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…

Pick (And Davy) Of The Pubs

I know most readers of this blog are renowned orators and wordsmiths and have honed in on the fact D H Lawrence, the famous English writer and poet, was born in Eastwood. Gritty former mining town it may be, but it will be forever associated with poetry…however, I reckon readers will be more intrigued to…

Eastwood’s Golden Mile

“Bloody hell!   You went there?!” So said one of my work colleagues, who hails from Kimberley in Nottingham and proceeded to give me a potted history lesson on the various hostelries of Eastwood and beyond. I blame Mrs BB…if she is going to send me shopping to Giltbrook Retail Park (home of Ikea) then she…

Harry And Meghan’s Royal Approval In Nottingham

With the news that Harry and Meghan are now joining the rest of us drinking in normal boozers, I have found the perfect pub for them in Nottingham. In fact, it’s got the perfect name so, when they are fully self sufficient, they can pop into the 519 – Royal Children NG1 7AT and have a…

(Greene) King Of Bramcote

Northamptonshire one day, Nottinghamshire the next, I like to keep you on your toes on this blog although I am about to share some news that will ostracise my Nottingham reader(s). I have found a fantastic Greene King local boozer. There. I’ve said it. If Alan was here he would have thrown his laptop on…