Balham Bowls Club, Balham, SW12

Tris C left this review about Balham Bowls Club

This place dates from 1893 but has only been a pub since 2006, run by Antic and boasting a CAMRA heritage listing of *.
Well described on both CAMRA’s sites, there’s a rambling five-room layout, with much dark wood field panelling to the walls, almost all cells home to a regimental crest, much like the former interior of Oxford’s Lamb & Flag with its college crest flummery. There are plenty of aged sporting accoutrements, such as old tennis clubs and golf bats, further knickknacks such as an old American clock and mixed prints. Customers were on the younger side, probably local professionals, one with a baby in a pram an hour after the little treasures should have been evicted.
A refreshingly different ale choice from Young’s south London tyranny, with Wimbledon’s Copper Leaf, Sharp’s Sea Fury and Volden’s Session and Pale at just £4.50 a pint, served by a friendly barmaid and on excellent form.
This is a very nice pub with a good choice of affordable cask where I could have spent some time; a must-visit if in the borough of Wandsworth.

On 22^nd March 2024 - rating: 8
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