tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post3184749875841103125..comments2024-03-28T17:11:52.333+00:00Comments on The Pub Curmudgeon: A pub crawl down Memory LaneCurmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-56178832025289167842016-11-24T23:53:34.344+00:002016-11-24T23:53:34.344+00:00Thanks - your nomination for a Peerage for service...Thanks - your nomination for a Peerage for services to pub history is on my To Do list.retiredmartinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15429804437739227082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-52399656303802812062016-11-24T14:38:05.875+00:002016-11-24T14:38:05.875+00:00It has to go beyond "Clean" or "Bas...It has to go beyond "Clean" or "Basic", though ;-)<br /><br />Agreed on WhatPub - some entries go on far too long, and others basically seem to be regurgitating the blurb on the pub's own website.Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-56185986585523518952016-11-24T14:36:24.419+00:002016-11-24T14:36:24.419+00:00At one point it was planned to include Handforth a...At one point it was planned to include Handforth and Wilmslow within the Greater Manchester County, but that was scrapped following a public outcry.Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-42473165846703246862016-11-24T01:35:30.212+00:002016-11-24T01:35:30.212+00:00Something to be said for returning to much briefer...Something to be said for returning to much briefer entries. GBG is too wordy and WhatPub because it's not space limited can tend towards verbal diarrheaRob Nicholsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14871887147718814739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-33780175152456030042016-11-23T10:00:00.654+00:002016-11-23T10:00:00.654+00:00I have a copy of the 1984 Grotley guide. published...I have a copy of the 1984 Grotley guide. published in the Feb 1984 100th edition of What's Doing. My two favourite listed pubs are, 14th Mounted Whore in Condom Close & Skunks Bum in Back Thrutch Lane. Both serving Drabs M.B (H).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-81193621591833370472016-11-23T08:40:05.726+00:002016-11-23T08:40:05.726+00:00I spoke too soon :-)<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090105161523/http://www.northmanchestercamra.org.uk/guide.htm" rel="nofollow">I spoke too soon</a> :-)Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-18220561672019530162016-11-23T08:21:00.513+00:002016-11-23T08:21:00.513+00:00Did you live in Snoot Magna or Snobley ?
I though...Did you live in Snoot Magna or Snobley ? <br />I thought I saw it on a Salford CAMRA website at some point. Really should be the first task of a central Mcr branch to republish it rather than wasting effort on saving pubs.retiredmartinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15429804437739227082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-81121210890677685112016-11-23T07:55:08.851+00:002016-11-23T07:55:08.851+00:00Sadly it no longer seems to be available anywhere ...Sadly it no longer seems to be available anywhere on t'Interweb :-(<br /><br />All I can offer is <a href="http://www.pubcurmudgeon.org.uk/images/greater_grotley.gif" rel="nofollow">this</a>.Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-68216273022931695382016-11-23T07:39:32.953+00:002016-11-23T07:39:32.953+00:00At that time Handforth (and Wilmslow which also ap...At that time Handforth (and Wilmslow which also appears) were in Greater Manchester CAMRA Region (if such a thing existed) and may still have been part of the old South Manchester Branch. That may explain (but not justify) their inclusion.John Clarkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00132845616834779091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-21835921612082747772016-11-23T07:29:19.761+00:002016-11-23T07:29:19.761+00:00Handforth is actually in Cheshire and you have to ...Handforth is actually in Cheshire and you have to go through part of Stockport MBC to reach it from Manchester, so I'm not sure how it came to be included.Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-7472213456049867592016-11-22T22:48:23.675+00:002016-11-22T22:48:23.675+00:00Thanks for posting, always interesting. Is the Gu...Thanks for posting, always interesting. Is the Guide to Grotley still available anywhere ;-)<br /><br />The guides to the curry cafes were good in the later guides.retiredmartinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15429804437739227082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-38008131048008422202016-11-22T20:16:16.426+00:002016-11-22T20:16:16.426+00:00"Oddly mixed clientele" at the Union - w..."Oddly mixed clientele" at the Union - wonder what they're getting at there... I moved to Manchester in 1982, and people were still doing "if you drink in there you need to keep your back to the wall" 'jokes' about the Union. The one time I went in there an old bloke did try to pick me up, admittedly - but then, I was an exceptionally handsome youth.<br /><br />The southern suburbs are a bit 'blink and you'll miss it', aren't they? Not much of a Chorlton Challenge in those days, apart from covering the distance between the Southern, the Royal Oak and Chorlton Green. Gorton was obviously where the serious drinking went on. <br /><br />I didn't think I'd have an emotional reaction to anything in that guide, but I had a real pang for the Whitworth. Marston's - when they were Marston's - seemed to have a real knack for homely, pubby pubs, as well as the beer generally being rather good.<br /><br />All in all I'd happily set my time machine for the late 70s; getting my beer variety by frequenting the tied pubs of multiple brewers with slightly different takes on mild and bitter - and slightly different specials - sounds fine to me.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07009879034507926661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-1045215430411357472016-11-22T19:57:11.939+00:002016-11-22T19:57:11.939+00:00I have a copy of this guide, somewhere at home. I ...I have a copy of this guide, somewhere at home. I bought it whilst living in the Greater Manchester, as a student at Salford University. I’m fairly certain it dates from around 1976, which was my final year at Salford. I stayed on in the area to do a year’s Post Graduate course at Manchester Polytechnic, and then spent a further six months out in the sticks, renting a flat above a butchers shop in Romiley (plenty of Robinson’s pubs there!).<br /><br />Many of the pubs in that guide could be described as basic, which ties in with you previous post, and backs up my comment about liking unspoilt, back street locals back then. Electric pumped Boddingtons, and sometimes Wilson’s too, were the rule in Broughton, where I was living at the time. There was a Sam Smiths pub nearby, but that sold bright beer only. Have to say though, electric pumped, “Bright” Sam’s wasn’t a bad drink. Greenalls were the brewery to avoid!<br />Paul Baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09678639237696546268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-26589315048813021142016-11-22T18:44:20.173+00:002016-11-22T18:44:20.173+00:00Looking at that guide i have done most in it but d...Looking at that guide i have done most in it but do not know of Handforth which had two pubs on Wilmslow road.<br />I love old guides and have loads of them.<br />They did'nt bother what they said back then,in the 1976 beer guide on the Cheadle entry in Greater Manchester,it says "all pubs in Cheadle worth a visit,but avoid the George and Dragon"i still like looking through that even though i was only 14 when published.Alan Winfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13143831341388857795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-70479042073938874992016-11-22T17:33:46.834+00:002016-11-22T17:33:46.834+00:00Campaigner Goes Back to 70s<a href="http://seeingthelizards.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/news-in-brief-54.html" rel="nofollow">Campaigner Goes Back to 70s</a>Lizard Seerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07497330695288945161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-50733613013270062972016-11-22T14:50:56.558+00:002016-11-22T14:50:56.558+00:00Also the comment on the Swan on Shaw Heath (oddly ...Also the comment on the Swan on Shaw Heath (oddly included when the Armoury wasn't) "Try the many other Wilsons down Castle Street". Jolly Crofter - Windsor Castle - Pineapple - Prince Albert - Royal Oak in those days. And was the Bobby Peel maybe a post-1976 pub swap between Wilsons and Greenalls?Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-46599023058446750202016-11-22T14:46:44.883+00:002016-11-22T14:46:44.883+00:00I did this back here. Actually, I'd go for 197...I did this <a href="http://pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/halcyon-days.html" rel="nofollow">back here</a>. Actually, I'd go for 1979, the all-time peak of the British pub trade.Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-51793943755021208842016-11-22T14:41:24.048+00:002016-11-22T14:41:24.048+00:00It's a window onto an alternative reality, isn...It's a window onto an alternative reality, isn't it? Virtually no free houses; as well as lots of Boddingtons, lots of Wilsons; everywhere selling mild and bitter and pretty much nothing else; and of course so many pubs which are long gone.Paul Feltonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-91184700990147779562016-11-22T14:18:34.207+00:002016-11-22T14:18:34.207+00:00By the time I moved into this area at the end of 1...By the time I moved into this area at the end of 1984 it was already felt that Boddingtons was somehow not really what it was.Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-49350238230142914982016-11-22T14:02:43.201+00:002016-11-22T14:02:43.201+00:00I love these old guides - I inherited this one fro...I love these old guides - I inherited this one from Rhys and now have the full set of Greater Manchester guides I think. I see there's a lot of Boddingtons in this one - back in the day when it was at its height of course.John Clarkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00132845616834779091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-86496492336770105932016-11-22T13:05:24.308+00:002016-11-22T13:05:24.308+00:00What's the Golden Year, Mudge?
If we create a...What's the Golden Year, Mudge?<br /><br />If we create a Westworld type theme park for dumpy pub lovin' old codgers, what year would we set it? 1976?, 1953?Cooking Lagerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02830924433230427226noreply@blogger.com