Time for an overdue return to the award winning* “Half a dozen pubs in every GBG chapter“, which we rudely left in Glamorgan a month ago. I’m a big fan of Gwent, partly because it’s so easy to get to Cambridge or Sheffield with whizzy motorway links, cheap chain hotels, and unpronounceable (to non-Welsh) place… Continue reading HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY GBG COUNTY No. 54 – GWENT
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HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY GBG COUNTY No. 49 – EAST YORKSHIRE
It punches above its weight, it really does. Bring back Humberside and you’d have a great GBG chapter. Well, you’d add one pub from Barton-on-Humber, anyway. In truth it’s hard to stick to one pub in ‘ull, as any UK tourist ought to spend a week here, if only to visit the loos, and a… Continue reading HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY GBG COUNTY No. 49 – EAST YORKSHIRE
HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY GBG COUNTY. No. 48 – WORCESTERSHIRE
An attractive county for the walker, and plenty of gardens and black and white timber, but classic pubs ? Well, the Fleece at Bretforton and Three Kings at Hanley Castle might be, but it’s 15 years since I visited so I’ll leave it to you to vouch for their enduring qualities. No doubting Worcester Cathedral’s… Continue reading HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY GBG COUNTY. No. 48 – WORCESTERSHIRE
HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY GBG COUNTY. No. 47 – WILTSHIRE
Ah, Wiltshire; get shot of that big pile of stones off the A303 and you’d have a fine county. For heritage sites, I point you to Avebury and Swindon magic roundabout instead. And Cranborne Chase for the hills. Not a county for the heritage Pub Man or Woman, though Swindon’s Hop Kettle is where I… Continue reading HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY GBG COUNTY. No. 47 – WILTSHIRE
HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY GBG COUNTY. No. 46 – THE WEST MIDLANDS
One of my favourites, but a ridiculously large county to pick half a dozen pubs from. Why don’t CAMRA split out Greater Stourbridge into a separate chapter, and give the whole area below Birmingham centre to Warwickshire, hmmm. Let’s start by annoying the Great Western fan boys; Wolverhampton – The Stile Yes, the Great Western… Continue reading HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY GBG COUNTY. No. 46 – THE WEST MIDLANDS
HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY GBG COUNTY. No. 45 – WARWICKSHIRE
“From bucolic Bedworth, affluent Atherstone and naughty Nuneaton with their £2.30 Pedi, to languid Leamington Spa with its £4 Purity, and thence to the Cotswolds town where I headed now.” RM 2019 Getting to the BIG counties now. Warwickshire punches above its weight, the dreadful Stratford-upon-Avon apart, though I always imagine Rugby to be a… Continue reading HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY GBG COUNTY. No. 45 – WARWICKSHIRE
HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY GBG COUNTY. No. 44 – TYNE AND WEAR
My Top pub county in 2021, and the visits since then have only reconfirmed what a great place it is, so it should be easy to pick half a dozen pubs to represent the area, you’d think. And to an extent, it is, and though I could have picked five in central Newcastle, it would… Continue reading HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY GBG COUNTY. No. 44 – TYNE AND WEAR
HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY GBG COUNTY. No. 43 – WEST SUSSEX
Hmmm. Not a great “county” (half-county ?) in any sense, but one I’ve seen a lot of lately, having only really started on Worthing around 2016. Worthing isn’t Brighton, or Hastings, but it’s “better than Bexhill”, and it can have that slogan for free. Finding five representative pubs to kick us off was tougher than… Continue reading HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY GBG COUNTY. No. 43 – WEST SUSSEX
HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY GBG COUNTY. No. 42 – EAST SUSSEX
I’ll never understand why Sussex gets divided between East and West in the GBG; they don’t split Lincolnshire and that’s a far bigger county. But it makes the pinking in easier, so I’ll let it go. The east is the better half, unless you’re micro mad, in which case Worthing may sway your views. It… Continue reading HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY GBG COUNTY. No. 42 – EAST SUSSEX
HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY GBG COUNTY. No. 41 – SUFFOLK
After my last “Half A Dozen” from Staffs Andy was excitedly anticipating the next post; So I dutifully knocked out Surrey. But it wasn’t next, was it ? SUF definitely comes before SUR. I think. How does this happen ? Which of you is responsible for checking my alphabet ? I blame CAMRA for changing… Continue reading HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY GBG COUNTY. No. 41 – SUFFOLK
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