February 2023. I’m not one for customs, apart from the famous ones associated with my own birthday (22 December, make a note), but I quite fancy turning up in Haxey, North Lincs to watch the giant scrum known as the Haxey Hood. It’s the most famous thing about the “capital of the Isle of Axholme”,… Continue reading A RARE MOMENT OF PEACE IN HAXEY
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PORK PIE, STILTON, BASS – MELTON MOWBRAY MARVELS
7th March 2023. Closing in on completion of Leicestershire’s GBG entries, a very minor pleasure, but the penultimate tick takes me to magical Melton Mowbray on market morning, which sounds an alliterative dream. All change in Melton’s GBG entries, what happened to the brewery in the market and the bowls club ? And what have… Continue reading PORK PIE, STILTON, BASS – MELTON MOWBRAY MARVELS
BACK TO THE OLD (HALLAMSHIRE) HOUSE
5th March 2023. Not enough/too much Smiths references on this blog. I’ve been coaxing Mrs RM out of the house for strenuous walks around Sheffield. As some of you will know, if you don’t keep active in your 50s everything stops working at 60. The walk from the Blind Monkey up to Crookes is Lincoln… Continue reading BACK TO THE OLD (HALLAMSHIRE) HOUSE
GOOD NIGHT UTTOXETER
3rd March 2023. And finally… Bass, Bass, Bass, Pedigree, Bass, possibly another Bass, homebrew. The Night Inn claims that much sought-after GBG place alongside Uttoxeter’s Bass shrine Wetherspoons, and there couldn’t be a bigger contrast between the traditional one pump boozers and this cafe-cum-micro. Oh look ! Shiny hand pumps. I challenge you to choose… Continue reading GOOD NIGHT UTTOXETER
SIX THINGS I’D FORGOTTEN ABOUT THE VAULTS
TWO (2) posts about a pub I only spent an hour in ? First time I’ve done that since the breweriana overload of the Hyde Park in Plymouth. It just wasn’t possible to whittle my photos down to a dozen in the first blog, so I missed out one of my favourite shots of the… Continue reading SIX THINGS I’D FORGOTTEN ABOUT THE VAULTS
TOP 100 PUBS – THE VAULTS, UTTOXETER
3rd March 2023. In 2019 Pub Curmudgeon wrote of the Vaults in his admirably concise manner, “perhaps Uttoxeter’s classic pub. A narrow, shop-like frontage conceals a pub of great character running a long way back from the street. There’s a front bar area where most of the drinkers seem to gather, a middle room with… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS – THE VAULTS, UTTOXETER
BASS, BASS, BASS, PEDIGREE…
3rd March 2023. On we go, much to the apparent horror of Stockport’s top pub. Yep. Just as Bass follows Bass, Bass follows Bass and then you arrive at the Bank House Hotel, a recent-ish GBG entry.. I really should have stopped at the butchers for a pork pie, but I had some recollection of… Continue reading BASS, BASS, BASS, PEDIGREE…
REAL FIRE, RACING ON TV, ELLA FITZGERALD, BASS
3rd March 2023. Stop 3 on the Uttoxeter Bass trail, which frankly didn’t look a lot different from the one in Paul’s 1980 CAMRA leaflet; Seventeen different beers in the sixteen pubs 20 years later, which is probably more than there are today if you ignore the Spoons. The Talbot has gained “Ye Olde” since… Continue reading REAL FIRE, RACING ON TV, ELLA FITZGERALD, BASS
“The Reverend Blue Jeans”.
3rd March 2023. Noon in Uttoxeter. Paul, Will and I had spent almost an hour in the Black Swan, and already Will was breaking away from the main pack to take photos for Pubs Galore in Bramhall. In truth, I’d been sorely tempted to join Will on the No. 841 to get a bonus tick… Continue reading “The Reverend Blue Jeans”.
A WINNER IN THE 11:15 AT UTTOXETER
3rd March 2023. Due to popular demand we returned from Greece at the start of the month, just so I could start blogging about UK towns and pubs again for you, dear reader. It took longer to exit Luton Mid-term parking than it did to fly home, due to, and I quote the parking operator,… Continue reading A WINNER IN THE 11:15 AT UTTOXETER
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