EAST YORKSHIRE HAS FALLEN (INTO THE SEA ?)

July 2025. Kilnsea. East Yorkshire.

No big achievement to complete East Yorkshire (Humberside to you and me), only ever half a dozen new entries, but this year our final tick takes us back to one of the remote entries, an hour east of Hull past wheat fields, campsites, bikers and stalls selling soft fruit at the side of the road.

To Kilnsea, your Gateway to Spurn.

That white building in the pub’s drone pic is the Crown & Anchor, not to be mistaken with the micropub pillbox across the road.

My pic of the pub exterior is very poor, see BRAPA for a good one,

or just a photo of the painting inside the pub.

It’s a simple, lively place, reminding me of the similarly remote Sailors Home in Kessingland or numerous Fenland pubs in South Holland.

Live music from folk in cowboy hats, an impressive looking carvery.

The carvery is dominating this Sunday, 3 generational family groups from as far away as Thorngumbald and Burton Pidsea here to discuss “maximum carrying load” and “a man with TWO crutches“.

“How many SHOULD he have ?” the obvious question.

No greater joy hath God given to Man than the ability to sit in a pub with a pint eavesdropping on family conversation on the Sabbath.

It’s possible the oldest member of that group played in this classic New Year’s Eve fixture commemorated on the wall;

Note the addition of “UNDERTAKER“. Football was a dangerous sport back then.

Not much has changed over the decades; Beyonce has replaced Pat Boone, but they still have Tetley,

though it’s the guest beer (on pump hidden round the corner) that gets it in the Guide.

Great Newsome cask from barely 10 miles up the road, a cool, silky NBSS 4. That last tick in a county is always a cracker.

Note my splitting of the G.

A bit foody on Sunday afternoon, but still a joy, and you can feel the history in every corner.

But how long till it’s all washed away ?

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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.

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  2. I was fairly sure that you’d invented Thorngumbald and Burton Pidsea, but it seems they really do exist.

    Which is more than I can say for the location of a Tetley’s brewery in Leeds. (Leeds Brewery took on “a Tetley’s beer” – carefully not specified but not the famed Bitter – before going bust and having their own beers brewed by Kirkstall Brewery.) As far as I know it is brewed in Wolverhampton. Or Burton on Trent.

    I hope I am not as confused as Google’s AI Overview (otherwise known as Always Confused):

    “No, Tetley’s Cask ale is no longer brewed in Wolverhampton. While it was previously brewed there under contract by Marston’s at their Park Brewery, it has since moved production again. In 2011, Carlsberg, the owner of Tetley’s, announced that cask ale production would be moved to Marston’s brewery in Wolverhampton after the closure of the Leeds brewery. However, the current situation is that Tetley’s Cask is brewed by Carlsberg Marston’s Brewing Company (CMBC), which includes both Carlsberg and Marston’s brands.”

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      1. I think it was brewed there for a while, and the CAMRA website says that’s where it’s brewed. But the Cameron’s Brewery website says nowt about Tetley’s.

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