Saints And Sinners – Ashby Style

Another niche musical reference in the title there….I would of course keep you on tenterhooks but I know Duncan is a big fan of the Scottish Punk scene in 1977 and he is happy to let you know that this was the title of Johnny & The Self Abusers only single. For some bizarre reason…

Blues, Bowls, (Tennis) Balls & Bears: A Winning Formula In Solihull

A short break from my tour of central Derby to bring you an unashamed plug for a cricket club in Solihull that is selling booze at good price. Steve Perryman of Warwickshire fame (not the Spurs defender) spent eight years at Edgbaston before coaching the Bears successfully in the nineties under Bob Woolmer and now…

West End Girl…In Coalville

(spot the pub gaffer!)  I have just read the dreadfully sad news about pub legend Alan Winfield and would like to dedicate this post to him because this is the sort of pub he would have caught a bus all the way from Stapleford for. https://neverendingpubcrawl.blogspot.com/2018/07/my-top-five-pubs.html I’m not sure if you can get the bus…

Bingo – A Social Club Alive And Well In Hugglescote

LE67 has been suggested by at least one pub blogger (er, me) to be one of the best postcodes in Britain for traditional boozers. Not only does it have an abundance of earthy pubs but it also has plenty of clubs tucked away in the backstreets. I’ve not racked up many sports or social clubs…

Forest Legends In Stapleford

Larry Lloyd is a football and pub legend.  Firstly, he won the First Division title (that’s the equivalent of the Premier League kids) and UEFA Cup (that’s the equivalent of the Europa League kids) with Liverpool. As well as playing for England he also, arguably more impressively, won the First Division title with Nottingham Forest…

Where Have All The Estate Pubs Gone? A Trip To Castle Vale

Mudgie has a number of blogs and one that really hits home is the closed pubs site. His Closed Pubs blog highlights just how many boozers have bitten the dust and I know there has been plenty of comment on numerous pub blogs about the diminishing stock of estate boozers My own thoughts are that they have…

#ThrowbackThursday In Shepshed

#Imnotsurewherethewholehashtagthingstarted… I’ll start again!  I’m not sure where the whole hashtag thing started but it was probably with the advent of Twitter and Instagram on social media. If you prefix anything with a hashtag it appears it is OK.  For instance, I could say #somethingreallyoffensive or #incrediblyunfunny but apparently, if I put a hashtag before…