Discover Hertford Online Forum

Topic

Topic ID 2482

06/02/2007 by Victor Meldrew

Child Friendly Pubs

Thought it would be good to start a list of all Child friendly pubs so that anyone that has, can and anyone that does not, can avoid. The Millstream The Barge


Replies

Reply ID 35177

06/02/2007 by Tigger

The White Horse (Upstairs) Nigel may eat them The Black Horse - complete with fantastic garden in the Summer Any more suggestions, please post then I can avoid [;)]


Reply ID 35178

06/02/2007 by Joby

The lounge at the Salisbury (to the left as you walk in), although pushchairs are not permitted as it's a pretty small room.


Reply ID 35180

06/02/2007 by Steve

I've seen mothers with babes in arms in The Snug (during the day of course!)


Reply ID 35181

06/02/2007 by Deveraux

The Golden Griffen?


Reply ID 35189

06/02/2007 by JohnSmith

The Golden Griffin is child friendly up to 8pm (I think that's the cut off time).


Reply ID 35191

06/02/2007 by publandlord

At the barge we welcome children of any age provided they are well behaved (ie not running around the place) until 7 pm, then they have to be outside, and then off the premesis altogether by 9pm.


Reply ID 35194

06/02/2007 by Dell Boy

quote:
Originally posted by publandlord
At the barge we welcome children of any age provided they are well behaved (ie not running around the place) until 7 pm, then they have to be outside, and then off the premesis altogether by 9pm.
Are children allowed to use the Toilet inside the Pub after 7p.m. or do you provide a outdoor toilet between 7p.m. & 9p.m.?


Reply ID 35195

06/02/2007 by Dell Boy

Can someone provide the details of the law regarding children in Pubs, seems to be a lot of confusion regarding the new law which came into force during the summer, Rooster you may be able to help on this.


Reply ID 35246

07/02/2007 by Drama Queen

I don;t think pubs are the right places for kids, I feel they have a lot of energy (the kids) and running around adults who have come out to escape their kids perhaps and enjoy a joke or two or use bad language is not something I would wish to take a kid into... BUT I have friends who are now single parent families and its very difficult to just dump off kids if you want to have some sort of social life and a drink on a Sunday lunchtime. There are child friendly places but I don't use them, I want a crying free environment, but I do think there needs to be some pubs where kids can be taken to and run around a garden maybe.


Reply ID 35250

07/02/2007 by Tigger

quote:
Originally posted by Drama Queen
I don;t think pubs are the right places for kids, I feel they have a lot of energy (the kids) and running around adults who have come out to escape their kids perhaps and enjoy a joke or two or use bad language is not something I would wish to take a kid into... BUT I have friends who are now single parent families and its very difficult to just dump off kids if you want to have some sort of social life and a drink on a Sunday lunchtime. There are child friendly places but I don't use them, I want a crying free environment, but I do think there needs to be some pubs where kids can be taken to and run around a garden maybe.
Don't know if it still occurs or is a more Northern thing. Some Pubs used to have seperate Rooms for Kids but with no controlled supervision it is probably now a safety issue. I am thankfully at that age where I don't know too many people with little ones but Child space is Child space and Adult space is Adult space. When mine was young I would have not wanted him in that sort of environment.


Reply ID 35295

07/02/2007 by Rooster

quote:
Originally posted by Victor Meldrew
Thought it would be good to start a list of all Child friendly pubs so that anyone that has, can and anyone that does not, can avoid. The Millstream The Barge
Quote Tigger: The White Horse (Upstairs) Nigel may eat them The Black Horse - complete with fantastic garden in the Summer Any more suggestions, please post then I can avoid. end quote I am sorry, but I think you are totally out of order by actively encouraging people to avoid pubs which allow children on the premises. You are violating our freedom to trade. Because a publican allows children on the premises, by stipulating this concession on his/her premises licence, it does not mean that the pub is overrun by them. We have few children on our premises, and more probably in the summer when the garden is used. Yes we allow children. What crime is there in that? Children here, have to be well behaved and if they are not then they incur my wroth. All children have to be off the premises by 8 pm. Are you likely to be in a pub before 8 pm looking for children to complain about? I doubt it. Oh, yes and Tigger, are you now going to avoid us because we allow children on the premises? It hasn't stopped you in the past. And Victor, you cannot tell me that the Hertford Rugby Club that you frequent so much doesn't have children running around. OK it is a club, not a pub, but it is still licenced premises, and I really cannot believe that you have never taken your child/children there at some time or other. If someone wants a drink and has a favoured pub, why should he/she avoid it because it is child/family friendly. Give us all a break and stop whinging. PS we are also DOG friendly. Does anyone object?


Reply ID 35296

07/02/2007 by Rooster

quote:
Originally posted by Victor Meldrew
Thought it would be good to start a list of all Child friendly pubs so that anyone that has, can and anyone that does not, can avoid. The Millstream The Barge
Quote Tigger: The White Horse (Upstairs) Nigel may eat them The Black Horse - complete with fantastic garden in the Summer Any more suggestions, please post then I can avoid. end quote I am sorry, but I think you are totally out of order by actively encouraging people to avoid pubs which allow children on the premises. You are violating our freedom to trade. Because a publican allows children on the premises, by stipulating this concession on his/her premises licence, it does not mean that the pub is overrun by them. We have few children on our premises, and more probably in the summer when the garden is used. Yes we allow children. What crime is there in that? Children here, have to be well behaved and if they are not then they incur my wroth. All children have to be off the premises by 8 pm. Are you likely to be in a pub before 8 pm looking for children to complain about? I doubt it. Oh, yes and Tigger, are you now going to avoid us because we allow children on the premises? It hasn't stopped you in the past. And Victor, you cannot tell me that the Hertford Rugby Club that you frequent so much doesn't have children running around. OK it is a club, not a pub, but it is still licenced premises, and I really cannot believe that you have never taken your child/children there at some time or other. If someone wants a drink and has a favoured pub, why should he/she avoid it because it is child/family friendly. Give us all a break and stop whinging. PS we are also DOG friendly. Does anyone object?


Reply ID 35298

07/02/2007 by steven

Where has anyone violated your freedom to trade, or encouraged anyone not to visit certain pubs? Using your logic, Victor and Tigger could just as well be encouraging families to visit family-friendly pubs.


Reply ID 35303

07/02/2007 by helpless

Rooster, i believe you are reading Victors post incorrectly. He is asking for pubs that have a child friendly policy so he can visit with his family!!! For those people who do not like pubs with children in then there many places with a no children policy.


Reply ID 35304

07/02/2007 by James007

quote:
Originally posted by publandlord
At the barge we welcome children of any age provided they are well behaved (ie not running around the place) until 7 pm, then they have to be outside, and then off the premesis altogether by 9pm.
This is great.
quote:
Originally posted by publandlord
At the barge we welcome children of any age provided they are well behaved (ie not running around the place) until 7 pm, then they have to be outside, and then off the premesis altogether by 9pm.
Is that by a shovel, or just a spade?


Reply ID 35319

08/02/2007 by Tigger

quote:
Originally posted by Rooster
quote:
Originally posted by Victor Meldrew
Thought it would be good to start a list of all Child friendly pubs so that anyone that has, can and anyone that does not, can avoid. The Millstream The Barge
Quote Tigger: The White Horse (Upstairs) Nigel may eat them The Black Horse - complete with fantastic garden in the Summer Any more suggestions, please post then I can avoid. end quote I am sorry, but I think you are totally out of order by actively encouraging people to avoid pubs which allow children on the premises. You are violating our freedom to trade. Because a publican allows children on the premises, by stipulating this concession on his/her premises licence, it does not mean that the pub is overrun by them. We have few children on our premises, and more probably in the summer when the garden is used. Yes we allow children. What crime is there in that? Children here, have to be well behaved and if they are not then they incur my wroth. All children have to be off the premises by 8 pm. Are you likely to be in a pub before 8 pm looking for children to complain about? I doubt it. Oh, yes and Tigger, are you now going to avoid us because we allow children on the premises? It hasn't stopped you in the past. And Victor, you cannot tell me that the Hertford Rugby Club that you frequent so much doesn't have children running around. OK it is a club, not a pub, but it is still licenced premises, and I really cannot believe that you have never taken your child/children there at some time or other. If someone wants a drink and has a favoured pub, why should he/she avoid it because it is child/family friendly. Give us all a break and stop whinging. PS we are also DOG friendly. Does anyone object?
Rooster, sorry if I have offended you, I simply suggested that not everyone enjoys Children in an Adult enviroment. I did say that you have a fantastic garden and that's where Kid's would enjoy themselves. Hopefully see you soon.


Reply ID 35358

08/02/2007 by Victor Meldrew

quote:
And Victor, you cannot tell me that the Hertford Rugby Club that you frequent so much doesn't have children running around. OK it is a club, not a pub, but it is still licenced premises, and I really cannot believe that you have never taken your child/children there at some time or other.
Rooster, where did I say I objected to Children in pubs???? Please re-read my first entry and do not jump to conclusions. Yes I do take my son to the pub every now and then and the 2 I mentioned are the ones I have taken him to. The topic was really started to give parents an idea where they can take there kids after reading about Baroosh (which I already know, as had already been turned away) In the summer, I may even take a stroll to the Black horse with my wife and son now I know you are child friendly, as long as you have managed to climb down off of your high one by then [:D]


Reply ID 35417

08/02/2007 by publandlord

Trebuchet.

quote:
Originally posted by James007
quote:
Originally posted by publandlord
At the barge we welcome children of any age provided they are well behaved (ie not running around the place) until 7 pm, then they have to be outside, and then off the premesis altogether by 9pm.
This is great.
quote:
Originally posted by publandlord
At the barge we welcome children of any age provided they are well behaved (ie not running around the place) until 7 pm, then they have to be outside, and then off the premesis altogether by 9pm.
Is that by a shovel, or just a spade?


Reply ID 35458

08/02/2007 by Capitalist piglet

quote:
Originally posted by Rooster
quote:
Originally posted by Victor Meldrew
Thought it would be good to start a list of all Child friendly pubs so that anyone that has, can and anyone that does not, can avoid. The Millstream The Barge
Quote Tigger: The White Horse (Upstairs) Nigel may eat them The Black Horse - complete with fantastic garden in the Summer Any more suggestions, please post then I can avoid. end quote I am sorry, but I think you are totally out of order by actively encouraging people to avoid pubs which allow children on the premises. You are violating our freedom to trade. Because a publican allows children on the premises, by stipulating this concession on his/her premises licence, it does not mean that the pub is overrun by them. We have few children on our premises, and more probably in the summer when the garden is used. Yes we allow children. What crime is there in that? Children here, have to be well behaved and if they are not then they incur my wroth. All children have to be off the premises by 8 pm. Are you likely to be in a pub before 8 pm looking for children to complain about? I doubt it. Oh, yes and Tigger, are you now going to avoid us because we allow children on the premises? It hasn't stopped you in the past. And Victor, you cannot tell me that the Hertford Rugby Club that you frequent so much doesn't have children running around. OK it is a club, not a pub, but it is still licenced premises, and I really cannot believe that you have never taken your child/children there at some time or other. If someone wants a drink and has a favoured pub, why should he/she avoid it because it is child/family friendly. Give us all a break and stop whinging. PS we are also DOG friendly. Does anyone object?
Err… am I missing something here - got the impression that the post was complimentary to the BH , not the reverse.. I think that a twice posted, very defensive response is all a little OTT. Lets keep our ire for the real enemy (Who? The Romans? No, the People’s Front for the Liberation of Judea...)


Reply ID 35463

08/02/2007 by lifestyle

for me im in two minds ...... totally depends on the moment ..... if im out for a night out id rather not see any children which in my haunts would be baroosh,Snug and sometimes Bar11 ...... but saying that i was having a coffee in the Snug the other morning and there were a few mums with new borns and i didnt mind at all because it was early morning and the mood was right for it, it was more of a chilled out coffee shop rather than a pub (plus there were yummy mummy's hehe) i think more pubs are turning into cosmopolitan bars as our culture is changing, to offer a wider range of products to a wider range of customers ..... because if not, you cannot survive in the business just selling beer ...... so during the day i dont mind ..... at night i prefer not ..... but i havent seen any children at all in the snug in the evening as the mood changes to a adult bar. I have never seen children in Baroosh or bar11 in the evening but i think they are strictly over 21 so that would be why.


20 replies