You’re getting a lot of photos now that I’ve learnt how to take the Huawei mark off the bottom, and also because I know how much you love pictures of blokes in shorts at the bar.
And I was learning to love Teignmouth a bit as I walked back to town from Sheldon.
Floral but unfussy,
sand banks and sailing boats,
and some high class entertainment in some earthy pubs.
Next to the iconic Eign Brewery Inn is the premier ale pub in town.
That’s my take on the Blue Anchor, anyway.
I like the fact that the bar hits you as soon as you enter the door, a bit like the Waters Green Tavern in Macc.
Look right and you see bench seating, beer mats and a fish tank. All you need really.
It’s a bit sparse, a bit ’70s, and I know Mrs RM would say it has “a man’s touch”. Ouch.
Back at the bar, a group of mates are going “Oooh” and “Ahh” and asking the barman questions about defunct breweries.
I go for Half Bore because the bloke in front does. Cool, chewy, NBSS 3+.
At the bar, a chap returns from the funeral of someone everyone knows. I bet the Blue Anchor does a great wake.
Dick and Dave would love this little haven of peace and proper beer. At least until I put Kangaroo Airforce Ventilator on the jukebox.
retiredmartin 
From the look of it I might love the town too. Trainable as well which is nice.
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Dave,
“Trainable” and it’s a spectacular line from Exeter through Dawlish Warren.
You can see more of Teignmouth in ‘Press for Time’, a 1966 British comedy film starring Norman Wisdom
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Interesting. Never heard of that film. Will look for it.
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Laughter was provoked among the English MEPs in the European Union’s Parliament, when “l’industrie laitière était sauvée par la sagesse Normande” was rendered by the translators as “the dairy industry was saved by Norman wisdom”
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Might I remind you, that the annual World Championship Hen Race is held at the Barley Mow public house, Bonsall, Derbyshire, in August?
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Yup.
That’s one of them I used to pop into.
Teignmouth has the feel of one of those end of the line places like Barmouth.
Or Morecambe.
But it’s deceiving.
There’s money about and not at all rundown.
Old school seaside.
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P P-T,
Barmouth.and Morecambe aren’t “end of the line places” but they might seem like it as most of us wouldn’t want to carry on to Pwhelli or Heysham, although the Abbot was drinking well in Tim’s Pen Cob across the road from Pwllheli railway station last Wednesday lunchtime. .
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I was chatting to a well-informed local in Newtown’s Railway over Bass (ah, the Bass) on Tuesday and he confirmed the Spoons in Pwhelli is one of their best, and Aber their worst.
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Yes indeed.
The Abbot wasn’t drinking as well in Hen Orsaf on Tuesday morning.
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Great pub…great post…pork scratchings…good things come in threes
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I felt very proud of myself that I was able to nod sagely and say “So true, so true,” upon reading your reference to the Waters Green. 😉
Lovely photos– looks like a real local’s place.
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What took you to Macclesfield ? Unusual place to go!
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I’ve got a good friend who lives there; indeed it’s one of the very few towns in England where I can truthfully say I’ve been to the pubs!
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And one of our best small pub towns, even though nothing new in the Guide for some time.
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“Nothing new in the Guide for some time” is a sure sign that Mac is “one of our best small pub towns” – that’s the Cheshire Mac not the Welsh one where we were drinking last Tuesday evening.
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As always, Paul, you make a fine point. Stability and consistency is to be desired over all other qualities. I would like an excuse to return to Macclesfield though.
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Has anyone else noticed parallels between England and Wales ?
Aberystwyth is Wales’s Scarborough – seaside at the end of the line
Machynlleth is Wales’s Macclesfield – plenty of pubs in ‘Mac’
Newtown is Wales’s Milton Keynes
Welshpool is Wales’s Poole
Shrewsbury remains the capital of Wales as the one place that can reasonably be reached within a day from anywhere in the principality.
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Shrewsbury is the capital of Wales. Can’t argue with that.
I wish Milton Keynes (in fact anywhere in Buckinghamshire) had a pub half as good as the Railway Tavern.
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“an excuse to return to Macclesfield” – and none better than, I think, Dick and Dave going there in October.
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Oh well, may he tempted.
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That does look like our kind of place.
Paul is correct, we are heading to Macclesfield in October. It has been included in plans before but somehow we have not made it there. This time for sure.
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Oh, just assumed you had. Best pub town in Cheshire now Stockport has gone upmarket.
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All Macclesfield needs is Humphrey selling his OBB for £2 a pint.
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Indeed, though I bet you’ll still find pints under £3. I remember being surprised by the prices of Holts and Robbies years back.
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“you’ll still find pints under £3” – yes, like our Banks’s Bitter at £2.35 in the Skinners Arms, Machynlleth on Tuesday and the pints of Holdens at £2.75 in the Great Western on my way home.
“Stockport has gone upmarket” is another way of saying that Holts have closed Winters. .
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Skinners was great, surprisingly cheap as well.
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I was thinking more of all those craft bars off the A6 that Old Mudgie frequents 😉
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When I lived in Macclesfield from nineteen eighty-three to nineteen eighty-nine, it used to be local folklore that there was a pub for every twenty-nine houses.
I wonder if everyone was expected to stick to their own?
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Yes. You were lucky if you lived next to Robbie’s Dolphin.
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Or the British Flag.
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Yes, I lived about thirty metres from the Dolphin, and closer still to the Navigation.
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Most bars are a few yards from the entrance, except for Spoons where they’re in the next county.
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– and you think you’d have got served quicker if you’d gone to the next county !
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Many years ago I invented (in my head) a great toilet game, whereby there was a mini waterwheel in the urinal that clocked-up on an LED display a figure based on speed and duration (and possibly a standing fee before travel ala taxi travel). I was going to call it ‘Prostate Pandanonium’ or some-such. Disappointing to see the idea has been developed in such a dull way…
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