Haggis from Knitsley Farm , Co Durham (best ever) tonight with whisky sauce via @HairyBikers , wee reading too from yer man Rabbie Burns. Aberfeldy 12-y-o, of course. Night night.
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Alastair Gilmour
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Alastair Gilmour
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Circular wheels good, elliptical wheels gooder.
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Pubs are dying on their feet, they say. Not in the JDW close to my house, it would seem. Jumping on Saturday 5pm! Beer decent too
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Top left is a bottom and right is a top. Whatever, it’s today’s retail delight.
Grandson (13) is a devotee of fried egg within.
Trust well? ✊
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@wylambrewery 25th anniversary festival and there’s a guy wearing a t-shirt with no message on it, front or back. No logo, no brewery graphics. Nuttin. At all. Big hugs, pal.
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@neheritagelib ‘Gorgeous glass screens’ that date from the 1990s
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This is the other one:
North East Heritage Library@neheritagelib
The Crown Posada - one of the most revered institutions on Tyneside and the recommendation for any newcomer. It’s one of the best preserved pubs of its period, retaining its gorgeous glass screens & mahogany surrounds. I’ll tell you first though this has been a pain in the arse to research - both the original pub name and street don’t favour anyone who wants to look into it. This place was originally called The Crown, and was only renamed after the supposed tale of a Spanish sea captain buying up the place for his mistress, though it was probably renamed to jazz it up to make it attractive for foreign seamen at the port. However, a newspaper from 1929 does state that a “travelled landlord” added the Posada as it was known to be accommodation for travellers from the continent. We can see the building next to the Crown Posada on the 4th shot which is the only one to still exist today. At this time it appears to be a butchers, with Fenwick Hunnam selling prized “Newmarket Sausages” from Suffolk who supplied to the Prince of Wales - clearly an upmarket establishment then. The building on its left is the Crown Posada structure before rebuild. I’m really struggling with the name - I think it says Alex Dinning but I can’t find any reference to it sadly. It was certainly a provisions merchant in the 1850s but unsure any later. Now interestingly the Crown Posada is referenced as early as 1888, in an advertisement for barmaids. There is no other reference in this decade. However there is for the “Crown Chambers” on Side, which I suspect is the whole building complex. It was home to Messrs Snowball & Co - “fire loss assessors and mechanical valuers” which I suspect is code for some insurance firm. If it were the same building, it gives credence for the building to be so beautiful and ornate. One thing we do know however is that it was designed by WL Newcombe, a well known architect who also designed the Peacock Hall part of the RVI (the bit facing the bottom Richardson Road) as well as Shortridge Hall near Morpeth. He built this place for Deuchars - so there is a brewers link? Photographs source: 2nd and 3rd unknown, 4th @billy6715
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Possibly one of the top 2 most well known pubs in Newcastle?
This is the Beehive on the Bigg Market - one of the finest antique pubs in the whole city with its elaborate glazed bottle green facade and early 20th century interior. Here’s a little bit of an insight into its history.
Your guess is as good as mine as to why it’s called the Beehive, but I’d love to think it’s because of how dense and busy this market district was at the turn of the century - selling, moving and buying their wares like buzzing little bees. Such made for an apt name, and is reflected in many others at this time. There was also a Beehive pub on Close in the 1820s.
The Beehive is a relatively young addition to Newcastle’s pub scene, opened in the 1860s on the Cloth Market. It became very well known among sports followers, with the proprietor being a horse racing referee. Contracts for handicapped boat races were drawn up here and opened for bets in its earliest days, as well as for Bowls and Quoits.
The building was entirely rebuilt in 1902, with the glazed facade following a great trend to make it an appealing and modern hotel which set it aside from its competitors. It also became a hotel, taking advantage of the lodging trade which boomed at this time. It was designed by J Oswald and Son for Newcastle Breweries, though they’re also famous for Newcastle’s Central Arcade and the Newcastle Arms close by.
It’s listed these days, so it will thankfully remain unchanged. It remains one of the finest examples of pub architecture anywhere in the region.
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Abysmal service, Timothy Taylor’s Landlord in the worst glass possible. Beer awful anyway. Horrible experience
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Local greengrocers. So wrong on all levels, but lovely to see
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How's this for a proposal following @NUFC's historic League Cup victory?
Name a previously overlooked stream in the North East, the Dan Burn.
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Ffs Peter Drury, stop name checking every Newcastle player from the last 70 years. We get it, you’ve done your homework, now shut the fuck up.
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Which was developed, improved and patented by my late great (3x) grandfather. A black man. A freed slave from Alabama. HE revolutionized the railroad industry !
Massimo@Rainmaker1973
The coupler: a key invention in train history
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Getting tired of reading about Zelenskiyy's "humiliation" by Trump & Vance. He wasn't humiliated - he conducted himself with honour and a certain degree of righteous anger. It's Trump and Vance who humiliated themselves. Dangerous sleazy morons.
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