Only 8 more days and we can confine “Guess the Pub” to the dustbin of blog history. At least until the tricky Carluke variant (only tackled by adding Buckfast to the vaccine) comes along, anyway.
I’m staying local today, barely 20 minutes from home. Duncan will be able to identify the location from my drone shot; he saw Wales play here in 2001. Ah, but which Wales ?
The music clue to location is a doozy, as they say in Duisburg.
The most famous resident here was a world champion, with a name exactly comprised from the surnames of two of the most iconic Americans of recent decades. And a card seller.
The pub, one of four in the village, looks like it should be in the GBG but I’ve never been here. Chief Pubs Galore Maps Corrector Will may have been, who knows ?
These photos come from Google, which specialises in a) blurry pictures folk in Halloween costumes, b) blurry pictures of folk raising a pint of Fosters and saying “Cheers”, and c) Crystal clear photos of pie and chips.
Our mystery pub specialises in chips and gravy, enhanced by Hendos.
Really, what more could you possibly want ? Well, What Pub reckons they sell a beer from North Warwickshire, possibly even a 2017 Champion Beer of Britain.
Happy birthday to you too !
retiredmartin 
Without wishing to give the game away, it’s probably the last pub in the coubtry to maintain the Easter tradition of Hot Cross Pies.
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Get the pugilist and in the right area.
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“Get the pugilist” sounds like a deep cut from a Half Man Half Biscuit album from 1998.
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Only eight more days? Yikes. Where do you want the answer, here like Bill did (it was Bill wasn’t it)?
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Oh just give us the answer, I’ve dozens more like this. Quite enjoying looking in pubs virtually !
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Oh, bugger, beaten to it AGAIN.
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Am I allowed 3 comments in a row? Still not getting the “musical clue” Something to do with Route 66??
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Nope. Number 4 hit from 1987, and the one hit wonder came from there.
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I don’t get the music clue either but once you’ve got the world champion it all falls into place. Also home to the less famous T L Platts.
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Looks good, might swanalong there sometime .
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No idea where the pub is -South Yorkshire probably -that pie/casserole with a lid ,looks fantastic though -my mouth is watering just looking at it with the chips & gravy.Perfect !
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Close enough, it’s the Swan just over the border in Ridgeway, Derbyshire. Very Yorkshire portions.
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It’s the only Sheffield pub called the Swan, and you’re trying to say it’s foreign? I’m relying on Pubs Galore: “Postal town: Sheffield” and therefore in Yorkshire. I know Wikipedia says “just south of the South Yorkshire border”, but how reliable is Wiki anyway…
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Wiki v Pubs Galore ? Hmmm. Why don’t you correct the map again and move it a mile north; that’ll sort it.
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Wiki says that it’s in “the East Midlands” – along with Glossop etc.
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No such place.
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Just an anorak’s point – the football pitch is gone on the Google aerial view, but present on Bing.
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Duncan took the pitch home as a souvenir.
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Kind of him to mark the space left out for cricket, then.
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He’s all heart.
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So what was the music clue? Found the pub without needing to solve that one.
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The Swan is in Ridgeway. Stan Ridg(e)way sang “Camouflage” about a marine, and was born in Barstow, California, home to a large Marine Corps. A niche clue !
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That’s niche all right
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Good grief! All could come up with was Mojave Song, Miracle of Sound. Explains why couldn’t get it to fit as a clue even after finding the pub.
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Sick of Etu and Lorenzo and Mudgie complaining they’re too easy. Reap what you sow.
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The way that I’ve generally solved these is by ignoring Martin’s “clues” and by searching objective bits of information that have got past him – or that he perhaps thought wouldn’t help anyway.
He’s got better at stopping that lately.
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Cheat, you mean.
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Well, no, I mean, on your facts – some implied, some stated – about the world champ I searched exact phrase “village near Sheffield” and world champion, which brought up stuff about Ridgeway and Clinton Woods.
Perhaps you didn’t mean us to do that, but is it cheating?
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OK, I’ll unblock you (again).
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I see that your honorary membership in the Campaign for Real Pies has lapsed.
https://www.facebook.com/CampaignForRealPies
A lid on a dish of stew hardly counts as a real pie.
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Oh no, not the pie fetishists again. They’re worse than those people who call baps cobs or barms.
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I’m with you Paul.
It’s no more a pie than is a hat a soldier in uniform.
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