On 19/2/09 17:22, "Steve Haywood" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2009/2/19 Julian [email protected] > >> >> >> Some of us still have our treasured first edition copy of the Real Ale >> Guide >> to the Waterways....... > > > Though it was often a great disappointment. As I've said before you'd > sometimes walk miles to get to a listed pub only to find that there was a > pump in the corner that had rusted for lack of use. I've just dug out my copy of the guide, and one thing that I'd forgotten was just how few real ale pubs there were on some waterways in those days. Nothing within a mile of the Oxford Canal between Banbury and Napton (so presumably the pubs at Cropredy, Claydon and Fenny Compton were keg only), no pubs listed in Braunston at all, and down on the southern GU in several places the instructions involve catching a bus from a canal bridge (or in one case a train from the nearby station) to the next town for a pint. Ah, the good old days... Martin
