N0276 Murrays

I headed in the door closest to the bus stop here; which brought me in to a games room / bar which smelled of fresh paint. However, despite the renewed decor, they still had an rare example of the traditional Irish pub game of Rings, with the board featuring the actual rings required to play it with. 

I've previously only seen one rings board in a pub, in that case ringless and bearing the branding of a 65-year defunct beer brand; but I did have one at home as a kid. However, dyspraxia and pints don't combine to being any good at it, so I didn't partake.

Darts and a pool table make up the rest of the facilities in this room, the more usual things to expect in a games room.

There are other areas to the pub, but if I held myself to trying bars and lounges in places, I'd probably be dead already. Food and music are pushed heavily on the pubs social media pages, so presumably make up the draw for the other bits of the pub

Considering how crowded the next pub was, and how busy the other bits of this pub sounded through the connection are behind the bar; I may not have got in anyway!

This is the last post before Christmas and the New Year; unless I take to doing a historical article during the time off - this has happened before