February 2026. Letchworth Garden City. If you can’t be bothered to read the next week’s deluge of posts, here’s the spoiler: Letchworth was really good, with a great variety of drinking establishments (I’ll let CAMRA debate whether they’re “pubs”). Start onLeys Avenue, the main shopping street; there’s a rambling furniture shop called Martin’s (clearance sale… Continue reading LETCHWORTH GOES “CRAFTY”
Tag: 6X
THE JOY OF 6X IN CHANDLERS FORD
June 2024. Chandlers Ford. Childhood home ticked, posh Sunday lunch skipped, I headed to the western suburbs of Chandler’s Ford for a roast and a GBG tick. See ! I am still getting an occasional Guide tick ! What even is Chandler’s Ford ? It can’t be a suburb of anywhere, too big for that… Continue reading THE JOY OF 6X IN CHANDLERS FORD
A BOOZER IN BERKHAMSTED
April 2023. If January is the cruellest month for Pub Men, with Dryanuary and unexpected micro closing times, then April is when tickers really get into gear. Only today I hear of GBG pros who have ticked off 100 pubs this month already. Half of them in Preston, no doubt. And April is when Pub… Continue reading A BOOZER IN BERKHAMSTED
THE BLUE ANCHOR (T’OTHER ONE)
A big thanks to Vale of Glamorgan CAMRA for sticking their GBG pubs so close to train stations; much appreciated. Even the Blue Anchor in East Aberthaw was a short hop from the airport station, though it seemed the most remote pub in the world. Except for the holiday park, lime works, cement works and… Continue reading THE BLUE ANCHOR (T’OTHER ONE)
THE NEWBURY LION ROARS
A night in Newbury, to complete Berkshire’s GBG entries, tick what felt like our 12th Premier Inn of the year already, and of course test out a new Chinese takeaway. All in a night’s work. Look, I even managed some posh Berkshire street art on my 4 mile walk. I asked Matt and apparently “Drek”… Continue reading THE NEWBURY LION ROARS
“And now we go live to the pool table at Welham Green”
I’m spending a couple of days a week at my parents in Waterbeach; enough time to do the Tesco run, take Dad to buy peat compost, and tick a few irritating stragglers in Herts. Today’s quiz question is “What, where and why is North Mymms ?”. The North Mymms Social Club, runner-up in the Mercury… Continue reading “And now we go live to the pool table at Welham Green”
UP TO THE TOR, DOWN TO THE 6X
Ooh, genuine tourist material for you. James and I, bonding on another Father-Son walking trip this week, agreed that THIS is Britain’s worst tourist attraction as we whizzed past it on the A303; Wouldn’t it be sensible if we moved those silly stones somewhere out of the way (South Dakota would be fine) so we… Continue reading UP TO THE TOR, DOWN TO THE 6X
IF THE BEER’S GOOD, TELL THEM
I need to take a break from these Devon posts, and bring you the culmination of my mini-break in The North, possibly my last before it’s locked down forever. Tonight, at the 3rd time of asking, I finally managed a beer in Helperby. Every year the GBG gives us ONE pub that torments us with… Continue reading IF THE BEER’S GOOD, TELL THEM
LEFT TO MY OWN DEVIZES
22nd February 2020 The White Bear was the second and last of my new GBG ticks on this Wiltshire Wander, which is a disappointing tally when I see how BRAPA has been plundering the North. I really fancied a 6X, long a favourite beer despite many commentators on CAMRA Discourse describing it as “twiggy brown… Continue reading LEFT TO MY OWN DEVIZES
SUSPECT DEVIZES
Next stop, Wiltshire, and a rare new Wadworth’s pub in the Guide. Sure the Three Crowns was probably a GBG cert back in ’83, but sadly Duncan dropped his memory stick in the Bass jug in Pontfaen so we shall never know. Half an hour was enough to remind myself why Devizes gets the same… Continue reading SUSPECT DEVIZES
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