The Hartshorne Trilogy

I know how you like your trilogies and I have made you wait for this one.  August 11, 2017 was the date of the inaugural LifeAfterFootball post and finally, 638 pubs and almost four years later, I can draw this one to a close. A bit like The Godfather, The Lord Of The Rings, Mad…

Bass Is Back, Bass Is Back, ‘Allo…’Allo

Boozers are back; Bass is back; And grown men with tattoos calling you Duck after you buy a pint to prove that #publife in Derbyshire is slowly returning. That terrace chant from the seventies and eighties would have been booming out from the beer garden if I had my way when I visited 624 –…

Breast (on) From The East (Midlands)

You’d have thought that I was up to speed on all the Derbyshire destinations having visited somewhere in the region of 190 boozers over the past two and a half years. Holbrook, Woodville, Little Eaton, Duffield, Mickelover, Littleover, Swadlincote, Matlock, Melbourne, Chaddesden, SInfin, Chesterfield and Makeney to name but a few suburbs/villages/towns have offered a…

Destination Pubs in Repton

Is the sort of title to entice in Martin as I know how much he loves the Brunning & Price model and this pub is straight out of that identikit. It’s a pity Russ isn’t about at the minute as I’m sure he’d have something to day about the painting on the side of this…