![]() ![]() " there is a snack counter where you can get liver-sausage sandwiches, mussels (a speciality of the house), cheese, pickles and large biscuits with caraway seeds.It sells tobacco and cigarettes, aspirins and stamps, and "is obliging about letting you use the telephone".The barmaids know the customers by name and take an interest in everyone.The pub is quiet enough to talk, with the house possessing neither a radio nor a piano.Games, such as darts, are only played in the public bar "so that in the other bars you can walk about without the worry of flying darts".The architecture and fittings must be uncompromisingly Victorian.Orwell stipulated ten key points that his perfect pub in the London area should have (his criteria for country pubs being different, but unspecified): It was Orwell's last contribution to the Evening Standard. ![]() " The Moon Under Water" is a 1946 essay by George Orwell, originally published as the Saturday Essay in the Evening Standard on 9 February 1946, in which he provided a detailed description of his ideal public house, the fictitious "Moon Under Water". One of many pubs named after Orwell's description. ![]()
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