The insidious invasion by micropubs continues apace, knocking perfectly good locals serving Jennings Bitter out of the Guide as it goes. It was inevitable that small towns that had lost their “York National Bank ” or “Everitt the Butcher” would end up giving a recently retired couple the chance to serve beer like this, to a room… Continue reading NOW, EVEN HORNSEA GETS CRAFT
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DRIFFIELD – LOSE AN EAGLE, GAIN A BUTCHER’S DOG
“A man who is bored of modest East Riding market towns lacks the willpower to finish the GBG” Driffield is one of the more handsome of those towns, but that doesn’t explain just how busy it gets mid-week. Busy enough to support a dozen pubs, so let’s not complain. But it doesn’t even have its… Continue reading DRIFFIELD – LOSE AN EAGLE, GAIN A BUTCHER’S DOG
MARKET WEIGHTON & THE BRITISH REAL FISH & CHIP SHOP ADVENTURE
Time to leave the delights of Dronfield and head towards Driffield (or is it the other way round), with a stop in lovely Market Weighton. Clearly a town in the slipstream of euphoria engulfing our Capital of Culture, MD was awash with OAP visitors on Friday lunchtime. If they were aiming to complete the East… Continue reading MARKET WEIGHTON & THE BRITISH REAL FISH & CHIP SHOP ADVENTURE
HULL PREPARES FOR ITS DAY IN THE SUN
Hull is one of Europe’s great cities, the Old Town in my Top 10 for architecture, museums and pubs. Next year as the Capital of Culture they’ll hope to capitalise on those treasures, but I suspect there’ll be more European than UK visitors. Apart from a few folk who went to Uni there, and my… Continue reading HULL PREPARES FOR ITS DAY IN THE SUN
GOOLE – AN APPRECIATION
I had no reason to break my train journey in Goole today but I did. Mrs RM may very well have turned down the opportunity. In the ’90s I made her stop there, en route back from Hull and Driffield, more times than is strictly necessary, in the pursuit of the mysteries of Goole Fields. It looked… Continue reading GOOLE – AN APPRECIATION
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