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The Beaconsfield, Harringay, N4
N4
N4 1DZ
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Tris C left this review about The Beaconsfield
The Beaconsfield makes it into CAMRA’s inventory of pubs with historic interiors, this recording a rank of Regional Importance and it’s for this reason that I suspect the previous reviewers journeyed here. It’s unchanged since at least the last review, with the cardboard glazing still in place and two clips dispensing GK IPA, eschewed in favour of a well poured Guinness, at the amazingly low price of £3.70; clearly the Indian barman has been practicing. Some of the people in here were a bit rum and to be honest, I didn’t feel entirely comfortable here and not just because of the large number of TVs showing the footie.
The interior can be seen on CAMRA’s and on the pub’s own website, where the narrator in the video clip fails to pronounce the name correctly.
At short walk from here and both situated on Green Lanes, the Brownswood and Salisbury both make it into CAMRA’s inventory for having the ‘Wow!’ factor, not ‘Why?’ factor.
On 6th September 2021
- rating: 3
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Bucking Fastard left this review about The Beaconsfield
There is a good pub here struggling to get out ,but in it's current guise there is a huge ,lost oppoutunity.There is a hotel upstairs but I would suspect this is quite downmarket and guests may well be the people spending all day in the pub.The side door leads to an island bar in the middle which you can walk around.Not much furniture at the front,two pool tables at the rear but lots of wood panelling,some etched glass and a fine moulded ceiling but painted a gloomy shade of green.Original features still exist but a pane of glass to the front has been broken but just taped up rather than replaced.The flatscreen were all showing hurling and there were some Irish punters inside but the bar staff are Indian and were getting grief from a regular for not pouring a decent pint of Guiness which was totally unfair.My half was fine at £1.95 but the handpumps didn't look like they have been operational for a while.
It's a sad place,underused and could be so much better with some TLC.No reason to revisit in it's current state .
On 28th July 2018
- rating: 4
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Real Ale Ray left this review about The Beaconsfield
A splendid looking Victorian pub built in 1886. The pub has an historic interior of Regional Importance. The present layout consists of a central island bar with surrounded seating, which flows into a large backroom, housing two pool tables. Features here that interested me, was the curved lobby entrance, the elaborate plastered ceilings and etched mirrors.
Uninteresting feature was the two handpumps, one serving London Pride and one turned back.
On 2nd March 2016
- rating: 6
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Rex Rattus left this review about The Beaconsfield
This looks very much like a pub that has seen better days. It looks an impressive building from the outside, although the “E” and “S” were missing from the original gilded pub name above the door, with the more modern pub sign above it looking a bit incongruous. Inside all the original rooms have been knocked into one, with the bar counter in the centre of the room. This pub is also on CAMRA’s inventory of pubs with heritage interiors, and I noticed what looked like the original ceiling (painted dark “racing” green), cast iron pillars, as well as some cut and etched glasswork. But it has none of the Victorian grandeur of the Salisbury down the road. There was a big pull-down screen showing the Stoke v Wigan game when I was in, plus at least four other TV monitors around the room.
London Pride was the only real ale advertised when I was in, although there was another handpump with a GKIPA clip turned round. I ordered the Pride, but it tasted exactly like GKIPA, and the two ales are very different in taste, and I know the difference quite well. I mentioned this to the barman, who tried a taste and said I might have a point. I’m not sure what he did about it though. If he checked while I was still in there he didn’t let me know the result – but he was on his own and presumably that would have made it inconvenient for him to leave the bar. This is not a bad pub, and it was quite comfortable, but there was nothing sufficiently special about it that would make me want to pay a return visit.
On 12th December 2009
- rating: 4
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