You go two years without a New Mills post and then you get two in a day ! I like to think you get the truth on this blog, dear reader. Perhaps not quite as candidly as young BRAPA, but even so. I await his Amber Valley Palma Violets post with interest. In a nutshell,… Continue reading MISSING THE TRAIN FROM NEW MILLS – THE TRUTH
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HIGH HOPES, HIGH TABLES IN NEW MILLS
A motley collection of photos from New Mills, home to the second of our trio of modern micros. Charles and I pressed on without the good company of Paul, though with a photo of his legendary map for company. The walk along the Peak Forest Canal is surprisingly flat, but compensates with views quite scary… Continue reading HIGH HOPES, HIGH TABLES IN NEW MILLS
THE MERRY MONK OF BUXTON
Simon would do this justice, he really would. He’d have got the joy of a pub enjoyed by a diverse society, rather than just middle aged blokes sitting at high tables tapping away on Untappd. But Simon won’t ever come here, because Monk Buxton is a cocktail bar without cask beer that will never get in… Continue reading THE MERRY MONK OF BUXTON
CONSULTING THE MAPS
Pub Curmudgeon kindly reminds me I’m slipping ever further behind, which is encouraging. Even worse, after some over-celebration last night I’m in no frame of mind to write about the next extraordinary Buxton stop just yet. So here’s the rather more straightforward Buxton Brewery Tap, a few yards round from the Crescent in Buxton’s craft… Continue reading CONSULTING THE MAPS
PEAK CRAFT
The normal protocol on these organised pub crawls is that you stick together, suffering the dodgy cask or keg craft, the pashminas and poodles, as a group. Well, stuff that. For a start our two Sheffield stars were On A Mission To Tick, running ahead to later return with tales of “warm Wainwright” and “weird… Continue reading PEAK CRAFT
SWANNING AROUND BUXTON
Greetings from Weaste, the less posh bit of Eccles, where the WiFi is good and the Chinese takeaway makes an excellent job of recycling the local cat and dog population. Post 2 from Buxton, as Charles and I try to catch up with “Ye Olde Official Itinerary” and fail miserably. Again. This was the timetable,… Continue reading SWANNING AROUND BUXTON
BUXTON BEGINS WITH BLACK PUDDING & BASS
Wednesday began with a typically healthy Dereham breakfast. Black pudding and white pudding from Bathgate, apparently. Charles knows how to live (B&B from £75pppn). With no comfort breaks or flat whites we drove straight to Buxton. The slog through Lincolnshire but the A617 really is the cruellest road. I gave Charles an unintended detour south… Continue reading BUXTON BEGINS WITH BLACK PUDDING & BASS
TOP 100 PUBS – DEWDROP, ILKESTON
Two instant bits of feedback on the Ilkeston post have revealed that a) The Prince of Wales used to be The Poacher, which I’d already been to. b) Ilkeston Station is so new (April 2017) I may have been the first paying customer to use it ! Thanks to Mark and Anonymous, my new favourite… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS – DEWDROP, ILKESTON
PEAK PRACTICE
You’ll be delighted to know the French posts are over; it’s all rural England for a while now. Starting with a walk from gritty urban Ashbourne out to Mapleton in a stretch of the White Peak that rarely troubles the Guide (more to do with scant GBG allocations than shoddy beer). In fact, you really… Continue reading PEAK PRACTICE
CHESTERFIELD – CROOKED SPIRE, HONEST PUBS
For those of you wondering when you’ll get the chance to read what really happened to BRAPA in the Fens, I’ll be there by tomorrow. First, a foray into northern Derbyshire, one of our most reliably pubby areas. By sheer good luck, my guest house was ideally placed for the new newbies in and around… Continue reading CHESTERFIELD – CROOKED SPIRE, HONEST PUBS
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