GUESS THE PUB GOES FOR A BASS TASTER

Yes, a lovely looking pub, but tasters ? For Bass ?

A quart is a taster, surely ?

Perhaps the most obscure clue ever to the location of our mystery pub;

My second Superman clue in a week, fact fans.

It’s twinned with a French coal mining town whose Wiki entries claims “an extremely old tree” as a place of interest.

At the risk of making this too easy, the main bar in that French town looks like this;

Back in England we have no net curtains here, but Bass tasters and a trio of trios.

3 museums, 3 recent Beer Guide entries, and 3 distinct areas to the parish, one of them a “lost” village that looks like this;

Here’s yet another locational clue from inside the pub. Where’s Life After Football when you need him ?

Inside you have that lovely sight of blokes at the bar, blokes at the benches, and a hidden bloke behind the wall waiting for lunch.

All too easy, I think, so I’ll award the prize to whoever can identify the album cover below.

And then sing the Christmas hit it contains.

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Retired NHS, doing long walks around UK and the world to record the great bits. Focused on Good Beer Guide pubs and live music.

39 thoughts on “GUESS THE PUB GOES FOR A BASS TASTER”

  1. “but tasters ? For Bass ?”

    Basters! (Fen for bastards?) 😉

    “A quart is a taster, surely ?”

    Blimey. I’ve been doing it wrong.

    “Perhaps the most obscure clue ever to the location of our mystery pub;”

    I’m out! Heck, if this is the most obscure I have no bloody hope do I?

    “It’s twinned with a French coal mining town”

    Oop north then. 🙂

    “At the risk of making this too easy, the main bar in that French town looks like this;”

    I got the town from that by using Google. 🙂
    (yay me!)

    “Back in England we have no net curtains here, but Bass tasters and a trio of trios.”

    Having no luck trying to Google twin Bully. 😉

    “Where’s Life After Football when you need him ?”

    Having a pint at home in his underpants?

    “and a hidden bloke behind the wall waiting for lunch.”

    That’s the name of one of the meals? Worse than bloody toad in the hole that is.

    “All too easy, I think, so I’ll award the prize to whoever can identify the album cover below.”

    I’m out (again!).

    “And then sing the Christmas hit it contains.”

    Phew! Dodged a bullet there!

    Cheers

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      1. Having failed miserably at guessing all the pubs, to date, I thought I’d better get in quick with the LP title. Below the Salt wasn’t as good as Parcel of Rogues which, I believe, preceeded it.

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    2. Well done Paul.

      I did wonder if it would be something folksy. I was going to work through them starting with the Pogues.

      But that was pretty pacy-pacy.

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    3. T’oher Paul,
      “Salt” – and Thomas Salt’s brewery was at 119 High Street, Burton on Trent until being taken over by Bass, Ratcliff and Gretton in 1927 so that’s the connection with Draught Bass !

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      1. Stafford Paul, there is a smashing Thomas Salt pub mirror, hanging on the wall at the Anglesea Arms, South Kensington.

        The Anglesea is one of the original, pioneering real ale pubs in the capital, which I had the pleasure of visiting, for the first time in 1974. Pleased to report that it hasn’t changed much in 45 years – my last visit was in 2019!

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      2. T’other Paul,
        Yes, I remember the Anglesea Arms for beers like Bass and Ruddles back in 1974 but i don’t think nineteen year olds have ever taken much notice of pub mirrors.
        I’ve heard that the two magnificent mirrors in the Tipperary, Fleet Street have been removed for sale to a museum in Ireland during lockdown despite that being illegal from the pub’s Grade II listing. .

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  4. I found the pub, but owing to what I assume to be an oversight in one of Martin’s pics.

    Is the comic cover a reference to the village down the road?

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    1. Oversight ? How very dare you. Everything in these posts is rigorously researched and the sent to my Quality Control team.

      Yes, anyone with a 99p magnifying glass can read the mats on the table but where’s the fun in that when you’ve got obscure lost villages to work out ?

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      1. Ah yes, all is clear now. It’s actually written on the table, not the mats. Sounds good: “very much a village local with more mature clientele appreciating the quiet cosy ambience.” 😀

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      3. I’ve been to 3 very good pubs in Ruddington doing the GBG but the Victoria wasn’t one of them. There’s some strong pubs between Nottingham/Bridgford and Leicester, though classics bar the Red Lion in Kegworth.

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    2. Was struggling – till pointed in direction of the pub’s name being in view,,, which can be of some help in a Guess the Pub competition.

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      1. I suspect there’s some fancy software that could have blotted it out but I’d hate to get a reputation for technical proficiency. And there must be dozens of pubs called The Chandlers Chalice in the UK ?

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      2. Can never hear/read coquille St Jaques without remembering Willy Rushton’s description of it as ‘fish in an ash-tray’

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