October 2023. Northallerton. One more post from a successful raid on the North-East/Yorkshire sections of the GBG, with what felt like an overdue return to Northallerton after a three pub tickathon back in 2018. Five (5) years ago I wrote of “a solid blue-rinse town, generally resting on its laurels by virtue of being better than… Continue reading THE COORS TASTES A BIT “EGGY” IN NORTHALLERTON
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“Hey mate, watch my bag for a minute while I go and get a scratchcard”. Drug drama at Tonbridge Castle.
There are three things likely to improve your blog views. 1) Blogging from an unheralded town and slagging off its classier neighbour, 2) Queueing (especially in Spoons), 3) Tipping your beer in a plant pot. Let’s see if a reference to drugs can be added to our list. We needed to catch a bus back… Continue reading “Hey mate, watch my bag for a minute while I go and get a scratchcard”. Drug drama at Tonbridge Castle.
BASS MIRRORS IN FARRINGDON
September 2023. London. The first London trip of the new Beer Guide year is a season’s highlight, like Southampton away or a crispy beef and Singapore rice in the campervan in a town beginning with “Z”. Last year that first trip to the City didn’t happen till November, so 18th September is an early treat.… Continue reading BASS MIRRORS IN FARRINGDON
FINDING A THRILL IN ECCLESHILL
26th January 2023. I’d have stayed even longer at Bradford Industrial Museum (an hour is a LONG time for me) but the artisanal cafe was a bit disappointing (a coffee machine with paper cups) and they wasn’t a section on brewing and pubs, just that Babycham exhibit. So I walked back towards the Greedy Pig,… Continue reading FINDING A THRILL IN ECCLESHILL
A NEW BEER GUIDE PUB IN BISHOPTHORPE ? ANOTHER ONE !
A start to North Yorkshire, one of the last of the GBG counties I completed a first time (if you see what I mean) in 2018. Since then it’s plodded on with its usual dozen new entries, all in irritating places like Bishopthorpe, just south or York. BRAPA HQ is marked on the map below… Continue reading A NEW BEER GUIDE PUB IN BISHOPTHORPE ? ANOTHER ONE !
STRUGGLERS
Done the tick, done the Belgian thirds, time for a Lincoln classic. Let’s go up the Steep Hill. The puff of white smoke sadly doesn’t herald the reopening of Widow Cullens Well, as the city remains a Sam Smiths free zone. But there’s still Proper Pubs near the cathedral and castle, though the Victoria is… Continue reading STRUGGLERS
MARTIN POWER, OUTER ASHFORD PUB TICKER EXTRAORDINARY
A mid-June trip to finish Kent. I would have waited till Joan and Dave Southworth arrived a month later so they could have the thrill of pinking a county, but completing the Guide and getting chapters complete had become an obsession and besides, you can’t trust Americans with marker pens. You’ll be seeing a fair… Continue reading MARTIN POWER, OUTER ASHFORD PUB TICKER EXTRAORDINARY
AN OLD FAVE IN GARGRAVE
YOU try and find something to rhyme with Gargrave ! A mere two weeks after finishing North Yorkshire in Skipton I was back there on the train again, due to some business in Gargrave, next stop on the line. Fellow ticker Eddie was complaining on our WhatsApp group (aka “TickTillItHurts“) this week about the difficulty… Continue reading AN OLD FAVE IN GARGRAVE
FINALLY, THE THREE TUNS
The problem with pub crawls, and I blame this entirely on Will, is that it never stops at two, does it ? I’d been walking past the Three Tuns since we arrived in Sheffield, it’s on the marching route to the station (Google Maps says 43 minutes, actually 29). It was in the GBG 20… Continue reading FINALLY, THE THREE TUNS
BACK ONCE AGAIN TO THE JEMMY HIRST
Mrs RM and I will have been married 30 years in June. I would say “celebrate” 30 years of marriage, but as you know I only celebrate one day annually, and anyway neither of us have remembered the date for several years. In the earliest days of wedded bliss I put a strain on the… Continue reading BACK ONCE AGAIN TO THE JEMMY HIRST
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