Look. A visit to a pub so new it’s not in the Beer Guide. Let’s hope it gets in next year, eh ?
More towns that Southerners have never heard of. Mind you some of them have never even heard of Stockport, Mudgie.
Actually, Chapeltown is an authentic suburb of Sheffield, and at least gets listed under the city in the Guide these days. It looks pretty self-standing to me.
This green bit of South Yorkshire between Sheffield and Barnsley is prime “Proper Pub” territory, with Guide entries in posh Wentworth, less posh Thorpe Hesley and Harley, and the wonderland that is Hoyland.
Chapeltown has one GBG regular that could well be in my Top 100 if I time my necessary follow-up visit when it’s actually open.
I do like a pub that keeps its Guide stickers in the window;
In fairness it was only closed because I tipped up at 11, when my choice is Spoons or Spoons.
Some interesting architecture on the way from the station, including the usual future micro pubs;
The Wagon & Horses has retained some of the Waggon’s pubbiness, including one obvious sign of a “Proper Pub”. Not sure where the other “g” went though.
My notes say
“It’s Christmas !!!”
which presumably refers to Rocking Rudolph’s flashing nose rather than the playlist, as Spoons don’t play music, do they ?
Another test of underlying Spoons quality here, and a pretty strong local cask line-up. I like the Acorn and Bradfield beers, even if they are written off as Boring Brown Bitters on Discourse.
Some of the cheeriest service I’ve had in a Spoons, and one of the best Eggs Royale. The Belgian Blue is a good beer well kept, but not really a breakfast drink.
I’ve rarely had more staff speak to me in a pub than in here, that’s South Yorkshire for you. They probably thought I was from Watford.
Lovely place, nice loos, no competition for the Commercial.
I like seeing the old GBG stickers too. Are you producing an anthology of mobility scooters as a stocking filler before Christmas? If so could I order a signed copy?
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Unfortunately mobility scooters are unable to hold a pen. Natural selection and all that.
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If our line of business we should be allocated driverless mobility scooters by CAMRA
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With buoyancy aids to get to the Isle of Man.
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Surely royal eggs are owned by Queenie, thus anyone else eating them is guilty of treason and liable to be hung, drawn and quartered. It appears you’re doomed Martin.
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I think you’ll find I’m a Government spy and therefore immune, Tom. They might reduce my Spoons vouchers rations though.
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Wasn’t IZAL a brand of super-hard bog paper? The sort which scratched you to pieces, without doing the job it was intended to do.
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Toilet roll manufacturers tended to use adverts with angels in them !
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Yes it was and every sheet at school said ‘Now Wash Your Hands’ and “WRCC’ (West Riding County Council for those too young or alien to know). You had to wash your hands anyway because as you say, it didn’t achieve the intended outcome and what it had meant to remove was now all over your fingers! I guess the super prematurely aged amongst us will no doubt say that ‘Things were a lot better back in those days.’
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“Show ’em yer badges !”
(adopts fake Mexican accent)
Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges! 🇲🇽😉
Cheers
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A classic film!
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Chapeltown, a place the bus went through on the way into Sheffield, end of.
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Stansted Spoons update Hobgoblin,Doom Bar,Abbot,Otter Claus,Rosey Nosey and Titanic Plum Porter.
And,after much discussion and subsequent searching,the antipodean barmaid finally located a rusty old sparkler for the excellent pint of Otter.
I know all this because I had to good sense to take a picture on my ‘phone,The rest of the afternoon is a hazy memory of alcoholic tomfoolery in the Square Mile.
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What ! Plum Porter AND Otter at Stansted ? Lucky sod.
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