We stopped in Stourport to assess its suitability for Charles’s Curry Night Status. Apart from the fact the cheapest B&B was £80, it looked pretty promising. If we get bored we can always gatecrash the funfair. The town lacked a bit of its summery shine in damp January, but it now has an Heron Foods, so… Continue reading AN IMITATION OF SPOONS IN STOURPORT
Tag: Worcestershire
ENVILLE IN THE ROBIN HOOD, DRAYTON
You don’t need an OS Explorer map to work out when you’ve left Birmingham for Worcestershire; the pubs take on a different character as you drop below the A456. Redditch & Bromsgrove CAMRA have some underrated country pubs, including the Swan and a trio of decent GBG pubs I’ve visited in posh Belbroughton recently. The Guide newbie, and… Continue reading ENVILLE IN THE ROBIN HOOD, DRAYTON
IN THE LICKEY HILLS -CHIP TANKS AND EMBER GRANNIES
Back down to earth after Dulwich, with a night out in Worcestershire. This did give us the chance to visit some more exciting suburbs of south Birmingham, with Barnt Greens’s attractive roadworks meaning a half hour journey to a pub two miles off the M42. I know Mrs RM had been looking forward to a hike… Continue reading IN THE LICKEY HILLS -CHIP TANKS AND EMBER GRANNIES
MRS RM JOINS THE BATHAMS SET
On a whim we stopped at Chaddesley Corbett, one of those villages that tries to deny an acquaintance with Bromsgrove and almost gets away with it. The village has had its three varying pubs in the Beer Guide over the years, and they make great stop-offs on the way back from 1-0 defeats at Kidderminster… Continue reading MRS RM JOINS THE BATHAMS SET
BORN PIPPY -A MONDAY NIGHT IN WORCESTER
There has to be a Top 100 pub in Worcester really. A year ago it would probably have been the Paul Pry, never the most predictable pub and apparently closed again. My visit on General election night was a year’s highlight, this pint of Hobsons a classic. On Monday night I met a couple of… Continue reading BORN PIPPY -A MONDAY NIGHT IN WORCESTER
THE WORCESTERSHIRE WAY
Bewdley is more than basic ex-Banks pubs; it’s like a Georgian Barmouth by the Severn. On 2016’s summer day, the riverside was packed with day-tripping Black Country folk enjoying chips and beer by the river. On the walk to the Rising Sun an old couple stopped us on a junction to enquire about a good… Continue reading THE WORCESTERSHIRE WAY
WORCESTER’S WINNING POST
In contrast with Surrey, the annual tranche of new Beer Guide pubs in Worcestershire are always a really mixed bunnch, with more boozers than gastropubs. That’s true of the county town as a whole, whose centre has a surprisingly high number of drinkers pubs, the Plough and Dragon standing out. I’d been hoping to coincide… Continue reading WORCESTER’S WINNING POST
STOURPORT – JEWEL ON THE SEVERN
Stourport is one of Worcestershire’s oddities, a “fun” town by the Severn without the Georgian elegance of nearby Bewdley. It’s more of an inland Felixstowe than a Southwold, but just as worthy of a visit. When we first visited the town from our Clows Top B&B 20 years ago, that giant permanent funfair looked out of place in… Continue reading STOURPORT – JEWEL ON THE SEVERN
BROMSGROVE NAILS IT
My trip to Charlton yesterday was my first there in a while. It’s not a place you’d ever pass on the way to anywhere else. A bit like Withernsea. In contrast, I seem to be whizzing past Bromsgrove on a monthly basis these days on the way down to Somerset and Cornwall. Occasionally I use… Continue reading BROMSGROVE NAILS IT
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