Some short, sharp posts for you at the moment, due to the fact that I’m entertaining in-laws from Tunbridge Hell who are staying nearby for fourteen (14) nights and can only blog while pretending to boil the kettle. They’d had a hellish journey up from the south as an accident left the A14 closed after… Continue reading A SIXTY SECOND SPOONS SPITFIRE
PONTE PRE-EMPTIVE PURSUIT
Anyone know what pub this is ? Leon was having problems loading WhatPub to find our next Ponte pre-emptive; perhaps it was slow as CAMRA forgot to top up the electric. Luckily I had a map from 1873. The dots are micropubs. We wandered aimlessly back over the footbridge into town, wondering whether the Duke… Continue reading PONTE PRE-EMPTIVE PURSUIT
TOP 100 PUBS – THE ROBIN HOOD, PONTEFRACT
If you read Beer Twitter (folk who write about beer rather than pubs) you might be a bit depressed at the moment. But BRAPA and Colin the Cauliflower and me are here to tell you that EVERYTHING’S ALRIGHT. Last week was one of the most wonderful of my pubbing “career”, and I’m still only on… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS – THE ROBIN HOOD, PONTEFRACT
TURQUOISE TICKING IN PONTEFRACT
I was meeting Leon to tick the new GBG entry in Pontefract, the first for, ooh, ages (Ed : 2014) Is Ponte really smaller than Castleford ? Who’d have guessed ? Pontefract has rhubarb and liquorice and THREE railway stations. Leon lives relatively close nearby and also knows about trains, but not in a sinister… Continue reading TURQUOISE TICKING IN PONTEFRACT
CRAFT COMES TO CAS
So there I was at Castleford Station at 15:49, with a big sign saying; “Cas welcomes Leon. Don’t look behind you” But no-one got off the 15:49, which isn’t surprising as Leon had arrived 10 minutes earlier and sneaked off to the Market Tap. Which is where I headed directly, but only after going wrong… Continue reading CRAFT COMES TO CAS
NEVER BORED IN CASTLEFORD
As you’ll have realised if you bothered studying my May travel map*, there was a trip to Castleford squeezed in before month-end. This will really make my American readers jealous they’re not in England this summer. “Cas” has never featured in the blog before, but then neither has Bexhill. But I know I’ve stopped off… Continue reading NEVER BORED IN CASTLEFORD
MAY ’21 STOCKTAKE & JUNE PREVIEW
I’m delighted to see my diary entries detailing trips to REAL pubs are better read than the short-lived Guess the Pub series, though I notice from my blog views that a few readers from Greenland have cancelled their subscriptions. The travel map looks a bit closer to average, and is already showing the advantages of… Continue reading MAY ’21 STOCKTAKE & JUNE PREVIEW
LOOKING THROUGH THE WINDOWS
I guess you left me in Rotherham; you usually do. If you want to know where Rotherham is, look on a map. I was thinking I ought to make an overdue return visit to the Cutlers, which a few of us had been talking about in the Fat Cat garden. But I’m nothing if not… Continue reading LOOKING THROUGH THE WINDOWS
NO CASK, WALK OUT
Having invested £4.40 (which would buy you a third in Stevenson Square yesterday) in the Sheffield Tram Day Rider, I was determined to get full value out of it. If I walked into Rotherham central via the Trans Pennine Trail (apparently) I could enjoy the delights of South Yorkshire’s premier town before catching the tram… Continue reading NO CASK, WALK OUT
SOUTH YORKSHIRE COMPLETE
The urban walking up here is great, but niche. My Monday afternoon stroll involved a bit of tram, a bit of canal, a bit of industrial decay, and my last South Yorkshire tick. That’s what I call a good day’s work. Junction 34 of the M1 contains many joys; Meadowhall’s Spoons, Greenland, the IKEA from… Continue reading SOUTH YORKSHIRE COMPLETE
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