September 2023. Doncaster. A Top 100 pub ? ANOTHER one ! Why not ? Life is short. And time was short in Doncaster, but time enough to see what’s changed since Mrs RM and I drove a teenage Matthew here from Waterbeach 5 years ago (and back the same night) for a hardcore gig just… Continue reading THE ‘LITTLE’ PLOUGH, DONCASTER – “LIKE A GREAT SAM SMITHS PUB WITH MOBILE PHONES”
Tag: South Yorkshire
A TRIP ADVISOR TO ARMTHORPE
September 2023. Armthorpe, Doncaster. 498 pubs to do in the new GBG, and I’ve set off like a raging tortoise ticking a new pub a day. I always like to finish the local counties early. The last pub in South Yorkshire was a short train ride away in delightful Donny. Sadly, the short hop on… Continue reading A TRIP ADVISOR TO ARMTHORPE
LIVING THE DREAM IN DEEPCAR
September 2023. Deepcar, Sheffield. Thursday saw the arrival of a new Good Beer Guide. Obviously I can’t reveal anything about that or the CAMRA folk pay you a visit to withdraw your 50p vouchers and I can’t be having that. So read nothing into my visit on Friday to the King & Miller in Deepcar,… Continue reading LIVING THE DREAM IN DEEPCAR
FRED, BUT NOT PAUL AND BARRY
July 2023. Maltby. Matthew joined us on our latest trip south to check on Mum and Dad, and we opted for a posh breakfast in Maltby’s Spoons. The journey south takes 2:20 hours now the A1 barrier repairs at Stamford are complete, which is a shorter trip than Waterbeach to Cromer in Summer. It’s generally… Continue reading FRED, BUT NOT PAUL AND BARRY
SHAKELINES
July 2023. Sheffield. More of that modern music you folk love as we plough on through Kelham Island on Friday night in search of the next Arctic Monkeys Airport Dad. Always interesting to see the gentrification of Kelham, where we noted a rather more upmarket crowd in the wine bars and Sardinian restaurants than you… Continue reading SHAKELINES
THE MECCIE RIVIERA
July 2023. Swinton and Mexborough. Planning your pub visits is as much a joy for the ticker as the beer and the banter, especially when it suddenly hits you on your exploration of the keg wastelands of Yorkshire’s former mining towns that you could do Mexborough from Swinton and save yourself a separate trip. An… Continue reading THE MECCIE RIVIERA
THE UNION HOTEL HIGHLIGHTS SHEFFIELD’S STRENGTH IN DEPTH
17th January 2023. Late last year Boak & Bailey visited Sheffield and lauded the Union Hotel, making it their Pub of the Year. I’d never heard of it, but then it hasn’t graced the GBG in the 25 years I’ve been visiting the city, and I’ve made only steady progress walking out to the unheralded… Continue reading THE UNION HOTEL HIGHLIGHTS SHEFFIELD’S STRENGTH IN DEPTH
WALT WHITMAN AND THE FIRBECK BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE
Culture you say ? retiredmartin has culture. Even in the vast wilderness between Rotherham, Worksop and Doncaster. There’s practically ZERO new GBG ticks within 90 minutes of me now, so I’m exploring the local(ish) area. I hadn’t been to Firbeck since that Spring of 2001 when I brought Sis and my (then) brother-in-law up to… Continue reading WALT WHITMAN AND THE FIRBECK BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE
“Would You Like Me To Tie Your Shoelaces Up For You ?”
Last Thursday I still had no Beer Guide, but I did know some of the entries because a nice chap (let’s call him Teddie Misthut to preserve his anonymity) had told me and copied a few pages on the Dark Web. Most strikingly, we have a new entry in east Sheffield. Who even knew Sheffield… Continue reading “Would You Like Me To Tie Your Shoelaces Up For You ?”
CONTENTIOUS PRE-EMPTIVE TICKS IN DARTON
“Shall we find a beer garden” said Mrs RM, after our exhausting 2 hours exploring Damien Hirst and sharing a Toblerone ice cream at the Scuplture Park Cafe, which in itself was an art piece. No new GBG ticks for about 137 miles, of course, but do I spot a potential pre-emptive in delightful Darton,… Continue reading CONTENTIOUS PRE-EMPTIVE TICKS IN DARTON
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