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Saturday, 9 October 2021

A pint in the Pilot

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The Mumbles Mile pub crawl is one of those historic crawls that is better left to history than attempted, apparently there were ...
Monday, 6 September 2021

Former Wetherspoons in Newport closes

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As if the rows of closed shops in the centre of Newport isn't depressing enough, the former Wetherspoons pub, the Tom Toya L...
Saturday, 21 August 2021

Rhymney Brewery to open pub in Newport

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A stroll down Commercial Street in Newport revealed a lot of closed and borded up shops but this former bank has a notice in the...
Saturday, 6 February 2021

Best Beers in Wales

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Time for the annual review of websites to find the Best Beer in Wales  First up is the Anheuser-Busch Inbev subsidiary of  Ratebeer : 1     ...
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Sunday, 24 January 2021

British Taverns and the Cross Keys

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I recently purchased a copy of "British Taverns, Their History and Laws", published in 1928 and written by a Lord Askwith . The fi...
Friday, 11 September 2020

Now & Then former Prince of Wales ph, Baneswell, Newport

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The former  Prince of Wales, 1 St Woolos Road/corner of St Mary Street, opposite the former Oddfellows & Foresters, also now closed. Bot...
Friday, 3 April 2020

Transpennine Pub Crawl

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A few weeks before the country was in lockdown, two of us decided on doing the Transpennine Real Ale Trail , which is on the Manchester to L...
Wednesday, 11 March 2020

A visit to Greene King Brewery and the Old Cannon Brewery

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Greene King have increased their pubs a lot over the last 30 years, I can remember seeking out their somewhat exotic (for North London) XX...