|
HISTORY OF THE ABBEY RUN
The Abbey run is the most amazing pub crawl in the world. The night kicks off with the
Town Talk -
Sure the windows are dirty and cracked, and the floor s sticky, but the beer is cheap! We enter and everyone looks at us...we place our order and move to the pool table...memories of small dogs, mustang sally and penis shaped beer adverts come to mind!!! I personally have beaten 2 town talk pool players!! signed Jamie..
Oddfellows Arms -
This is a very oldy worldy pub. You no the sort, timberd roof, the old guy in the corner with a pint of stout, and no totty! Our vocal chords have been stretched singing "We Are The Champions" in this very public house. Leopard skin clad wenches are very popular and men with scraggly beards arent too rare either...we were beaten here in pool by a warwickshire champion...we reatreated tail between legs to the...
Wheatsheaf -
If you enter the wheatsheaf with a few pints in you you could think you've stepped in a time wharp, although were not sure which decade! The hot tap dosent turn in the Gents, probably to reduce bills, and there are drinks for sale that were last seen when your old boy was a kid, but an unmissable pub! The latest happening in the wheatsheaf involved a man in a very bright porn shirt and a guy who challenged me to pool...what was he thinking? challenging ME "THE ABBEY RUN CHAMP" Of course i whipped his rather embarrassed arse!!
In the 1970's, the happening place was the
Coach and horses -
However, changing tastes, crumbling masonry etc spelled the end for the coach.The pub did open for a brief time as the Kingsholme, but closed soon after.But it is part of the Abbey Run, and were not going to let a little thing like it closing to stand in the way of tradition! A drink is smuggled out of the Wheatsheaf, and drunk on the doorsrtp! The drinks include ( Cherry B, Pony, Babycham, Snowball)
Before you know it, your in the
Pig and Whistle -
As and when you enter this den of enuiquity there is the faint smell of ass! more than likely due to someones sexual habits....hmm who could this be? A very expensive drink is necked and a game of pool, more than likely won by jamie is played.
Next is the
Courtyard -
The fight capital of nuneaton, a hole, shit hole, horrible pub...just some of the names to describe the courtyard. These maybe a little harsh, its an OK pub where the tequila is made of scotch and the pool balls magically make dents in the walls...old acqaintances are made again with stu - some dirty townie wench. Due to the demolition of the Half Moon, its then off to
Elliots (The weavers for you old folk) -
Eliots is basically a hang out for the rejects of society, and it is amazingly overpriced, so its a shot and a hasty retreat! This is otherwise used as a gig venue where really quite poor gigs go down....on a night out stu normally get the drinks and its possibly the worst pub in nuneaton. The rusty old ford cortina really adds to the shitness of the whole elliots experience.
Tradition said that it was off to the Peacock, but thats a tough one as its now Topshop!, so its off to the
Felix Holt -
The best pub in town. Jamies favourite pub in nuneaton, very very cheap drinks...the place where i got so paraletically drunk i stumble home in a record two hours and threw up!!nice...We look for the oldest books on the shelf ( jamie wins with 1896)..we have many drinks and normally meet up with people we know on a saturday night!!woohoo....blatantly the best pub!! We still have stolen books from this pub!!
Yates Wine Bar -
Cheesy pop music, and a very considerable stench of crapness!! nevertheless an OK bar. Malibu and Coke is on the cards and perhaps a sly steal from round the back.."cider" comes to mind!!
George Eliot -
The bar which trys its hardest to be stylish but pretty much falls on its face with very very overpriced drinks. Blatantly the best night was when the toilets were overflowing ans we said it was a bit smelly. As we spoke we were wading through copious amounts of shit and piss...eeeuurrghh. Then as we went downstairs the innocent punters were getting a nice shower of drunken excrement!! nice.
Pen and Wig -
What can be said about this pub, countless amounts of memorabilia have been nabbed from this pub, posters drinks etc. This pub has an outside section at which myself, Ali, Kerry and Kerr had a pulling comp...me and ali stood in amazment as kerry and kerr promtly starts sharing the contents of each others mouths!! errr!!
Billberries -
Wow...
If your birthday is coming up, we strongly reccoment the Abbey Run to celebrate, and help keep this tradition alive!
|
|
|
ABBEY RUN SHEETS
Every time we do the Abbey Run, a sheet is kept to record the key events of the eavning, what drinks were bought etc. These always end up bieng halarious, and can be viewed on our photo page.
Jamie say's
It is thought that a true drinker can master all of the above pubs and bars and the following
1) Yate's Wine Lodge
This place is a good place to get you in thge mood for bilberries, it is a nice lively bar with plenty of atmosphere and resonably cheap drinks.
2) Chicco's
This is a dodgy little club in which the bar and floor try and steal your shoes by the stickiness!errggh! It has good music and the clientell normally consists of (14 yr old girls, old men, old women and abbey runners avin a laugh!) not a place to be taken seriously!!
Legend has it that all of these pubs have not been finished because either we are too late or they have stopped serving when we get to the later pubs! We have partaken in 4 abbey runs, (with number 1 being the best) with Jamie and stu that are the only one with a 4* average, with and Mark coming a close second with three runs.
|
|
