rose being a Chav in the New Earth episode. Funniest scene ever when Cassandra leaps into The Doctor...

I figured that was an estate was like a project or tenements from what we saw on the Christmas special.

Of course, Steel isn't either, not really.

[bluemeanybeany]

The Powell Estate it says in TardisWiki is in Peckham. [if you've ever seen Only Fools and Horses Del Boy and Rodney also live in Peckham]

To be honest we pretty much live there too. Peckham is our 2nd closest train station.

[bluemeanybeany]

I would not go into a pub in Peckham.

Mmmmm how to describe Peckham. When I was walking home last week through Peckham two men came up to me in the street and automatically started the conversation in Polish. They assumed it more likely that I was Polish than English you see. It was a perfectly fair assumption to make as the walk was 20 minutes and probably there were 20 plus languages spoken it's none of them happened to be English.

[spikesgirl58]

But Jackie would, I'm guessing. Do you have one you'd recommend? They won't be interacting with the pub's cliental. It will just be Steel and Jackie.

[bluemeanybeany]

Probably she wouldnt go to a pub on Peckham high street.

See what you think of The Ivy House Pub at the bottom of Peckham Rye Common
http://www.ivyhousenunhead.com/

It's full of people as mad as Jackie is.

[spikesgirl58]

Ivyhouse is perfect! Thank you for the link!

[bluemeanybeany]

Ivy House also has it's own mini stage like theatre thing which you might like - it's big on it's performance stuff. It's has a music scene which could best be described as drunk and gypsy-like

[bluemeanybeany]

if you flick through the first minutes of the kids mucking about this is actually a fairly good tour with the ambiance of the Ivy House.

[bluemeanybeany]

It has a decent band and a dog, and card games - this actually maybe the pub the cousins were describing before.

And it has a theater and is 5 minutes walk from Meanyflat! and Only 10 minutes walk from new Meanyflat.

[spikesgirl58]

Wow, what a lot of kids! This is a bit more kid friendly than I was imagining,

[bluemeanybeany]

That's probably cause its lunchtime on a Saturday, there wouldn't be kids after evening meal time

[spikesgirl58]

Excellent! I will give it a go once I get home from work.

[bluemeanybeany]

yep I think you might like that one. I've double checked the video to make sure I'm not on it. ;)

I can disclose an extra bit of information that they need to change the lightbulb in the ladies toilets however as it's entirely pitch black in there.