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Post by hillbillyred on Feb 7, 2017 7:49:11 GMT
Dup post
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Post by hillbillyred on Feb 7, 2017 7:43:55 GMT
Apologies: I bought RL&LE last night but only opened it this morning: it's a main story and players like S Tomkins and Warrington's Clark and Currie are being funded by around £25000 each towards their salary. Again the authorities have done it quietly and many clubs did not know about it up to a fortnight ago.
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Post by hillbillyred on Feb 6, 2017 16:14:29 GMT
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Post by hillbillyred on Jan 17, 2017 16:51:06 GMT
Me again: eyes down for a round of ale. Halifax has several great drinking places so I have to concentrate on only a few.
The bus station is to the north of the centre and this is the area I'll start with; I think only I'll be arriving by bus, but it contains a Wetherspoons and such are popular. It's not a long walk through the centre.
One “pub” I’ve been keeping on one side to try out on this visit is the Pump Room Micropub on Northgate with 6 pumps: it has been very well recommended to me for quality of ales. Just to the north of the Pump Room is Percy Shaw, a Wetherspoons hostelry. Some of you like to eat in such… note you are going north and so it is off the direct route to the ground. (Only open after the match: In Union Cross Yard is the small Cookies which should have a beer from Little Valley. It is just south of the Pump Room: I’m ambivalent about this place as I’ve had a good visit and a poor visit in the last couple of years). Another place I may try is Grayston Unity on Wesley Court: I know little about this place but a friend has advised me of he enjoying the ale there. It’s another micropub.
From the railway station.
Dirty Dick’s Food & Ale Emporium is not far from the railway station: It’s on the top of Clare Road and serves 9 ales. Best route from the station is out of the station (always a good idea) and along Horton Street to the end. Left at Shoe International (or the Shakespeare) and the pub is obvious. Nine real ales and real cider. By the way, as you walk along Horton St., there’s the Railway with Landlord and (often) Golden Pippin on the bar. A bit further, you can turn right up Union St. to the Westgate (Speckled Hen, Hobgoblin and Tetley’s). My suggested meander off the route to Dirty Dick's is to continue on along Ward’s End and to the Victoria Theatre: behind it on Powell Street is The Victorian Craft Beer Café with up to 10 beers. It opens at 11 on Sundays and will have music in the evening. I’ve occasionally visited a pub that takes you (for a short stroll) away from the ground: next to Halifax Minster is the Ring O’ Bells: 5 real ales and I’ve enjoyed the food there. Travelling to the ground brings you to The Three Pigeons (close to the ground). Three Ossetts as well as guest ales make it a beer hunter’s target. It usually has good RL craic. Added to that is the Art Deco interior. Wonderful. But do I need to tell most of you of this pub as it is a popular destination every time we visit Halifax? Cheers
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Post by hillbillyred on Jan 13, 2017 8:11:14 GMT
About food at the ground: if you go upstairs in the "family stand", food is served by the same cooks as the Flying horse: methinks the weather forecast indicates pies not burgers.
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Post by hillbillyred on Jan 12, 2017 8:43:24 GMT
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Post by hillbillyred on Jan 12, 2017 8:39:08 GMT
Slight update: for the Baum, just walk to the right of the Barclays bank and follow it uphill to the British Heart Foundation: I noted the road works were better than feared when out on a trial last night ... the things I do for my fellow Salford fans. As an aside, I know several will want to catch some of another game v some team down the East Lancs Rd: should be on in the Flying Horse. Ta for the welcome: I'm not giving up on Shed/Turkey as it is read by neutrals.
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Post by hillbillyred on Jan 11, 2017 14:15:35 GMT
drain clearing in Rochdale!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I walk Entwisle Road (correct spelling) 8-12 times a week and spash through puddles with a sense of ambition even on dry days.
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Post by hillbillyred on Jan 11, 2017 14:14:45 GMT
drain clearing in Rochdale!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I walk Entwisle Road (correct spelling) 8-12 times a week and spash through puddles with a sense of ambition even on dry days.
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Post by hillbillyred on Jan 11, 2017 8:48:53 GMT
Being very presumptious as only just joined, please accept some comments on refreshments for Sunday. To date we have not had the floods of last year so Rochdale is functioning as fully as it deserves. Middleman will explain if you do not know Rochdale.
For ale fans, the Eagle (not far from the station), on Oldham Road, does not currently serve real ale: it's still cheap Sammy Smiths but keg.
Unlike last year, the Regal Moon is open. This is a large Wetherspoons pub (ex-cinema) with 3 sets of wickets. I would argue it is among the best Wetherspoons in the country. This pub is beside the Tram terminus and accessible from the railway station by walking out on the road leading away from the station entrance (following the tram tracks past the Catholic church) to the T junction, left following the tram tracks down Drake Street (a grim reminder of urban grot) to the bottom where it is opposite.
As you go down Drake Street, you can turn left when you see the red car sculpture onto Nelson Street, past the world buffet and across the Church Lane crossroads and down onto the square to the Flying horse. Ben, the landlord, is a keen RL fan as are several of his staff. Cracking ale and grub. Real fire and, you may have guessed, a place I highly recommend.
Both pubs are easily found from the bus Station. In this case do not go up Drake Street but follow the river to the square.
The gem in Dale is the Baum: not cheap but wonderful. If you are in the centre, I would suggest: just to the right of the Barclays bank and along that road past the back of a Yorkshire Bank (cash machine obvious). Right down a passage passing the Roebuck until you meet a pedestrian way ( the Halifax faces you). Left up the hill until you get to the British Heart Foundation charity shop (good for books). Immediate left before this shop, another passage onto a car park with a church facing you. Diagonal left and the Baum is connected to the Co-Op museum. Cracking real ale, cracking food, great everything.
All three serve excellent real cider as well.
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Post by hillbillyred on Jan 11, 2017 8:18:54 GMT
Trains to Rochdale go from Victoria. As far as I am aware, the trains from Eccles on Sunday go to Piccadilly only AND this Sunday are replaced by buses.If you've bags of time, there is the tram; the journey to Rochdale by tram takes in parts of Oldham you did not know existed. Anyway trains from Vic to Dale on Sundays go at 15 mins past (fast train) and 20 mins to (stopper).
From Rochdale, as you'll have a 4 year old, best to link up with other Reds and take a taxi: it's not an easy walk for a 4 year old (and the walk down Drake Street makes parts of Syria look like Las Vegas).
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