Quote Originally Posted by light up the darkness View Post
A few years ago I had a rather bowel loosening moment in the Crown in the centre of Belfast. So much so that I have never felt the urge to return.

Lovely warm generous people but some scary fkrs around the place
The Crown is a great pub. Opposite what was the most bombed building in the world. Leadened windows, (like Dickens) still gas lamps inside and little snugs all though the bar. All those bombs and it never lost those very expensive windows.
Back in the day a loyalist pub, and a few metres up the road another pub, The Beaten Docket which was are republican as could be. Fascinating place Belfast but most of the old 'hard' areas have been demolished now.