Thornton Heath Tour

This tour took place on 18th September 2004, accompanied by Alex.
We'd been to see Croydon Athletic get beaten by Slough in the FA Cup first qualifying round. Afterwards we wandered up the road to Thornton Heath train station - these 3 pubs are all within around 5 minutes of there.

Railway Telegraph

Fairly typical by-the-station grim beer pub. I didn't drink all of mine because it had bits of sediment (I hope) floating in the bottom. Full of Palace fans, so obviously pretty innocuous.

Lord Napier

It turns out that this is the 'best jazz pub' in the UK. There's an entire room dedicated to jazz (and pool). Quite nice but not typical Young's.

Fountain Head

Aha! This is what you want in a local South-London Young's pub. Everyone in there seemed to know each other, apart from me and Alex, but we felt completely welcome. They even put up with Alex's 'barelling arms' celebration, usually employed to great effect after a double 6 at backgammon, in this case used to express delight at Karaoke song choices (for instance, 'Never gonna give you up' by Rick Astley). We kept bawling "More Rick Astley" but they were polite enough to tolerate such nonsense.