
There’s two sorts of settlements around micro-mad Middlesbrough (see: Blackpool Jane’s report); the gritty fun towns of the coast like Redcar and Loftus with £3 pints, and the gorgeous North Yorkshire villages bordering the Moors with £4 pints. That may only be a quid, but that quid difference is HUGE.

Great Ayton is just big enough for a railway station that in theory would get you to Stockton AND Whitby in the same day, and now boasts TWO GBG entries.
Actually, I bet they don’t boast about their pubs; it’s too posh for that.

Civic pride rests on Captain Cook, who also seems to have been claimed by every 3rd boozer in Cleveland.

I actually ticked the Royal Oak a couple of years ago; didn’t rate the TT Landlord but it was bustling with pashminas and cardigans and hard to dislike on a Saturday night.

The Tannery, tucked away in a utilitarian shopping arcade behind the barbers, but somehow yet to team up like that Birkenhead place, is an odd place, both classy and boozy.

Is that William Morris wallpaper ? Pauline will know.

A couple of family groups with (adopts Baroness Bomburst voice) “CHILDREN !”. I love seeing children dragging parents out to pubs, especially micros where they can help them upload scores to Untppd.
I doubt they get many Untppders here, but the beer range is pretty much perfect. A blonde one, a milk stout and a cool, smooth pale Eagle Eye (NBSS 3.5), about which I know (and care) nothing.


Yes, there’s high tables, but there’s also tables where Mrs RM’s feet touch the floor, and I welcome “micros” if all they do is welcome folk of all sizes and shapes back into pubs, while serving beer with lacings like this;

Wallpaper recognition is not something I excel at .Sorry !
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There are evening classes, no doubt !
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I wonder if Banks’s Sunbeam is owt like Marston’s 61 Deep, like, y’know?
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It’s the same beer. Someone actually told me that, might have been Richard Coldwell. All brewed in the same vat.
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61 Deep is 3.8% but Sunbeam is 4.2%, so they might have to take it in turns…
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Those percentages come from a random number generator.
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Could be parti gyling. I always thought it was spelt party but google shows https://www.google.com/search?q=parti-gyle+definition&rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBGB751GB751&oq=parti+gyle&aqs=chrome.3.69i57j0i512l2j0i22i30l7.16048j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
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I’d ban dangerous sports and pastimes.
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