The Cosy Club PE9 2RB (Stamford)
Already this sounds a bit wrong. Stamford is a quaint, stone market town with hearty, ruddy pubs. The Cosy Club should be the name of some swinging 50’s bar in […]
Category Archives: Outside the M25
The Exeter Arms (Stamford/Barrowden)
I find it really hard to review the actual pubs. Part of me assumes everyone knows what a pub is like, that’s why you’re there. “Oh, you sell soft and […]
The Railway Inn (Stamford)
I have only vague memories of pubs in the 1990s given that I was only 14 when they finished. Those memories are dominated by red faux-velvet upholstery tacked down with […]
Melbourn Brothers/All Saint Brewery PE9 2PA (Stamford)
For me it is the mark of a good pub that you don’t know its name. The level of familiarity has gone past the point of names in much the […]
The Tobie Norris PE9 2BE (Stamford)
To be found at no.12 St Paul’s Street, the building has a rich history (full of garlands of fresh ‘erbs) traceable back to the 13th century, from whence it has […]
The Lord Burghley PE9 1PG (Stamford)
“Awwwlrigh’ maaate… D… Doo… D-d-d-dooooo. Do yous ‘appen to know? Where the toils…tos… toilets are?” a man stood in the porch of the Lord Burghley asked one evening. “It doesn’t […]
The House of Trembling Madness (48 Stonegate, York) 01904 640009
In York, there are too many pubs with gunk-nozzled tomato sauce bottles on the tables. Thankfully, this is not one of them. Outside, along Stonegate, the snap-happy hordes are in […]
The Queens Arms RG21 7JE (Tube: No chance)
There’s something deeply satisfying about lifting up a full pint glass for that first foamy taste. I don’t know if it arcs back to our tree-dwelling ancestors embracing tools for […]
The Millstone Old Basing RG24 8AE (Tube: No Chance)
If you were to draw up a list of essential ingredients for the perfect pub what would it include? I imagine a fine selection of beers has to come pretty […]
The Wagon and Horses RG27 8NY (Tube: No chance)
There are lots of places where standing up would just not be tolerated. If on reading out your two-for-one code you were asked where you would like to stand to […]
Raiders of the Lost Pubs 