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Cricketers Arms
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Date of photo: 2016 |
Picture source: T C |
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The Cricketers Arms was situated at 43 Iffley
Road. This ex-Morlands pub closed c2014 and is now used as a cocktail
bar called The Mad Hatter. |
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Review from tantallon.org.uk: |
Monday to Saturday 11am to 11pm
Sunday 12noon to 10.30pm
Food: 12pm to 2pm
Morland Original £1.70
Ruddles County £2.10
Grapefruit juice and soda 80p
50g bag of crisps (McCoy's) 40p (16.v.1998)
Under new management it says. If you've ever seen the new barman in "Men
Behaving Badly" who has no idea of how to run a pub, you may find the
experience of ordering a drink in here disconcertingly familiar.
Beforehand this was a reddy-peach coloured Morland pub offering pool and
photos of cricketers and jazzplayers on the walls, and it's really much the
same sort of thing now. I think the toy Bart Simpson behind the bar might be
new. The tables are better arranged than they were, and like the Temple Bar
round the corner, there's a television with the sound turned down and the
subtitles turned up. Facilities blue and clean. (16.v.1998) |
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The former superb Cricketers
Arms,
also on Iffley Road, is now the Mad
Hatter cocktail
bar. Once my favourite pub, this busy two-bar Morland local has been ruined
in my opinion. The stone-carved image of a cricketer on the wall is said to
be of the great Australian Sir Donald Bradman, who played in the cricket
ground opposite in the 1930s. |
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Tony Goulding, Oxford Drinker |
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