April 2024. Willenhall. The only downside of my Big Day Out in Wolves was a lack of GBG pubs to tick, newbies in Wombourne and Kingswinford just out of reach due to what we pros call “Ye Hellishness Of Bumpy Buses Betwixt Wolves And Dudley“. But there was one option for a tick a ten… Continue reading UNLOCKING THE KEY TO WILLENHALL
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PRE-EMPTIVE AUDLEM – THE SHROPPIE FLY
March 2024. Audlem. An hour in Audlem before my bran’ new GBG opened a mile up the road, just time for a coffee, though that was harder than you’d think as a village of 1,991 souls apparently needs three (3) churches and two (2) funeral directors and one (1) karate instructor. Mrs RM had felt… Continue reading PRE-EMPTIVE AUDLEM – THE SHROPPIE FLY
A Wetherspoons in the Beer Guide in Liverpool ? ANOTHER one ?
July 2023. Liverpool. Not a lot to say about the second new Beer Guide pub in central Liverpool, 57 seconds read at most, I reckon. 57 seconds is enough to get from the Denbigh Castle to the Captain Alexander, IF you don’t stop to take photos on the way, and wait for the Red man… Continue reading A Wetherspoons in the Beer Guide in Liverpool ? ANOTHER one ?
HOW DID I END UP IN SWINDON SPOONS ?
The truth is out there (not THERE) and the truth MUST be told. With all of Swindon’s options, I somehow ended up in the Spoons. Not in the grotty but loveable GBG occasional Savoy, either, but the shiny Sir Daniel, whoever he was. Quite what attracted me away from the lure of Swindon Kebabs, who… Continue reading HOW DID I END UP IN SWINDON SPOONS ?
A MICRO ROLE MODEL IN OLDBURY
Back to pubbing on the Friday, as two days were enough to “clear the West Midlands“. After the Bennets and the Bow Bars, my first newbie doesn’t look all that, does it ? The Old Dispensary looks better in the photo on WhatPub, which otherwise seems a bit keen to tell me just how many… Continue reading A MICRO ROLE MODEL IN OLDBURY
CHASING CANNOCK CHARM
Staffordshire is an underrated county, tainted by association with scandals (Mid Staffs Hospital, the Julian Cope cover for “Fried”, a short pint in Tutbury etc) and some fairly poor social housing (the Tamworth towers, the Kinver Caves). Scandalously, some pubs only serve one beer. Like this one. But it has Bass, it has the toilet museum… Continue reading CHASING CANNOCK CHARM
TOP 100 PUBS – BIG 6, HALIFAX
This weekend in Halifax for a family wedding has been a revelation, and not just because I managed to get a group of elderly relatives to skip the Premier Inn breakfast in favour of Wetherspoons (saving £34.73). They weren’t as impressed with the lads off to the St Leger on their second pint of cider by 9.15.am There’s… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS – BIG 6, HALIFAX
TOP 100 PUBS – RAILWAY TAVERN, NEWTOWN, POWYS
Yesterday I had one of the great half-hours in a pub in unsung Newtown. Until the Wi-Fi died I wrote it up in the new and very decent Wetherspoons, which is as far from the Railway Tavern in feel as it’s possible to get. The Railway has an unprepossessing exterior straight from the Welsh Valleys, in contrast to the… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS – RAILWAY TAVERN, NEWTOWN, POWYS
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