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Hurrah for the four day weekend!
Friday. We are tapping a keg of Young's Finest London Gold first thing in the morning. Whoever buys the LAST PINT OF THE BARREL. Wins the FIRST 2 GALLONS OF THE NEXT BARREL! Or a bar tab of equivalent value!
Saturday. Open as usual for breakfast from 10am with brunch Specials all day!
Sunday & Monday. We are always fully booked every Sunday for our Fantastic Roast Lunch. We will be serving Roasts on Sunday and Monday to ensure no one is disappointed this Easter weekend! Don’t forget we open a bottle of something nice from our cellar every Sunday Night for all our Dining Room Diners to sample. Complete with tasting notes and food matching ideas. |
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| We will be celebrating St George's Day all Week this year and revelling in the institutions that are THE PUB PIE, BEER BATTRED FISH & CHIPS, PORK SCRATCHINGS AND BANGERS & MASH! With specials on these all week, culminating in £2 pints of Young's Bitter all day on Friday 23rd April and Full English Breakfast served with complimentary Virgin Mary’s from 10am on Saturday 24th! |
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It has occurred to us that we have plenty of prize draws and competitions at the Billet, but aside from the Winner nobody knows who’s won!
So to rectify this. In March.
Gail Risse
Kamila Shamsee
Darren Lee
Were all drawn from our prize draw bowl and invited in for complimentary Roast Lunches at the Crooked Billet.
Ken Dodds Dads Dogs Dead.
Broke a losing streak and won one of the Monday Night Pub Quizzes this week!
(They also win my vote for best pub quiz team name).
The Grotty Trotters also won for the first time in a hard fought quiz this month and celebrated a birthday at the same time!
The winner of the Bar Humbug Competition (raising money for the Great Ormond Street Hospital in December). Was Emma Roberts with a correct guess of 1028 humbugs in our Humbug Jar!
Best Wishes.
Iain Roberts & The Team |
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First Things First
April Fool's Day, Thursday 1st April.
No tricks no pranks just complimentary RHUBARB FOOL for all of our Dining Room Diners that day. That feels refreshingly grown up!
Heated Covered Smoking Area
At long last the Crooked Billet has a corner for you to enjoy your social smoke. Follow the signs in the bar.
As the weather improves don’t forget you can get your Rug for the Common from behind the bar!
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World Cup & Wimbledon Tennis!
June & July are jam packed with great sport.
All Matches & Games will be shown on our New TV!
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So, what exactly is a 'Crooked Billet'?
Our customers frequently ask us this question, and we've also had numerous answers offered.
This is the explanation we like best.
While many think that pub signs were created to designate the name of the pub, the truth is actually opposite. In medieval times, taverns would hang examples of whatever crop was in season (for example, a bunch of grapes) to signify their purpose as an eating house to passing travellers. The most primitive of these signs was a single piece of wood, otherwise known as a 'billet', which simply meant that travellers were welcome. Thus, a tavern would become known as the place with the bent stick above its door, and travelers would be told "If thee travelleth southwest from London towards Ye Olde Wimbledon Village, thou shalt come across an inn with a Crooked Billet above its door, and there ye shall be made most welcome before continuing thy journey onwards towards ASDA." Or something like that.
What do You think it Means?
While the most common explanation is that 'crooked billet' means a piece of bent firewood, there are several other definitions we've come across ranging from 'a block of raw material' to a french word meaning 'an invitation for a soldier to share quarters'. If you fancy providing your own translation, whether backed up with an encyclopaedia or purely fictional, consider entering our monthly contest! The winner will see their interpretation published in The Crooked Commoner Community newsletter as well as displayed (kind of) prominently in The Bent Stick, I mean The Crooked Billet.
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Thanks For Reading
Next Month. Details of our New Wine List Tasting! |
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