RECONSTRUCTING A LOST AFTERNOON

August 2023. Sheffield.

After our pleasant, sensible, hour in the Kelham Island Tavern Will left me on the corner of the Wellington, which in retrospect seems a bit untypically cruel but that’s what Premier League status does to you.

I should have kept walking up this hill,

but these days the Welly is too inviting,

and it was just a pint of Blonde (£3.20) and a cheese and onion cob* (a quid !) and some Pipers.

Blimey it was great. Really great. Cool, clean, rich (NBSS 4.5+). I told Will what he was missing.

I also told the guvnor his pub was my favourite, which at that moment was undoubtedly true.

Reconstructing the details of the afternoon from the photos, it seems he may have given me a little taster of something.

Well, that was good, but the guest beer Will was banging on about called…

I had to tell Will.

And then, something dark. No idea, sorry.

I can’t remember what it was. All I know is that I arrived home at 5.10pm swinging a bag of crispy beef and Singapore rice. Where that came from, I will never know.

*barm/bread roll etc etc

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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.

10 thoughts on “RECONSTRUCTING A LOST AFTERNOON”

  1. I don’t know why I get accused of leaving you cruelly on the corner by the Wellington. You were through that door like a ferret up a trouser leg. I couldn’t have stopped you even if you’d begged me to save you from yourself.

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      1. I’m meeting “them” today for a trip to Tamworth, to visit Camra’s Pub of the Year: the Tamworth Tap. Not sure what input they’re likely to have, as they very sensibly cleared off before Martin went on his mission to drink the Wellington dry

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      3. Especially as CAMRA’s Pub of the Year: the Tamworth Tap will be full of beer buffs on their way to or from the Tamworth beer festival. .

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      5. Will,
        I remember when Tamworth meant M&B Mild in the Tweedale Arms, Banks’s in the Albert and no more than a five minute walk from the railway station.
        I’m not sure what’s gone wrong.

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      6. Like many towns, the boozers are concentrated in the centre as people have taken to circuit drinking rather than going to their local for a session. The Tweeddale is now a pizza restaurant – it probably wasn’t done any favours by having a bypass and roundabout built right in front!

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