Now we all have different sorts of adventures.
Mine usually involve a tram and a camera, and if I am out with Peter it has to include a handful of the most iconic Manchester pubs..
Not I hasten to add that we imbibe.
We are on a mission and the mission is to record in pictures, paintings and words each of these historic places.
And of course along the way we meet people, people who are there to do what we should do in a pub, ...... drink the beer, tell a few stories and as the Italian would say celebrate the “sweetness of doing nothing.”
And that brings me to the four we fell across on Tuesday, first in the Castle and then later in the Crown & Kettle.
And they unlike us were into the serious business of sampling the beer and taking in the the ambience of each public house.
Now the couple were from Glasgow and their two companions came from Sheffield and Leeds and most uncharacteristically neither of the chaps from Yorkshire had much to say about the pubs of their native cities.
In fact Ricky from Sheffield couldn’t “think of any fine buildings in the whole of West Yorkshire.”
But he may have just been pulling my leg given he went on to tell an unprintable story of the day he spent in the Jolly Angler on Great Ducie Street.
Craig from Glasgow however had what might prove a fascinating tale of when John Peel met a member of the Joy Division in the Castle.
But for that I shall have to wait.
Leaving me only to reflect on the story of Rod Stewart opening the refurbished Burton Arms, which even I thought a tad far fetched but he did even if he was a “tribute artist.”
Still Sean down at the Nags Head waxed lyrical about the nights in an upstairs room where the likes of Judy Driscol, Eric Clapton, Long John Baldry and yes the real Rod Stewart rehersed before appearing at the Twisted Wheel.
Now there is a story I should have told the four.
Picture; Castle people, © 2016 Peter Topping
Not I hasten to add that we imbibe.
We are on a mission and the mission is to record in pictures, paintings and words each of these historic places.
And of course along the way we meet people, people who are there to do what we should do in a pub, ...... drink the beer, tell a few stories and as the Italian would say celebrate the “sweetness of doing nothing.”
And that brings me to the four we fell across on Tuesday, first in the Castle and then later in the Crown & Kettle.
And they unlike us were into the serious business of sampling the beer and taking in the the ambience of each public house.
Now the couple were from Glasgow and their two companions came from Sheffield and Leeds and most uncharacteristically neither of the chaps from Yorkshire had much to say about the pubs of their native cities.
In fact Ricky from Sheffield couldn’t “think of any fine buildings in the whole of West Yorkshire.”
But he may have just been pulling my leg given he went on to tell an unprintable story of the day he spent in the Jolly Angler on Great Ducie Street.
Craig from Glasgow however had what might prove a fascinating tale of when John Peel met a member of the Joy Division in the Castle.
But for that I shall have to wait.
Leaving me only to reflect on the story of Rod Stewart opening the refurbished Burton Arms, which even I thought a tad far fetched but he did even if he was a “tribute artist.”
Still Sean down at the Nags Head waxed lyrical about the nights in an upstairs room where the likes of Judy Driscol, Eric Clapton, Long John Baldry and yes the real Rod Stewart rehersed before appearing at the Twisted Wheel.
Now there is a story I should have told the four.
Picture; Castle people, © 2016 Peter Topping
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