I’d actually bought a ticket to Belper on the day I made that extended raid on Derby, but by the time I’d had those 2 bonus pints of Bass I was done. The extension to Belper only cost 10p (“You wasted 10p !” I hear you say). I skipped the two classics near the station… Continue reading THE BRUNSWICK – WORTH MISSING YOUR TRAIN FOR
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TOP 100 PUBS – YE OLDE DOLPHIN INNE
Yes, those ARE Christmas decorations up in Ye Olde Dolphin. What is wrong with the world, can’t we celebrate Halloween a bit longer. Or my birthday (22 December) a bit earlier ? Yes, I gave in to the Dolphin on the way back to the station. There are other famous options round here, of course,… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS – YE OLDE DOLPHIN INNE
BASS – IT’S WHAT DERBY DOES BEST
Two ticks in the bag, and still only 15:30 on a Wednesday afternoon. If I go home now I’ll get roped in to putting the Christmas tree up, and you know my views on that. And besides, the Landlord at the Creaky Floorboard had basically instructed me to pop in the Five Lamps for Bass.… Continue reading BASS – IT’S WHAT DERBY DOES BEST
CREAKY FLOORBOARDS
I’ll be honest, I was fair knackered by the time I finished a 5 hour circuit of western Derby, but two GBG ticks (and some extras) made the legs hurt a bit less and when I arrived home my activity chart said 29,287 steps. I reckon that’s the equivalent of at least 4 pints, don’t… Continue reading CREAKY FLOORBOARDS
CALIFORNIA (DERBY), BUT NO DREAMIN’
Living in Sheffield brings Derby within easy reach, 30 minutes by rail in fact, and it’s a mystery, as the song goes, that it took me nearly a year to make the trip. The new GBG offers three new Derby pubs, one of which in Spondon you’ve met already. The other two are new micros… Continue reading CALIFORNIA (DERBY), BUT NO DREAMIN’
WHITELOCK’S
I mentioned yesterday the problem with rail travel, the urge it creates to fill in time between trains with a rushed extra pub visit (See: BRAPA, every Saturday night). And so it was on the way back from Harrogate to Sheffield that I found myself having to kill 44 minutes in Leeds without an obvious… Continue reading WHITELOCK’S
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE TAP & SPILES ?
My second Harrogate tick (there’s 11 in the new GBG) was arguably pointless. The Tap on Tower Street was in the Guide as a Tap & Spile a decade or so ago so those who abide by the Paisley Pronouncements on Pubbing would consider it ticked. But I’d paid for my train ticket, fancied a… Continue reading WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE TAP & SPILES ?
THAT’S VELOUTE
Two new pubs in Harrogate for me, though one of them fell into the “arguable” category tickers love to argue about. Both only ten minutes walk from the station, another couple to Harrogate’s astonishing collection of GBG pubs (eleven this year). Those eleven entries are quite capable of changing names, if not location, each year,… Continue reading THAT’S VELOUTE
THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG-DISTANCE TRAIN GBG TICKER
A couple of days off, then a hop on t’train to make some more inroads (mixed metaphors here) into that 581 pubs needed to finish GBG22. I’m using the trains a lot more in Sheffield than in Cambridge, for all sorts of reasons and not just because I hate driving in the dark to overpriced… Continue reading THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG-DISTANCE TRAIN GBG TICKER
RETFORD RE-ASSESSED
Having told you I’ve 581 pubs to visit to complete GBG22, let’s make a start, shall we ? Let’s revisit Retford. The most wonderful invention, apart from VAR and pink markers, is the concession that allows rail users to “break their journey” (unless you’ve bought a time specific advance ticket). An hour between trains, but… Continue reading RETFORD RE-ASSESSED
