Back to the walks. A two hour epic, almost reaching the Peak District before realising Derbyshire police would confiscate our coffee cups (Voluntary disclosure : James had a fudge brownie as well). The walk takes you through the student houses of Crookesmoor to the student flats of Broomfield and thence to the student village of… Continue reading STEPPING STONES
Month: January 2021
GHOSTS HAUNT THE BLACK SWAN IN YORK
After my post on the 1980 North Yorks Guide, reader “US” Dave asks; “Other than the Black Swan are there other York pubs in that guide then that are commonly visited now ? “ The answer seemed to be “NO”. Most of York’s 2021 GBG entries are outside the centre, and the central pubs long… Continue reading GHOSTS HAUNT THE BLACK SWAN IN YORK
PROPER CHOICE IN NORTH YORKSHIRE PUBS IN 1980
Today I walked to Middlewood, at the end of the Sheffield tram line. There are NO pubs there, just a Sheffield Wednesday training ground. Not that you’d know they trained. So, instead of a dull walk, I’m bringing you the highlights from the 3rd edition of the North Yorkshire Guide to real ale pubs. (thanks… Continue reading PROPER CHOICE IN NORTH YORKSHIRE PUBS IN 1980
SHEFFIELD SLEEPS
My blogging ritual can now alternate between earnest assessments of 1980s North Eastern pub guides, virtual crawls round closed pubs via Google Maps, and the highlights of daily Sheffield walks. If we were able to maintain this vaccination rate I’d get my first jab by the end of March. Hopefully in a giant Wetherspoons. We… Continue reading SHEFFIELD SLEEPS
YE OLD ELM TREE
Once/if things get back to “normal” I’ll be able to catch a train to Durham in less than 2 hours, which sounds like a win. I’ve been scouring my newly acquired first Guide to North East pubs for a Durham City boozer that’s in the current GBG I can write about. It’s harder than I… Continue reading YE OLD ELM TREE
1978 AND ALL THAT…
The lovely Alastair Gilmour (meet-and-drink.co.uk) from That Newcastle has been clearing out his files. I used to do a similar clear-out before the Southworths made their tri-annual pilgramage over to collect CAMRA magazines and hangovers; whatever happened to the Southworths ? By the turn of century I had a huge collection of local CAMRA pub… Continue reading 1978 AND ALL THAT…
BORDERTOWNS : CHINEWOLDMARESC
Having stood my Fuggle Bunny take-outs safely in the Aygo, ensuring they’d spill and leave it smelling of Russian Stout this morning, I took a short walk east. Ooh, a bridge. Look, a little country park. Wow, I’m in Killamarsh aka Chinewoldmaresc, which sounds like a movie theatre chain. In vain I checked my South… Continue reading BORDERTOWNS : CHINEWOLDMARESC
FUGGLE BUNNY
I know some of you are anxious to see more of the ancient pages of the Sheffield Star I’m uncovering on our floorboards. Sadly no adverts for whippet cream or Stones, just a report on an “exciting” Benson & Hedges cup tie from 1984 I managed to track down on Cricinfo. An afternoon of soporific… Continue reading FUGGLE BUNNY
THROUGH THE KEYHOLE – THE CROWN, BRIGHTSIDE
More for fans of closed railway stations, as Wiki tells me; “Despite the opening of Meadowhall Interchange in 1990, Brightside station remained open until 1995. A limited service had continued in its last three years and the station closed without fanfare with a poster announcing that all remaining trains could be caught at Meadowhall. Not… Continue reading THROUGH THE KEYHOLE – THE CROWN, BRIGHTSIDE
MR BRIGHTSIDE
Here’s a little map showing some of the places I’ve been to in my first six weeks in Sheffield. Oooh, they’re nearly all closed pubs. If Lockdown 3 continues into May, or July, or December, there’s still loads of suburbs to explore on foot; Stumperlowe sounds wonderful. Yesterday, leaving Grimesthorpe on foot, I went to… Continue reading MR BRIGHTSIDE
