The Queens, E13

Large L shaped room and bar, grey and white interior with a patterned grey carpet and plenty of windows give it a light airy feeling. Variety of different seats, pool table and a couple of gaming machines. Beers were the normal fair of lagers, cider etc but no real ales.

This is a very good example of its genera, open plan and roomy inside,carpeted and clean - not always the case with some estate style pubs, no real ale as expected, and a range of standard keg offerings. A couple pool tables in evidence and an electronic dart score board but I saw no evidence of a dartboard itself. The Guinness was of so I made do with a half of Kronenbourg. It was steadily populated on a Thursday afternoon, not a place for me but I'd rather spend twenty minutes in here than in a Spoons.

There's no real ale on here unfortunately. But there's a bit of retro furniture on the bar counter - a mainly plastic fronted food container, with pies and the like in it. This is a post-war pub, which could have been built as late as 1970. There's a vestibule entrance on the Green St side, with a quarry tiled floor and a bit of an atrium with a glazed ceiling. An unused door on the left leads to an area (which is obviously also accessed from the main bar area) containing a pool table. A small area leading from the right of the vestibule contains a pool table. The main bar area is a very simple and largely unadorned affair, which is typical of a 1970s pub. The simple bar counter with horizontal panelling, and the eleven bay mirrored bar back are original as you would expect. There's some nice - and also probably original - fixed bench seating in there, as well as a couple of banquettes and a table on a raised dais at the back. A second entrance is at the rear of the pub. One unusual thing to the right of the bar counter is a set of very small double doors signed "Engine Room"; possibly access to the cellar? It's mainly carpeted but with some bare-boarding near the bar counter. This is exactly what it appears to be - a very unprepossessing relatively modern estate pub. To be honest it's not really my sort of place as it doesn't do real ale, but I'm delighted that it's still here for the locals to enjoy.