February 2025. Stockport. Cheshire. A day of culture with Blackpool Jane, Aberdeen Karen and itinerant Mrs RM, a day when the sun shone on the righteous (Me !), and Stockport’s visitor attractions looked the real deal. Unlike some recent flagship openings like the V & A in Dundee, the HatWorks, town museum and adjacent Staircase… Continue reading ALL THE PUBS IN THE MANCHESTER BEER BOOK. THE SWAN WITH TWO NECKS, STOCKPORT
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UNKNOWN PLEASURES
February 2025. Stockport. Part 2 of our cultured cruising of Cheshire’s finest town, as I narrowly divert our Blackpool visitors away from the Egerton Arms. Look what you could have had, Jane. I sometimes feel I know Stocky as well as Cambridge, bullying visitors into stopping at the best spots. “NO ! Look that way“… Continue reading UNKNOWN PLEASURES
HATS
February 2025. Stockport. Let joy be unconfined. Blackpool Jane is blogging again. Candid and colourful and a bit of cask and chocolate DIPA thrown in. We met up with Jane and fellow Tangerine Karen in Stockport to Do the Culture. I do like pub crawls, curated or otherwise, but CAMRA folk get awfully upset if… Continue reading HATS
PREMATURELY CHECKING IN BEERS ON UNTAPPD AT THE MAGNET
June 2024. Stockport. Or is it Heaton Norris ? Where were we ? Oh yes. Curry and Greater Manchester beer night with Blackpool Jane, after a Bailey’s chaser. Now, here’s why Jane is so great. That’s the prescribed walking route from the Crown to the Magnet, but it’s SO dull. Why not walk under the… Continue reading PREMATURELY CHECKING IN BEERS ON UNTAPPD AT THE MAGNET
UNDER THE ARCHES
June 2024. Stockport. “A gallon of Unicorn, and a greasy lamb dhansak, a night out in Stockport… “ Actually, that would have given John Denver a bigger hit than his paean to Sheffield nightlife. But I couldn’t recommend an Indian restaurant in Cheshire’s finest pub town, and neither could Curry-Heute, who’d seemingly never been to… Continue reading UNDER THE ARCHES
A DASH TO HAPPY HOUR IN CHEADLE HULME
December 2023. Cheadle Hulme. The 17:17 (delayed) was the slow boat back to Stockport, and presented the tantalising prospect of a second tick of the day, and let me tell young BRAPA that there will come a time when two (2) ticks is seen as riches indeed. A bit of a dull slog from Cheadle… Continue reading A DASH TO HAPPY HOUR IN CHEADLE HULME
“BLAME IT ON THE IMPERIAL STOUT” (NOT A TAYLOR DAYNE TRACK)
November 2023. Heaton Moor. Stockport. Or is it Mauldeth ? Or Lower Burnage ? Or Lesser Didsbury ? Check next year’s GBG to find out. The road from the Bottle to the Beer Shop is paved with very South Manchester sounding bar names. One of the duller 14 minute walks, but The Beer Shop was… Continue reading “BLAME IT ON THE IMPERIAL STOUT” (NOT A TAYLOR DAYNE TRACK)
BOTTLING IT IN HEATON MOOR
November 2023. Heaton Moor. New Mills looked like Winter Wonderland as I waited for the train to Piccadilly. My plan for a quiet Friday evening was a) GBG pub in New Mills-tick, b) elegant dining curry in Ancoats, c) BC Camplight in the Albert Hall. It was all about to go spectacularly wrong, as Saddleworth’s… Continue reading BOTTLING IT IN HEATON MOOR
STOCKPORT’S “OTHER” ARDEN ARMS
I’ve been tackling Greater Manchester in singles and the odd scampered two ticks, a bit like Chris Tavaré approaching a T20 target of 189. The next one is in the mysterious area between Greater Stockport and Tameside. In fact, it’s practically on the border (“the Stockport side” confirmed the landlord of the Arden Arms). I… Continue reading STOCKPORT’S “OTHER” ARDEN ARMS
THE PRE-EMPTIVE PROBLEM
A great day in Macclesfield, with two new faces to put a name to and then forget, but no new GBG ticks while down in Sussex young Simon was collecting dozens of them already. Simon has already completed his GBG Cross ticking, and found a lot of his preemptive pubs in the new Guide. See… Continue reading THE PRE-EMPTIVE PROBLEM
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