Great Station Pubs: Long Eaton

I’ve almost forgotten how to do this but here is a bona fide blog on a new pub. Obviously, I should state that it’s not open currently, although it is doing a roaring off sales trade, and is waiting to be regarded as important as a garden centre and reopen. This was one of the…

Do The Dog

“All you punks and all you teds National Front and natty dreads Mods, rockers, hippies and skinheads Keep on fighting ’til you’re dead Take your F.A. aggravation Fight it out on New Street Station Master racial masturbation Causes National Front frustration” Any Specials gurus out there will know these lyrics are from “Do The Dog,”…

Classic Lunchtimes In Kimberley

You left me in Kimberley waxing lyrical about a slower pace of life, old boys, lunchtime drinking, defunct breweries and classic pubs. However since then, I’ve discovered the Maltmeister had a torrid Friday night, as I tuned into Sky Sports and watched Birmingham beat Bristol City with a performance so unexpected it reminded me just…

Pub Towns: Kimberley

It’s been a quite couple of weeks in the Life After Football blogging world as work has cranked up getting in the way of all those fun things like visiting pubs. Unlike those men of leisure Taylor, Mackay, Mudgie and Southworth x2, the rest of us have to shoe horn in pubs around pesky work…