Last night Mrs RM and I went to see a rare shared musical favourite at Cambridge Corn Exchange. Until this week Daughter have managed to avoid the mainstream, putting aside the 71 million* YouTube views of this early track; Yesterday they started a sold-out tour and released a remarkably moving 2nd LP which only Bowie… Continue reading DAUGHTER & THE WILD YOUTH IN CAMBRIDGE
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TOLLY FOLLIES – GREENE KING TRIUMPH ?
Back in Cambridge now, I was persuaded by a positive write-up in the local CAMRA newsletter to visit the Golden Hind for the first time in several years. This is one of the large roadside pubs built by Tolly Cobbold in the 1930s, and for many years known only for its size and architectural interest. In recent… Continue reading TOLLY FOLLIES – GREENE KING TRIUMPH ?
REAL HISTORY IN CAMBRIDGE
Cambridge has many faults. It’s flat, chain-driven and has old-fashioned museums that are the poor relation of the hands-on galleries of the North (compare Preston’s Harris with the Fitzwilliam to see what I mean). Even the bacon rolls at the Abbey Stadium aren’t a patch on their late ’90s standard. Cambridge has some merits though. Trinity… Continue reading REAL HISTORY IN CAMBRIDGE
MILL ROAD CAMBRIDGE
This week Mill Road in Cambridge lost out to Northampton’s St Giles St in the Great British High Street Awards. North Parade, home of the craft beer revolution in Bradford, was also shortlisted. These awards are nice to win, but not as important to Mill Road residents as their inability to stop the inexorable rise of… Continue reading MILL ROAD CAMBRIDGE
THE CASE FOR McMULLEN
When I lived in Hertfordshire 20 years ago McMullen had a decent reputation with local drinkers. There were a few non-foody drinkers pubs west of the A1, the boisterous (for St Albans) Farriers Arms was the birthplace of CAMRA locally, and the Queen’s Head in Whitwell served the best Bass south of Burton. The AK Mild… Continue reading THE CASE FOR McMULLEN
LOCAL HERO
I wrote yesterday about the death of a traditional Greene King village pub which focused on quality of it’s core range, contrasting this with their Local Hero pubs, which over the last four years have given selected tenants the right to stock an extended range of beers, which tend to be from local breweries of varying size. There’s… Continue reading LOCAL HERO
ROYAL STANDARD REVIVED
Cambridge got one of it’s closed pubs back today as the Royal Standard on Mill Road was reopened, and a fine thing it looks too. The Standard was never one of the city’s great pubs when in Pubmaster hands, but in an area of East Cambridge that had lost several locals in recent times (Duke… Continue reading ROYAL STANDARD REVIVED
TOP 100 PUBS – THE MILL, CAMBRIDGE
Cambridge remains one of the UK’s top pub towns, with a good handful of characterful free houses providing beer quality only matched, to my taste, by central Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Newcastle-under-Lyme among major towns. The Cambridge pub “scene” has been improved in recent years by Milton Brewery’s 3 town openings and local legends Terri and Jethro‘s… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS – THE MILL, CAMBRIDGE
USE YOUR LEGS
I retired early so I could get out of a mainly office-based job and enjoy fresh air and exercise. Some of that exercise is taken walking from train stations to pubs and back again. I tend to regard a 5 mile round trip to a pub as an ideal – 5 brisk miles is about 90… Continue reading USE YOUR LEGS
BLUE MOON
To celebrate City’s latest win at Everton, last night I walked to one of Cambridge’s newest pub gems, though by no means a new pub. The Blue Moon is the latest venture by Cambridge real ale legends Terri and Jethro, who also run the famed Cambridge Blue round the corner, and an excellent village pub in nearby… Continue reading BLUE MOON
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