RETIRED MARTIN DAY EVE PUB CRAWL. No.1 – THE OLD QUEEN’S HEAD

December 2024. Sheffield.

My actual birthday yesterday was a near total disaster I’m sure you’ll enjoy reading about shortly, so just as well I made hay on Saturday while I had the chance.

A big, BIG thanks to fellow Pub Ticket Jim of Saddleworth, who sent me this suggestion for a meet-up before his Champions League fixture in Worksop.

The best plans are made at two in the morning.

Yes, Pub Men never sleep, as Stafford Paul well knows.

I didn’t quite match Jim’s pace, but half a dozen pubs is half a dozen short posts, starting with a rare bit of Sheffield timber in the shadow of the station’s high rise.

Jim times his ticking with football, and had a huge pile of Sheffield GBG newbies to catch up on, but it was hard to believe he’d not been in the Old Queen’s Head before,

a Thwaites pub in and out of the Guide lately, but serving a decent Belgian Blue  (NBSS 3+) before noon.

A lovely old rambling pub, with a distinctly unpretentious crowd in at 11am,

including one conducting the loudest telephone conversation since Alexander Graham Bell.

Good to see the Old Queen’s Head in such safe hands.

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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.

8 thoughts on “RETIRED MARTIN DAY EVE PUB CRAWL. No.1 – THE OLD QUEEN’S HEAD”

  1. “Pub Men never sleep, as Stafford Paul well knows” – except that nowadays I’m prone to a mid afternoon nap, just as my grandfather was in the 1960s.
    “serving a decent Belgian Blue before noon” – but why don’t more pub goers know that that’s by far the best time of day for assessing beer quality ?

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  3. Hey Martin, when are you going to sort that gammy leg out? Mavis reckons you’re only pretending to stop the leopard that lives in your mind from escaping.

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