17/02/19 - Two Good Beer Guide Ticks in Bridgnorth

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How to complete an education and entertain a Guide Dog in Training on a Sunday?

Take her pub ticking!

There she is - in her natty blue jacket

And there's not many finer places than Bridgnorth.   Packed with oddities, history and interesting buildings.   A perfect place for the psychogeography that is finding Good Beer Guide listed pubs.  I've been going to the town for 40 years and still finding new places.

You know its a good place when this handsome looking boozer is not one of the 6 listed in the 2019 guide.

In another town, I'm sure it would make it.  Maybe 2020, Shakespeare Inn

The Old Castle, West Castle Street, Wye Valley Butty Bach

First Visit of the day and she's behaving

Badged Up

This is a C17th building, with a couple of cottages knocked together to make the pub.   The menu details the history - used by Cromwell in the Civil War to store supplies and has a friendly ghost.

Not the Ghost

Mrs M is delighted we are here.   Its top of the list on Tripadvisor for Sunday Lunches. 

I'm happy with a perfect example of a Wye Valley Butty Bach.

Guide Joy is happy with a cheese filled bone under the table. 

The good vibes keep on coming when Mrs M announces she needs more practice in pubs without the bone. 

I'll see what I can arrange next week.

Joyful Sunday

The Black Boy, The Cartway, Three Tuns Best Bitter

We've walked down from High Town to Low town along the theatre steps many times.   On occasion, we have been known to take the cliff railway.   Never have we walked down the Cartway and therefore, never had exposure to this beauty.

More Historical Drinking

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The pub is as wonderful on the inside.  Wooden floors, central island bar and a lovely little decking terrace, with a porthole overlooking the River Severn.

Plenty of real ale choice and my eyes were drawn to a couple of unusual Three Tuns from Bishops Castle.   I occasionally and happily chance upon Rantipole but I've never seen their Best before.  Neither has the bar man or indeed, the Three Tuns website, where it is unlisted under "Our Beers".

Declaring it a success

Joy was happy with the fuss she received from the other punters and the barman.

Three ticks remain for us in Bridgnorth.....   In the absence of a Premier Inn or Travelodge, Mrs M has been investigating the Air BnB situation.

And if they allow dogs.