S1524 McGowans (Harolds Cross)

This pub-ticking trip was done on a Bank Holiday Monday - more specifically, one of those rare Bank Holidays that is not also a BH in England and hence had no massive increase in the amount of TV sport on offer. This lead to many pubs operating their normal Monday opening hours - and not, as is often the case, opening at the same time as they normally would on a weekend day. 

This lead to my first target pub being closed; and going straight to my second - which was open, and serving food (something else that many places were not in a position to offer at the time). However, it appeared that only one small section of the pub was open due to limited staff, and indeed customer, numbers - I don't know if this was the case, but nobody was going anywhere else!

Most of the crowd that were in seemed to be locals and indeed almost seemed to have their "own" seats, which did give a little bit of a feeling of being in the wrong place - the table I got was an odd high table in the middle of the floor too. Just a perception thing and probably not valid for a more normal day of trading!