A bit of pub-free tourism at the most northern town in Wales. Wow.
I’m sure there’s been Guide pubs up along the north Anglesey coast, probably Lees or Marston, but not this year.
So Amlwch’s tourism rests on its gourmand credentials,
their Proper fonts,
and their upmarket shopping offer.
It’s not Southwold is it ? But I think I’d prefer the pubs here.
Duncan couldn’t tell me much about Amlwch, but that’s because I called it Am-el-wutch, rather than Amlux. Old mining town = Proper Pubs. On the last Saturday before Christmas folk were buying themselves pints of lager as a present.
Apostrophes are in short supply, so bring your own.
I bought some Welsh apricot flapjack from the Spar, where a chap pushed in front of me when I opened the door for a Gentlefolk, which was nice.
Talking of Gentlefolk, I’d by now discovered that Lemmy went to school here.
So I strolled down toward Bull Bay, surely the inspiration for Overkill.
Ah, barbed wire. I followed the path back via “Pretty Cottage”, which wasn’t.
And then I hit quicksand on the route back from that cottage as the impact of the week’s deluge revealed itself. “Pub ticker drowns in Amlwch mud” screamed the next week’s Yr Arwydd (‘The Sign’).
I was too wretched to visit the one bona fide tourist attraction, the stunning Catholic church. Mind, two apricot flapjacks and I was right as rain.
retiredmartin 
The 2019 pubman of the year says nothing rivals Southwold’s Lord Nelson.
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Nothing in Southwold rivals the Lord Nelson, for sure.
Hey, you pushing for a separate Posh Pubman and Proper Pubman award? 😉
Had some excellent beer in recent months, in and out of GBG. The “John Smith’s Smooth IS Bitter” Adnams was beer of the year, to be fair.
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We need more categories so everybody can win!
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The only one I can ever recall being in the GBG there was the Adelphi Vaults. I have also been to the football ground but not that stinking church. There are some fantastically brutalist Catholic churches around here too. Surely a subject for a future blog?
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Interesting you say that. The Holy Trinity in Newcastle under Lyme is sensational.
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I often noticed the Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Newcastle under Lyme when using the Steam Plough or Castle Mona – and more recently the Cherry Tree – and thought it quite a remarkable use of common blue bricks though not quite ‘sensational’.
Staffordshire is blessed with some very fine churches including Pugin’s St Giles’ Church in Cheadle – and Lichfield has a very nice cathedral.
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Sensationally austere, then, which is different. It looks so cramped and squat on that street.
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Yes, I would agree with “Sensationally austere”, the best use of brick ( cheaper than proper stone ), best use of the quite narrow frontage and on a main road for attracting passing ‘trade’.
My best memory of blue brick is Wolverhampton Low Level railway station and a massive wall supporting the High Level (current) station opposite when going on our annual family holiday to the Cambrian Coast before my father bought a second hand Austin Somerset motor car in 1961. Whitbread’s new pub, on the opposite side of the station to the great Great Western, is appropriately named the Blue Brick.
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How about the “Pretty Bricks” in Walsall?
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Yes, the Pretty Bricks, as the New Inn has long been known, has its place in history.
It’s where in 1972 Walsall CAMRA was formed with an initial brief to cover the country from here north to John O’Groats.
Just imagine a Good Beer Guide selection meeting with a pub allocation of about 2000 !
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That’s some breakfast, how big are the plates?
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Plates ? It’s all served on slates these days.
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– so you pay for it some time later ?
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No, I mean it’s served on the Fall’s 1981 10″ e.p.
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Didn’t serving food on slates originate in North Wales?
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That must be the first time I’ve ever seen white pudding offered as part of a breakfast. I’d have thought laverbread cakes a more likely option in that part of the world.
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Scott, But isn’t there now a shortage of seasonal seaweed pickers ?
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The apostrophes have been stolen by the pub I was in yesterday which used them on their menu as:
Pea’s
Twice.
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Larger’s is the drink of choice in West Yorkshire.
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“Pea’s
Twice.”
somehow reminds me of a Proper Day Out.
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Look like some seriously good boozers in that village…add in Lemmy and it’s a win/win!
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