Newton Haven Pub Crawl

World's End Pub Crawl, Celebrating 10 Years of the last of the Cornetto Trilogy Film's Release

A rough Guide

IMPORTANT INFO:

PLEASE Let us know you are coming along, There is a Running Trail to Pub one of approx 1.5 Miles out & 1.5 Miles back, or getting a cab to Pub one & back will keep the fare down if we pre-book!

START - Saturday 22nd July 2023 - 10:55 Hrs at Welwyn Garden City Station, - outside the Front of the Howard Centre (exit via ticket office & down the escalators from Level 1!) P-Arrows to Bag Drop

BAG DROP IS AT PUB 2 11:00Hrs BAG DROP AT PUB 2 The Doctor's Tonic (The Old Familiar) Church Road, Welwyn Garden City /// horns.create.clocks Chance for a swift one before setting off.

If you miss the Pack, the Taxi Rank or pre-book one with AAA on 01707 888888 or outside of the front of the Howard Centre’s main entrance Ask to be taken to The Peartree, Hollybush Lane AL7 4JJ or follow the Trail. Running Trail to the First Pub, approx 1.5 miles there & another 1.5 back!

This is a rough guide, depending on Train Service, weather conditions, fitness levels, alcohol consumed, earthquakes, ripples in the space-time continuum.

THERE IS A SCHEDULED RAIL STRIKE - LIMITED SERVICES ARE RUNNING OF ONE TRAIN PER HOUR!

We recommend getting a return ticket from Letchworth Garden City to Welwyn Garden City - Departs 10:00Hrs arrives 10:21 or 11:00Hrs arrives 11:21 (Then Catch up Pub times & address + What3words links below!)

10:05 London Kings Cross Platform 9 1

0:16 Finsbury Park Platform 7

10:18 Harringay Platform 2

10:20 Hornsey

10:23 Alexandra Palace Platform 3

10:26 New Southgate

10:29 Oakleigh Park

10:31 New Barnet Platform 4

10:34 Hadley Wood 1

0:37 Potters Bar Platform 4

0:40 Brookmans Park 1

0:43 Welham Green

10:46 Hatfield (Herts) Platform 3

10:50 Welwyn Garden City Platform 4

Last Train back to London departs Letchworth at 20:00Hrs

We recommend You Pre-Book your Letchworth Accommodation links are below:

Lenny Henry's Place in Letchworth or the slightly further out Letchworth Travelodge

Alternative to Train

Letchworth to Welwyn Garden City Bus options

55 Arriva Bus (All Herts Bus Services are currently £2 single journeys)

Letchworth Station Road Stop C 09:16/09:46 /// vital.head.jelly

Stevenage Lister Hospital Stop B 09:48/10:18 /// ladder.unit.miss

CHANGE TO 301 ARRIVA Bus at the same bus stop

Stevenage Lister Hospital Stop B 10:03/10:33 /// ladder.unit.miss

Welwyn GC Bus Station Stop E 10:23/10:53 /// dirt.crops.bumps

724 Ware Regional College 10:00Hrs; Hertford Bus Station Stop 5 10:13Hrs; Hertford North Station Stop B 10:18; Arrive Welwyn Bus Station Stop F 10:46

To save time you may, at this pay-as-you-go crawl of 'Newton Haven', wish to get yourself a Drinking Buddy or four/five to be in rounds at the Bars – dependent on turnout, staying power & Bar Staff availability……

None of the timings can be guaranteed....it's a Hash after all & Great Northern run the UK's worst Train service!

Suggested Drinks will be checked out again before the event!

Newton Haven Here we Come.......

The Doctor's Tonic (The Old Familiar)

Oakham Inferno, GK IPA/Abbot/Rum Runner (Caskmark)

The gag is that it’s the same interior used for the second pub, ‘The Old Familiar’, the exterior of which is The Doctors Tonic, a lively bar (with live music) closer to the centre of Welwyn Garden City. This is where Oliver’s sister, and Steve’s secret crush, Sam (Rosamund Pike) turns up.

Running Trail rail starts at 11:30 Hrs

12:00 Hrs

The Peartree (The First Post) Hollybush Lane AL7 4JJ /// fills.good.rounds

Abbot

Having established Letchworth Garden City as the fictitious ‘Newton Haven’, the first four stops on the ‘Mile’ can all be found in Welwyn Garden City, 2 miles to the south.

All of the pub names, invented for the film, are cryptic pointers to the plot, so it’s natural that the evening starts out at ‘The First Post’. This turns out to be The Peartree, Hollybush Lane at Woodhall Lane, southeast of Welwyn Garden City. And that really is the pub’s interior, gamely allowing itself to be dissed as bland.

Leave 12:30 Hrs - 5 mins Taxi Ride or second part of the Running Trail Back to..

12:50 Hrs The Doctor's Tonic (The Old Familiar) Church Road, Welwyn Garden City /// horns.create.clocks

Oakham Inferno, GK IPA/Abbot/Rum Runner (Caskmark)

Pub-Crawl Starts in earnest...

2 minute walk

13:15 Hrs The Two Willows (The Famous Cock) /// carry.chins.lined

London Pride, Scarlett Macaw, Rosie Pig & Old Rosie, other crafts in bottles.

The haunt of Mad Basil (David Bradley), retailer of dark conspiracy theories, is now the Two Willows, it was known as the Cork when Filming took place, a former bank at 9 Howardsgate. Since the younger Gary had been barred for life, the stay at the ‘Cock’ isn’t too long.

30 Second walk

13:50 Hrs Misya Turkish Restaurant (The Cross Hands) /// locker.waddle.noon

Efes & a Meze (Their License requires food to buy alcohol Tables have been booked)

The Cross Hands’. This is the Parkway Bar on Parkway, which is indeed just around the corner from The Two Willows.

Although the Parkway’s real bar is used, you won’t be surprised to hear that the gents’ toilet, in which the evening starts to go disturbingly awry, was recreated in the studio.

Leave 14:30 - 5 minute walk to..

Welwyn Garden City Railway Station

14:56Hrs Train Departs from Welwyn Garden City to Letchworth Garden City arrives 15:18Hrs

1-2 min Walk and also where the locations begin to get tricksy. Trail will pass by PrenierInn for bag drop, Travelodge Bag-drop to be arranged

15:25 Hrs The Garden City Brewery /// alarm.flats.curving its not in the Film but they have always been good to us! Plus we need to make up for the Black Squirrel/Thai Restaurant that was the Beehive in the Film & has now been demolished!

1903, Mollys Mild & GROG Best Place for Sausage Rolls & Pies

2 Minute Walk....

16:00 Hrs The Good Companions, is a shop at 71 Leys Avenue with pub like set dressing added to its frontage, so we are instead visiting Crafty's Bottle Shop, 15 Leys Avenue hint.loss.that

Inside was Wenlock Arms, Islington (Which we have done on a Full Moon & also with LH3 SNoRrTed/SoRTed a couple of times now) Changing Ales & Craft Beers

Gary’s reasoning that to continue with Golden Mile is the best way not to attract attention, the five head off down ‘Newton Haven’s’ high street, becoming uncomfortably aware of the locals’ odd attitude

10 Second Walk .....

16:40Hrs The Three Magnets (The Trusty Servant) /// called.brings.goes

Loads of Choice (Cask Marque)

Although the exterior of number six, ‘The Trusty Servant’, is a real pub – The Three Magnets, the bar interior where Gary susses out the Rev Green – his one-time dealer – is the Director’s Arms, at the junction of Ripon Way and Cranes Way, in Borehamwood.

The town of Borehamwood itself is familiar from plenty of screen appearances, since it’s so close to Elstree Studios and the old Borehamwood Studios

10 second walk

17:25Hrs The Platform (The Two-Headed Dog) /// tapes.twigs.marked

Buntingford Highwayman, Dooooombaaar; Hobgoblin, Marstons

‘The Two Headed Dog’, is where the initially sceptical Sam encounters creepy twins in the beer garden. This was formally The Colonnade, but now The Platform Station Road.

3 min walk

17:50Hrs The Broadway Cinema (The Mermaid) /// lights.forces.ritual

The Bar was being refurbished, so it could just be a bottle of Becks!

‘The Mermaid’, with its ‘School Disco’ theme is the Broadway Cinema, Eastcheap.

Opened in 1936, it’s still very much an independent cinema, so this time the interior was filmed at Chalfont Campus, a former college in Newlands Park, just outside Chalfont St. Giles, in Buckinghamshire.

7 Second Walk (or less)

18:25 Hrs The Thai Garden/Black Squirrel (The Beehive) Now an old Peoples' Maximum Security Twilight Home, probably a Honey-based shot stop

The Beehive’ was the Thai Garden, 10 Gernon Road, which in the real world was a closed restaurant, originally the Black Squirrel Pub, It's been closed for years but we have a treat lined up!

It’s here that their old school teacher, Mr Shepherd (Pierce Brosnan) coolly explains the situation in the most reasonable terms. The remaining ‘musketeers’ don’t find the explanation quite so unproblematic, and the spectacular ruckus that follows was filmed back in the studio.

Fleeing ‘The Beehive’, they retire to lie low for a while in their old ‘smoke house’, the club house of the Howard Garden Social Centre Bowling Green, Norton Way South at the foot of Gernon Road. This is where the film briefly references John Carpenter’s The Thing, as each character in turn is obliged to establish authentic humanity.

1 minute walk

18:30 Hrs The Arena Tavern (The Kings Head) /// brains.bumps.arts

Ye Old Trippe, Flying Scotsman, Rev James

The escape route now fortuitously leads them through pub number ten, the deserted ‘King’s Head’, where the indefatigable Gary maintains the ‘drink in every pub’ objective by serving himself a pint.

Both inside and out, this is the Arena Tavern, 3 Arena Parade, another live music venue, in the heart of Letchworth.

2 min walk

19:30 Hrs La Concha (The Hole in the Wall) OPENING AUGUST 2023 /// starts.shapes.gave We will use the Broadway Hotel (It had a bedroom scene filmed there) instead

The Broadway /// thus.post.proud

Chased by glowy-eyed ‘blanks’, Gary legs it north up Broadway to pub number eleven, perhaps the most surprising location of all.

‘The Hole In The Wall’ is Letchworth Garden City Railway Station, Station Road. A false wall was built across the station entrance and, if you’ve seen the film, you’ll understand why the pub interior was built at Elstree Studios.

20:15 Hrs - CAB £4:50 Best to book the return cab back on the way out!!!

5 minute cab ride to:

The Willbury (The World's End) Willbury Hills SG6 4LG /// stew.tripling.picture

Doombar, Adnams GK IPA.

The survivors triumphantly make it to their ultimate destination, ‘The World’s End’, which is The Wilbury, Wilbury Hills Road at Icknield Way.

Unlike the other Letchworth locations, which are fairly close together in the town centre, the Wilbury is about a mile west of the town.

If you’ve managed the Golden Mile, it’s still there serving up that well-earned pint.

21:15 Hrs Taxi Back to Letchworth Garden City Station 5 minute cab ride

If you are staying in Letchworth, there will be a recovery Run at 11:00Hrs on Sunday 23rd The Arena Tavern (The Kings Head) /// brains.bumps.arts followed by a 14:00Hrs Screening of the World's End film at the Broadway Cinema, Eastcheap, Letchworth Garden City SG6 3DD /// ages.busy.yarn £7 Entry Fee Buy your Cornetto in the Foyer!