February 2024. Leeds Pub Crawl. Just a half in the Duck and Drake, very sensible now (too late, too late) as Will and I made a penultimate stop on our curated exploration of heritage hostelries. Down behind the Minster, sits the Palace, no longer a GBG regular since the days when I popped in here… Continue reading NO BASS TODAY, BUT THE PALACE JOINS LEEDS PUB ROYALTY
Tag: West Yorkshire
THE DUCK AND DRAKE
February 2024. Leeds Pub Crawl. 11:47 – Brew Society 12:43 – Cardigan Arms 13:37 – Dave’s Pies & Ale 14:39 – The Templar Good, solid, almost sensible progress. Be a shame to go awry now. But it sort of did, as Will and I scooted off towards the Kirkgate markets, arriving at the Duck and Drake bang… Continue reading THE DUCK AND DRAKE
A CURATED, CULTURED, TOUR OF LEEDS HOSTELRIES BEGINS AT BREW SOCIETY
February 2024. Leeds. Unexpectedly, Mondays are the new Fridays. 2024 has seen pub crawls in London and Manchester and Tunbridge Wells at the start of the week, having long believed that pubs don’t even open till 4pm on Thursday these days. And beer quality hasn’t suffered either. “Fancy a Monday pub crawl artisanal curated guidance… Continue reading A CURATED, CULTURED, TOUR OF LEEDS HOSTELRIES BEGINS AT BREW SOCIETY
PIE AND PEAS AND POP
November 2023. Leeds. You know where Leeds is, I’ll spare you the maps. Northern Rail didn’t seem to know where Leeds was, as I attempted to get to Burley Park for my gig. Just the 32 minutes late for a 27 minute journey, meaning that despite a brave dash through the multicultural quarter of the… Continue reading PIE AND PEAS AND POP
THACKLEY MICRO v “THE SMITHS”
October 2023. Thackley, Bradford. One more in West Yorkshire and it’s a rare GBG county completion. Still a thrill, even when you’ve completed the Guide, a bit like Amundsen completing a circumnavigation of Oslo IKEA the year after ticking the North Pole or something. Where are we ? Thackley, north Bradford. Near the Isle Working… Continue reading THACKLEY MICRO v “THE SMITHS”
“Kev left his pound at the swimming pool”
October 2023. Shipley. You can’t actually see the dividing line between Saltaire and Shipley, but you certainly know when you’ve crossed it. And the Crafty Kernel meets every requirement of the “modern micro” playbook, though at least it has a nice protruding sign so you only walk past it 3 times, rather than the median… Continue reading “Kev left his pound at the swimming pool”
HALIFAX MINSTER – MY FIRST NCSS 5
October 2023. Halifax. I’d actually come to Halifax for a gig, and you’ll be astonished to know this wasn’t a 22 year old Californian singing about duff boyfriends with sportscars. Lisa O’ Neill sings about the Irishwoman who shot Mussolini in the nose, which I guess is a marginally more serious topic, unless you’re a… Continue reading HALIFAX MINSTER – MY FIRST NCSS 5
NEWMILLERDAM – GO FOR THE BASS, BUT STAY FOR THE FISH AND CHIPS
October 2023. Newmillerdam. Wakefield. I tried desperately to come up with a blogpost using the Elvis classic as inspiration, but since none of you (except fellow ticker Eddie) knows Newmillerdam it’s wasted effort. My life of perpetual travel began the year after marrying Mrs RM; before that we’d hardly left Letchworth and Cambridge but in… Continue reading NEWMILLERDAM – GO FOR THE BASS, BUT STAY FOR THE FISH AND CHIPS
RETURN TRAY WONDERS IN WAKEFIELD !
October 2023. Crigglestone. Wakefield. We arrived back at Luton Airport to collect our vehicle the day before THIS; Glad we were only away for a week. It took a few days of parent-visiting before I could get back into the swing of visiting weirdly names Yorkshire villages. In fact, I’d never heard of Crigglestone, whose… Continue reading RETURN TRAY WONDERS IN WAKEFIELD !
MOORTHORPE GETS A STATION PUB
July 2023. Moorthorpe, West Yorkshire. I can’t claim the South Kirkby is as exciting as Kirkby, Merseyside, or even South Elmsall across the rail bridge with its occasional Guide entry in the Barnsley Oak, but at least I’d been. And you haven’t. Moorthorpe is hardly noticeable on that map extract, seeming to exist only as… Continue reading MOORTHORPE GETS A STATION PUB
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