Retired Martin Day. South Cave. Before I give you your Christmas Day “Half A Dozen Pubs” (Cheshire !), another slice of pub life from Retired Martin Day in our South Cave night out. I’d considered ticking the Bear via Brough station on the way back from Hull last week, indeed I had a title in… Continue reading BLACK EYE FRIDAY IN SOUTH CAVE – VOLTAROL AND DOOM BAR UNDER THE BODDIES SIGN
Month: December 2023
A BIRTHDAY IN A CASTLE. IN A CAVE.
December 2023. South Cave. Happy Christmas. I’m sure there’s nothing you need more on 25 December than pics from Retired Martin Day, and I’m delighted to bring you the evidence of my posh hotel in South Cave on what we traditionalists insist on calling Humberside. Actually, it wasn’t that posh, and cost less than the… Continue reading A BIRTHDAY IN A CASTLE. IN A CAVE.
HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY COUNTY – No. 4 – CAMBRIDGESHIRE
Well, this will be a controversial one. Five pubs in my home county, and one for you to pick. There’s a problem with Cambridgeshire. It’s called Cambridge. I could pick half a dozen pubs in the county town on a mile from the station. But I only get one pick, and it’s the obvious one.… Continue reading HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY COUNTY – No. 4 – CAMBRIDGESHIRE
SNAITH – BOUNDARY ISSUES, HERBERT NAPPY ASKE AND JACK PUNTON THE WALKING MAN
December 2023. Snaith. Pubs are fine, but what you really want (possibly) is a compelling reason to visit small, unsung, market towns on your UK holidays. Towns like Snaith (pop. 3,176 souls), an improbable 55 minutes by train from Leeds (not on Sundays, nothing happens on Humberside on a Sunday). Your reward at the rail… Continue reading SNAITH – BOUNDARY ISSUES, HERBERT NAPPY ASKE AND JACK PUNTON THE WALKING MAN
A SNAITH SPEAKEASY
December 2023. Snaith. It was a already a joyous 59th birthday (I know, I don’t believe it either, but then I am an “old grump”), what with bench seats, jam roly poly and a sweaty Chris de Burgh in Beal, but things arguably got even better with a quick stop near Goole and Drax power… Continue reading A SNAITH SPEAKEASY
HALF A DOZEN PUBS FROM EVERY COUNTY. No. 3 – BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
Let’s return to my festive series highlighting the pick of the pubs in each Beer Guide chapter, inviting you to make up the round half dozen. One immediate surprise; picking five (let alone 6) must visits in a county is tougher than you’d think. Obviously when we get to Sheffield there’ll be six within half… Continue reading HALF A DOZEN PUBS FROM EVERY COUNTY. No. 3 – BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
RETIRED MARTIN’S BIG GOOLE BIRTHDAY
22 December 2023. Beal, nr Goole. Thanks for all your birthday wishes, I really appreciate the love for Retired Martin Day. Mrs RM spared all expense, adapting a card for her nan that been sitting in a draw for 12 years; And of course Stockport’s own Phil Foden has just capped off the night by… Continue reading RETIRED MARTIN’S BIG GOOLE BIRTHDAY
ANOTHER SAM SMITHS REBORN IN ROTHERHAM !
December 2023. Ulley. Rotherham. The nights are getting shorter, Retired Martin is a year older, my reservoir of current blog material is now exhausted. Let’s hope I can get out today. There is rebirth in Rotherham, as Ulley’s Sam Smiths pub re-opened last Thursday after 4 long years looking for the right management couple. Ulley… Continue reading ANOTHER SAM SMITHS REBORN IN ROTHERHAM !
HALF A DOZEN PUBS FROM EVERY COUNTY. No. 2 – BERKSHIRE.
Happy Retired Martin Day (22/12), to those of you who celebrate. Back to my county-by-county trawl through UK pubs, and our second county alphabetically in the traditional GBG (the one I did), dispatched to an unfindable page since 2023. Five picks from me in Berkshire, you choose the sixth. A solid drinking county, with the… Continue reading HALF A DOZEN PUBS FROM EVERY COUNTY. No. 2 – BERKSHIRE.
FAGAN’S. AGAIN.
December 2023. Sheffield. You know where Fagan’s is. Next to that mural. No ! Not that one ! This is only my fifth visit to Fagan’s since that triumphant re-opening, but it may just be my second most visited pub after the Blind Monkey. There’s not a lot to say, the beer range seems to… Continue reading FAGAN’S. AGAIN.
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