Dalry
Dalry is small town in North Ayrshire
Dalry
Arriving by train walk up off of the platform and turn left onto Bridgend and then left again after crossing the river. Along on the right is The Greenban Inn, which we will leave for the rerturn journey. Just up the hill into the town at the next corner is The Royal Hotel. Leaving here walk up to the traffic lights and turn down to the left away from the town and then follow round to the right and up at the corner is The Black Bull. Just along from here is The Volunteer Arms.
Continue along Main St and at the end turn left and as it turns round you can find the Tartan Bar. Return to the last junction and across from the junction is The Auld Hoose. Now walk down through the town turning left at the church to discover The Turf Inn. Return to the main street and walk back towads the station and call in at The Greenbank Inn.
When to visit?
The problem with Dalry is finding all seven bars open. You can be guaranteed that The Volunteer Arms and The Royal Hotel will be oen at 11am every day. After that The Auld Hoose is open every afternoon and The Greenbank in opens late everyafternoon. Google is little help. It states thatThe Turf Inn does not open until 3am on Wedesdays which may be true but it also has Tartan Bar and The Black Bull open on Mondays which they are not.
Best bet is not to visit on a Monday or Tuesday.
The Royal Hotel
Royal Hotel, Dalry
Royal Hotel, Dalry - entrance
Royal Hotel, Dalry - entrance area
Royal Hotel, Dalry - seating opposite servery
Royal Hotel, Dalry - servery
Royal Hotel, Dalry - servery
Royal Hotel, Dalry - far side of room
Royal Hotel, Dalry - far side of room
Royal Hotel, Dalry
The Royal Hotel is a corner pub and no longer operating as a hotel. Entrance is through the left hand door in pillared doorway. This take you to a seating area with small tables and chairs, and red banquette seating. This a a light area due to two windows and the walls wood panelling. Indeed the whole bar room has wooden panelling, with occassional pictures, on the walls. The servery is against the back wall running half way down the room. The servery has a wooden counter with stools along it and an attractive gantry using the wood panelling. Opposite the servery is some more red banquette seaing and small tables. Beyond the servery there is a pool table and a place for darts, again with some banquette seating and an dated fireplace which brings a certain charm. Great staff.
Have a pint here
Light: McEwans 60/-; Tennent’s Heavy: McEwan’s Export; Lager: Tennent’s; Stella; Cider: Blackthorn Guinness
PLACES TO VISIT WITH PUBTRAILS
The towns and villages highlighted on this web site have a wide variety of pubs and beers in them. All of the places are great to visit, whether for a day or longer, and most have tourist attractions for all of the family.
There is a large variety of pubs throughout the different towns shown below. Some you may wish never to visit again but even discovering these can be interesting. There are pubs that you would not take your wife into. While some you could not take your girlfriend into. A few you would not take either into. However, most of the pubs are very pleasant.
HOME MAP of places visited
Alnwick Ambleside Anstruther Bakewell Bamburgh Barnard Castle Bath Berwick upon Tweed Birnam & Dunkeld Bourton on the Water Bowness on Windermere Bridge of Allan Chester Chichester Dunblane Dunoon Edinburgh Ely Fort William Glasgow Gourock Greenock Helensburgh Inverness Kelso Keswick Knaresbourgh Largs Linlithgow Lyme Regis Melrose Montrose Newton Stewart North Berwick Norwich Oban Pebbles Penzance Portree Pitlochry Quorn Richmond Rothesay St Andrews Seahouses Seend Shrewsbury Skipton Stirling Stratford-upon-Avon Stockton Heath Whitby Windemere Whitstable York
The Black Bull
The Black Bull
closed Monday, Tuesday
Beer garden
Pub Jukebox:
Alcohol themed music to listen to while you browse.
drinking wine spo-dee-o-dee - Richard Thompson
-
Books on Pubs
A selection of recommended books on pubs and their history. There are books on the social history of pubs and the design of pubs through the ages.
There are also books on visiting pubs and ones recommending pubs to visit.
CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide
Death of the English Pub by Christopher Hutt
Brewers, Brands and the Pubs in their Hands by Tony Thornton
Licensed to Sell by Brandwood, Davidson & Slaughter
And many more
-
Stevenson & MacKay
Craig Stevenson and John MacKay have used their bus passes to good effect. They have toured the towns and cities of Scotland visiting pubs. They recount their adventures in a series of books:
The Auldest Boozers in Town
The Cheap Way Round
Still Goin’
Inn Aff The Bar
Goin’ Roon The Edge
Mud, Sweat and Beers
-
Books on Beer and Brewing
A selection of recommended books covering all aspects of beer and brewing. There are books on the history of beer and others on different styles of beer.
For example
An Inebriated History of Britain by Peter Haydon
Amber, Gold & Black by Martyn Cornell
Brew Britannia by Jessica Boak & Ray Bailey
The Story of the Pint by Martyn Cornell
Miracle Brew by Pete Brown
Built to Brew by Lynn Pearson
And many more
The Volunteer Arms
The Volunteer Arms, Dalry - corner view with side entrance
The Volunteer Arms, Dalry - front view with main entrance
The Volunteer Arms, Dalry - servery
The Volunteer Arms, Dalry - first snug
The Volunteer Arms, Dalry - first snug
The Volunteer Arms, Dalry - lounge servery
The Volunteer Arms, Dalry - lounge
The Volunteer Arms, Dalry - lounge
The Volunteer Arms, Dalry - lounge servery
The Volunteer Arms
Light: Tennent’s Heavy: Caledonia Best Lager: Tennent’s Cider: Magners; Guinness
Tartan Bar
The Tartan Bar
The Turf Inn
The Turf Inn
Closed Mon and Tues - opens 3pm Wednesday
PUB QUIZ
In which sport do teams change ends every time a goal is scored?
Answer at foot of page
The Auld Hoose
The Auld House, the oldest pub in down, has been tastefully modernised making use of the old stone as a feauture for walls and columns.
Lager: Coors; Madri; Tennent’s Cider: Aspall Belhaven Black; Guinness
The Grenbank Inn
Greenbank Inn
Heavy: Belhaven Best Lager: Tennent’s; Madri; Budweisser Cider: Aspall ; Magners Guinness; Belhaven Black;
“Money cannot buy happiness but it can by beer, which is almost the same thing.”
—
ANSWER: polo