Tag: Sheffield

SPOONS LIFE, WOODSEATS PALACE

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April 2024. Woodseats. Sheffield. Usual pattern; couple of nights in Waterbeach to start the week, then back “home” to Sheffield to forlornly try to get the laundry dry. Though, as Angela Rayner is finding out today, is “home” actually home if the neighbours say you’re never there and the grass is too long. We helped… Continue reading SPOONS LIFE, WOODSEATS PALACE

A KIRKSTALL ENCROACHMENT INTO SHEFFIELD

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April 2024. Sheffield. I concluded a two hour stroll, through the pub interiors, graveyards and botanical gardens, and cryptic comments, at The York, the smartest pub on Fulwood Road, the “University street”. Or at least that’s how I remember the York from James’s first year in Endcliffe residences, when True North ran a more pubby… Continue reading A KIRKSTALL ENCROACHMENT INTO SHEFFIELD

ALL THE PUBS IN SHEFFIELD ON FOOT No. 844 – THE BEAR, ABBEYDALE ROAD

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April 2024. Sheffield. You left me in Sheffield’s antiques quarter, braving 50mph winds and taking refuge in Hagglers Corner. Even the banks round here have been converted into “old tat” shops, such is the power of the antiques market. I took a look on What Pub at the nearest pubs on the 2 roads south-east… Continue reading ALL THE PUBS IN SHEFFIELD ON FOOT No. 844 – THE BEAR, ABBEYDALE ROAD

ALL THE PUBS IN SHEFFIELD ON FOOT No. 1,073 – HAGGLERS CORNER

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April 2024. Sheffield. 3 years in Sheffield and we still haven’t really got to grips with London and Abbeydale Roads, the lanes snaking south from the centre and United’s ground, so on an increasingly blustery Saturday I set off to remedy that. I really must see Dr John Cooper Clarke live, while I still can;… Continue reading ALL THE PUBS IN SHEFFIELD ON FOOT No. 1,073 – HAGGLERS CORNER

WHO MADE “DIXON’S OLD DIABOLICAL” ?

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March 2024. Sheffield. A second pub on Sheffield’s Folk Weekend, though sadly/happily not in The Perch, which was completely packed for the Youth Sessions. And they say young people spend all their time playing Minecraft. The city was packed with folk carrying guitars and pushing suitcases, and I immediately knew I’d have a job getting… Continue reading WHO MADE “DIXON’S OLD DIABOLICAL” ?

HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY COUNTY No. 51- SOUTH YORKSHIRE Part 2. SHEFFIELD

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I left “Half a dozen pubs…” in a bit of limbo, giving you a blog’s worth of South Yorkshire WITHOUT Sheffield, and then forgot about it, or thought it was too difficult my new home to less than a dozen. But at some point I need to move on to West Yorkshire, and Gwent, and… Continue reading HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY COUNTY No. 51- SOUTH YORKSHIRE Part 2. SHEFFIELD

JETHRO TULL ALBUMS DISSECTED IN THE WELLINGTON

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March 2024. Sheffield. There’s two (2) guaranteed indicators that I’m a teeny bit pi**ed in Sheffield. An order for an unnecessary Chinese takeaway from Sang Lung, and an inadvisable pint in the Wellington. Oh dear. Even worse, I convinced myself what I really needed after Bombay mix and a pork pie was the Welly’s £1… Continue reading JETHRO TULL ALBUMS DISSECTED IN THE WELLINGTON

HEAVEN IS A PIE AND A PINT IN THE LEFT HAND BAR OF SHEFFIELD’S FAT CAT

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March 2024. Sheffield… Or is it Kelham Island ? The Good Beer Guide sees fit to label the Valley of Beer as a separate entity this year (but not, say, Hillsborough), and who am I to argue with the Good Book. You left me drinking 10% Norwegian Marshmallow Imperial Stout on my return from a… Continue reading HEAVEN IS A PIE AND A PINT IN THE LEFT HAND BAR OF SHEFFIELD’S FAT CAT