February 2026. Letchworth Garden City. Just for you, a map showing all the things in Letchworth, a town rather changed from our time there 35 years ago. Notably, Sagar Tandoori where we ended our £40 Friday night splurge with a flaming sambuca is closed, not that I’d have been able to see it in the… Continue reading BORING BROWN BITTER
Tag: Hertfordshire pubs
LETCHWORTH GOES “CRAFTY”
February 2026. Letchworth Garden City. If you can’t be bothered to read the next week’s deluge of posts, here’s the spoiler: Letchworth was really good, with a great variety of drinking establishments (I’ll let CAMRA debate whether they’re “pubs”). Start onLeys Avenue, the main shopping street; there’s a rambling furniture shop called Martin’s (clearance sale… Continue reading LETCHWORTH GOES “CRAFTY”
WOWSER ! THIS TRAIN STOPS AT LETCHWORTH
February 2026. Letchworth Garden City. The weekly visit to see Dad in his Cambridge care home found him in rude health, no doubt in part due to the food at Hatley Court, which is (genuinely) better than anything I eat these days. I’d hoped to use the weekends in Waterbeach to get a few ticking… Continue reading WOWSER ! THIS TRAIN STOPS AT LETCHWORTH
“And now we go live to the pool table at Welham Green”
I’m spending a couple of days a week at my parents in Waterbeach; enough time to do the Tesco run, take Dad to buy peat compost, and tick a few irritating stragglers in Herts. Today’s quiz question is “What, where and why is North Mymms ?”. The North Mymms Social Club, runner-up in the Mercury… Continue reading “And now we go live to the pool table at Welham Green”
HELLISH HEMEL, MARVELLOUS MONKS
Closing in on a Hertfordshire completion now, but it’s not an easy task. Facebook pages have either not been updated for 18 months or only tell you their dining hours or are just a succession of job ads or tell you opening hours for their sister pub but not themselves. Please, please, put your opening… Continue reading HELLISH HEMEL, MARVELLOUS MONKS
MEMORIES
Before we move on from the Half Moon in Hitchin, here’s another (less controversial) photo of that party. The inflatable unicorn doesn’t look any happier I’m taking a photo of her, does she ? We’d enjoyed a lovely hour or so with Hitchin John, reminiscing about back alleys and forgotten boozers, but we were struggling… Continue reading MEMORIES
DOING IT IN HALVES
Hitchin John is always great company, and the only thing I can say against him is that he lives in Hitchin, which never has new GBG entries. He should move to Stockton-on-Tees and we could meet up every month. Still, despite the thrill of the tick it’s always nice to pop back and do a… Continue reading DOING IT IN HALVES
WELCOME TO HITCHIN
Simon spends what seems like a month in North Wales and crams it into 2 blog posts; Mrs RM and I spend an evening in Hitchin (zero ticks) and you’ll get at least three posts out of it. I reckon 400 words, 8 photos and a map is about the limit for my readers; you’ve… Continue reading WELCOME TO HITCHIN
THIS IS THE PERRY GREEN, THIS IS SOCIETY
When the going gets tough, squeeze a Jam reference into your blog post. Life After Football will get it. A trip to the Herts/Essex borders west of Bishops Stortford and Stansted Airport is a rare treat for me. The “Stort”, as BRAPA will no doubt call it, is a dull old place, but those tiny… Continue reading THIS IS THE PERRY GREEN, THIS IS SOCIETY
MORE McMULLENS MAGIC
Yet more Hitchin highlights for you. Could I yet become an ambassador for the town, after slagging it off a week ago ? Well for a start, there was nothing in Hitchin as scarily unwelcoming as THIS obstruction heavy craft bar in Letchworth… And you arrive at Hitchin Railway Station on this lovely train. As… Continue reading MORE McMULLENS MAGIC
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