THE SUNDAY ROAST IN CORBY GLEN

September 2026. Corby Glen. Lincolnshire.

I really have nothing to complain about in life, but last weekend was an example of the stresses and tensions of a typical week.

Getting “home” on Saturday from a the weekly 6 hour visit to see Dad in his Waterbeach care home, Mrs RM was deep into conversations with her own parents about care needs, and with just time to take the washing in we were heading straight back down the A1 to Kent.

And just time for a Sunday lunch stop in Corby Glen’s Fighting Cocks, one of the eight Lincolnshire Guide newbies. A pretty village, as you’ll see from my New Year’s Day visit.

Entry to the rear with a step like that,

into a typically unfussy Bateman village dining pub.

There’s a wait for lunch, which at this stage is pork roast or nothing, so time for Mrs RM to have a couple of pints of XXXB.

Who are these people who sip beer ?

There’s a nice community feel, cheerful young staff, free meals for children (I’m too old, apparently),

and an impressive (and prominent) menu for the non-drinker.

Oddly, Mrs RM doesn’t seem at all bothered by the AI graphics so exercising CAMRA Discourse at the moment.

There’s families, ladies on their own, and a fair number of dogs, enjoying a soundtrack that reaches, but never quite goes past, 1987.

I’m fairly scathing about Lincolnshire’s Beer Guide entries on here (frankly, there’s too many of them), but the one you thing do get, particularly south of the A52, is a good Sunday roast with fresh veg.

I mean, if you can’t get fresh veg on the edge of Fens where can you ? But this is a well cooked plate that almost compensates for the calories in the Crispy Beef and Singapore Rice the night before.

Only £12.95 your Sunday roast, an all-time bargain.

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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.

21 thoughts on “THE SUNDAY ROAST IN CORBY GLEN”

  1. It’s roast parsnips that make a proper Sunday lunch.
    I’ve been having them aplenty with my carvery in the Kings Head but no more as the Sunday buses for Lichfield only lasted a year despite them being far better used than the weekday ones for Uttoxeter.

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    1. Probably being used by too many people with elderly persons’ bus passes, Paul. If more paying passengers turned up it might be running yet. But if we had to pay for the bus there’s be less money to keep the pubs open.

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      1. Well, with never having had to stand since first using my bus pass on the 65 from Eyam to Sheffield in September 2022 I know that during six hundred journeys over four years I have NEVER taken a seat that a paying passenger should have occupied. And I know that the bus operators are ‘no better off and no worse off’ financially from me using the scheme. The viability of bus services is surely boosted by any increased usage. When I “had to pay for the bus” I didn’t and usually stayed at home instead.
        On my last Sunday trip to Lichfield there were 27 passengers on the outward bus ( 16 alighting in Lichfield ) and 43 on the one back ( 15 alighting in Stafford ). Yet last year my nine all-weekday Uttoxeter journeys ( four return and one outward ) included three with me the sole passenger all the way and two part of the way ( between Hixon and Uttoxeter ). Admittedly Lichfield and Uttoxeter are two VERY different towns.

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      2. My understanding is that bus companies are reimbursed by local authorities for passengers using bus passes so their income is the same as if they were fare paying passengers.

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      3. I don’t think it’s quite as simple as that, Jon.

        Calculating concessionary travel reimbursement is predicated on determining what would have happened in the absence of the ENCTS.
        Concessionary fare reimbursement is made up of 2 elements.
        (1) The ‘revenue forgone’: the revenue operators would have received from those concessionary passengers who would otherwise have travelled and paid for a (full fare or discounted) journey in the absence of a scheme.
        (2)The ‘net additional costs’ operators have incurred as a result of the scheme: this includes marginal costs of concessionary journeys which would not have been made in the absence of the scheme. It also includes scheme administration costs.

        I’m not sure how the government determines who would otherwise have travelled and paid for a journey in the absence of a scheme and who would not have made the journey in the absence of the scheme. The driver certainly never asks and there aren’t any conductors to perform such a role.

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      4. Further to what Paul said, two other points:
        1) in London the national card doesn’t register on the sensor when getting on the bus. The driver just gives card holders a nod, to show that they have seen your card, but there’s no way that TFL can claim for those journeys made by me and presumably one or two others.
        2) the only bus company that I know of which actually records what journey ENCTS card holders have done is Stagecoach in Cumbria. All the other bus companies that I have used must be just claiming a flat rate.

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      5. Further to what Will said, two other points:
        1) in London the national card can be used on weekdays from 9am instead of 9.30am. Also in North Yorkshire hence in June the X94 departing Robin Hoods Bay at 9.26 getting me to Scarborough by 10.08am with ample time for using up a Timbo voucher before Humphrey’s Golden Ball opened. And probably also in some other counties.
        2) the only bus company that I know which actually issues a ticket to ENCTS card holders is Stagecoach Cumbria and North Lancs. That gave me ten tickets as souvenirs of my 77C, 78, 555 and 599 journeys around Lake District pubs in July 2024.

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  3. When I started to take an interest in real ale (c.1990) Batemans XXXB was considered one of the best beers in the country. I remember a GBG pub in Cheetham Hill that had only two handpumps – Landlord and XXXB – both rare for Mcr at the time and thought well worth the walk from the city centre.

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      1. I thought Cheetham’s most memorable Holts pub was the Apollo at 79 Heywood Street, a 1960s building as the name suggests.

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  4. I can’t believe that you get all those vegetables for that price. I presume that the beer wasn’t a premium price to compensate. Also I thought that I had read in the news that there was a vegetable supply problem because of summer drought.

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