Advantages: friendly and compact pub/venue Disadvantages: a bit too small
Tucked away in the winding back streets of Swindons Old Town, the Beehive is an oasis in a town of trendy theme pubs and cattle market watering holes. The pub has a quirky flavour and appearance that is reflected by its regular crowd. A painted body outline as if from a crime scene, lies on te pavement outside the door, which as you pass through you notice is actually fashioned as a Tardis door. Unfortunately it dosnt make the place any bigger. The ... ...courner of the joining of two streets, and as such is a strange arrangement of cubby holes and corridors at all heights and angles. Inside all manner of curios and pieces of interest span the walls, charicatures of the regulars, a whole wall of art for sale, posters of bands new and old and lots of strange newspaper cuttings and signs of various humour.
As a pub it is an inviting enough place, but for many the real attraction is the live bands that ...
steerpyke 14.10.2004
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