I made it to the Anglesea Arms about three hours before opening time.
This signage was all there, last time I was here back in 2002.
I only went to the Anglesea once when I was a student. Morris dancers turned up and performed, but I don’t think that was the reason we preferred the Hoop and Toy amongst the South Ken pubs.
It was a different story when I worked at ICR 15 years later when the Anglesea was a favourite of mine and the rest of the IT department.
Maybe if I had waited until opening time I would have seen Julian Lloyd Webber who was also there most evenings.
Back in 2001 we had finished work early on the Friday before the August bank holiday. A very drunk French lady (not with us) drove off against the protests of everyone in the pub that she was in no fit state, and managed to hit three vehicles before reaching the junction with Fulham Road.
The police sent two vans, two cars and 14 officers who patiently calmed her down before hauling her off to the station.
Apparently they planned the Great Train Robbery in the Anglesea Arms. Maybe that’s why the police came mob-handed to arrest one pissed French lady…