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BRAPA in ..... THE 'FAX MACHINE
 If you've been, you'll know already, but the lovely West Yorkshire town of Halifax has become one of the top beer destinations in the country over the past five years. Despite receiving the inside...
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BRAPA in ..... GIVE THE DEVIL HIS DEWSBURY
 "It is back onnnnnn babyyyy!" That is what I'd have said if someone had phoned me on the afternoon of Thursday 15th July and asked "Si, what exactly is the plan regarding the completion of West...
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BRAPA in .... EASTY DOES IT ..... COMPLETING EAST YORKSHIRE
Beverley, the East Riding's answer to York. The kind of place which makes people gaze up at you all doughy eyed and coo 'ooooh what a lovely town'.I was here to visit the Wetherspoons, and get the...
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BRAPA is .... MAD AS A HATFIELD (AND OTHER TALES OF FREEDOM)
 Time to celebrate the completion of East Yorkshire pub ticking, just across the border from Snaith , in Hatfield, South Yorkshire where Jack Hawley at the Grange (1881 / 3310) was lurking just out of...
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BRAPA in ..... AUCKWARD NIGHTS, A KURDISH MASSAGE & ITCHY IN MOUNTFITCHET
My Wednesday evening in the North East was bang on schedule, as it would need to reamin, if I was to get home to York at any kind of reasonable hour, signing on at work for 8am. With Redcar and...
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BRAPA in ..... DON'T LOOK BACK IN (BIRCH)ANGER
If you were reading yesterday, I left you en route from Hazel End to Birchanger, in an Uber with a very jolly guy called Goran.The Birchanger pub is actually a club - exciting for the humble pub...
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BRAPA ..... BEE LINE TO THE NEW LINE & THE BEEHIVE : MORE WEST YORKSHIRE TALES
Pubs just don't open in the week anymore. That is the conclusion I'm rapidly coming to. And it is not like I'm trying to visit a rural Welsh pub on a hill in early January. These are places in built...
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BRAPA in .... TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HERT(FORD)
Original pub ticker, Sam Stone, points me towards the GBG 1642 entriesNever pack the BRAPA bag drunk! After a hazy Friday evening in the revitalised Leeds Wetherspoons Stick or Twist, I obviously...
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BRAPA & ..... LIZARDS, LAGER & LILYWHITES : PRESTON NORTH FRIENDS
The beginning of August means the beginning of the football season. Daddy BRAPA and I headed over the Pennines on a drizzly grey morning where Hull City were due to play their opening match in...
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BRAPA in ..... FLATT ROOF CONSPIRACY : West Yorkshire Getting Close
One of these evenings, I'll log off after work and think "ahhh, up to date on my blogs so can just have a relaxing evening watching Neighbours and Prisoner Cell Block H!" but I'm not, so I welcome you...
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BRAPA in ..... THE ESSEXES THAT NEARLY GOT AWAY (PART 1 of 2)
Ticking off every pub in the Good Beer Guide would be an admirable achievement even if every pub opened Monday-Sunday 11am to 11pm, every train service ran to time, every British village had an hourly...
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BRAPA is .... GIVEN THE COLCH' SHOULDER : THE ESSEX THAT NEARLY GOT AWAY...
One of the friendliest taxi drivers in recent BRAPA history drops me in the bustling tourist infested hamlet of Rowhedge, with pretty views across the water to Wivenhoe. Oh look, the foot ferry is...
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BRAPA in ......FOLLOW ME UP TO PONTE-CARLO : FINISHING WEST YORKSHIRE
My first 19th August tick in four years (when a posh homeless man with a KFC bucket asked Dad for change in an alleyway outside Spitalfields King's Stores) took me to Pontefract, home of the 'liquorice...
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BRAPA in ..... PAINT ALBANS (GREEN, YOU KNOW, WITH A STABILO) : PART 1/2
Hertfordshire moved up to 30th place in the BRAPA Hits Parade with a comprehensive six pub demolition of St Albans last Saturday, leapfrogging the likes of Staffordshire, Norfolk and Isle of Man in the...
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BRAPA in ..... PAINT ALBANS (GREEN, YOU KNOW, WITH A STABILO) : PART 2/2
Pub 4 on our St Albans list took us about ten minutes away from the Mermaid to our furthest point, I now had a mental map of where pubs 5 and 6 would be, so take that GBG App! (which I see has now been...
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BRAPA ..... LAST ORDERS IN LONDON : PUB TICKING AGAINST THE CLOCK
 As the clock struck 9pm at Aldgate East Underground on Friday night, I could already allow myself a slight smile of satisfaction of a 'job well done', having not departed York until well after 6, but...
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MONTH END REVIEW - AUGUST 2021
I was going to write about my triumphant Essex completion before I did this month-ender.But then, it was one of those situations, you know, where Dad comes round to help sort out your Two Together...
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BRAPA in ..... ESSEX III WITH SIMON D (PART 1) WENDENS AMBO TO MONK STREET...
THREE train delays, phone charger left in my hotel room (already on 59% battery) and a peculiar breakfast of Wensleydale and carrot chutney sandwich washed down with a strange cucumber & apple...
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BRAPA in ..... ESSEX III WITH SIMON D (Part 2 - STEEPLE B., FINCHING F. AND...
 A 20 minute drive took us to our fourth pub of this exciting rural tour of North Essex's premier Good Beer Guide pubs. Six to go in the current Guide. I could almost smell the finishing line....
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BRAPA in .... DEAR ESSEX, I'VE COMPLETED YOU. BURES SINCERELY, SI
The day of reckoning was finally beckoning, when I could wield the trusty green Stabilo on Essex for a final time in the 2020/21 season. I was prepared for the extreme amount of walking that today...
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