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the bridge
No, I haven't yet decended into illiteracy, 'the bridge' lost its capital letters and gained a completely new interior with a modern style aimed at a younger clientele. The pictures below explain all. It is effectively a new pub, as it was closed for the best part of two years to be extensively refurbished in a modern style.
Seating is a little limited but there is plenty of floor space for standing about, but with no bar stools for the bar flies. The pub is child-friendly in the daytime, and offers 'pound-a-pint' on some beverages. One area of the pub has two three-seater settees facing each other over a wide gap with a table. A couple of stools by the window offer a good perch for people-watching. Each corner of the room has a large screen tv. When I first went in, it was sport at the settee side of the room and loud music at the other.
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Top and bottom left are old views from before the refurb - the rest are June 2003, after the refurb.
My spies said that Sam (from the old White Hart next door) visited the new pub at least three times on the first evening to see what the opposition was up to. Beers on offer at the time included: Caffrey's bitter, Stones bitter, Guinness and the usual lagers. The big white pump in the middle of the bar was a specialist German lager (Hoegarten?). The new landlord also ownes 'Tiamo', the Italian eatery just a little further along Thurlstone Road with some car parking on Talbot Road, nearby.
The Bridge was a popular destination for elderly escapees from just up the road at Netherfield. It was an the old people's home until the 1980s but is now a sixth form college for PGS. It was a workhouse in even older times.
