February 2025. Mossley. Is it Moss-ley ? Or Moz-ley ? Or Moze-ley ? Who cares ? Whatever, it’s second stop out of Piccadilly on the line to York. Matt met me at Platform 1, 1 minute before departure, while I admired the flashy ad for the Mid-Cheshire line. Matt had never been to Mossley, quite… Continue reading THE BUTCHERS ARMS, MOSSLEY. ANOTHER PUB YOU’RE SURPRISED, BUT DELIGHTED, TO SEE IN GBG 25
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PUMP & RUB, THE PUB IS THE HUB
Two more to finish the night in Chester-le-Street for you. It’s a hard place to describe. But pictures often help. A lovely/lively scruffy town of 24,227 souls that looks to Durham City for shopping and high culture in the Station House ,but always returns for the cheap beer and county cricket and Clems. Duncan and… Continue reading PUMP & RUB, THE PUB IS THE HUB
BECCLES – (ANYTHING BUT) BORING BROWN & BITTER
I’d had Beccles down as the “poor man’s Bungay“; now I see it as a rich man’s Diss. Only you can be the judge of whether that’s an improvement. A town of 10,000, which at least it has a railway station (trains to Ipswich or Lowestoft, very slowly), two Beer Guide pubs, and seemingly one… Continue reading BECCLES – (ANYTHING BUT) BORING BROWN & BITTER
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