January 2024. Buckingham. 18:41 on a Saturday night, which sounds like The Cure but they were writing about Crawley, not Buckingham. The only vaguely edgy pub conversation was a barmaid in the Grand Junction telling of her dating disasters; “There were only 3 things stopping us getting married. He moved to Scotland, got engaged to… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS – THE MITRE, BUCKINGHAM
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MRS RM GOES TO WORK IN A PUB
From End of the Road we made a hurried journal across Cranborne Chase and the famous Zig Zag Road to Shaftesbury. You’ll remember Shaftesbury. In 1981 a giant loaf of bread got stuck at the top of Gold Hill and the entire population of the lower town starved. Mrs RM was doing something called “work”… Continue reading MRS RM GOES TO WORK IN A PUB
ON THE KEG IN CAMBRIDGE
On the sunniest day of the year so far I managed to coax Mrs RM out for a walk. Only down to Waterbeach station and round the main drag of Cambridge at lunchtime, but it’s a start. Cambridge station is looking rather different these days, a vast development of flats, hotels and bike shops transforming one… Continue reading ON THE KEG IN CAMBRIDGE
TO BE FAIR TO BARNET…
Speaking of High Barnet, as I was, it does have one pub gem, and some decent parkland beneath the M25. Sadly its classic sloping pitch at Underhill was vacated a few years ago in favour of a dull modern ground in Edgware. Some people never learn from Yeovil. The tube at High Barnet is probably… Continue reading TO BE FAIR TO BARNET…
HARVEY’S AT ITS BEST
While in Brighton I was lured into a pub I’d been in before, which is quite a testament to the attraction of a boozer at dusk. The Mitre at the top of North Laine isn’t by any means the only traditional-looking pub in the City, which seems to value pub heritage better than some. The… Continue reading HARVEY’S AT ITS BEST
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