It’s market day and you can’t get a seat anywhere. Mostly Grockles tucking into Timbo’s wonder meals and at these prices why not, supplemented by a handful of locals sat around the […]
The Oddfellows Arms, Bridport
It isn’t a pub, it’s a boozer! That’s what Anne told me, and she should know because she’s run the Odfellows Arms for the last 31 years. Anne and her husband took […]
The Pursuit of Hoppiness in Bridport
Not like you to walk past a beer bar Dad! Where? There! Bridport? A Micropub? There never used to be one, but there is now, sat bold as brass on East St, […]
The Ropemakers, Bridport, Dorset.
This would be the best pub in Bridport, if it wasn’t a Palmers Brewery tied house. It’s the only pub I’ve been in that has the full range of Palmer’s ales on […]
The Tiger Inn, Bridport.
Tiger, Tiger, burning bright, A shining star, in a Palmers night. Six cask ales loom into sight, Doom Bar being the only …? I couldn’t think of a non vulgar, rhyming ending, […]
Palmers Brewery, it’s not really a Broadchurch in West Bay.
For the past six years I’ve spent a few August weeks in Dorset, specifically West Bay, the harbour village for the market town of Bridport. If you’ve never been I would thoroughly […]