They Call The Rising Sun

“There is a house in New Orleans…”as the song goes, is slightly catchier than “there is a house in Church Gresley…” only a bit, mind. The 1964 classic from The Animals is arguably their greatest moment and therefore was reasonably excited when a boys night out in the nineties to Granville’s in Stone involved a…

BRAPA And Tom In Shacker(s)ton(e)

This blog title only works if you pronounce Tom and Ton the same, which they aren’t, but don’t let that stop you. I tell you what though that BRAPA lad is reaching fame of the Roger Protz variety, which affords him all sorts of privileges! Firstly,  he has persuaded Martin to drive him around all…

The Willington Triangle

The Willington Triangle is undoubtedly one of the best 100 metres pub crawl in Britain. Three boozers; all selling top class beer, all within 100 yards of Willington Train Station and generally heaving on Friday and Saturday evenings. The pubs are pretty good at working in tandem and all reaping the benefits such as the…

Five You Might Have Missed…

  With this blog approaching the 250 mark at a rate of knots I thought I would create a Blast From The Past and dredge up five boozers I think are worth a visit from the first 25 pubs I posted on. Derby CAMRA has a thankless task trying to shoehorn some classic pubs into…