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The Lazy Dog
A neighbourhood pub with a regular comedy schedule, live film nights and a decent food menu. It’s a sister pub to both The Windmill and The Pipe and Slippers.
The decor has a faded gin palace vibe, with a refectory-style dining area left of the bar and more intimate booths on the right. Upstairs is a child-free area that can be booked for private functions, and there’s a sun-trap garden out front and a sizeable walled garden round the back.
The pub first opened its doors in 1851 under a landlord called Job Gillam, a sawyer from Gillam’s Saw Mills, which were then situated behind the pub building. In pre-mechanised days, timber was sawed by men working in pairs; the sawyer above the log was the Top Dog and the one down below in the saw pit was The Underdog. The pub’s sign suggests that Gillam’s underdogs were more fond of pies and pints than chopping wood…
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