31st January 2020
Shortest post ever, but putting Burntwood and Brownhills in the same blog post still carries the metaphorical death sentence.
I won’t lie, Burntwood is just a large Morrisons, a miniature railway round a lake, and the lowest ranked football team ever to reach the 3rd round of the FA Cup (akin to St Mirren reaching the FA Cup final I think).
A marvellous OS extract makes it look enchanting, particularly for fans of Toll Motorway Service Stations (pick me, pick me).
More mining town art for you, with free pit pony.
The juxtaposition of Heron Foods and BRETFRED says a lot about the town.
But you REALLY need to visit Sankey’s to fall in love with the place.
Quite simply, the friendliest micro since, ooh, Idle.
Superb Woods Stout, a rich and chewy 3.5, and local characters giving me the backstory to a bloke taking fag ends out of the bin. They were very chatty, and it felt like the only boozer in town.
I was hungry by now, sadly no cobs in Sankey’s, so contemplated a Marston’s carvery in the Wych Elm.
Sadly, it was all 2-for-1 type stuff and I wasn’t up to eating two portions of fish and chips for £8.99, so I passed on the Pedi.
It was a bad decision.
Short, but you did a nice job leaving us hanging. Sort of like a Dickens chapter.
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You remember when they came out weekly in the 1840s?
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A year later over here.
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I remember having a pint of Banks’s Mild in the Wych Elm while I was still at school and think that was my only time there.
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I love Sankey’s Taphouse, and there’s a top-notch curry house over the road. Unfortunately, the bus from us commoners in Walsall no longer runs at night 😦
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It’s scary at night. In general, I mean, not just in Burntwood.
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If I hadn’t read it here I think I’d have walked right past that micro. Unless I was actually looking for a nice pair of chrome bathroom taps, in which case I’d have been mildly disappointed for about 2 seconds.
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Speaking of Dickens, happy 208th birthday.
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And 9th June will be 150th anniversary of his death.
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