Address: 11 Avery Row, W1K 4AN
Nearest Station: Bond Street
Welcome: Good; Service: Good (SIT); Beer: Good; Toilets: Basic
Cost of two pints: £8.08 (London Pride)
Guest: Jim; Word: Boots; Person: General Melchett, Blackadder
Rating: 8/10
We’ve had the pleasure of the company of several different guests now on our tour of London pubs, and it’s fair to say that some have an easier task than others. Tonight may have been the easiest. Jim had reclaimed the role for our last pub of the evening, and found there could only be one word to describe The Iron Duke: ‘boots’ (although he added the phrase, “not the pharmacy”, lest there be any confusion). There were boots everywhere in The Iron Duke. Most of them were standing on wooden shelves on the walls; one acted as a lampstand on the bar. The room upstairs is even called the Boot Room. These references, combined with the Wellington College photos which adorned the walls and the name of the pub, should have given Jim an obvious person who would fit right in – but, unfortunately, someone else had chosen the Duke of Wellington for a different pub earlier in the year, so he selected General Melchett from the fourth series of Blackadder.
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