WHAT’S THE POINT OF NEW COSTESSEY ?

October 2024. (New) Costessey.

This being a diary, I’m obliged to bring you pub-by-pub details of my ventures, even to unspeakably dull Norfolk towns like Costessey.

Looks like a suburb of Norwich to me, and why is it given the prefix “New” ? A bit like Curry Charles’s hometown of Dereham adding “East” at the start so you feel obliged to ask “Where’s West ?”

There may well be an “Old” Costessey. It might have this building in it.

NOW15

Honestly, I don’t care.

Parked up in Norwich for a gig that night, I just wanted a quick tick, which is unlike me.

Across the road from a small arcade of shops that included New Wok Chinese takeaway (Singapore Rice £6.60, untried), the Crown is yet another example of a cheery, unfussy community pub debuting in the Guide.

Darts, pool, smart lounge, Sky TV,

charming landlady, a decent cask trade for beers that YOU might have heard of,

but left New Costessey scratching their heads in bemusement. Can they really not have seen Dizzy Blonde before ?

I had a pot pint of TEA (NBSS 3+), and enjoyed a bloke mildly chiding his University Climbing Society partner for getting a barrel (of Aspalls) changed (don’t ask, it was lost in translation).

More to the point, why does Norwich even need a Climbing Society ?

Unknown's avatar

Published by retiredmartin

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

5 thoughts on “WHAT’S THE POINT OF NEW COSTESSEY ?”

  4. Not sure of your readership in Costessey but having grown up there in the 70s thought I’d confirm there is Old Costessey they are separated by the River Tud. Costessey was always separate from Norwich but I guess with all the new housing no longer the case. How it’s going I think Dereham will be next to join up. Think you’re a little harsh on Costessey it was a nice place to grow up.

    Like

    Reply

Leave a comment