This post title only works if the locals really do pronounce it CRY-ch, of course. Crich is the first place out of Derby or Nottingham where you’re really aware of the Peak. Their transport Museum makes a useful place to entertain toddlers who are young enough to be fobbed off with brightly coloured trams,… Continue reading SCRATCHING A BASS ITCH IN CRICH
Tag: Derbyshire
LONG EATON – BAPS & BEER OFF THE BRIAN CLOUGH WAY
I know for a fact that there are people who read this blog purely for the pictures of cheese and onion rolls in old pubs. This is for them. A trip underneath the A52 to Long Eaton, a town that thinks it’s in Notts but is clearly in Derbyshire, judging by the cobs in … Continue reading LONG EATON – BAPS & BEER OFF THE BRIAN CLOUGH WAY
TIBSHELF SERVICE STATION PURPLE PUB
Another in my occasional series of pubs you can walk to from the Motorway Service Station if you’re not quick (and you’re not driving, of course). A sort of alternative to Mr Protz’s guide to the Great North Road, perhaps. I haven’t heard from Alan Winfield for a while, I hope he’s OK. There’s something… Continue reading TIBSHELF SERVICE STATION PURPLE PUB
DOUBLING UP IN DRAYCOTT
Fear not, I’ll soon have completed Derbyshire’s GBG entries, including one with a Derby County flag in; I’ll wait until Alan is asleep before I sneak that post out. This week I see Duncan the Pubmeister posting on Irvine, and Simon on North Marston, so Draycott doesn’t seem that unusual a blog topic. Following the… Continue reading DOUBLING UP IN DRAYCOTT
ILKESTON PUBS – ONE STEP BACKWARDS, TWO STEPS FORWARD
And a nice Shipstones mirror for Alan Winfield today, as I get even closer to the Stapleford home of the great man. I’m sure Alan has done virtually all of Ilkeston‘s 30 odd pubs. Quite a few closures of late, including the Brewery Tap, a pleasant but quiet micro. Last year I wrote; “The new… Continue reading ILKESTON PUBS – ONE STEP BACKWARDS, TWO STEPS FORWARD
DRONFIELD – THE GLOSSOP OF THE EAST
As noted many times before, the Beer Guide leads you to places the average Englishman has never heard of and will never visit, waiting instead for a Virtual Reality headset that allows them to explore Goole and Maidenhead from their living room. They’ll miss out on the delights of Dronfield, a resolutely traditional bit of Derbyshire despite… Continue reading DRONFIELD – THE GLOSSOP OF THE EAST
MELBOURNE 1 v DONINGTON 1
South Derbyshire isn’t much fun in the rain, unless you’re watching thousands of old blokes with Sabbath T-Shirts drowning in the mud. The countryside around the mudbath, airport and racetrack is unexpectedly hilly and attractive, though obviously with special appeal for fans of power stations. Last year’s rare visit to Castle Donington found the micropub… Continue reading MELBOURNE 1 v DONINGTON 1
BAMFORD – PEAKS, PALE, POST & PROG
Yesterday I found myself in one of those patches of the UK with more breweries than Good Beer Guide pubs, the type which make a bit of a nonsense of the GBG App when you’re looking for the nearest pub. It won’t be too long before Guide entries are outweighed by breweries, few of which will have… Continue reading BAMFORD – PEAKS, PALE, POST & PROG
NEW MILLS, HANDY FOR THE HILLS
New Mills seems to have a particularly poor reputation among people who’ve never been there, rather like Oldham in fact. A work colleague who stayed in one of those posh B&Bs in neighbouring Hayfield, Smarmfields I think it was called, claimed never to have heard of the town. Clearly, I’m a big fan. We stayed… Continue reading NEW MILLS, HANDY FOR THE HILLS
TOUGH CHOICES IN REPTON AND SWADLINCOTE
No new Beer Guide pubs in Burton this year, which means no trips to the spiritual home of Bass, run brilliantly by Joules. I’ll find an excuse. Some rare new ticks in the east though, and some good walking on the edge of the National Forest. The Forest is coming along nicely two decades in,… Continue reading TOUGH CHOICES IN REPTON AND SWADLINCOTE
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