"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Impressive indeed.
Otherwise, just five for me: Bull, Tavern on the Hill, Royal Oak and the Rick Astley-themed Mikkeler Bar (formerly George & Dragon) though these are all traditional pubs. Otherwise just the Highbury Brewhouse, where there's about a 25% chance of getting a pint which rivals Sarson's on the pH scale.
You won't get warm beer if you vote for the Bermondsey beer mile.
On leaving the bar, I felt a strong blow to the back of my head. Turning round, I discovered it was the pavement
https://www.expressandstar.com/news/...PBEFaJBnhkun6c
Following on from the Crooked House demolition the local paper has done a list of 24 "historic" boozers with no listing or protection in the Black Country and 15 from the wider area. I'll have a good read later but thought some of you might enjoy it!
I am a salmon !!
Thanks for the list.
I haven't done much in that part of the world, so this has given me a few targets. Forty of them, though the journalist has miscounted (no surprise there).
I haven't been through the whole list, just dipped in and found this one has been closed for some time. I wonder how many others are in the same sort of danger.
I've only been to one, as far as I know - no surprise there either! A good one, too.
Thanks again for posting this.
Come On You Hatters!
I have had a look through the 24 and i think there are 4 I haven't been in - The Black Bear, Red White & Blue, The Cabin and Forge Tavern. This is not for want of trying though! I visited the Forge a few years ago to find it closed and the Black Bear keeps odd opening times. I've tried to do it twice, hopefully 3rd time lucky! I have never been near The Cabin and neither has anyone else - not even a photo!
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There are also at least 5 that are already closed and presumably under threat of conversion / demolition. Forge Tavern, The Merrivale, Red White & Blue, The Prince and Old Court House.
The Courthouse in Kingswinford seems to appear on the list twice. I have never heard of The Northway, Sedgley. The Cabin is in that area so that could be another mistake.
I am a salmon !!