QuizList

Once in the early days of QuizList I wrote that I had had more good nights in the Oxford Arms (Camden Town), the Half Moon (Essex Road) and the Shepherds (Highgate) than in all the other quiz pubs put together; I think because with all of those pubs the quiz was only incidental to the atmosphere and the whole pub experience. I should also have mentioned the Prince George of Cumberland (Albany Street) where the good times rolled till dawn. Let’s get things in proportion, quizzes themselves aren’t all that great, are they???

The Half Moon and Shepherds have been modernised and renamed; the Prince George is no more, and it’s a long time since I visited the Oxford Arms. To prevent this sounding like a lyric from ‘Dublin in the Rare Old Times’, let’s get down to business and what prompted me to mention the Oxford Arms. No sooner had I mentioned that Pat Logue, ex Oxford Arms, was now running a new quiz, than two people mailed me within an hour of each other with the required information. The pub where Pat is to be found now is:

Sheephaven Bay, 2-3 Mornington Street, Camden, London, NW1 7QD (no phone number in evidence), the quiz is or will be on Monday nights, and here’s a link to some more information from the Camden New Journal: http://www.thecnj.co.uk/camden/2008/061208/news061208_15.html

Pat’s Oxford Arms quiz was legendary and the free supper gimmick may have attracted a few people initially, but they came back for the quiz and Pat’s good-humoured baiting of the audience. The only detail I don’t have is whether the quiz has started yet…. no doubt someone will let me know.