September 2024. Barnsley. £8.60 it had cost me for the rail return to Barnsley. Not THAT bad, it’s £58 (fifty-eight) to Atherstone, which has zero GBG entries but does have the Paul Mudge seal of approval, which will no doubt be all have to direct us to the best pubs when CAMRA dies as ageing… Continue reading SOUTH YORKSHIRE HAS (DEFINITELY) FALLEN

September 2024. Barnsley. Barnsley always seems unusually compact, it’s typical ration of half a dozen GBG pubs barely 10 minutes apart, but it’s easy to forget this is a small town of 71,422, albeit with a vast hinterland stretching into the Peak. “Hinterland” is one of those words I don’t really know the meaning of,… Continue reading REAPPRAISING BOYGENIUS IN BARNSLEY

September 2024. Barnsley. Back home from Driffield, I had the sudden urge to actually finish a GBG chapter. South Yorkshire would do, you ought to knock off your home county first. Unless it’s Rutland, when it’s already done. That burst of Rotherham ticking last week had left just a couple in Beautiful Barnsley, which had… Continue reading CULTURAL BARNSLEY

September 2024 (but it might as well have been 1984). Driffield. Before we leave the South worths in Filey I must apologise for not letting them know about the new Wetherspoons on the Haven Holiday Park, worth visiting if early reviews are anything to go by. You need to be a holidaymaker and do a… Continue reading THE BLOKE PLAYING POOL SHOUTS “SAUSAGE”. IT’S DRIFFIELD PERSONIFIED.

September 2024. Filey. Catching the 19:15 from Filey back to Driffield would have given us an hour to tick the GBG newbie in Bridlington, but we were in good company so stayed for a nightcap in the Star. And who knows if we’ll ever see the Southworths again if it all goes wrong (again) on… Continue reading A STAR IN FILEY

September 2024. Filey. A Tuesday in Filey, just like in the John Denver song. We’d come for company and curry as much as cask, but 4:30pm was a bit too early for Monsoon Indian, even for Stafford Paul. So we did the micro. I know, I know, a man in North Yorkshire should do Proper… Continue reading NOT A LOAD OF COBBLERS – THE FILEY MICRO

September 2024. Mexborough. Mrs RM and I were discussing with the Southworths the lack of world knowledge of most of their countrymen. To prove my point, in a recent survey only 0 out of 1,123 Americans surveyed could place Mexborough (pop.15,244), that wise Uncle of the South Yorkshire mines, on a world map. In fairness,… Continue reading BLESSED IS THE MEXBOROUGH SPOONS

September 2024. Thrybergh. Rotherham. What a joy the new Beer Guide is ! Golf clubs, Sizzling pubs, revived village allrounders, brewery taps, and now a shed on a farm next to a deer park. Actually, not much sign of the deer park on Thrybergh’s converted farm, a theme we will see BRAPA develop later this… Continue reading A BEER GUIDE BEANO AT THRYBERGH DEER PARK

September 2024. Peakirk. Peterborough. Only three (3) newbies in my old home counties for GBG25, par for the course of late. One’s a brewery tap, the other two are both “improved” old style village pubs. Thrillingly, my final tick is in Peakirk, about which I know nothing, despite (or because of) having a cousin* here… Continue reading CAMBRIDGESHIRE HAS FALLEN – PEAKIRK PERFECTION