IF FILM directors are looking for a good old-fashioned boozer for a set, they could do worse than Hardy’s Freehouse.

Indeed if you are looking for a nice place to while away an afternoon or evening with a pint, you could do worse too.

If interior designers use colours like vintage cream to describe a dirty white then Hardy’s would still be grotty-old-pub green.

The colour scheme may not be fresh but it makes you trust the place, it looks like a pub ought to look.

Inside, too, looks very much like a pub ought to but it is authentic and not a dodgy reconstruction.

There is a twist, though, as a section of the bar has been converted to the Green Pea coffee house and bistro for those not after a boozy afternoon.

The interior follows a similar design to the exterior with its greens and, though it is a little gloomy, oozes character with darts, plenty of occupied stools by the bar, dusty books, a forest-worth of wood, lots of signs and one of those glorious stain-glass pub windows.

There was even a lovely giant black dog padding around, which I wasn’t sure whether to embrace or take for a ride.

A lovely waitress – a proper East End barmaid – greeted me happily made my day when she handed me my pint of Doombar (£2.50) and a bundle of change and uttered the immortal words “cheers me dears”.

I couldn’t have been happier.

Supping my pint slowly, I enjoyed listening to Gold on the TV – you just don’t hear Bachman Turner Overdrive these days – and watching the locals, who were so perfect in their bar propping ways that I thought maybe the cameras were rolling and I was already in a film.

Hardy’s Freehouse, Trafalgar Road, Greenwich SE10 9UW

How it rated:

Decor **** (If it looks like a pub, it probably is a pub)

Drink **** (Plenty to choose from, but nothing too exotic)

Price ***** (Can’t fault £2.50 a pint)

Atmosphere ***** (A real pub)

Staff **** (Said “cheers me dears”, and called customers “babe”)