February 2023. When I finished the GBG in September, I’d visited and been to a Guide pub in every GBG “county”. Except one. Poor old Northants decided not to provided any new entries in the first post-Covid Guide, either because they hadn’t been able to visit pubs properly, or because the county’s pubs are particularly… Continue reading MIDLAND BAND CLUB – HI VIS, HIGH NBSS SCORES
Tag: Kettering
EASY LIKE A (BARTON SEAGRAVE) WEDNESDAY LUNCHTIME
More of that blogging from places on the edge of Kettering that you’ve never heard of, even if you live there. Dave will be thrilled. Barton Seagrave, eh ? Sounds like a latter day Madness album, doesn’t it ?, with video set in a disused Wicksteed Park next door and loads of primary school children… Continue reading EASY LIKE A (BARTON SEAGRAVE) WEDNESDAY LUNCHTIME
PIPER AT THE GATES OF DOOM
You remember that period of our lives when we couldn’t go to pubs ? When I had to visit Kettering and take pictures of death and decay ? Well, I went back, didn’t I ? Someone has to. The town declared its status as a Covid hotspot as you entered the (imaginary) gates, echoing the… Continue reading PIPER AT THE GATES OF DOOM
KETTERING’S FADED GLORIES
Thousands of years in the future, artificial life forms will read this blog* and wonder; Why folk were queuing to buy trowels from Wilko and take cash out of Halifax ? and, Why a renowned pub blogger had driven 47 miles to to take photos of an unheralded Northamptonshire town with everything closed. I’m… Continue reading KETTERING’S FADED GLORIES
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