February 2025. Mansfield. I asked ChatGPT if anyone else before had felt emotional upon visiting Mansfield, and discovered that on her 1967 tour (shortly before her death) Jayne Mansfield had been overcome to find a northern town named after her. I was enraptured just by being able to be outside again after 6 months cooped… Continue reading “One Day Like This”. The Pavilion, Mansfield.
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MANSFIELD DARK AT DUSK
February 2025. Mansfield. 3 pints into my Mega Mansfield March I suddenly felt alive, released from the burdens of recent months, and one of our most maligned market towns looked gorgeous looking down from the parks on the ridge to the south. My last Nottinghamshire GBG tick would be the Pavilion, a club house on… Continue reading MANSFIELD DARK AT DUSK
NO STELLA AT MANSFIELD’S STELLA TAPS
February 2025. Mansfield. What a great day walking round Mansfield’s suburbs in bitter cold. No, honestly, it’s exactly what I needed after months cooped up in Waterbeach. Gets the mind thinking, thinking, as much as the legs exercised. Mansfield can’t compete with (say) Halifax. more like a Grimsby, row after row of solid suburbia punctuated… Continue reading NO STELLA AT MANSFIELD’S STELLA TAPS
(PROJECT) WILLIAM, IT WAS REALLY NOTHING
February 2025. Mansfield. Right, culture ticked, time for a pint coffee. I was going to have one in the GBG Spoons, but the impressive looking Stag & Pheasant wanted £1.71 and Spoons coffee isn’t that good, so I paid a bargain £2.80 for a proper American in the gorgeous “Toffee Hut”, where a lady sticks… Continue reading (PROJECT) WILLIAM, IT WAS REALLY NOTHING
NOT MUCH MATCHES MANSFIELD
February 2025. Mansfield. 25,000 steps in Mansfield, but after just a lone pint and a pie I was already feeling knackered. As I left the Railway while an Old Boy told his amazed mates I was “a Sheffield lad, Hillsborough, come for a day out in Mansfield“. Should have had Day Out in capitals, obviously.… Continue reading NOT MUCH MATCHES MANSFIELD
TOP 100 PUBS – THE RAILWAY INN, MANSFIELD
February 2025. Mansfield. A lot of posts from my First Big Post Funeral Trip to Mansfield coming up. “We just need to get away somewhere nice like Bath for a few nights and recover” said Mrs RM, but in truth I needed a 25,000 step slog exploring one of the UK’s least loved towns visiting… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS – THE RAILWAY INN, MANSFIELD
WHY DOES IT NEVER RAINWORTH ON ME ?
These are the days of our lives. Or they were, before the in-laws turned up for fourteen (14) days, making the pandemic seem like a holiday in Hull (mmm). While the rest of the country caught the last train for the coast on Bank Holiday Monday, I headed for a Nottinghamshire mining village on the… Continue reading WHY DOES IT NEVER RAINWORTH ON ME ?
A WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY IN MANSFIELD WOODHOUSE
One of the highpoints of the Pub Ticker’s Year today. The “pub” with opening hours set specifically to thwart your visit. Compared to the Well in Woodhouse, the Rock & Roll Brew House I did last week is a doddle. They’re both open a grand total of ten hours a week*, with the Well settling on; Thursday… Continue reading A WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY IN MANSFIELD WOODHOUSE
THE MARVELS OF MANSFIELD
Mansfield Travelodge is ideally located for the pubby joys of Sutton, though a pretty dull trudge along the A38 to Mansfield itself. I like dull urban trudges. Saving the treasures of the town centre till last, I started at the Beer Guide newbie on Nottingham Road, pleasingly open at 11am for the benefit of tickers (and… Continue reading THE MARVELS OF MANSFIELD
MANSFIELD – ALL MICROPUBS & MACCHIATO
I gave Mrs RM a couple of enticing choices for the day – Camden Town or Mansfield and she looked at me like I was daft. I obviously chose my wife well. She probably had equally fond memories of our memorable weekend there 20-odd years ago. It must have been our anniversary as I distinctly remember paying £15… Continue reading MANSFIELD – ALL MICROPUBS & MACCHIATO
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