The Broad Zone
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Covering Broad Lane, Campo Lane, Trippet Lane, And Top Of West Bar

This area is a backwater. It has the famous Trippet's wine bar, a red light district, and pubs that are origional and un-modified. The Grapes is a popular gig venue, and the Dog and Partridge next door, serves the best Guinness in town, and it's full of real irish friendly people, who are always having a knees up in the back room. It appears as if it is a free for all for anyone who can sing anything folky or Irishy with any instrument. But in that place is a site to behold, which would warm the cockles of the coldest heart.

Pubs/Bars are listed in alphabetical order.

The Dog & Partridge - Trippet Lane
January 2000

The Grapes
Trippet Lane, Dec 1999

This Great old pub is a long standing gig venue and the inside is totally un modernised, and has a superb atmosphere, with it's central bar in the corridor and 3 seperate downstairs rooms.
If only all pubs were still like this.

¡Y viva las uvas!
Partitioned For 175 Years

The Queen's Hotel

Scotland Street

January 2000

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Sadly Closed, But still in all it's glory.
Looks Big Enough To Have Many Hotel Rooms!
If I Was The Queen, I'd Stay There

Trippets Wine Bar
Trippet Lane Dec 1999

Regular parties and bands here, and if you're not partial to a drop of plonk, they sell bottled lagers too!

The Broad Lane Table

Pub Name	Since
Cubana Trippet Lane	1990s
Dog & Partridge Trippet Lane	1797
Fagans ( since 1985 ) formerly The Barrel 69 Broad Lane	1825
The Grapes 80 Trippet Lane	1825
Old Crown Inn formerly R & B's Uptown Bar before that The Crown also Old Crown Inn 33 Scotland St.	1797
Red House 168 Solly Street	1796
The Queen 85 Scotland Street	1797
Trippet's Wine Bar former Cutlery Firm 89 Trippet Lane

The Queen Looks Like It Is Closed, As The Furnature Is Stacked Up Against The Inside Of The Window

R&B's Uptown Bar - Scotland Street
January 2000

Pub Update 30th March 2008

The Old Crown has reverted back to it's original name and is now offering Bed and Breakfast. This pub was in a state the last time I visited but now the area is thriving again due to an explosion in City Living apartments and new office developments in the city.

Right next door is a large "Metis" block full of offices and a multistorey car park. Around the back is "Velocity Villiage" 3 blocks of city living apartments.

Dubbed the "St' Vincent's Quarter" this area of the city has been small empty industrial units for decades, surface car parking and bits of grass, it was largely forgotten, but this is changing fast as more of the area is renewed. Hopefully these changes have come in time to save some of these very old pubs.