The Borough



I have great memories of The Borough but it has been shit for years. I occasionally have a nostalgic moment and go back in only to discover that the beer is shit (admittedly not bothered for a couple of years).
It is a shame the bar has been ripped out but it's a victim of its own low standards. Back in the day it served a cracking pint but that somehow stopped being a priority and it's suffered ever since.
Aye, I've only been in half a dozen times in the last few years and it's been a shit pint every time.
 
Be nice if they do it up like a traditional old school boozer. Where did the bar used to be pre-island? Was it on the left hand side? Last time I was in there was when England drew 0-0 v Italy to qualify for the WC finals (97?)
 
Our boy used to put bands on upstairs there on a Friday (think it would have been about 2007ish) for a cut of the upstairs bar takings. He would put anyone on and the bar would make money.

He'd sit and get pissed all night then spend the money he'd made in town when he finished. Circular economy.
 
First went there when you mainly went upstairs late sixties early seventies.
I'd arrange to meet lasses on Books corner, then I'd sit up there and you could see if they'd turned up or not (anaar it'll of been quite often)
Mind I'm talking drinking Vaux Gold Tankard then, absolute piss.
 
Part of its charm. Didn’t get the coked up roid wankers in, the beer was canny and the juke box was class. Just hope they don’t try to attract the clientele I mentioned.
Unless you were an arsehole, you very much got looked after in there. The regulars would stand up for everyone.
 
Always remember being in there on my 18th drinking 'Borough bombs'. Think the last time I ventured in was the day the Reading home match got called off first match of the season so everyone went on the piss instead.

Shame to see it like that but hopefully they restore it and keep it as a sort of spruced up version of what it was with the ale, jukebox and that rather than the type of bars that surround it.
 
Had many a good time in The Borough, including my first ever pint.

When Grant had it I was a regular. On many occasion I'd be there till kick out time on a Friday and then be one of the first in again pre-match on a Saturday.

Many a good gig upstairs, and down for that matter.

Sad day.
 
Hope the retain a pub type place and not a cocktail/prosecco/gin joint for pretentious kernts. Always been a boozer with a good jukey. Rip Borough.
 
Best jukebox in town , but definitely needs a lick of paint , as others have said hope it remains a traditional pub with decent music
 
Be nice if they do it up like a traditional old school boozer. Where did the bar used to be pre-island? Was it on the left hand side? Last time I was in there was when England drew 0-0 v Italy to qualify for the WC finals (97?)
Bars always been where it was, just the front bit though, the old front door was on the corner facing the beehive, the back door & stairs didn't used to be there, the original stairs went up behind the bar , the backroom had a fireplace of sorts, never saw it lit & a pool table, had a bay window at the back, changed to the present layout when Vaux did it out in 85, then barred all the punks who drank in there when it reopened. I helped put gigs on upstairs on a Thursday nights for 3 months before it shut down, first bands to play the Borough iirc.
 

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