4th visit of this outing to Broadstairs: My first visit to Trigger’s Broom, the former Four Candles Alehouse, and where this re-invented micropub opened on 23rd May 2026. Friendly, prompt service from the barmaid for our late afternoon visit. Busy both inside and out. Its sweeping changes include now featuring a smallish bar counter with two handpumps for two cask ales in the cellar below. It also has behind the bar counter two casks on gravity dispense with temperature-regulated cooling jackets, making it a total of four casks. The tables are made out of upturned hogshead barrels with high wooden bar stools positioned around them. There are now two WCs in place with the male WC comprising just a urinal. Dogs are no longer admitted inside, unless an assistance dog and to quote the signage: “due to limited floor space”. In tribute to the new name, Trigger’s Broom, a full-size wall-hung broom is prominently displayed on an internal wall and there is a sizeable sculpture of Trigger, the character from tv sitcom, Only Fools and Horses, standing with his broom on an upturned hogshead barrel on the pavement outside as you come in. There is also an array of framed old postcards of Broadstairs adorning the interior walls and an old-fashioned jukebox is positioned in the corridor leading to the two WCs. On the covered window above the entrance door is a line-drawing of Trigger proudly holding his broom to attention and wearing his medal from Peckham Council for being recognised for saving the council money in keeping and maintaining the exact same broom for 20 years, albeit that it had in that time 17 new heads and 14 new handles. As Trigger explained: "Look after your broom". By replacing the parts as they wore out, he believed he was maintaining a single, long-serving tool rather than ordering entirely new brooms. This micropub’s new name is a nod to carrying on the tradition established by the former Four Candles Alehouse. CONTINUES UNDER 1ST BEER ENTRY.