Issue 41

rhythm and booze Brews, News, Bands & Reviews - Issue 41 - January/February 2017

A punk rock reunion. Turn to page 3.

PETERBOROUGH • SOUTH LINCS • RUTLAND • EAST NORTHANTS

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New Year’s Eve – Feds - Tickets £10 including hot buffet 7th January - 45er 27th January – Overdubs 28th January – Feds 3rd February – Children of the Revolution 4th February – High Rollers 17th February – On the Ceiling 18th February – Fallen Idols 25th February – Abbalarf Werrington Centre, Staniland Way, Werrington, Peterborough PE4 6NA

the rhythm section A second collection of photographs by Peterborough street photographer Chris Porsz has just been published.

Reunions reunites the subjects and locations he first photographed in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Featuring around 100 black and white p colour recreations, the book is said to provide “a valuable social record of a constantly changing city”.

Among the photographs are our cover image which The Destructors at the Embankment, 1983. recreates a shot of the Destructors playing the Embankment in 1983. In addition to former class offers a workout to some 90s classics from Destructors’ guitarist Gizz Butt and drummer the likes of Nirvana, L7 and the Cure. Priced £5 Andy McDonald, the picture shows Badger Farcue per session, further details are available from – Peterborough’s 1985 pizza eating champion facebook.com/aspiretobefit or 07568 383921.

– sitting on the shoulders of the Black Marias’ David Mitchell. Simon “Billyboss” Bosett, wearing a leather jacket with his back to the camera, was at the original concert. Featuring extended picture captions by Jo Riley, Reunions is priced £21.50 (including UK P&P) and is available from www.chrisporsz.com Peterborough metal band Untamed release their new album, Chaos From the Fall, on 7 January.They will be launching the album on the same day at The Met Lounge with support from Cameltoe. Entry between 7.45-8.30pm with a flyer – which can be downloaded from www.untamedrock.co.uk – is £1, while admission without and after that time is £4. Newcastle Brown Ale will cost £2.50 a bottle that night.

Peterborough pop star Aston Merrygold hopes to play his home city in 2017.The singer, who recently performed in Australia as part of X Factor, hopes that a suitable venue can be found in time for his UK tour. Merrygold last played Peterborough in 2011, while a member of JLS, to an audience of 18,500.

“Riots not diets!” is the slogan of Punk Aerobics, a weekly fitness workout in Peterborough.Taking place on Tuesdays at 7.30–8.30pm at Nene Valley Community Centre, Candy Street,Woodston, the

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Pub News

The at Baston has won the Lincolnshire Life award for best food pub and also receives a full listing in the new Good Pub Guide. Camra’s 2017 Good Beer Guide includes a number of new entries for local pubs: In Stanground, both the local Pub of the Year – the and the receive listings, as does the in Whittlesey. Rutland’s entries now include the North Luffenham; the and the in Oakham and the , Uppingham. Oundle’s gets its first listing, and Lincolnshire’s entries now include the at South Witham, the at Quadring and the at Bicker, near Boston.

Popular pub and music venue in Oundle Road the Peterborough closed its doors in late November. Landlady Janet Goldswain spoke of the heartbreaking decision to stop trading after a final gig night featuring local band Austin Gold.“People

Angel, South Witham.

The Bertie Arms, Uffington. pub any more” she said.The future of the pub remains uncertain.

A new pub is due to open in Werrington in January – the in Storrington Way is housed in a former shop unit and follows the micropub format. bar in Bridge Street, Peterborough was due to open on 21 December

turing a “rustic/industrial” feel.

The Rutland beer festival held annually at the County Museum in Oakham, has been cancelled for 2017 as the venue is being used to temporarily house the town library which is being refurbished.The event will return in June 2018 The at Harringworth reopened in late August under new leaseholders Michael Howarth and Michael Cane. Open seven days a week, the pub will feature two to three real ales including Doom Bar, a Grainstore beer and a seasonal guest. Hot and cold food from £4.50 is served lunchtimes and evenings – details at thewhiteswanharringworth.com Closed after a serious fire in May, the at Edith Weston reopened in early December.The pub is open daily at lunchtimes and evenings, and all day at weekends.The in Uppingham reopened in early December – the pub is Continued over

Pub News (Continued) open all day every day, currently serving Everards Tiger and Greene King IPA on draught Stamford’s has received a £150,000 facelift including a new kitchen and outdoor patio area.Already popular for its pizza offering, the 13th century pub now offers an extended menu lunchtimes and evenings. Owners of the next door to the Tobie,Alex Way and Stephen Miskell, have opened a second wine bar in All Saints Place in the town.Also reopening is the former Browns Bar/Central Nightclub. Open all day and renamed it will be serving freshly made pizzas plus cocktails and other drinks and will be offering regular live entertainment. Owner Nick Pistolas is currently recruiting staff – he can be contacted on 07921 504368. at Uffington The has reportedly been sold to a local couple.The received a Camra merit award in November and now goes through for consideration for Pub of The Year.The at Tallington Lakes has received “Oakademy of Ale”status and now offers two Oakham beers alongside the Doom Bar.The in Market Deeping has won “Pint Perfection” accreditation from Heineken.

Grantham is to get a new Marston pub/restaurant.The two storey building will form part of a larger development on the site of the former pub on Harlaxton Road.The rector of St Wulfram’s in Grantham was called upon to promote Camra’s

The Carpenters Arms, Boston. held for the first time in the church in late November. His reward was to have a beer named after him. Fifty ales and ciders including Fallen Angel and Heavenly Blonde were available.

Grantham’s Brewsters Brewery has doubled production to 6,000 pints per day after expansion of its brew plant.

Heckington’s was the venue for a meeting of the Labologists Society in October. Collectors of rare beer bottle labels came from as far as Poland for the annual exhibition and auction, with monies raised donated to local charities. at Pinchbeck The holds its first ever cash prize pub quiz on 1 February.The entry fee of £5 includes tapas. in The Holbeach closed “voluntarily” in early December after a police investigation into “fraud, smuggling of goods and unauthorised licensable activities”.The in Boston has a new licensee – Adrian Naylor. Meanwhile Mohammed Qutab, the landlord of both the and the in the town has been fined a total of £15,000 for

ouses of Multiple Occupation.

The at South Luffenham has been put on the market by owner Charles Thomas for £595,000.A leasehold is option is also available for £75,000 – details www.christie.com.

After 10 years at the helm, Alan and Liz Hewitt have put the at South grade II listed Rauceby near Sleaford on the market with www.christie.com. at Also grade II listed, the Great Casterton remains on the market with everardcole.co.uk for £325,000.This historic building was the scene of the wedding reception of peasant poet John Clare back in 1820.

The in Bourne is reportedly for sale.The at lease of the Grimsthorpe is available through www.nicholson-and-co.co.uk The derelict at Donington is to be turned into flats. Subject to planning permission, the Grade II listed former coaching inn will be divided into a mix or apartments, town houses and smaller flats.

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O n t h e ( Ti m e ) l a s h A visit to the pubs seen, however briefly, in Doctor Who.

Pubs in Doctor Who are like buses.You spend ages watching old episodes, often in slow motion, in the hope of seeing one and then, in the case of Shada, the incomplete Tom Baker story, four turn up at once.

Although never broadcast, scenes from Shada were worked into the 1983 20th anniversary special,The Five Doctors, to fill the Tom Baker sized hole (he declined to appear so soon after retiring from the role), while the story was released on video in 1992 with Baker narrating the scenes unfilmed due to strike action back in 1979.

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Cambridge, the pubs seen in the story are The Baron of Beef and The Mitre in the city centre, which were covered in issue 31, and The Green Man and The Red Lion in Granchester.Without a Tardis of my own, I was pushed for time and could only visit one of Grantchester’s three pubs (there’s also The Rupert

Brooke), so I decided to go to the one that appeared on screen the longest – The Red Lion.

A large thatched pub close to Grantchester Meadows, it’s undergone the inevitable gastroisation with walls stripped down to the brickwork, and anything else coated in Farrow & Ball paint. Luckily, the beer

choice is varied with four hand pumps – Bishop Nick Bob Sleigh, Greene King IPA, JoC’s Norfolk Kiwi and Truman’s oxymoronic Black IPA on my visit – plus a large selection of craft cans.

While trying to work out what beer I wanted, a helpful barman asked “What do you normally drink?” but I decided to go for a pint of Bob Sleigh – a limited edition 5.1% amber ale (at a surprisingly low for one of these places £3.90), brewed in Braintree by a descendent of the Ridley family. In fact, the beer which is packed full of malt flavours with a hint of hoppiness, is a stronger version of the brewery’s revived Ridley’s Rite.

I’m not usually keen on gastropubs but this one seems to concentrate on the pub as much as it does the gastro.There’s even a pub game in the form of Crown Top Shives, which for £1 gives you five crown bottle tops to throw the shive hole of an empty cask, winning beer if any of the tops go in.

Given how well-kept and enjoyable the beer was, had I not been pressed for time, I could have happily attempted to

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“The cliff-hanger to episode two of Shada has the Doctor running from an evil alien sphere, intent on stealing his mind. He runs past The Mitre, stops outside The Baron of Beef and then darts down the alley between the two pubs, discovering a dead end (until companion Romana – played by Lalla Ward – turns up in the Tardis).

As it was in 1979,The Baron of Beef is a Greene King house.

Along with keg lagers, Guinness and Aspall cider it has five hand pumps. On my visit, one was out of use, while the others were serving Greene King IPA, Oakham Citra, Ubu Pure and a house beer called Baron of Beef. I can’t remember the name of the brewer of this last one (it could well be a GK ‘guest’) but the beer was just as forgettable.

Although the interior has been opened up, the former snug – complete with fireplace – and a side door with “smoke room” etched into the glass, gives a suggestion of how the place once looked. Paintings of university life, punting on the Cam and such adorn the walls, chandeliers (with lampshades, bizarrely) hang from the ceilings and, besides the toilets, the place seems to be well looked after.

The Mitre next door has eight hand pumps, which on my

visit were dispensing Copper Dragon Golden Pippin, Sharp’s Doom Bar,Adnams Broadside, Nicholson’s Pale Ale, McEwan’s IPA, Hook Norton Lion, Theakston XB and The Great Yorkshire Brewery’s Top of the Hops 2015 – a beer, apparently, containing 2,015 varieties of hop. Much larger than The Baron of Beef, it is also open plan but more staggered with a dining area at the rear. Like next door, it’s decorated with pictures of local life, but the paintwork around the pub is in severe need of refreshment.

During filming, Baker stayed at The Baron of Beef, which is opposite St John’s College.

Not only did its choral scholars appear in a scene during the chase, singing Chattanooga Choo Choo, they also enjoyed many drinking sessions with the “good Doctor” in the Baron of Beef.

However, the pub’s claim to fame wasn’t until five years later, in December 1984, when newspapers reported that Sir Clive Sinclair had attacked Acorn Computers boss Chris Curry over a newspaper advert questioning the reliability of Sinclair’s computers.A few months later, Sir Clive launched the C5 to universal ridicule.

Suddenly, a time travelling police box that’s bigger on the inside than out, didn’t seem such so far-fetched.”

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Pub Scrawl

The storyteller at this year’s

on Saturday 14 January will be The Yarnsmith of Norwich himself, Dave Tong. He’ll be at the Methodist/United Reformed Church (12.30, 1.30 and 2.30pm), while and Peterborough’s Poets United (who meet at the Wortley Almshouses on the first Tuesday of the month, so 7 February, 7 March etc) will be at the Town Hall at 12.30-1.30pm and 3.30-4.30pm.

The annual based around Peterborough Cathedral will be held on 26-29 January. Speakers include Dr Suzannah Lipscomb talking about Queen Katharine, her mother and her daughter (Mary I), on Friday 27 at 7.30pm (straight after the Pottage and Ale Supper) at the Cathedral.

Tickets, priced £11, include wine.

Then on Saturday 28, Lauren Mackay will be talking about Katharine and her ambassadors at Peterborough Museum from 7.30pm.Tickets for that are £6 (includes light refreshments). night Charters’ new (for poetry, comedy and all manner of spoken word) is on Monday 9 January and then on the second Monday of each subsequent month.

January sees the paperback publication of the from Sawtry publishers Dedalus who have an international reputation for producing high quality volumes.

This book (by Richard Barnett) covers the history and social impact of Mother’s Ruin and follows on from similar volumes on Absinthe and Vodka.

It is the time of the year when

the competitions for Poets Laureate of both the Fens (deadline Friday 27 January) and Stamford are underway. returns to The Stoneworks Bar in Church Street, Peterborough in January.

November was a great night so come along and see what the teams manage to do with this session’s theme.

Stamford’s continue their Poetry Swaps nights on Wednesday 11 January with Charley Genever (current Poet Laureate of Peterborough), Bill Taylor (former Poet Laureate of Stamford) and Chin Tan (poet and musician) each presenting a 20-minute set of their work.

Starts 8pm in the Arts Centre’s Cellar Bar. Mark Grist and Tim Clare will be performing their poems on Thursday 26 January at Stamford Arts Centre.This show, featuring two of the top touring poets, starts at 7.30pm, tickets £10, £8 consessions, £5 for students or groups. Either ring the box office on 01780 763203 or go to the www.stamfordartscentre.com Over in Oundle, Simon Guerrier and Dr Marek Kukula will be giving their talk on

on Thursday 12 January in The Great Hall, Oundle School, Oundle.Tickets are £8 (£6 concessions) and available from Oundle Box Office, 4 New Street, Oundle, by ringing 01832 274734 or going to www.oundlefestival.org.uk Dr Jane Hawking will be talking about her autobiography , the adaptation of that into the film and her

Tim Clare.

.The talk latest book is on Saturday 28 January in The Great Hall of Oundle School, tickets as above. returns to Peterborough on Friday 10 February at The Radius, Northminster in Peterborough.

Past experience tells us how good the evening will be, don’t need to know names. Doors open 7.30pm, be prepared to make some noise.

The hosts another literary night on Thursday 16 February with three poets, Helen Ivory (who lectures at UEA), Jon Morley and Julia Webb (previously poet-in-residence at Norwich Market).

The next will be over the weekend of 10-12 March and includes such authors as Louis de Bernieres,Yvvette Edwards and Rachel Hore.

Cardinal Cox is currently the Poet-in-Residence of The Dracula Society. His latest collection, collects eighteen poems inspired by art exhibitions and is available for £4 and his children’s tale is £5, both from KT Publications (cheques payable to Kevin Troop), 16 Fane Close, Stamford PE9 1HG.

N ATIONAL TREASURE Spotlighting Britain’s best boozers

Recently voted regional pub of the year for the East Midlands by Camra, I was keen to visit this unfamiliar pub just 60-odd miles from home.

The Oak sits alongside the A609 in the village known locally as “Ossley Wooduss”, just outside Heanor to the north-west of Nottingham (if you’ve ever had the “pleasure” of visiting the giant Ikea store you were pretty close). Its unremarkable exterior gives little clue to the treasures which lie inside.

Even as I walked across the car park, I received a warm welcome from locals, one of whom was keen to tell me he’d booked the function room for a party of fellow walkers for a Sunday get together.As you walk through the door you’re faced with a patchwork of individual rooms and, at weekends, a choice of bars.

The main bar is home to a log fire, a profusion of tankards, a friendly barmaid and seven hand pumps, with brands from Heanor’s Leadmill Brewery, the Froth Blowers Brewing Co and Shiny Brewing, and a couple of ciders.“It’s brewed by the landlord,” she said as I tucked into a half of Strawberry Blonde “and he’s also got the Bottle Brook brewery in Kilburn” (the

next village).“You might like to talk to the landlady – she’s in the other bar.” So I took my beer across the corridor through to the conservatory which houses the “RuRAD” (rural real ale drinkers’) bar.This is effectively a permanent weekend beer festival with another EIGHT beers served straight from the cask.

A little after midday this was already filling up with keen beer drinkers. Landlady,Tracey Creighton was keen to talk about the beers – she’s been

running the place for 13 years with brewing brother, Richard and has created a warm, chatty environment, winning the pub a number of awards.

Four more of their house beers are available here along with guests from the likes of Titanic, Salamander and Old Sawley, and more real ciders. Regular Dennis Betts wandered up and asked, tongue in cheek, for a “pint of best”.“Tracey will look after me,” he said with a smile, and he quickly dispatched her choice of the day before I had chance to ask what it was. I was recommended the Blue Morpho (named after a butterfly – one of brewer, Richard’s interests) – the beer was perfect.

Beer prices range from just £2.60 to £3.10, food is limited to pork pies (at 65p!) and rolls for just £2.

If you need something more substantial you’re welcome to bring your own.“We’re on a bus route, we’re popular with walkers and we’re dog friendly,” said Tracey “and there’s a big following for real ale around here,” she added.

Rarely have I been made more at home in such a short time – I can’t recommend this place highly enough. Unless you’re looking for an antiseptic, modernistic café bar, the Old Oak is a real winner.

There’s occasional live music, and outside there’s also a small beer garden with great views across the valley.There’s even a collection of animals and birdlife in the neighbouring paddock.“Do you keep them as pets,” I asked.“Well maybe not the turkeys,” replied Tracey.

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One of the most popular names of beer on sale is IPA – India Pale Ale. But while many of those beers from major breweries are 4% abv (alcohol by volume) or less, they’re around half the strength of the IPAs of the early 19th century. I would say they’re a pale imitation of their former self, but many of those beers claiming to be IPA are much darker than traditional pales.

Back in July 1993, a pale ale festival was held at The White Horse in Parsons Green, London.

The event was organised by landlord Mark Dorber who three years earlier had invited brewers, hop and barley growers, and beer writers to a seminar on

Roger Protz and Stu Sewell.

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Burton pale ale – a beer style he felt was underappreciated.

An IPA was brewed for the festival by Bass, which owned the pub at the time, on its pilot brewery at Burton upon Trent.

Overseen by retired brewer Tom Dawson, the brew used a 1950s recipe for Bass Continental, which itself was based on Bass recipes from a century before.

Matured for five weeks, the beer weighed in at 7.2% abv with an eye watering 83 units of bitterness and when compared to modern Draught Bass and Pilsner Urquell lager – the drink’s colour was midway between the two.

The following year, another

seminar was held, celebrating both pale ale and IPA.This time American, as well as British, brewers were invited to bring along their own IPAs, and while things didn’t change overnight, it marked the beginning of an IPA revival. Nowadays you’ll even find IPAs brewed in France, Belgium and Italy, leading Good Beer Guide editor Roger Protz to remark that “everyone on the planet seems to be brewing IPA”.

In fact, Protz – who was present at both seminars – has got in on the act, joining forces with Stu Sewell of south London community brewery UBREW to brew 40 litres of IPA following the same Bass Continental

Why-PA? recipe used for The White Horse’s IPA. But unlike that earlier brew, Protz’ beer – named Catalyst IPA – uses the nearest possible matches to the ingredients available in the 1800s including East Kent Goldings and Fuggle hops.

Around the mid-70s on the bitterness scale, Catalyst was matured in an oak cask for three months before bottling.

Unfiltered, the beer continues to develop in the bottle and by the time I tried it at the end of November, it had mellowed a little but still has a very satisfying bite. Protz is contemplating some kind of event around IPA, which will allow others to get to try this beer of which he’s very proud and short of getting “into a Tardis,” he says,“this is the closest you’ll get to the Victorian IPA.”

In the late 18th century, George Hodgson of the Bow Brewery began exporting beer to India on board ships belonging to the East India Company. Heavily hopped, to survive the journey, his October ale was a beer that took up to two years to mature. However a combination of brettanomyces – a wild yeast found in wood, which initiated a second fermentation in the cask – and the changes in temperature and rocking motion of the ship meant that the beer arrived in India full of flavour and ready to drink.

Lighter and more refreshing for the climate than the darker beers that had been exported by others, Hodgson’s beer was well regarded. However his son, who took over the brewery, abused his near monopoly by raising prices and often failing to pay his bills, fell out with the East India Company.

In 1821, Campbell Marjoribanks, a director of the East India Company, approached Burton brewery boss Samuel Allsopp with a view to replicating Hodgson’s beer. Despite Allsopp’s head brewer finding it too bitter (traditional Burton ale was dark and rather sweet) for his palate, he was able to produce a decent IPA. Burton’s hard water, which is rich in salts and low in pH, brings out the flavour of the malt and hops, sealing the town’s reputation as the brewing capital of the world. So good is that water in brewing, that brewers across the world continue to “Burtonise” theirs to replicate those properties.

Before long Allsopp’s and other local brewers including Bass and Worthington were far outstripping Hodgson’s exports to India and over the next 50 years, wherever the British went, IPA followed.The beer could be found in places such as Australia, New Zealand, Egypt and the US. However, by the end of the 19th century, lager became the beer of choice in hot countries thanks to improvements in refrigeration techniques.

IPA’s prestige suffered further in the First World War when increased taxes prompted many brewers to reduce the strength of their beer.With a few exceptions, the name became associated with beers that had more in common with best bitter. But thanks to people like Mark Dorber, IPA is once again admired worldwide.

RAILROVING LEICESTER

Although Leicester is a sizeable city, the city centre is quite compact allowing a good opportunity to get around most of the good pubs in a day.An off peak return from Peterborough is £20.60 (£13.50 from Stamford), taking just under an hour by CrossCountry Trains, so the 9.52am departure arrives just before opening time at the immediately outside the station exit.This former Red Star Parcels building has been transformed by Steamin’ Billy into a spacious pub/diner with

many interesting features, a good crop of real ales from their own stable and a guest beer (Abbeydale Absolution on our visit).There’s also an extensive range of spirits.

A right turn out of the Parcel Yard and along Charles Street takes you to the run since 1999 by the Hoskins brothers (of Hoskins & Oldfield Brewery repute).Their beers are currently brewed by Belvoir Brewery, and examples such as HOB bitter, IPA,Tom Kelly’s Stout and Green & Gold were in

evidence, alongside guest beers, keenly priced from £2.85. Steve Hoskins explained that plans are afoot to bring the brewing in-house in the near future.

Heading towards the Curve Theatre, in Rutland Street is the offering a couple of hand pumps and a real cider, but on this occasion resembling a car park for pushchairs, we swerved around this, back onto Charles Street to the which looked promising, but the Pedigree and Doom Bar pump clips were both turned around,

The Hoskins brothers.

so onwards into the city centre.

Humberston Gate leads to the Clock Tower – a local landmark and a cue to certain members of our party to attend to the promised Christmas shopping.

The diehards carried on into Church Gate and after five minutes’ walk, left into Butt Close Lane – home of the Taken over in February

by Black Country Ales, this is great back street local with three standard house ales, two seasonal ales and seven guest ales from the likes of Pheasantry, Goffs, Hales and Charnwood breweries. Real ciders are also available, as are sample measures.

Most of the beers are priced around £3, and the food represents even better value, with main meals (including sausage and mash, liver & onions and faggots & peas) for a mere £4 – too tempting to miss. For the smaller appetite, there are hot cobs for £2.50 and local pork pie & pickle at just £1.50.

Popular with sports fans, there’s also a dart board and pub games.

Leaving the Salmon was a challenge, but the schedule demanded that we head through the sprawling High Cross shopping centre, where we found, on High Cross Street,

(Springhead the Pandemonium and Market Harborough Bitter) full of Christmas party revellers, so we opted for the calm of the next door.This is a basic, but friendly pub with pool table and a couple of Everards beers at £3.05. How refreshing to see such a survivor in the midst of the shopping area.“Not for long,” said the manager,“it’s scheduled to be demolished to make way for a restaurant.”

At the junction of High Cross Street and the High Street is the – a typical city centre JD Wetherspoon, so we moved

on to the High Street – home of (London Pride and Life of Brian) and the more inviting This interesting pub features a gin room to the left as you enter, and a main bar clearly divided between real ales and craft beers.The cask bar offered three real ales (Tribute Extra, Tiger and a delicious Eclipse from Navigation brewery) plus three real ciders.The craft bar offered six different examples.

There’s regular live music and ping pong in the function room, and happy hour (5-8pm) features £1 off beers.Across the road

The Globe.

is an opulent Belgian bar housed in the former Commercial Union building – worth a look in just for the décor.The on Silver Street is a multi-roomed Everards house, with five house beers and a guest (from Brunswick) plus Westons Cider and a multitude of bottled beers.This delightful pub features gas lighting and a variety of flavoured pork scratching including maple, sweet chilli, habanero and black pepper.

We bypassed the to get to another must-visit pub – the on Millstone Lane. It’s

Swan & Rushes.

a micro-pub but has nine hand pumps dispensing well kept beers, on this day from Leatherbritches, Ringwood, Sarah Hughes, Stockport, Gun Dog and Brass Castle plus another six straight from the cask. On the same street,The is a refurbished Everards house with a guest beer and a cider.At the end of the road is an old Leicester favourite – the – not the prettiest of buildings but renowned for its beer range, live music and very popular with fans of the Tigers rugby team. Formerly run by Grant Cook (who now has Camra’s National Pub of the Year in Cheltenham), 10 real ales are still available and a pizza oven for hungry fans The on Oxford Street also has a pedigree for live music, but this is now history as the basic, small but friendly bar concentrates firmly on good

value beers (£3 up to 5%).Along is Oxford St, the another well known ale house, with a quirky interior (including a spaceman), bar billiards and a host of real ales including three from Oakham, plus Charnwood, Batemans and cider from Hogans. Close by, in Jarrom Street, the is a cosy Everards pub with up to 10 beers and ciders, but with train time looming we had to rush on to the local Pub of the Year – The on King Street.

Open for breakfast from 8am (beer from 10am), this is another great Black Country Ales pub, hugely popular, but comfortable with a real fire, and offering three well kept house beers and seven guests.

After yet another “festive” ale or two, from here (i’m told!) it was a 10 minute walk back to the station.

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Voodoo Unplugged acoustic session (8pm), Mama Liz’s, Stamford

NYE Live Music & Disco, Hurdler, Stamford Electric Warriors (Ticket only, £6), Swiss Cottage,Woodston NYE Spectacular - Children of the Revolution (Tickets £10), Ostrich, Peterborough Mark Bishop, Masons Arms, Bourne Karaoke party Night, Golden Fleece, Stamford Los Cojones, Grainstore, Oakham New Year’s Eve Party (tickets £75), Bustard, South Rauceby Motown Party Night (£10 inc buffet & bubbly), Lincolnshire Poacher, Spalding Indigo, Stage, Market Deeping Overdubs, London Inn, Stamford Feds (Tickets £10 inc buffet), Ploughman, Werrington Pennyless, Smiths, Bourne Strellies, Black Bull, Kirton Disco & Karaoke, Pincushion,Wyberton

CJ Hatt, Swiss Cottage,Woodston Snow White & the Seven Dwarves (6.30pm), Stamford Arts Centre Leftovas, Masons Arms, Bourne Subway 77, Golden Fleece, Stamford Motown Night, Lincolnshire Poacher, Spalding Harkback, London Inn, Stamford Brotherhood’s Roundabout, Crown, Peterborough

Lee Joshua Rose, Bull, Market Deeping Acoustic Sessions (8pm), Millstone, Barnack Quiz, Hare & Hounds, Greatford Big Fun Quiz, Grainstore, Oakham Quiz, Five Horseshoes, Barholm Georgia Shakleton Trio, South Holland Centre, Spalding

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13th Century Cafe – 21st Century Micropub Built about the year 1230 A.D it was part of the Priory of Spalding, & because of its shape it has always been known as The Oven or The Prior's Oven a name now singularly apt, although its original purpose was very far removed from its present one. It was Spalding Monastic Prison; refractory monks & laymen were kept there & stories of torture & cruelty still survive.

A few years after the building of the vaulted chamber, a lofty tower was added by Clement Hatfield, Lord Prior from 1292 to 1318, & there is a record of a bell in this tower being tolled at the execution of some eighty felons, the last time being in the year 1502.

Of the original building only immensely strong lower vault now remains, & was used in the last & previous centuries as a blacksmith's shop, a square room (the present Tea Room) being built a century or so ago.

There is a legend that an underground passage leads from The Priors Oven to Monks House, an historic building a mile away. In the cellar there are signs of an entrance to such passage, although it may have led to a dungeon where the worst enemies of The Prior were incarcerated.

Information sponsored by John Lyon, Pinchbeck Historical Unit

Priors Oven

1 Sheep Market, Spalding

Traditional Free House CAMRA Gold Award Winners 2010, 2012 & 2014 ·CAMRA Pub of the Year 2006 · Cambs Pub of the Year 2007 Dating back to 1645 the Blue Bell is situated on the main road in the picturesque village of Maxey and is the centre of village social life NINE real ales including Fullers ESB, London Pride, at least one Oakham Ale, SIX ever-changing guest ales and a multitude of Gins and Rums Club and special event buffets on request. Real fires in Winter

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High Street, Maxey, Peterborough PE6 9EE Tel: 01778 348182

Tiger Club, Swiss Cottage,Woodston Don Brister, Masons Arms, Bourne Miscellaneous, Golden Fleece, Stamford Cosmic Rodney (10.30pm), Charters, Peterborough Everest Queen, the Darkhorse and Stone the Hydra, Mama Liz’s, Stamford

Mind the Gap, Swiss Cottage,Woodston Snow White & the Seven Dwarves (11am, 2pm, 6.30pm), Stamford Arts Centre Dean & Co, Masons Arms, Bourne Dirty Rumour, Golden Fleece, Stamford Stone Ponies, Lincolnshire Poacher, Spalding Great Pretenders, Stage, Market Deeping High Rollers, London Inn, Stamford 45er, Ploughman,Werrington Untamed and Cameltoe, Met Lounge, Peterborough Limehouse Lizzy, Stamford Corn Exchange Stone Pony, Lincolnshire Poacher, Spalding

Molly’s Chamber, Swiss Cottage,Woodston Straw Bear After Party with Holly & the Boatmen (5-7.30pm), Falcon Hotel,Whittlesey Splinter, Masons Arms, Bourne Go with the Flow, Golden Fleece, Stamford Backlash, Grainstore, Oakham Betty Swallox, Lincolnshire Poacher, Spalding Easyersaid, Stage, Market Deeping Quiz, Lakeside,Tallington Rob ‘N’ Dave (3pm), Charters, Peterborough Bianca and the TopCats (4pm), Mama Liz’s, Stamford

Snow White & the Seven Dwarves (11am, 2pm, 6.30pm), Stamford Arts Centre Quiz, Masons Arms, Bourne Pennyless (4-6pm), Mama Liz’s, Stamford Agi Jarocka (3pm), Charters, Peterborough Spoken word open mic (8pm), Charters, Peterborough Open Mic (9pm), Ploughman,Werrington Backroom Acoustic (8pm), Railway, Ramsey Open Mic (9pm), Crown, Peterborough

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Brian and Elaine extend a warm welcome to customers old and new at

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Open Mic Night (8pm), Charters, Peterborough Monthly Open Mic (8.45pm), Boat Inn Whittlesey Quiz, Hare & Hounds, Greatford

Children of the Revolution, Swiss Cottage, Woodston Whisky Bar Acoustic Sessions (8.30pm), Boat Inn,Whittlesey Mark Bishop, Masons Arms, Bourne The Leftovers, Jubilee, Bourne Hayz, Golden Fleece, Stamford Easyersaid (10.30pm), Charters, Peterborough Overdubs, Ploughman,Werrington

Tony Giles All Stars, Bustard, South Rauceby TBC, Swiss Cottage,Woodston Loose Rocket, Masons Arms, Bourne Detourz, Golden Fleece, Stamford Bianca & the TopCats (9.30pm), Charters, Peterborough Antoine, Masons Arms, Bourne Demoniser, Swiss Cottage,Woodston Outside In, Golden Fleece, Stamford Vigilantes, Lincolnshire Poacher, Spalding Afterlife, Stage, Market Deeping Velocity (10.30pm), Charters, Peterborough Occupy, Mama Liz’s, Stamford T-Rextasy, Stamford Corn Exchange Quiz, Masons Arms, Bourne Palmy Ukulele Band (3pm), Charters, Peterborough Thom Whitworth Quartet, Bustard, South Rauceby Backroom Acoustic (8pm), Railway, Ramsey Burns Night, Lakeside,Tallington Acoustic CafÊ, South Holland Centre, Spalding Grainstore Comedy Club, Grainstore, Oakham

Risky Trick (9pm), Royal Duke, Oakham 3rd Stone from the Sun, Swiss Cottage, Woodston Nick Glover (Karaoke), Masons Arms, Bourne Devils Mojo, Heron, Stanground Children of the Revolution, Golden Fleece, Stamford Moll Grips, Lincolnshire Poacher, Spalding Autumn Storm, Stage, Market Deeping Chinese Themed Murder Mystery Dinner (booking only), Rose & Crown,Thorney High Rollers, Bluebell, Dogsthorpe Your local in the Heart of Stamford

The Golden Fleece Open 9am-11pm Sunday to Wednesday, 9am to late Thursday to Saturday Full breakfast and lunchtime menu available 9am-4pm (Sunday 9am-3pm) Live entertainment Thursday thru to Sunday (Karaoke Thurs & Sun, Live Bands Fri & Sat) Three real Ales Everards Tiger and Old Original with a rotating Guest Ale and Henry Westons cider on hand pull

Silhouettes (60s, 9pm), Hurdler, Stamford Black Jack (10.30pm), Charters, Peterborough Feds, Ploughman,Werrington Glasshouse Acoustic ft Steve Gibbs (3pm), Key Theatre, Peterborough Quiz, Lakeside,Tallington Jimmy Doherty (3pm), Charters, Peterborough Vinyl Night (8pm), Charters, Peterborough Frumenty (4pm), Mama Liz’s, Stamford Lindsay Lou & The Flatbellys, South Holland Centre, Spalding Quiz, Hare & Hounds, Greatford Quiz Night (£5 per person, includes tapas), Ship Inn, Pinchbeck Big Fun Quiz, Grainstore, Oakham Quiz, Five Horseshoes, Barholm Pete Coe, South Holland Centre, Spalding Voodoo Unplugged acoustic session (8pm), Mama Liz’s, Stamford

Retrolux, Swiss Cottage,Woodston Revolver, Masons Arms, Bourne Halo, Golden Fleece, Stamford Children of the Revolution, Ploughman, Werrington Cutting Loose, Swiss Cottage,Woodston Mick Major, Masons Arms, Bourne Sounds of Our Streets, Heron, Stanground Kickback, Golden Fleece, Stamford Swagger, Grainstore, Oakham Boobonyx, Lincolnshire Poacher, Spalding Miscellaneous, Stage, Market Deeping Feds, London Inn, Stamford The Guards, Bluebell, Dogsthorpe Jackie Marie (soul, 9pm), Hurdler, Stamford Derrin Nauendorf (10.30pm), Charters, Peterborough High Rollers, Ploughman,Werrington The Rocket Dogs, Granary, Long Sutton Gerry and the Pacemakers, Key Theatre, Peterborough Quiz, Masons Arms, Bourne Bon & Justin (3pm), Charters, Peterborough Unplugged Session (6.30-9pm), National Centre for Craft and Design, Sleaford Charity Quiz, Bustard, South Rauceby

Funk Soul Brother (8.30pm), Grainstore, Oakham Quiz, Lakeside,Tallington CJ Hatt (3pm), Charters, Peterborough Pennyless (8pm, £6), Eagle, Boston Spoken Word Open Mic (8pm), Charters, Peterborough Backroom Acoustic (8pm), Railway, Ramsey Open Mic (9pm), Crown, Peterborough The Expletives, Swiss Cottage,Woodston Mug Jugglers, Masons Arms, Bourne Barry White Tribute (ticket only, £10), Blue Bell,Werrington Circa 73, Golden Fleece, Stamford Guards, London Inn, Stamford Barry Steele as Roy Orbison, Cresset, Bretton TBC, Swiss Cottage,Woodston Son of a Gun, Masons Arms, Bourne Valentine’s Night (sharing menu), Lakeside, Tallington TBC, Heron, Stanground Betty Swollox, Pincushion,Wyberton Great Pretenders, Golden Fleece, Stamford Beachy Head Diving Club, Lincolnshire Poacher, Spalding Strellies, Stage, Market Deeping Veltones, London Inn, Stamford Valentine’s Party (8pm), Hurdler, Stamford The Dizzy Miss Lizzy’s (10.30pm), Charters, Peterborough Overdubs, Iron Horse Ranch, Market Deeping Children of the Revolution, Ostrich, Peterborough Money For Nothing – Dire Straits Tribute, Stamford Corn Exchange Stone Pony, Birds, Spalding CafÊ Society Swing, South Holland Centre, Spalding

Open Mic (9pm), Ploughman,Werrington Valentine’s Evening, Bustard, South Rauceby Valentine’s Dinner (booking only), Rose & Crown,Thorney Valentine’s Quiz, Hare & Hounds, Greatford Tony Giles All Stars, Bustard, South Rauceby Pennyless (7.30pm, £10) Lincoln Drill Hall, Lincoln

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TBC, Swiss Cottage,Woodston Don Brister, Masons Arms, Bourne Halo, Jubilee Bourne Little Big Band, Golden Fleece, Stamford On the Ceiling, Ploughman,Werrington Marty Wilde & The Wildcats, Billie Davis, Gidea Park, Eric Haydock, Cupid’s Inspiration and Sounds Force 5, Cresset, Bretton High Rollers, Swiss Cottage,Woodston Risky Trick (8.30pm), Grainstore, Oakham Leftovas, Masons Arms, Bourne Stone Pony, Heron, Stanground Risky Trick, Grainstore, Oakham Deja Vu, Lincolnshire Poacher, Spalding One for the Road, Stage, Market Deeping The Rocket Dogs, Bluebell, Dogsthorpe Flashback Photograph (10.30pm), Charters, Peterborough Fallen Idols, Ploughman,Werrington ’60s Spectacular:The Merseybeats, Billie Davis, Eric Haydock, Gidea Park,Terry Rice Milton and Sounds Force 5, South Holland Centre, Spalding

The Drifters, Stamford Corn Exchange Quiz, Masons Arms, Bourne Feds (TBC), London Inn, Stamford Paul Lake (3pm), Charters, Peterborough Open Mic (8pm), Charters, Peterborough Monthly Open Mic (8.45pm), Boat Inn, Whittlesey Thom Whitworth Quartet, Bustard, South Rauceby Backroom Acoustic (8pm), Railway, Ramsey TBC, Swiss Cottage,Woodston Grainstore Comedy Club, Grainstore, Oakham The Motivators (Annual Gig), Swiss Cottage, Woodston Whisky Bar Acoustic Sessions (8.30pm), Boat Inn,Whittlesey DJ Neil, Masons Arms, Bourne Leftovas, Golden Fleece, Stamford Halo (TBC), London Inn, Stamford The Expletives (10.30pm), Charters, Peterborough

Fairport Convention, Cresset, Bretton Quiz, Hare & Hounds, Greatford I’m Still Standing – The Ultimate Elton John, Cresset, Bretton

Viva Neil Diamond, Key Theatre (Studio), Peterborough Macca:The Paul McCartney Story, Key Theatre, Peterborough Splinter, Masons Arms, Bourne The Unknown, Heron, Stanground Crossing the Tracks, Pincushion,Wyberton Revolver, Golden Fleece, Stamford Motown Night, Lincolnshire Poacher, Spalding Backlash, Stage, Market Deeping Overdubs, London Inn, Stamford Los Cojones (Latino, 9pm), Hurdler, Stamford The High Rollers (10.30pm), Charters, Peterborough Abbalarf, Ploughman,Werrington Macca:The Paul McCartney Story, Key Theatre, Peterborough Stone Pony, Lincolnshire Poacher, Spalding Quiz, Lakeside,Tallington Lexie Green (3pm), Charters, Peterborough Vinyl Night (8pm), Charters, Peterborough Frumenty (4pm), Mama Liz’s, Stamford

UK Pink Floyd Experience 2017, Cresset, Bretton Leicester Beer Festival, Charotar Patidar Samaj Hall (South Churchgate/Bay St) - 250 beers plus around 35 real ciders, plus the usual festival fare of cobs, pork pies and authentic Indian dishes. Entry is £2.50 (free to Camra members). Nominated drivers get free soft drinks.

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REVIEWS CD, Rowdy Farrago Records, RFEP08

Overlong and more a curate’s egg than a whizzbang, the musicianship is its saving grace.

DVD/Blu-ray, RLJ4024/RLJ4029, RLJ Entertainment

Released last summer to mark the centenary of the “longest and costliest battle” of the First World War,The Somme is a 15-track themed EP from Peterborough’s most productive punk band. Its lyrics cover the changing mood of the conflict from the pride in joining up to the realisation of the horrors of war.

Singer Allen Adams seems to have written too many words, which he often has trouble fitting around the music and that profligacy is extended to the amount of tracks which for some reason includes a below par cover of the Jam’s Eton Rifles.The other covers however work very well and are a powerful version of Edwin Starr’s War and a chance to out-Motörhead Motörhead with a faster reworking of Lemmy’s ballad 1916.

While it was a nice touch to include renditions of First World War era songs such as It’s a Long Way to Tipperary and The Bells of Hell in between the tracks, the use of a digital studio doesn’t really give you the feel of the muck and bullets.

Despite being a quarter of a century old, the Commitments remains one of the best music films ever made. Directed by Sir Alan Parker, the decision to use real musicians – as opposed to actors miming their instruments – and set it in the gritty streets of Dublin gave the film a sense of realism.The soul music soundtrack is not only catchy but as it was 30 years old by the time of the film’s release, it means that, like Dad’s Army, it is unable to date any further.

Like that classic TV series, the film has plenty of quotable lines; thanks to a script that paired original novelist Roddy Doyle with veteran screenwriters Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.

To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the film has undergone a high resolution

transfer to DVD/Blu-ray, which shows up elements of the picture that could only previously be seen at the cinema.Along with a collectible booklet, there are a whole host of on-disc extras.These include photo galleries, an audio commentary by Parker, several behind the scenes features and a brand new “looking back” feature (plus another that appeared on the 2004 release), There’s also a rare music video of Treat Her Right, filmed during The Commitments, which features Robert Arkins (who played the band’s manager Jimmy Rabbitte) on lead vocals.

One of the biggest surprises about the film, however, has to be that Andrew Strong, who played singer Deco Cuffe, was only 16 years old at the time of filming.The son of the film’s singing coach, he secured the part after being heard singing the song Mustang Sally, which is also included in the film.A good performance but one that led to many a two-bit pub band with lesser voices including it in their repertoire.

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