March 2025. Stockport.
One benefit of this blog being basically a diary is that I can just look at my photos and pretty much make up the words. The downside is that it oft becomes a manic row of pub visits, though you seem to like that more than the church/art/music stuff so who am I to change a winning formula.
Stockport was starting to win over Jane and Karen that Saturday morning, I felt, the lanes back towards the market packed with interest.
“Who’s that, then ?”.
Obviously it’s the trombone playing out of local popsters The Blossoms, I mansplained.
Is the town centre always this quiet ?
Never mind, easier to take pics of random images of Joy Division album covers and Underbanks Hall. There must be a better use for this than as a branch of NatWest Bank, surely.
And then a descent into Little Underbanks to admire Winters (top) and torture Mrs RM with yet more steep stairs.
At the top lies “Where The Light Gets In“, owner of a Michelin Green Star, which is a bit like my Top 100 Pubs awards. Never been, but Duncan has.
During refurbishment they’ve set up a pop-up in Manchester, wherever that is. Ashleigh seems a little confused by the whole thing;
Looks like £80 worth of burger to me.
St Mary’s (NCSS 4) completed our 24 hours of culture,
a friendly place with some striking modern art.
This piece, possibly entitled “Jerusalem via the A6“, imagines Christ visiting Stockport and finding the micropub closed.
In a side room there’s a fascinating exhibition of local life.
This little fella was clearly rejected as one of those children who stand outside schools to warn motorists to slow down.
Anyway, I digress. Where have Blackpool Jane and Karen gone ?
retiredmartin 
Ah yes, the Pretentious Restaurant.
Give me a Turkish, Greek, Lebanese, Chinese, Thai, Indian, Polish, Kashmiri, Vietnamese, Nepalese, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, Mexican, Yorkshire pub grub, or whatever, but please. Never. Ever. “Gastro”.
Sincerest sympathies are extended to the poster.
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But it was a burger !
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Quite.
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“Looks like £80 worth of burger to me.” More like £8 to me and I’m feeling generous. The WTLGI gets mixed reviews and some of them are very amusing.
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Yesterday lunchtime I paid £4.99 for an alleged “small plate” of Puller Pork Fries. It was far more than I could eat and that was with the normal cheese left off.
Yes, you can’t go far wrong in Penkridge.
Imagine my surprise though in the Cross Keys at the metered electric pumps – commonplace fifty years ago in 10,000 Midlands and Northern pubs – having been replaced by handpumps during the last five weeks.
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I really assumed this was a joke post, but I can’t be sure.
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No, correct Puller to Pulled and it’s entirely accurate.
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Well obviously Natwest will sell that branch to Sam Smiths. It looks perfect to be a boarded up building for the next 40 years.
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But hasn’t Humphrey retired now ?
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Sam’s already have two closed pubs in the town centre, so I doubt whether they will want another one. Apparently reports of Humphrey’s retirement have been somewhat exaggerated.
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Sadly, despite all the hype, the town centre now usually is pretty dead during the daytime. Stockport is not unique in that, of course. It only seems to come alive on Foodie Friday.
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