December 2023. Snaith. Pubs are fine, but what you really want (possibly) is a compelling reason to visit small, unsung, market towns on your UK holidays. Towns like Snaith (pop. 3,176 souls), an improbable 55 minutes by train from Leeds (not on Sundays, nothing happens on Humberside on a Sunday). Your reward at the rail… Continue reading SNAITH – BOUNDARY ISSUES, HERBERT NAPPY ASKE AND JACK PUNTON THE WALKING MAN
Tag: North Yorkshire
RETIRED MARTIN’S BIG GOOLE BIRTHDAY
22 December 2023. Beal, nr Goole. Thanks for all your birthday wishes, I really appreciate the love for Retired Martin Day. Mrs RM spared all expense, adapting a card for her nan that been sitting in a draw for 12 years; And of course Stockport’s own Phil Foden has just capped off the night by… Continue reading RETIRED MARTIN’S BIG GOOLE BIRTHDAY
LACY
Yes, I’m going to be nicking all of Olivia Rodrigo’s song titles for these blog posts because she deserves the honour. November 2023. Oatlands. Harrogate. Ooh, a bit dark as I left the warmth of the Harrogate Tap and headed for my actual tick in Oatlands. By now I only had 32 minutes to walk… Continue reading LACY
“I mean, if you’re there, you can’t NOT go in the Harrogate Tap, can you ?”
November 2023. Harrogate. Thursday night, back in Sheff from my parents, and straight out after doing the laundry to Leeds for the Julie Byrne gig, Except, having got to Leeds I thought I’d head straight on up to Harrogate and get the Oatlands Club ticked. A couple of cheap advance tickets would see me in… Continue reading “I mean, if you’re there, you can’t NOT go in the Harrogate Tap, can you ?”
THE COORS TASTES A BIT “EGGY” IN NORTHALLERTON
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
RICHMONDSHIRE REVISITED
October 2023. Hunton. Richmondshire. Mrs RM kindly agreed to taste the beer on our two North Yorkshire ticks on the way back from Newcastle. Some of you will be horrified to learn I consider “a swig of the dregs is a tick” but as the latest GBG completist I get to set the rules, at… Continue reading RICHMONDSHIRE REVISITED
LEMON TWIST
September 2023. Scarborough. I meant to send my mum a postcard from Scarborough but a) I forgot, b) a first class stamp is £1.25, c) couldn’t find a Post Office anywhere. I did see loads of hotels though, including the Grand. rated “Passable” on Booking.com (i.e. dreadful), the Adelphi of the North. But take the… Continue reading LEMON TWIST
THE BEST PART OF COMPLETING THE BEER GUIDE IS BEING ALLOWED TO DRINK PINTS IN PUBS LIKE THE SCHOLAR’S
September 2023. Scarborough. Well, you can’t spend the equivalent of 13 and a third pints of OBB on your rail ticket getting to Scarborough and just do the two ticks. If I’d turned up a few days earlier I could have seen Glamorgan grind out a draw to keep Yorkshire in their rightful place at… Continue reading THE BEST PART OF COMPLETING THE BEER GUIDE IS BEING ALLOWED TO DRINK PINTS IN PUBS LIKE THE SCHOLAR’S
SHAZAMMED IN SCARBOROUGH
September 2023. Scarborough. 2:45 hours to reach Scarborough from another Yorkshire city seems a long time, but you get to see the glories of Goole and Brough and Driffield so not all bad. First time I’ve arrived in Scarbs by train in years, it’s a bit of a tip at the moment, but redeemed by… Continue reading SHAZAMMED IN SCARBOROUGH
RESISTING THE FAMOUS PIE IN HUNMANBY
September 2023. Hunmanby, Filey. The last knockings of the 2023 Good Beer Guide year; just enough time to finish off North Yorkshire before GBG24 drops (ugh). I’d been putting off the last couple of entries near Scarborough because a) the train costs £40.50, b) th train costs £40.50. But it was a sunny September in… Continue reading RESISTING THE FAMOUS PIE IN HUNMANBY
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