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If you love the British pub, you will like this blog. Here I will review the pubs I drop into in my wanderings around my home region - urban, rural, posh, homely, fun pubs, restaurant pubs, and local backstreet pubs. I hope to encourage people to appreciate them.
I will score each pub out of five points each (30 points maximum) on its ambience, decor, service, whether it serves real ales, state of the toilets (but I can't vouch for the state of the gents because I don't use them!) and what extras it has - games, beer garden, newspapers, serves food, karaoke, quizzes, live music.
If after reading one of my reviews you decide to check out a pub, I hope you enjoy the experience. But bear in mind that I have only visited some of them once, and pubs and pub managers change. If the review needs updating, please leave a comment.
Ups and downs? Well, people drink when they're down. And they drink to celebrate, when they're feeling 'up'. Besides that, this is hill country. It's full of ups and downs.
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Monday, 17 September 2012

The Royal George, Greenfield, Saddleworth



The Royal George, Manchester Road, Greenfield, OL3 7HX
Phone: 01457 837851
On a main road junction, with roads leading to Huddersfield, Delph, and Greenfield, and close to the Saddleworth hills. The Tameside Valley Way is just across the junction and this is a good pub to stop off at if you are walking in the area. It's mainly a restaurant pub, with lunchtime and evening menu, and is in a pleasant enough setting to be worth a drive out if you want to eat out.  Bus 350 Oldham-Ashton passes close by at the road junction, runs every half hour during the week, once an hour on Sundays.
decor - 4
recently decorated in cream, uncluttered, few pub ornaments.
ambience - 3
A pleasant, spacious pub with two rooms and a dining room, but the piped music and the TV were on at the same time when I was there, (September 2012) and the overlapping noise got irritating.
ale - 2
JW Lees pub, was serving Moonraker and British Jewels when I was there in 2012, Golden Peddler in August 2014.
service -5
friendly, and impressively fast even though the place was busy
Features - 4
Food, quite varied menus, for lunch and evening
Dogs permitted.
Live music regularly throughout the month
Home of Off The Rails Comedy Club, last Sunday of the month
Function room for hire
Toilets -4
Quite good condition but the dryer didn't work.
Score 23 out of 30

Wheelchair access


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