The Old Ebor was built in the latter half of the 19th Century and used the ‘Old’ epithet to distinguish it from the various other houses in the city with ‘Ebor’ in their names. Nowadays, the only real characteristic that differentiates it from other similar pubs in the city are the mystifying opening hours it keeps.
Keen observers (or chaps reguarly nipping into the ‘adult art’ emporium just down the road) would have noticed that the doors to this Nunnery Lane pub have been closed at 8pm on Saturday evening, yet open at 10pm on a wet Wednesday the following week. This is most baffling and seems to be a regular occurence.
Perhaps the large ‘For Sale’ sign plonked on the building’s facade could partly explain these circumstances, as could the incident that occured one December evening when a group of fellows decided to have a game of Baseball in the bar area. Without a ball. If you do happen to know the real reason, let us know.
By the time you read this, these strange temporal fluctuations may have been resolved and the doors could open and close as regular as clockwork, and hopefully so, because although the Old Ebor’s proximity to thepubsofyork.com HQ means it has almost certainly been visited a lot more times that it really should have, it has always been a good local boozer to nip in for ‘a quick one’, not least on New Years Eve when the pub was bustling with people (which admitedly doesn’t take much as it’s a bit on the ‘compact’ side) and a festive, jovial atmosphere.
However, the lack of any real ale, a Sky Sport showing televison and an underwhelming interior means we think it’s fair to say that there’s no real reason for you to visit this place unless you a) live within a 500 yard radius b) are partaking in a Nunnery Lane pub crawl (which this website has done and enjoyed on several occasions) or c) are calling in for a large dose of dutch courage before scuttling a few doors down to purchase Shaving Ryan’s Privates.
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