The Pub Curmudgeon

On our recent day out in Stockport, someone commented that they weren’t too enamoured of the recent grey makeover applied to the Swan With T...

We pick up our day out in Stockport having just left the Railway and heading back past the Arden Arms to the second Sam Smith’s pub of the ...

On Friday 6 March 2020 we had a very enjoyable day out in Burton-on-Trent . On the platform of Sheffield station I spotted a Chinese student...

Last week, it was widely reported that 2021 had seen a 40% decline in sales of cask beer compared with the last pre-lockdown year of 2019, ...

Earlier this year, I wrote about the threat of the introduction of vaccine passports , especially as it might potentially affect the pub tra...

Over the recent Bank Holiday weekend, I was able to enjoy sitting outside pubs in the pleasant late Summer sunshine for two days in a row. T...

Following on from my trip to Chester , earlier this week I decided to broaden my horizons and have an afternoon trip to Wolverhampton. As I ...

Last week, the Manchester Evening News reported that the Railway pub in Portwood, Stockport, which had had a threat of closure hanging ove...

It has been reported that, to help achieve their target of achieving a “smoke-free Britain” by 2030, the government are looking at raising t...

In the Autumn of 2019 I spent £70 on a three-year Senior Railcard, but I was only able to use it for two trips out, to Shifnal and Burton-o...

This year sees CAMRA’s 50th anniversary, and many people have been keen to project their own present-day agenda back on to the reasons for t...