The Three Swans, Market Harborough, Sunday 14th August – (though it’s been up for a while) … Only 130 looting shopping days to go …
Posts Tagged ‘Pubs’
It’s That Time of Year !
Posted in This England, tagged Christmas, Market Harborough, Pubs, Summer on August 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
White Buildings Revisited … Rockingham Road, Kettering
Posted in Architecture, Arts, Pubs, This England, tagged Cherry Tree, Housing, Kettering, Northamptonshire, Pubs on January 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Back to Kettering at the weekend for the first time since October, and I’m sorry to report that the saga of the original White Building That Has Seen Better Days has reached its - I suppose inevitable – denouement. Before “construction work” … and after … On a happier note, I was pleased to see that [...]
Closing Time at the Cherry Tree, Kettering
Posted in Architecture, Arts, Drink, Pubs, This England, Trains, tagged Cherry Tree, Kettering, Lighting, Northamptonshire, Pubs on October 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Looking back at some of the photographs I’ve taken over the Summer, I’m thinking of initiating another of my blatantly populist, ratings-grabbing miniseries (in the great tradition of Stump Watch, Old Rossallians on YouTube etc.), to be entitled White Buildings That Have Seen Better Days. Trust me, you’ll enjoy it. This building doesn’t quite qualify, [...]
It’s that Time of Year!
Posted in Pubs, This England, tagged Christmas, Little Bowden, Pubs on September 16, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The Bell (Little Bowden), 12 September. I do think there’s a slight hint of shadenfreude about that Ho! Ho! Ho! …
A Saturday medley
Posted in Blogging, Football, Media, Newspapers, Pubs, Rugby, Sport, This England, Trains, tagged Charity shops, Football, Helena Bonham-Carter, Kettering, Kettering Town F.C., Little Bowden, Pubs, Rugby on February 7, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Looking back – how soon nostalgia creeps in! – I see that the first thing that I wrote on this blog was a simple description of what I had been doing on the Saturday I set it up. At the beginning, before I got into my stride, I seem quite often to have produced something [...]
Cautionary tales for middle-aged men
Posted in Arts, Cricket, Poetry, Sport, This England, tagged Bank holidays, Concussion, Cricket, Headaches, James Taylor, Pubs, Sunstroke, W.H. Davies on September 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Three things not to do over a bank holiday weekend – Don’t – however keen you are to watch as much cricket as possible before the season expires – watch village second XI cricket in the pouring rain (see below), otherwise you might end up like some character in a Victorian novel who catches a [...]
Oscar Wilde and the back of a fag packet
Posted in Arts, Literature, Pubs, Smoking, tagged Kettering, Oscar Wilde, Pubs, Smoking on May 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My latest pack of cigarette papers offers me – appropriately enough – a quote from Oscar Wilde – “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go”. I had no idea this was one of Wilde’s – the last time I saw it – in slightly different form – was over the bar in a [...]
