In the first of the four posts, I mentioned there was some odd repetition of features across the pubs of this trip.
I'd previously posted a photo of a pub toilet corridor with "Men to the Left, because Women are always Right" and directional arrows to the respective toilets. This was to be seen in The Willows, and also here in the Quarry House.
Martins featured a small sign on one end of the bar claiming to be something along the line of "auld bollix corner" - that is likely not exactly what it said, I forgot to take note. This is also visible here in the Quarry House.
I'd never considered that this type of signage would become as much of a pub trope as, say, the standard set of pub greebling (old radios, old farm equipment, replica signs); but clearly they have.
Anyway, there's more to the pub than that. And in the case of this pub, there was also more to their music volume - it was increased from a tolerable background level to Very Very Loud and back to normal again a few times while we were there. There was someone setting up a table quiz, which might have been the issue.
Minor ear splitting aside, this is a nice, large and fairly modern pub. There's a pizza van in the carpark as a food option, which I was going to use and then didn't - instead the fairly cheap and pretty good Marsellas chipper around the corner provided my dinner.
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