The Crown came into view just as a light drizzle descended on Lime Street Station, overlooked but not overshadowed by the ongoing building works behind it. What a wonderful pub to step into on a drab Sunday morning. Inside, Stafford’s Paul Mudge seemed mildly surprised to see me nearly on time. He hadn’t even finished… Continue reading PAUL WEARS THE CROWN
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STANLEY ROAD
Greetings from the cheap Travelodge in Brighton, where I’ve just completed the East Sussex GBG chapter in fine style. But I’m still not paying £4 for internet, so this is a short post. You left me at the top of Bootle, in need of a comfort break and a flat white. Ah, here’s an attractive… Continue reading STANLEY ROAD
A BOOTLE TOOTLE
That Cambridge diversion was particularly inadvisable, as I was off to “Bootiful Bootle” the next day (yours for a quid, that one). There’d been a particularly unsavoury joke about Bootle accommodation doing the rounds over the weekend, but let me be the living proof that you can survive, and indeed enjoy, this great Lancashire (never… Continue reading A BOOTLE TOOTLE
A QUICK DASH TO KNOTTY ASH
If it’s any consolation, I’m finding these posts as exhausting as you are. But I’m almost at last week’s Isle of Man trip (aka HenGate), which you can read about on Pubmeister’s blog if you’re desperate for Manx mutterings. First up though, Merseyside Complete. With every new entry in Merseyside CAMRA being either a micro… Continue reading A QUICK DASH TO KNOTTY ASH
HARD TIMES & MISERY ON MERSEYSIDE
Time cannot dull the frisson of excitement you get arriving in Liverpool Central, and emerging to a city determined to drink the place dry. The folk here should do a house swap with Newbury and contrast their Sunday nights. There’s a majestic quality to the place, only partly dimmed by the chain shop horrors… Continue reading HARD TIMES & MISERY ON MERSEYSIDE
STRONG AND STABLE SOUTH LIVERPOOL
Trips to the Borough of Sefton are a bi-annual event; Crosby and Southport are two of my favoured towns, and always seem to be able to dig up a new micro pub, bottle shop or occasional real boozer to keep their GBG entries fresh. And then there’s Harpers Fish & Chip shop to seal the… Continue reading STRONG AND STABLE SOUTH LIVERPOOL
WATERLOO, COULDN’T ESCAPE IF I WANTED TO
Merseyrail gives you some real travel bargains. £5.10 (why 10p ?) for all-day trains from the Wirral up to Southport and across to Hunts Cross, whatever that is. That really helps pub tickers who have pubs in Crosby, Aigburth and Garston to tick. From the delightful Bootle New Strand, it’s a short hop up to Waterloo, the… Continue reading WATERLOO, COULDN’T ESCAPE IF I WANTED TO
LIVERPOOL – THREE GRACES, TWO ACES
Always one for an accommodation bargain (£27), I booked the newish Trivelles Liverpool for my Merseyside jaunt. Trivelles has an exclusive range of hotels in the suburbs of Stockport, Salford, Bradford and Liverpool, which tells you all you need to know. There’s some mixed reviews on the web of the latter hotel but I can… Continue reading LIVERPOOL – THREE GRACES, TWO ACES
DOES THIS TRAIN STOP ON MERSEYSIDE ?
Well, that depends what you make of Merseyside as a concept. I’m sure Pub Curmudgeon will have some views on that. And Ken Dodd. I stayed in Wallasey, which is worthy of note in it’s own right, and took the train in to Moorfields. Some of my favourite ‘Pool pubs are in the commercial district,… Continue reading DOES THIS TRAIN STOP ON MERSEYSIDE ?
LAST 5 STANDING -ROSCOE HEAD, LIVERPOOL
It might be complacency but I never seriously thought the Roscoe Head was at risk, but if the Lion can close then nothing is sacred. I’d visited the other four ever-presents in the Beer Guide, in London (two of them), Cambidgeshire and Purbeck, and found them all in rude health, fully justifying a Beer Guide… Continue reading LAST 5 STANDING -ROSCOE HEAD, LIVERPOOL
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