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BRAPA - Return to Congleton (with bonus Poynton, Woodford and Bramhall)
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the BRAPPEST of them all?The day was finally here. It was time to tick off new Good Beer Guide pubs for the last time in the year 2017, my most productive year of...
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BRAPA - December 2017 Review / January 2018 Preview
Oh dear!37 new pubs meant I hit the 1200 mark before the bell tolled for 2018, as had been my aim at the beginning of the month.Some fantastic pubs were visited, and great days had. It all started...
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BRAPA - A Bolt-on from the Blue
You have to go all the way back to 2003 to find a time when I last went to a new New Year's Day pub that has counted towards my 'BRAPA' tally. That was in Bury.Not far away in Bolton, 15 years to the...
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BRAPA - The End of Year Awards 2017
"What do you mean I'm not eligible for an award?" says irritated babe.Greetings! Happy New Year! Though I write/wrote this 10pm, 31st December 2017......Well, what a year it has been - my fourth year...
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BRAPA - More Harrowing Times in Harrogate
"My girlfriend wants to move to Harrogate", declared my work colleague late on Friday afternoon as I announced it would be the evening destination to kick off my weekend. "Ugh, she must be mad, what a...
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BRAPA - No Turning Back in Blackburn
Paige contemplates a pub ticking trip to BlackburnFA Cup round 3 Saturday, "the magic of the cup", and Hull City had just avoided Crewe to send me to the marginally better (in terms of the pub ticking)...
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BRAPA - Northallerton Nights
Friday is of course, the new Tuesday (no matter how tired I am after a week at work) in terms of 'midweek' pub ticking. With the 'Northern' strike blighting my South Yorkshire and Greater Manchester...
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BRAPA - BuckingHell We're Nearly Done + HARPing On in London.
So, back in Buckinghamshire for the penultimate time for a good decade or so (hopefully) and it there was a glitch before we'd even reached 7am as I noticed my 7:01am train was only going as far as...
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BRAPA - From Charing Cross to Covent Garden : A London Tale
So, where was I when I rudely interrupted my own blog yesterday? Ah, that's right, it was 16:12 and I'd just left one of central London's most wonderful pubs, The Harp in Charing Cross WC2. I was in...
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BRAPA - Brockley Whins, Hull City don't (Part 1 of 2)
When me, the lovely Dad and the mysterious bearded figure of Tom Irvin arrived in Brockley Whins on a cold Saturday morning, we had at least 40 minutes to reach our first pub in West Boldon, only 1.1...
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BRAPA : Brockley Whins, Hull City Don't (Part 2/2)
Every time I combine BRAPA with a football match this season, I seem to be telling you Hull City have hit a 'new low'.So if I told you on Saturday, Hull City hit a 'new low', I hope you believe me.The...
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BRAPA - To the Manor Barn (A Kimberworth Tale)
Friday night kicked off as all good Friday nights do, on the slow-stopper from L**ds to Rotherham. Looking at the stopping points along the way (Wakefield, Sandall & Agbrigg, Thurnscoe etc), it...
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BRAPA - From Barrowby to Harrowby : A Birthday Blog (1 / 2)
It was Dad's 71st Birthday, and as a "special treat", I booked us on a 'mystery' BRAPA train day out, totally unaware whether we'd strike Chorley-esque gold, or Stamford-esque misery.Before he'd even...
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BRAPA - Irrational Grantham (2/2)
"Can you put me through to the Twild support line please?"So, the White Swan at Barrowby and the Lord Harrowby not at Barrowby, had both been excellent BRAPA pubs, and it was time to see if the home of...
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BRAPA - January Review / February Preview (2018)
It started with a pre-emptive recommendation in Bolton from a nice but down & out Monkey Hanger, and it ended with a toilet annoyingly hidden behind a bookcase in Grantham. Yes, it has been a...
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BRAPA Special - Photos of my Pubby Past
Hello, I'm too ill for Friday night ticking, off work and bored, so here's something different.I 've found some old pub photos in the BRAPA vaults (which of course contains the corpses of several...
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BRAPA - The Preston Family
"They're creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky, it's all a bit like Newquay, the Preston family". Yes, it was that inevitable time in history where Hull City decreed that we should return to...
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BRAPA : Guest Post - A Counter BRAP from Preston (1/2)
As I recover slowly from an epic week on the Isle of Man (I'm all pubbed and beered out), I give you the following piece from the wonderful Matthew "SeeTheLizards" Lawrenson, who joined us on our...
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BRAPA - A Guest Post - A Counter-BRAP from Preston (2/2)
In part two of Matthew "SeeTheLizards" Lawrenson's take on our day in Preston, he looks at what happened post-match when Hull City lost and the lights started to fade on that wondrous (in a way)...
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BRAPA - Thanx for the Manx (Part 1 of 6 - Arrival and Monday)
I felt a bit like Bono. And that can't be a healthy sentence to start off any epic six part pub blog.I was aboard the sparsely populated 14:20 Monday flight from Liverpool to the Isle of Man, and I...
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