Historic Lord of the Rings pub to close after 450 years

evening standard ^ | 1/27/2021

[mylife]

Sadness...

[mylife]

Try opening the doors you silly Limeys.

[mylife]

My current VFW is 100 years old and has been shuttered since early march.

It may never recover and is historic.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The Chinese flu will enable the CCP to buy up the entire world for pennies on the dollar.

It’s almost as if it was a biological weapon and we lost the first biological war.

[mylife]

I agree.

[Churchillspirit]

Hope “The Trip To Jerusalem” is still open.

[irishjuggler]

I thought that the Eagle & Child (aka “Bird & Baby”) was the Tolkien/Lewis watering hole?

[Alas Babylon!]

I thought it was The Prancing Pony?

[absalom01]

Almost?

[mylife]

dunno, I never lifted a pint with either of them.

[PGR88]

So it survived the plague of 1625, and the Great Plague of 1665, but couldn’t survive Covid19?

[ocrp1982]

My local VFW is an old Quonset Hut. It’s been open since August. We live in Florida.

[jeffc]

Owned by St. John’s College. I wonder what kind of endowment they have. I guess it’s nothing like Harvard’s, but I wonder why they won’t use any of it to keep a historic building and business going till this clears up. Are they as stingy as Harvard?

[mylife]

My post in Tx was originally an army barracks, the sacred meeting room is in the original structure, it too remains closed :(

[mylife]

Apparently.

I have never seen such wide spread panic.

[DJ MacWoW]

So it survived the plague of 1625, and the Great Plague of 1665, but couldn’t survive Covid19?

It couldn't survive a political narrative. Covid was only the vehicle.

[mylife]

Yeah I wondered about the college connection, but if you have no students, you have no customers.

It’s seriously effed up.

[Da Coyote]

“So it survived the plague of 1625, and the Great Plague of 1665, but couldn’t survive Covid19?”

The UK was not cursed with the Democrat Party back then. If it had, it’d be long gone.

[Cold Heart]

Good point. I think that was before democrats were invented.

[Vaquero]

“in the darkest depths of Mordor I met a PUB so fair. But Gollum and the evil one Crept up and slipped away with her”