West Hoathly Seagull
Honorary Ruffian
Thanks, now going mad trying to remember them all without using "Street view"! I remember an ill advised pub crawl round Rye once - just.
Haven't drunk there for many a year but fave pub was the Ypres Inn just down from the Ypres Tower. John Ryan, the creator of Captain Pugwash lived nearby and it was his local, lucky chap. The menus in there were drawn by him and showed the good Captain sitting outside enjoying a flagon of ale. Saw Mr Ryan in there once enjoying an ale - he was very tall.
Ah, the good captain, brings back memories. The folks have got a hand-painted commission by John Ryan in the dining room. It makes me laugh - I had a colleague once who thought that the, er, two characters in Pugwash were completely innocent.
As for the pubs, coming from Rye, you have the one nearest to the old Rover garage (is that the Ypres Inn?), the Top O' the Hill, now something else, the Peace and Plenty, which I think has closed, the Playden Oasts, one at Peasmarsh (can't remember its name), the Cock as you go out of the village, the little one on its own with a big Harveys sign outside (again forgotten its name), two closed ones by the Kent and East Sussex Railway level crossing at Northiam, the White Hart at Newenden (sadly had a very off pint of Harveys there), the Swan at Sandhurst, and the Tudor Hotel (now closed, but reopened as a B&B, the Queens Hotel and Oak and Ivy at Hawkurst. I guess it was the main coaching road from London and that was why it was able to sustain so many pubs.
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