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Dermot Kennedy
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Posting about pubs; website is a photographic guide to classic British pubs; occasional blogger; photography, cycling, architecture.

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'Pubs lost their way, but we're bringing traditional boozers back'
Nice double profile of GBPA's Best Pub for Beer, Blind Jack's in Knaresborough, and the Good Food Guide's Best Pub, the Highland Laddie in Leeds: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Meet the young pub landlords bringing traditional boozers back
The Highland Laddie in Leeds and Blind Jack's in Knaresborough have both won national awards.
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November 10, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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boakandbailey.bsky.social
GOOD MORNING! Here's the latest news, nuggets and longreads, with notes on pub etiquette, the evolution of lager yeast, antique beers in deep snow, and a bunch of other stuff, too. 🍺🍻

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News, nuggets and longreads 8 November 2025: Spotted Hemlock
Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got etiquette, lager yeast and snow.
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November 8, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Detoured from a family Flying Scotsman trip on North York Moors Railway to Beck Hole to see the excellent Birch Hall Inn in glorious autumn colours. Inside has barely changed in 100 years and cliches like 'time warp' and 'gem' don't do it justice. Beckwatter brown ale and a pork pie too. Wonderful.
Exterior of the Birch Hall Inn, whitewashed cottage next to stone built house with autumn colours in trees behind. Open fire, tables, chairs and bench seating in the 'Big Bar'. Exterior of the Birch Hall Inn from the bridge with autumn colours in garden and trees behind. Corner bench seating and the serving hatch in the 'Big Bar'.
November 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Victoria in Beeston, imposing Victorian pub with art decos details added in the 1930s. Nice windows with stained and etched glass promoting both a Smoke Room and, unusually, a Smoke Bar. Blackboards & breweriana on walls. Proper plain public bar on the right. 9 cask beers.
Windows from inside with colourful stained glass at top and etched glass at bottom inscribed 'Smoke Bar'. Pub exterior, a large red brick building with relief signs saying 'Victoria Hotel 1899' and 'Ind Coope & Co Burton Ales'. Main bar area with art deco styling on bar counter tand fireplace and view through to Smoke Room with multiple tables and chairs.
November 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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My first visit to the Crown in Beeston just south of Nottingham. 4 lovely old rooms and 1 large modern one. Tiny public bar leads to an even tinier room with a pew. Comfy snug and wood panelled middle bar. An Everards Project William (still going I think) refurb with Brown Ale Pub Co. 8 cask ales.
Wood panelled room with wooden floor with bar counter in corner. White painted exterior of the Crown with blue and gold pub signs. Snug bar with red upholstered bench seating around the walls and 'Snug Bar' etched windows. Small quarry-tiled public bar with door leading to tiny room.
November 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Fred Elwell from Beverley, east Yorkshire.
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'A Man with a Pint,' (1932) is a winning characterization of a man familiar with the intimate narrative of pub life by Fred Elwell, a British figurative painter strongly influenced by the interior scenes of Walter Sickert.
October 23, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Ordinarily I'm a mid week stop in but a Monday evening sojourn in beautiful Knaresborough is vindicated. Blind Jacks has a brace of Two by Two on, a superb brewery (+ Bass available)
Exterior view of blind Jacks Knaresborough. A three story brick pub with cobbled frontage Train to York under the canopy at Knaresborough station at night A brace of Two by Two handpumps on the bar at blind Jacks Knaresborough with a bass handpump next to it Knaresborough station and rail tunnel showing the canopy and large brick chimneys
October 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Find us at the #Ingrow Station @worthvalleyrailway Music & Beer Festival
October 17, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Marble Arch Inn, Manchester, painting by Brenainn Shackleton. #NorthernArt
October 13, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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We're down to the last four in @camraofficial.bsky.social Pub of the Year: wb.camra.org.uk/2025/10/10/f...
Fab Four revealed
The fight to win CAMRA’s National Pub of the Year 2025 competition is hotting up with just four pubs remaining after months of rigorous judging.  The...
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October 13, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Pints at the @theswanyork ! #public
October 4, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Quick visit to the Golden Ball, York! Warming up for its evening music! #pub
October 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Bullhouse East, liveliest of the beer bars/taprooms in Belfast on our trip. 20 keg taps, mostly from Bullhouse, and pizza van outside. Bus ride from the centre but Boundary Brewery tap is just along the road. Inevitably both have taproom style canteen tables.
Black painted exterior of Bullhouse East with large window showing drinkers and inside. Interior with bar counter, large beer menu and long tables.
October 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Sunflower in Belfast, great little corner pub with 1 handpump serving local Boundary Pale Ale on our afternoon visit. Yard outside with pizza van. Came back in the evening for the Manouche gypsy swing band followed by folk club upstairs.
Green & white painted exterior at night with gated security entrance, a relic of the troubles. The 4 members of the Manouche gypsy swing band playing double bass, violin, and 2 guitars. The bar with customers at the counter and seated. Two pints of the hazy Boundary Pale Ale on the bar counter next to the hand pump.
October 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Another visit to the stunning Crown Bar in Belfast. Tiled exterior, ceramic bar counter, ornate wooden snugs, stained glass and mirrors, bar back with whisky barrels and the best choice of cask ale in the centre (apart maybe from JDW). And close to my hotel (Travelodge, not the Europa).
Tiled and stained glass exterior of the Crown Bar in Belfast with marble style columns. Interior showing bar counter to left with wooden whiskey barrels behind, ornate booths to the right and tiled corridor down the centre. Inside of a booth/snug with black upholstered seating, looking out doorway to stained glass entrance door and a corner snug with large whisky mirror.
October 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Oktoberfest afternoon at the Curious Hop in Otley last Sunday. I wish all lager tasted like this.
3 1 litre Steins of Paulaner lager on a wooden outdoor table at the Curious Hop in Otley, Yorkshire. Wooden barrel of Paulaner lager with serving tap on the counter of the Curious Hop in Otley, Yorkshire.
October 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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I've just updated my rough guide to the pubs & brewpubs of, Tallinn, Estonia. See what's changed: www.ottosrambles.co.uk/tallinn.php#... FEEL FREE TO RE-POST 😊 #CheersToBeers 🍻 #BeerResearch 📝 #CraftBeer 🍻🥨🍻 #BeerTourist #travel #CiyGuide #GettothePub #Tallinn #Estonia #Holidays #Beer 🍺 #BskyBeer
October 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Proper Job is an institution. There, we've said it. Who better to talk about the legacy and impact of this IPA than @atjbeer.bsky.social?

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A Scanner Dreckly — The Life and Legacy of St. Austell Proper Job IPA — Pellicle
It is a sedate summer’s afternoon in the bar of The Globe in Topsham, five miles outside Exeter. Wimbledon is on the big screen, with the sound turned down, and there are five other customers inside. ...
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October 1, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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Blood Bay, Ludlow, conversion of an old shop to look like a local from the 1930s or earlier. Wood panelling, snug with hatch, no keg taps and no clips on the handpumps. A touch like a museum but I liked it and it works, a laughing, joking pub.
Wooden bar counter with three handpumps. Green painted pub front with inn sign above with image of racehorse. Wood panelled snug with bench seats facing each other and a hatch to the bar.
September 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Its pretty much 5 years since I started writing the Mediaeval Mythbusting Blog. In this new article, I have a look at the combustive mix of Myths, Media & Money... A warning on the dangers of what can happen to history when cash gets involved:
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September 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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My first visit to the Nursery in Stockport for very many years. A beautifully preserved 1930s suburban pub with wood panelled walls, curved seating booths and plant nursery themed stained glass windows. Classic Northern vault, still with separate entrance, and the full range of Hydes beers.
The lounge with with wood panelled walls and curved booths with green upholstered seating. Nursery themed stained glass window panels, one showing a garden fork, the other showing fruit on a branch. Red brick lower and white painted upper frontage of the Nursery Inn. The vault (public bar) with original tiled fireplace with dart board above, wooden bar counter in the corner and lino floor.
September 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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So good to see Jennings, the much-loved Cumbrian brewery, back in operation after being cruelly axed by Carlsberg. Classic ales in fine form, brewing to capacity, may have to expand. Article to follow @camraofficial.bsky.social Beer Magazine. #BskyBeer
September 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Another post on the re-opened Crown in Stockport but worth a reminder of what a good pub it is again. Nicely refurbished preserving the heritage interior & with 8 cask ales including Bass as a regular. Shame most of the etched glass has gone in recent years, but definitely up there with the best.
Green and white painted pub exterior beneath a large red brick railway viaduct. Close up of a pint of Draught Bass with the main room and lobby in the background. The 'Red Room' with red walls, red upholstered benches and stools, and a black painted fireplace. The 'Green Room' (formerly the snug) with green walls, green upholstered benches and stools, and a black painted fireplace.
September 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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The smoke room in The Cardigan Arms, Leeds 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Restored and maintained by Kirkstall Brewery 🍻👍
August 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Professional brewers and brewery owners: if you would be up for answering a couple of not-too-scary questions, and maybe being quoted, anonymously or otherwise – DM or email us!
August 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM