By posting yet another photograph of the interior of a pub it makes me come across as a frequent visitor of said alcoholic houses. I can go for weeks not entering a pub but like a fleet of busses, you wait months and then 2 come along together. Today's eclectic image of Pete Zulu's pub in West Boldon, the Black Horse. The reason?Sunday lunch.
For those of you old enough to know better Pete Zulu was the original lead singer of the Toy Dolls, the anti-punk punk rock band who parodied the scene with punk style singing to well known songs. Their biggest hit was Nellie the Elephant. Pete Zulu left the band after 2 years and trained as a chef, first at the National Glass Centre in Sunderland and then about 10 or so years ago he went solo and bought the Black Horse and in doing so turned it into a wonderfully eccentric fusion of jazz, punk, art and junk. I love the fact the menu is actually a Ford Cortina door. Not to everyone's taste but the food is excellent.
Why the church? We parked here to walk to the pub. This is St Nicholas Church in West Boldon, one of the oldest churches in England having been built about 1220AD and it is where I was christened and where I used to go when I went to the Church School attached to it. Fond memories of those days, the Reverend Cosserat and Sunday Worship in the Aubrey Leake Hall, now demolished. A child of the 60's.
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