May 2026. Bradford.
Time flies. Five years ago I was sitting outside the Jacobs Well (aka Beer House aka Jacobs etc etc), waiting for BRAPA to be vaccinated.
Simon was able to confirm that beer actually boosts the effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine, or was it Sputnik ?
I was BRAPA’s DES that momentous day, so I hadn’t joined him in Jacobs, one of a handful of “trad Brad” GBG entries.
So I left the £50 a night luxury of the Midland Hotel for a Sunday evening pint of Dark Mild,
a rich NBSS 4,
and found a locals pub still in rich in character and banter.
Darts, blokes watching the Snooker final on their phone,
a tray of uneaten cheese sarnies. All signs of a Proper Pub, though in truth it’s pub you go to with mates for best effect.
Yes, yes, BRAPA would have stolen a sandwich in 2021, but back in those dark days we weren’t completely sure whether cheese would dullen the benefit of the COVID vaccine. And you can’t be too careful.
retiredmartin 
Good for Jacob. And the same for Taff of these parts.
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Taffs Well is a place, isn’t it ? Is there a pub ?
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Yes, Taff’s Well is very much a place Martin, with the Taff’s Well Inn and Fagin’s Craft place, according to, ahem, “the comprehensive listing site for pubs & pub lovers of all persuasions” (but not for those – even if a small minority – who like dadaist pub reviews apparently, so that would appear to be a claim too far imo.)
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No salad garnish around the sandwich plate, what a let down.
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The salad was the best of it, Lana. That’s why there’s only cheese sarnies remaining !
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It would have looked a sorry site !
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I saw Jacobs Well and thought of the village/suburb of that name at the north end of Guildford. There’s no pub there, but there is a scout hall where I once went to a wedding reception and drank too much canned Courage Directors. And too much canned Courage Directors is one can.
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I saw Jacob’s Well and thought of Jacob’s Wells Road, Bristol. Pubs: the Hope and Anchor (nice garden) and the Bag O’Nails (home to numerous cats)
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Bring back canned Courage Directors.
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The no1 Joke of Sheffield Caroling is when some calls out ‘I never knew he was ill’ when Jacobs well is called, if your in the sort of place where they call what your singing than expecting you to know from the intro, 183 years in and it still goes down a storm
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