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Well, that's a blow. I'd been looking forward to meeting you again. Maybe next time.

I know this is very late in the day, and some of you will have set off for your trains in the morning before seeing this, but having said that 15 was too many and Dave having ignored me and gone for...

Well done for stepping up to the plate. I was thinking of doing something similar, and even looked at some hotels, but the thought of all that John Smiths Smooth Crap was too much.

Please pass on my best wishes.



I like the way you can move the pubs up and down the order, or relegate/promote them to/from "wild card". Presumably there is a feature that calculates the route...

Really appreciate the work you've put in, Gill.

The point you made about the bus stops for the Bull and/or Gunmakers and doing those before going on the same buses to the Bartons Arms was well...

It's a Black Country Ales pub. I've only been there on a Saturday after football at WBA when it was difficult to form an opinion.

I'll be arriving at 11:54.

Disappointed to see no estimated time of arrival for ETA :)

Yes, that's a useful map link. The same argument could also apply to the Spotted Dog, which I think is a less worthy pub than the Woodman (though I agree the Woodman is a bit of a trek), but that's...

Just to be clear: I am one of those who would say that 15 pubs is rather too many!

I did 12 pubs in Stockport last Friday, mostly halves, and when my train was cancelled I came very close to...

Following from the above, I have tidied this list up to look like this:

Wellington
Old Joint Stock
Bull
Gunmakers
Bartons Arms
Jewellers Arms
Burning Soul Taproom
Colmore

I have been looking at what Gill, Mobyduck and Delboy20 wrote and added/subtracted bits from Gill's original route accordingly, including that it makes sense to do Wellington/Old Joint...

This reminds me that the Birmingham Plus Bus ticket also covers tram fares (Adult: £3.40, Railcard holder: £2.25). Anyone else who, like me, is entitled to free bus travel, note that trams are only...

Personally, I prefer proper pubs to tap rooms. The latter are ok if doing a bit of research for yourself, but on a crawl I would rather go to pubs.

Crikey, Gill. That's 15 pubs. Not sure I have the stamina these days!



Thanks Gill, that'd be great.

That was one idea. I suggested another. Nothing is set in stone!

The point is, if doing the Bull/Gunmakers after Bartons, how do we get to the next pub and which is it to be. It seemed to me there...

Ha ha!

It's normally me suggesting an extra pub that's only a short bus ride away and everyone else saying, No, I think we'll stay where we are. :)

When I did the Bartons Arms in 2018 with the...

I intend to!

Well done for dipping your toe in the water!

Just a thought (and I haven't looked into this very deeply): The Bull and the Gunmakers are not far from the Wellington.

Then (this is a bit...

Yes, that's better also because the 33 & 51 alternate from the same stop, each running every 10 mins but five minutes apart from each other, whereas the 7, from a different bus stop around the...

Good idea! And there's the Gunmakers Arms, brewery tap for Two Towers brewery, just around the corner from the Bull on Price Street. So that's three pubs sorted already.

You can read all about it here: http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/showthread.php?3894-Pubs-Galore-Meet-Up-Friday-12-November-Birmingham. And you had to miss the original crawl, too (page 12, #120). See...

Train tickets that imitate birdsong! That's my idea of advanced...

I think that's what the Pubs Galore crowd were doing in 2010, under Gill's tutelage. However, 11 years later there are probably enough of us with free bus passes to scupper this idea. And plucking...

It's still the 10th Anniversary, but the group picture outside the Bartons Arms was taken (almost) 11 years ago! You can't argue with the passage of time. ;)

Yeah, but this is the Autumn 2020 Pubs Galore Crawl in the same sense (and for the same reason) that this year we had the Euros 2020 football tournament and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

So it was 11...