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Pubs are as varied as the customers they attract; there’s no typical pub, just as there are no typical pub-goer. There are traditional pubs and style bars, with dozens of categories in between – similarly with people.After preparing the news list for this month’s magazine I was struck by the variety and sheer breadth of subject matter. In the same way that you could walk across a pub floor and hear snippets of conversation that range from football to Coronation Street and “Darling, you’re going to have to tell your mother…” we take a look at everything that goes on in and around them.

For example, Morpeth Town have reached the final of the FA Vase, so the town’s pubs will surely enjoy some positive results (and we wish them every success on May 22). Hops, better known as an ingredient in beer, are being considered for use in restaurant kitchens; art exhibitions are becoming a regular feature in pubs; commemorative beers and brewing collaborations are regularly commissioned while the pubs themselves continue to evolve and develop.

And, this is before we even mention the exciting project that is Wylam Brewery’s move to The Palace of Arts building in Newcastle’s Exhibition Park. And, here’s where you come in – if there’s anything you think we’re missing out on and could be improved on, please let us know.

Cheers is yours whether you are “traditional” or “style”, Old George or Jonny Ringo. Enjoy yourself, Cheers.

Alastair GilmourEditor, Cheers North East

Wylam Brewery moves into its brand spanking new facility at Exhibition Park in Newcastle this month (although the Palace of Arts building itself was constructed for the 1929 North East Coast Exhibition of 1929). It’s the most significant development in the city’s brewing scene since Scottish & Newcastle upped sticks to Dunston, Gateshead, in 2005 and subsequently to Tadcaster in North Yorkshire four years later. It puts down a marker that Newcastle and the wider region are looking to the future with great confidence and entrepreneurial spirit – exactly what the North East Coast Exhibition set out to do 87 years ago.

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Tilleys Bar on Westgate Road, Newcastle, has invited Soren Parker Wagner, head brewer of the exciting young Danish Dry & Bitter Brewing Company (brewers of Christian Bale Session IPA) to meet the pub’s public. We’re assured the music will be playing, the beer flowing, and Soren will be mingling (May 3, 7.30pm).

A marathon True North meet the brewer series sees three beer producers dropping in on North East and Yorkshire pubs. Credence Brewery from Amble in Northumberland is joined by Tempest Brew Co from Galashiels in The Borders and Highlands-based Cromarty Brewing.

“We’re bringing exceptional beer and tastings to the finest beer establishments,” says Credence director Matt Taylor.

Dates are: Saturday May 14 at the Free Trade Inn, Newcastle; May 15, the Red Lion Inn, Alnmouth; May 16, Friends of Ham in Leeds; May 19, North Bar (Harrogate); May 20, Pivni (York) and May 21 The Ivy House (Sunderland).

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Synchronise watches for the American Homebrewers Association (AHA) Big Brew Day on the first Saturday of May. This year it falls on May 7 and a simultaneous toast will ring out at noon Central Daylight Time (6am for us) when all homebrewers and beer lovers will celebrate their hobby.

Throughout the day, hundreds of bars, breweries, shops and homebrew clubs across the US will encourage their local communities to brew on-site for a national, same-day homebrewing session.

There are more than 1.2m homebrewers in the United States. With one in every 200 adults in the US now crafting their own beer, homebrewing has become one of the country’s fastest growing hobbies. In 2015, more than 11,000 people celebrated the AHA National Homebrew Day with 2,722 batches creating 19,631 gallons of beer and cider enjoyed around the world. Last year, 50 US states and 14 countries around the world participated.

Six in the morning might be a touch early to dig into your homebrew, but you can always wait six hours to join in.

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The grand old Cumby is about to welcome a gable-hugging neighbour. Owners of The Cumberland Arms in Byker, Newcastle, have unveiled exciting plans that will create an all-encompassing beer, food and entertainments venue.

The extension will virtually double the size of the present site and include a restaurant which is expected to be let out, plus a purpose-built brewery for Northern Alchemy which at present operates out of a former shipping container adjacent to the pub.

The Cumberland Arms is owned by Michael Hodson and run by Jo Hodson, one of his two daughters. Northern Alchemy’s beers are produced by Jo’s husband Carl

Kennedy and brother-in-law Andy Aitchison. A 10-barrel brewing kit complemented by bottling, kegging and canning facilities will be a huge step and the brewhouse will also have space for visitors and brewery tours – key elements of any contemporary craft brewing businesses.

The Cumberland Arms features high on many Tyneside drinkers’ favourite pubs list, combining traditional values with a variety of beer styles, plus regular live music, festivals, and even a children’s film club. The pub also offers bed and breakfast.

The top floor of the proposed new extension has been reserved for a two-bed apartment for the owners.

At the time of going to press, Tyne Bank Brewery had reached the three-quarters point in its quest to raise subscriptions to help fund a move into a new building – and incorporate all the trimmings – as Cheers reported in the April issue. Help them over the line at www.crowdcube.com

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A flood-damaged Northumberland pub has been reluctantly put up for sale by its owners. The 300-year-old Bridge End Inn at Ovingham didn’t reach its reserve price of £100,000 at auction last month but local residents are setting up an action plan to buy it and run it as a community enterprise.

The popular pub, which has been in the hands of the Outterside family since 1975, was damaged by 4ft of water from the Whittle Burn last December in the wake of Storm Desmond.

A leaflet has been distributed explaining that work is under way to investigate community enterprise structures and gather information

on the full costs involved to form a business plan.

It reads: “We’re seeking investment in the form of community shares in a not-for-personal-profit structure where each shareholder has one vote.

“Minimum investment is £500 and then in units of £500 up to a maximum of £20,000.”

Ernest Dobson, a member of the group formed to save the pub, said: “We are very excited about the possibilities for the future. There is strong support for keeping the Bridge End Inn as a pub, not just for drinking, but as a meeting place for the community.”

James and Irene Outterside had celebrated 40 years as owners of

The Bridge End Inn on November 21 and were completely overwhelmed by the floodwater on December 5.

“We’ve had water coming over the road before but this was a bad one,” said James in February’s issue of Cheers North East. “It was unprecedented – I think the last one like this was in 1771.

“The locals are devastated. I know it’s the thing to say these days that the pub is the hub of a community but it’s true here; it’s a real community centre for the village.”

Shops, schools and pubs are the lifeblood of every village, so we wish Ovingham folks – and the Outterside family – every success. Let’s hope the pub can be saved for everyone’s benefit.

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Morpeth Town are going to Wembley for the first time in the club’s history as the North East continues to dominate the FA Vase. The Highwaymen overcame Bowers & Pitsea 4-3 on aggregate in the semi-final to set up a final clash with Hereford at Wembley on May 22. The Northern League Division One side progressed through eight rounds in this year’s Vase to earn their ticket to Wembley.

It’s also the eighth consecutive year that a North East club has featured in the

final with three-timers Whitley Bay, West Auckland Town (twice), and Dunston UTS, Spennymoor Town and last year’s winners North Shields on one apiece.

The FA Trophy final between Grimsby Town and Halifax Town will also be played on the same day, so let’s raise a glass or two on the historic day.

The Hereford Times has been asking “who are Morpeth Town?”. Come on Morpeth, it’s time to let them know.Ticket information: www.morpethtownfc.com or www.thefa.com

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FLY HALVES AT BEER FESTIVALSThe annual Whitley Bay Beer Festival is set for Rockcliff Rugby Club on May Bank Holiday (May 27-29) with 30 ales, 10 ciders and some “wine fizz” promised. Live music at afternoon and evening sessions and hot food available. On bus route 308 from Newcastle and near Whitley Bay Metro station. Entrance £10 includes souvenir glass and tokens. Details: www.rockcliffrfc.co.uk

One of the North East’s biggest beer and cider festivals takes place at the home of Tynedale Rugby Club, Corbridge, on June 16-18, along with great wine, food and live music. The festival is a joint venture between Tynedale Lions Club and Tynedale RFC – all volunteers – with a purpose to raise money for good causes (over £450,000 to date). Details: www.tynedalebeerfestival.org.uk

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After 45 years of being one of the largest single-issue consumer groups in the world, the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) could be coming to an end. The organisation is embarking on a consultation of as many as possible of its near-180,000 members to ask them who and what it should represent in the future – and it may no longer be focused on real ale.

The group said the rise of craft beer and a general resurgence of interest in beer over the last few years had prompted the review. Depending on the results of the

survey of members, Camra may decide to broaden its approach, becoming a consumer organisation for all pub-goers.

One of its four founders, Michael Hardman, has returned to lead the Revitalisation Project, a wholesale review into the purpose and strategy of Camra.

Members will be invited to share their views about the future by completing surveys and attending around 50 consultation meetings across the UK this summer.

They’ll be asked whether Camra should move away from promoting and protecting traditional real ale

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and become more inclusive, or shed subsidiary issues which have become attached to the organisation over the years – such as pubs heritage, cider and foreign beer – in order to narrow its focus exclusively on cask-conditioned beer.

Options include becoming a consumer organisation for all beer drinkers, all pub-goers regardless of what they drink, or even all alcohol

drinkers, regardless of where they drink it.

Michael Hardman said: “This could mark a fundamental turning point; so fundamental, it may no longer continue as the Campaign for Real Ale and instead become a campaign for pubs, or a campaign for all drinkers. It’s not up to us though. It’s up to our members to tell us what they want Camra to do.”

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Hanging around Hexham Station could get to be a bit of a habit if plans fall into place. High House Farm Brewery, based near Matfen in Northumberland, has submitted an application to convert a disused waiting room into a micropub.

The application states: “Our proposal is to bring back to life the former first-class waiting room which is one of the main rooms on platform two.”

Hexham railway station is a Grade II-listed building and dates back to 1835. In its application High House Farm Brewery details an extensive list of restoration work to reinstate many of the waiting room’s original features

– which include refurbishing the fireplace, restoring the original clock above the doorway and filling in missing cornicing.

A traditional railway-style sign is expected to hang above the door so travellers on the Newcastle to Carlisle line will be left in no doubt as to what lies within.

“Everything is at the planning stage at the moment and we’re just waiting for permission and building consent which we hope to confirm very soon,” said brewery owner Heather Scott. “We’ve got a lot of support from local people, from Guy Opperman, Hexham MP, and local councillors. The Railway Heritage Trust, which is prepared to fund some of the works, has

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also been battling away for us. It’s a bit of a wreck at the moment and we can’t do anything without permission, but the plan is to keep it in Victorian style as it would have been when it was built in 1835.”

Heather’s husband Gary is a builder, which is a bit of a bonus when it comes to projects of this nature.

High House Farm Brewery and visitor centre produces such favourites as Auld Hemp (3.8% abv) and Nel’s Best (4.2% abv), both named after sheepdogs.

Some barley grown at High House Farm is sent away to be malted then returned to use in the beer. The brewery is also licensed for marriages.

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The North East real ale and pub community is much the poorer with the passing of Eric Larkham, one of the region’s most knowledgeable beer people.

Long-time friend and associate Martin Ellis, current publicity officer for the local Camra branch said: “Eric joined the Tyneside & Northumberland branch of the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) in the 1980s and was a committed member from then on. He held several positions in the organisation over the years – chairman and treasurer – and was also festival organiser for the Newcastle Beer Festival.

“After stepping down from the committee he continued to maintain an active role in the campaign, surveying pubs for the Camra Good Beer Guide, quite possibly checking out more pubs in the annual survey than anyone else nationally.

“For many people in Tyneside’s pub and brewery trade, Eric was Camra’s ambassador. He did a fine job at that, too.”

Cheers editor Alastair Gilmour knew Eric for a number of years – though not nearly as long as many – and he was always impressed by his humour and positive outlook on life.

He said: “I’ll always remember that distinctive chuckle and that carrier bag full of last weekend’s newspapers as he endeavoured to find a quiet spot in a pub to catch up on them while waiting for his beloved wife Sally to arrive. I don’t think he ever did get them read, as his company was much sought after and before he knew it he was deep in conversation with a fellow beer enthusiast.

“I was always particularly pleased that his recommendations were regularly taken up by the annual Good Pub Guide (edited by Alisdair Aird and Fiona Stapley) and he had an uncanny knack of liking the pubs I was also partial to. Kindred spirits, I suppose.

“Eric was a terrific source of information – and never failed to correct me on occasions – particularly his pet subject, the Ouseburn Valley in Newcastle; its history, its pubs and its vibrancy (and he even held a set of keys for the Victoria Tunnel).”

Tony Brookes, founder of the Head Of Steam group of pubs, said: “Eric was a gentleman of the beer appreciation world, without doubt The Head Of Steam’s greatest supporter. Over decades, I have never seen him anything other than happy and enthusiastic. We’ll all miss him a lot.”

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One of Newcastle’s newest music and ale pubs has hit the highest of high notes. Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for the Jazz.Coop and The Globe.

The Globe, sitting on the corner of Railway Street and Plummer Street near the Metro Radio Arena, has struggled to find a real voice in recent years. But on April 11 2014 – significantly International Jazz Day – the formation of the Newcastle Jazz.Coop and a community share issue set up to purchase premises turned trumps when the pub was put up for sale by Trust Inns. Now a blend of high quality music and beer to suit all tastes is on offer.

“The cooperative came about as a result of the death of Keith Crombie in December 2012 who ran the Jazz Café in Pink Lane for many years,” says Jazz.Coop volunteer Dave Parker (a double-bassist). “We got to talking about how to continue what he had started with the promotion of live jazz, poetry and related arts. The cooperative set up in his memory totally took off.”

Long negotiations with the owners of the Jazz Café eventually came to nothing and the Jazz.

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Coop put on sessions at various venues around Newcastle which, with regular workshops at The Sage, at least kept a lot of local musicians engaged.

Dave Parker says: “We came to the conclusion that we needed something to keep it sustainable, so we set up a community share issue where people could invest amounts from £200 to £20,000 to purchase and refurbish The Globe.

“We let the premises to a tenant in return for the use of the upstairs floor for jazz and other music. There’s always something going on for people to have a drink, hang out and meet other people. We run evening courses – all volunteers – and regular jam sessions where musicians can develop or come along as enthusiastic members.”

The Globe is being run by Lee Gibbons, an NHS nurse by profession, and a man who has a clear idea of what makes a great pub. One step inside and customers realise that heart and soul – with an idiosyncratic design eye – have gone into the place.

“We’ve done a lot to the pub in the two or three months we’ve been here, but there’s still a lot to do,” says Lee. “We started by choosing the beers very carefully and have kept an eye on what’s been selling.

“We’re attracting people going to The Arena or for a night out where they want something else. We’ve got a stage for live music, a great sound system, and we’ll show films and offer food when the kitchen is up and ready.

“We’d like it to be a nice relaxing

Clear diirection: Lee Gibbons at The Globe, Newcastle

bar. There’s really not a lot around this part of town although we’re only eight minutes’ walk from Central Station. But we’re near Jurys Inn and as Newcastle College is just up the road we hope to attract young musicians to come and play.”

An insistence on decent wine and a clutch of ales from Mordue and Wylam breweries, plus a visitor or two from further afield, have also influenced the pub’s ambience.

“We’ll run charity nights and parties so if anybody has an idea we’ll listen – we’re evolving all the time. We want everyone who comes through the door to have a pleasant experience.”

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A couple of years ago we went in search of some feral hops on a Northumberland beach. At the invitation of Michael Hegarty, brewer at The Ship Inn, Low Newton-by-the-Sea, we started a process of identifying where they had come from and what variety they were.

Cutting it short, the wild-growing plants were probably seeded from a previously existing pub nearby, but even Brewlab’s beer experts in Sunderland couldn’t identify the genetic “fingerprint” as the plants’ DNA had mutated so much over the years. In other words, we drew a blank.

Never mind, the hops are still there and right at the start of the growing season, staff at The Ship Inn have been putting their green tips to good use in the kitchen.

In Belgium and Holland, enthusiasts can pay up to €1,000 (£720) a kilo for hop shoots,

harvested from the parts of the plant that won’t go on to produce the flowers used in creating beer. This makes them the world’s most expensive vegetable.

“They cost so much because they’re absolutely back-breaking to harvest,” says Melissa Cole, who distributed hundreds of shoots to London restaurants last month as part of a two-day London Hop Shoot festival.

“They don’t grow in a uniform row, so each one you pick requires you to hunch over and really hunt around. Plus they’re tiny so you need to pick hundreds to fill a carrier bag.”

Eaten raw, hop shoots are astringent – spittingly so – but when steamed they take on a kale-like quality with a nutty flavour to the stems.

At The Ship Inn, Libby Eltringham cooked the hop shoots and served them with samphire and gnocci.

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massive amounts of the hop tips so we couldn’t offer it in the pub, but Michael and I shared it. It’s known as ‘the poor man’s asparagus’ and it has something of that character about it.

“It had a delicate flavour and absolutely delicious done for just a minute in a pan with a knob of butter and some garlic.”

In Britain, hop shoots are still treated as a waste product, left to wither by brewers who consider filling carrier bags in back-breaking style to be financially unviable.

But perhaps they said the same thing about avocados a few years ago. Now they’re our best-selling fruit with UK shoppers splashing out £128m on them in the 12 months up

to March 2016, outstripping apples and oranges. Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson is credited for the avocado explosion, recommending them served on toast. Remember how her promotion of cranberries caused a shortage?

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A range of beers has been produced to commemorate the involvement of North East regiments in the First World War. It’s part of a fundraising campaign organised by the North East War Memorials Project (NEWMP) charity to assist members of the public, local and family history groups, military historians and schools to research their local war memorials.

War memorials remind us of what happened during long and bloody conflict. They tell the story of those who fought, those who died, and those left behind to cope with the confusion that followed.

The North East War Memorials Project has been working with Newcastle-based Hadrian Border Brewery to produce four WW1 centenary ales featuring the Tyneside Scottish, Tyneside Irish, Newcastle Commercials and the Durham Light Infantry.

The beers are: Newcastle Commercials, a brown ale; Tyneside Scottish, an amber coloured beer; Tyneside Irish, a dry dark and rich stout, and Durham Light Infantry, pale ale.

Ian Johnson, an NEWMP charity volunteer, says: “We are selling gift packs with a specially designed commemorative pint glass and two bottles of beer.

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Profits from the sales will be used in the North East to help support the Royal British Legion fund some of the commemoration events that are being planned for the centenary of the end of WWI in 2018. Each regiment has its own specially designed box and glass.”

Each bottle label reads: “Help the North East community commemorate the centenary years of WW1 by remembering the bravery and sacrifice of all our famous locally-raised regiments. Raise your glass to honour them, and by doing so you are contributing to the commemoration events planned for 2018.”

The official launch date for the WW1 Centenary Ales is May 8 2016 at the banqueting suite of Newcastle Civic Centre (1pm-4pm). Guests of honour are the Lord Mayor of Newcastle alongside the Mayors of Gateshead, Sunderland and Durham, plus veterans’ associations.

The event is in the form of a beer festival with the four commemorative ales to try and buy. The boxed gift sets will also be available from Fenwick Food Hall, Newcastle, from April 30.

Ian Johnson says: “During the event we will have a selection of music performed by Northumbrian, Irish and Scottish pipers and fanfares by the buglers of D Company The Rifles. Time Bandit WW1 Re-enactors will also be displaying uniforms and weaponry of the period.”

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WAY OUT WESTIt’s perhaps significant that Glasgow’s West Brewery celebrated a significant anniversary in the same month as the German purity law – the Reinheitsgebot – reached its 500th year (see page 26). West, owned by German-born businesswoman Petra Wetzel, celebrated its tenth anniversary last month with the opening of a state-of-the-art, 30-barrel brewhouse.

West, whose beers are popular in the North East, has opened its new facility at the Grade A-listed Templeton Building beside Glasgow Green which includes not only the brewhouse that will multiply production tenfold but a dazzling events space, restaurant and beer garden overlooking Glasgow city centre.


The moorhens, swans and ducks on the lake at Newcastle Exhibition Park are being joined this month by a craft brewing centre. It’s all the same to them but enormously exciting for the

rest of us, writes Alastair Gilmour

The North East takes a huge step into the future this month by acknowledging the past. Wylam Brewery is locating to The Palace of Arts in Newcastle’s Exhibition Park, the sole surviving building from the five-month long 1929 North East Coast Exhibition.

It was Newcastle’s answer to the 1926 British Empire Exhibition in London and billed as “a gesture to the world” that would show how the region was on top of its game when it came to industry and engineering. Now it’s brewing’s turn to give a gesture to the world and show what riches we have in a sector that reaches beyond beer into tourism opportunities, inward investment, culture, entertainment, leisure and job creation.

In latter years, The Palace of Arts had been leased by Shepherd Offshore Limited to house its classic car collection, but plans to create a microbrewery, weekend brewery tap, brewing education facility and visitor centre have been recognised as a more attractive proposition for Newcastle’s appetite for vibrant, indigenous enterprises.

“It’s all come together after three years of hard work to reach the finished article,” says Wylam Brewery director Dave Stone. He and business partner Rob Cameron invested in the company three years ago because they saw its huge potential in a developing beer market. They also genuinely loved the end product.

“We were looking for somewhere to expand the business and where we could also have a brewery tap and visitor centre. We looked

for inspiration and learned a lot about what’s happening in global beer movement.

“We went to Portland in Oregon, to San Francisco, Santa Rosa, New York – Manhattan, Brooklyn and Williamsburg – and soaked it all up. We had a few beers too; it was all part of the journey.”

Dave Stone also took a start-up brewing course at Brewlab in Sunderland to broaden his background and get to grips with a few technical terms.

As far as brewing equipment goes, Wylam commissioned the same 30-barrel capacity vessels as Beavertown Brewery in London after collaborating on several brews last year and being hugely impressed. Its head brewer Jenn Merrick has been graced with a Brewer of the Year title and Wylam’s brewers have produced beer on the kit, so there’s a pedigree built in and nothing will be entirely new when the first boil takes place.

The brewery will open its doors to the public on the May Bank Holiday Weekend (27/28/29) with The Happenings, a sumptuous street food and craft beer pop-up event, followed by a top-class live music programme.

Wylam has invested £1.8m into The Palace of Arts building since planning permission was granted in September last year. There will be a brewery tap on site (open Thursday to Saturday) that will pour brews and blends exclusive to the premises. Brewery tours will also be held on Saturdays.

“We look forward to opening the doors to this incredible and historically important

Corina Curry and Matt Boyle at the brewery’s new premises in Newcastle. Corina’s father Robin Leighton and Matt’s dad John Boyle founded Wylam Brewery in 2000

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building,” says Dave Stone. “It has been almost a decade since anyone has had the opportunity to visit The Palace of Arts and we have taken great pride and care in bringing the building back to life.”

First confirmed live performances include local legends Lindisfarne, soul sensation Michael Kiwanuka, and the irrepressible Mystery Jets. Local music magazine NARC. will curate a number of summer shows under the banner NaARC. In The Park with the likes of Smoove & Turrell and The Lake Poets confirmed to perform.

The Palace of Arts will also host The North East Brewers Market, curated by Craft Beer Calling (the region’s international craft beer festival) which brings together the region’s brewing community under one roof.

Dave Stone says: “There are some incredible microbreweries in the North East and the quality and diversity of beers being produced is at an all-time high. We feel it’s important for the region’s talented brewers to have a collaborative platform in which to present their beers.

“We were at full capacity at our site in Heddon on the Wall and there is a real thirst for our beers across the UK. The new brewhouse will give us the opportunity to quench that thirst while maintaining our ethos of quality over quantity.”

Inevitably – and understandably – when the brewery proposal was first made public it was met with some local opposition. Exhibition Park and all it stands for are sacred to many resident’s groups. But Dave Stone is adamant that the Palace of Arts project will proceed with sensitivity and respect for the city. It’s in Wylam Brewery’s best interests to bring a centre of excellence to Newcastle and to deliver a programme that is acceptable to all.

As one tiny example of the care that has been invested in the development, during a visit while the place was like a building site I felt the weight of some solid brass lamp fittings and remarked that because they’d be sited quite high up they could easily have got away with brass-effect plastic – and saved a bit of money. The reply came: “We don’t do imitation”.

“We’ll do it properly as we do everything else,” says Dave Stone. “We’ll do it carefully and organically because we only want to make proper beer.

“We will be keeping the residents’ groups informed about what we’re doing. We want to attract people from all over the world because now we’re competing on a world stage. It’ll



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According to The Journal And North Star of Tuesday May 14 1929 when the North East Coast Exhibition was officially opened by The Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII) to huge excitement and nervous expectation in what we now know as Exhibition Park on the city’s vast Town Moor, Gracie Fields was starring in The Show’s The Thing at Newcastle Empire Theatre. Al Jolson’s The Singing Fool (“the talking picture success”) was beguiling audiences at The Stoll Picture House. Blayney & Co’s Whisky Clan-na-Ghael Finest Highland

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benefit the whole region as the North East will be recognised as one of the go-to places for great beer.

“We we feel the regional brewing scene will benefit en masse from this development. It’s a brother and sisterhood; we share all the ideals and we are very pleased that the city has understood and engaged with our vision.”

The main buildings at the 1929 North East Coast Exhibition were the Palace of Engineering, the Palace of Industry, the Palace of

Arts, the Festival Hall, Garden Club, a stadium of 20,000 capacity and the Women’s and Artisans’ sections. There was also an Empire Marketing Board Pavilion.

Eighty-seven years ago, a local newspaper reporter wrote: “The great industries which have made us famous are still a virile force and we have many lighter industries which deserve to be increasingly and more widely known.”

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The Palace of Arts, Newcastle with the Wylam Brewery crew (left to right) Matt Boyle, Ben Wilkinson, Dave Stone, Rob Cameron and John Boyle


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The Central in Gateshead continues its commendable dabble in art appreciation with an exhibition featuring its next-door neighbour. A selection of drawings made by Scott Donnelly, lecturer in visual art at New College Durham, features the iconic High Level Bridge.

Designed by Robert Stephenson, the High Level opened in 1849 and was known by locals at the time as Lang Legs, a reference to the pairs of masonry piers which support spans of the bridge.

In this show which runs until May 30 in the pub’s gallery and roof terrace, several drawings are featured across a range of media,

while the exhibition also shows some relief printing. Immediacy, as well as chance, is brought to the work by using unforgiving media such as oil pastel and conté crayon on uncoated paper. Nothing is erased and all marks made are instead left or built upon, turned into something else (but below the layers of monochrome lies some incredibly accurate technical drawing).

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You know how well you get on with your neighbours when you can walk into their workshop, riffle through a toolbox, and walk off with a spanner without as much as a by-your-leave or thank you. Then the other way you can borrow a bag of malted barley as if it were a cup of sugar.

That’s the position that Errant Brewery is in – situated midway between a specialist Renault mechanic and the award-winning Temptation Brewery under the arches of Newcastle’s King Edward Bridge.

Every few minutes the rumble of an East Coast Main Line train signals it’s going about its business, interrupted only by a

swoosh from the cement works out the back that sounds like an almighty downpour.

“You get used to it,” says Martyn Stockdale who, with business partner Tom Meads, started up the four-barrel capacity Errant last year. With four fermenting vessels in a line, a variety of different beers can be produced in small batches.

“Railway arches are perfect for breweries,”

says Martyn. “Network Rail have been fantastic landlords. When we’ve asked if we can do this or

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the place on fire.”Errant has recently

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that’s cloudy by nature. Using special wheat yeast to give the style a distinctive clove character plus Pacifica hops and juniper berries to balance it, it’s crisp and herbal.

Tom Meads says: “We had to devise a way of smashing up the juniper berries – which we sourced from Croatia – to squash out all the juice. We chose juniper because gin is so popular in Pleased To Meet You.”

Errant Brewery has previously collaborated with Quilliam Brothers Teahouse in Newcastle to produce a Lapsang Souchong stout called Ahab (5.0% abv) which revelled in tea and smoky undercurrents.

Tom learned the basics of his craft at West Berkshire Brewery. He says: “We used to brew traditional beers like best bitter all the time (at West Berkshire) but I tend to like getting more fun out of beers.”

Martyn is delighted to report that business is going well. He says: “The micropubs in particular have been fantastic for us and we’re regularly in the Split Chimp in Newcastle and the Station House in Durham.

“They like to vary their selection and style – they’re really proud of getting local beers from the likes of us. Plus, you don’t go to a micropub for a Carling.”

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Errant fellows: Martyn Stockdale, left, and Tom Meads


An email that arrived at the beginning of this year gave Chris Graham of Black Hill Brewery a bit of a start. The opening wording sent to the Stanley, County Durham, business led with “Cheers Comrades!”

“I’m not political,” says Chris, “so I thought ‘this is a bit funny’. But then I saw we were being invited to produce a special beer in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War, when thousands of British volunteers took up arms against the Nazi-backed forces of General Franco.

“Actually, our sales girl Louise Walker was approached first. She organises the Northallerton Beer Festival among other things, so it’s her fault. Seriously, we’re immensely proud to be working with anti-fascist group Hope Not Hate and the International Brigade Memorial Trust (IBMT) on this project.”

Brigadista (4.3% abv), carrying

the slogan “no pasaran” – “they shall not pass” – is dedicated to the women and men who travelled to Spain to fight for the democratically elected republican government against Franco. Some 2,500 volunteers from Britain and Spain volunteered to fight in the 1936-39 conflict. The beer was set to be launched on International Workers Day – May 1 – in London and Manchester. The 80th anniversary celebrations culminate in the Tolpuddle Festival in September.

“Brigadista has a very Spanish feel from the addition of Spanish blossom honey, dried orange and lemon peel,” says Chris, obviously very proud of his bebé. “It’s not a complicated beer but it’s got a lovely colour. We’ve had enquiries from Spain, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Manchester, London, Ireland and the Channel Islands.

It’s certainly a rollercoaster at the moment.

“We’ve done 30 to 40 different

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beers now and I’m always trying to see if it’ll work. We’re donating some of the profits to the IBMT charity that erects statues to former anti-fascists who fought in the war. I’ve always wanted to do something to help others, like Bill Scantlebury does with the RLNI at Cullercoats Brewery, giving money to worthy causes.

“Brigadista has taken on a life of its own and as I said, I’m not political, but it’s about giving something back.”

Chris is a former South Yorkshire miner who retrained in engineering and physics after the coal industry suffered massive closures in the 1980s and 1990s. He eventually

ended up working with the Ministry of Defence in an electronics warfare role at RAF Spadeadam in Cumbria where he met John Deal who, with his wife Fiona, had set up Geltsdale Brewery in Brampton (which has gone out of business, sadly). Chris learned the ropes and even uses the same graphic designer for his pumpclips and labels.

He says: “Geltsdale produced some brilliant beers but I think they overstretched themselves. I’ve got a 10-barrel kettle and I don’t want to get any bigger than that. I can be brewing three times a week and there’s only me, so it means brew, clean, brew, clean, brew, clean.”


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But chins were stroked and brain recesses scoured when a Spanish student told a Northumberland brewing team about a successful experiment she had carried by rousing beer with grape juice.

Neus Llopis has been on a work placement at Morpeth-based Anarchy Brew Co while taking a masters degree in fermented beverages, science and technology – with brewing a speciality – at Universitat Rovira I Virgili in Tarragona, in the north east of Spain.

Her boyfriend’s parents own a winery – Vins Miquel Gelabert in Majorca – and as Neus is an accomplished home-brewer, perhaps the wine and beer synergy should come as no surprise.

She says: “At harvest time I took

a little grape juice – Chardonnay and Muscatel – and added it to the beer’s secondary fermentation. It tasted good and gave the beer a more fruity character.”

Originally from Valencia, Neus was recommended to Anarchy owners Simon and Dawn Miles by the director of the Barcelona Beer Festival. The North East couple have been attending and exhibiting at the festival for a couple of years where they got to know the organisers through their admiration for Anarchy beers.

Despite the fact she could have taken up a similar internship at home (and enjoy the Spanish spring sunshine rather than endure the extremes of Northumberland weather) Neus came over for two months.

As it happens, she was already well primed, having tested a bottle of Anarchy Blonde Star among a range of beers she had to analyse as part of her course.

She admits to being impressed by the laboratory’s end results long before she had even tasted the beer. “It was really good,” she says.

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At Anarchy’s Whitehouse Farm Centre headquarters, Neus’s role is very much hands-on, and rather than having one eye on a microscope, she’s been shovelling malt, caustic cleaning, ordering ingredients, planning production, washing and filling casks, and riding shotgun on the delivery van to see for herself which pubs the beer ends up in.

“I’m really happy here,” she says. “I wanted to learn this way and they’re really teaching me and developing my skills and techniques.

“I like British beers, particularly stout. I love how the flavours develop with the balance of malt and hops. There’s a boom in craft beers in Spain with many microbreweries springing up.

“There are about 10 breweries in Majorca now where I hope to open my own.”

Neus has identified an old windmill that would fit the bill for brewing beer. “It’s a wish at the moment,” she says. “A dream.”

Simon Miles is hugely impressed by the way that Neus has adapted to all the tasks in the expanding brewery (the company has recently

taken over an adjoining unit) and how she has fitted in with the rest of the Anarchy crew – plus how well she adapted to the cold spring conditions.

He says: “It’s good for us as well to have Neus here, even for a short time, and it’s interesting to hear some of the processes used in the vineyard.

“We feel good about helping students; it’s exciting for us and good for the industry to get different opinions and angles from all over the world. And you never know what friendships and business relationships will develop.”

Continuing the Spain-Northumberland connection, Anarchy’s Spanish distributor is dropping in this month to collaborate on a beer designed for a street beer festival in Barcelona in July – and no doubt, Neus Lloris will exert an influence on the end result.

“A lot of the small producers over there even use the same British suppliers as us, but produce their beer in their own style,” says Simon, who intends to take the full Anarchy squad to Barcelona.

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unscrupulous brewers from adding dubious toxic and even hallucinogenic ingredients as preservatives or flavourings. They included herbs and spices such as rosemary and caraway, henbane, thorn-apple, wood shavings, roots, soot or even pitch

Duke Wilhelm IV’s beer purity regulation of 1516, which was preceded by earlier rules on beer production, was gradually implemented in other parts of southern Germany. It eventually became law in the north and thus the whole country in 1906.

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THE OLDE SHIPS INNDurham Road, East Rainton, DH5 9QT t: 0191 5840944

THE OLD WELL INN The Bank, Barnard CastleDL12 8PH t: 01833 690 130

THE PLOUGHMountsett, Burnopfield, NE16 6BA t: 01207 570346

THE PUNCH BOWL INN Edmundbyers, DH8 9NL t: 01207 255545 THE QUAKERHOUSE2 Mechanics Yard, Darlington, DL3 7QF t: 07783 960105

THE QUAYS5 Tubwell Row, Darlington, DL1 1NU t: 01325 461448

THE ROYAL OAK 7 Manor Rd, Medomsley Village, DH8 6QN t: 01207 560336

THE SCOTCH ARMSBlackhill, Consett, DH8 8LZt: 01207 593709 THE SHIP Low Road, Middlestone Village, Middlestone, DL14 8AB t: 01388 810904

THE SMITHS ARMS Brecon Hill, Castle Dene, Chester le Street, DH3 4HE t: 0191 3857559

THE SPORTSMANS ARMSMoor End Terrace, Belmont, DH1 1BJ t: 0191 3842667 THE STABLESBeamish Hall Hotel, Beamish, DH9 0BY. t: 01207 288 750

THE STABLESWest Herrington, Houghton le Spring, DH4 4NDt: 0191 584 9226 THE THREE HORSESHOESPit House Lane, Leamside, Houghton le Spring, DH4 6QQ t: 0191 584 2394

THE WHITE LIONNewbottle Street, Houghton le Spring, DH4 4ANt: 0191 5120735

THE WHITEHILLS Waldridge Road, Chester le Street, DH2 3AB t: 0191 3882786

WICKET GATEFront Street, Chester-le-Street, DH3 3AX t: 0191 3872960

THE WILD BOAR Frederick Place, Houghton le Spring, DH4 4BN t: 0191 5128050

THE VICTORIA INN 86 Hallgarth Street, Durham, DH1 3AS, t: 0191 3860465

WOODMAN INN23 Gilesgate, Durham, DH11 1QW t: 0191 680 8317

NORTH YORKSHIRE

THE CROWN INNVicars Lane, Manfield, DL2 2RF t: 01325 374243

CUMBRIA

THE BEER HALLHawkshead Brewery, Mill Yard, Staveley, LA8 9LRt: 01539 825260

NORTHUMBERLAND

ADAM & EVEPrudhoe Station, Low Prudhoe, NE42 6NP t: 01661 832323

BAMBURGH CASTLE INNSeahouses, NE68 7SQt: 01665 720283

BARRASFORD ARMSBarrasford Hexham, NE48 4AA t: 01434 681237 BARRELS59-61 Bridge Street, Berwick, TD15 1ES t:01289 308013 BATTLESTEADS HOTELWark, Hexham, NE48 3LSt: 01434 230209www.battlesteads.com BEADNELL TOWERS HOTELBeadnell, NE67 5AYt: 01665 721211 CROSS KEYSThropton, Rothbury, NE65 7HXt: 01669 620362 DIPTON MILL INNDipton Mill Road, Hexham, NE46 1YA t: 01434 606577e: [email protected]

DOCTOR SYNTAXNew Ridley Road, Stocksfield, NE43 7RG, t: 01661 842383 DUKE OF WELLINGTONNewton, NE43 7ULt: 01661 844446

DYKE NEUKMeldon, Nr Morpeth, NE61 3SLt: 01670 772662

ELECTRIC WIZARDNew Market, Morpeth, NE61 1PS. t: 01670 500640

FOX AND HOUNDSMain Road, Wylam, NE41 8DL t: 01661 598060

GENERAL HAVELOCK INNHaydon Bridge, NE47 6ERt: 01434 684376

JOHN THE CLERK OF CRAMLINGTONFront Street, Cramlington, NE23 1DN t: 01670 707060

JOINERS ARMSWansbeck Street, Morpeth, NE61 1XZ. t: 01670 513540

JOLLY FISHERMANCraster, Alnwick, NE66 3TRt: 01665 576461

MINERS ARMSMain Street, Acomb, NE46 4PWt: 01434 603909

LION & LAMBHorsley, NE15 0NSt: 01661 852952

NEWCASTLE HOTELFront Street, Rothbury, NE65 7UT t: 01669 620334

OLIVERS60 Bridge Street, Blyth, NE24 2APt: 01670 368346

RED LIONFront Street West, Bedlington, NE22 5TZ t: 01670 536160 RED LION INNStanegate Road, Newbrough, Hexham, NE47 5ARt: 01434 674226

RIVERDALE HALL HOTELBellingham, NE48 2JTt: 01434 220254

ROBIN HOOD INNMilitary Road, East Wallhouses, Corbridge, NE18 0LLt: 01434 672549

THREE HORSESHOESHathery Lane, Horton, Cramlington, NE24 4HFt: 01670 822410

THREE WHEATHEADSThropton nr Rothbury, NE65 7LR t: 01669 620262

TWICE BREWED INNMilitary Road, Bardon Mill, NE47 7AN t: 01434 344534

THE ALLENDALE INNMarket Place, Allendale, Hexham, NE47 9BJ, t: 01434 683246 THE ANCHOR HOTELHaydon Bridge, NE47 6ABt: 01434 688121

THE ANCHOR INNWhittonstall, Nr Consett, DH8 9JN. t: 01207 561110

THE ANGEL INNMain Street, Corbridge, NE45 5LA. t: 01434 632119

THE BADGERStreet Houses, Ponteland Newcastle upon TyneNE20 9BT t: 01661 871037

THE BLACKBIRDPonteland, NE20 9UH t: 01661 822 684

THE BLACK BULLMatfen, NE20 0RPt: 01661 855395

THE BLUE BELLMount Pleasant, West Mickley, Stocksfield NE43 7LPt: 01661 843146

THE BLUE BELLHillstreet, Corbridge,NE45 5AA. t: 01434 431143

THE BOATHOUSEWylam, NE41 8HRt: 01661 853431

• 14 Real ales on tap• CAMRA 2013• Northumberland Pub of the Year Winner

THE BOATSIDE INNWarden, Hexham, NE46 4SQt: 01434 602233

THE BRIDGE END INNWest Road, Ovingham Prudhoe, NE42 6BNt: 01661 832219

• 5 Real Ales• Traditional family run pub• Folk & music nights

THE CARTS BOG INNLangley on Tyne,Hexham, NE47 5NW. t: 01434 684338 THE CRASTER ARMSThe Wynding, Beadnell,NE675AX. t: 01665 720 272

THE CROWN INNHumshaugh, Hexham, NE46 4AG t: 01434 681 231

THE DIAMOND INNMain Street, Ponteland, NE20 9BB. t: 01661 872898

THE DYVELS INNStation Road, Corbridge, NE45 5AY. t: 01434 633 633

THE FEATHERS INNHedley on the Hill, Stocksfield, NE43 7SW t: 01661 843 607

THE FORESTERS ARMSWest SleekburnNE62 5XE01670 813345

THE GOLDEN LIONHill Street, Corbridge, NE45 5AA t: 01434 632216

THE GOLDEN LIONMarket Place, Allendale, NE47 9BD t: 01434 683 225

THE HADRIAN HOTEL Wall, Hexham, NE44 4EE t: 01434 681232

THE HEART OF NORTHUMBERLAND 5 Market Street, Hexham, NE46 3NS. t: 01434 608013

THE HORSESHOES INNRennington, Alnwick, NE66 3RS. t: 01665 577665 THE JOINERS ARMSNewton-by-the-Sea, NE66 3EAt: 01665 576 112

THE MANOR HOUSECaterway Heads, Shotley Bridge, DH8 9LXt: 01207 255268

THE MANOR INNMain Street, Haltwhistle, NE49 0BS t: 01434 322588

THE NORTHUMBERLAND ARMSThe Peth, West Thirston, Felton, Morpeth, NE65 9EE. t: 01670 787370

THE OFFICEThe Old Toll House, Castle Sqaure, Morpeth THE OLDE SHIP INN9 Main Street, Seahouses, NE68 7RD t: 01665 720 200

THE PACKHORSE INNEllingham, Chathill, NE67 5HAt: 01665 589292

THE PERCY ARMSMain Road, Chatton, NE66 5PS. t: 01670 215244

THE PILOT INN31 Low Greens, Berwick upon Tweed, TD15 1LZ. t: 01289 304214

THE PLOUGHVillage Square, Cramlington, NE23 1DN t: 01670 737633

THE PLOUGH INNFront Street, Ellington, NE61 5JB t: 01670 860340

THE RAILWAY HOTELChurch Street, Haydon Bridge, NE47 6JG t: 01434 684254

THE RAILWAY INNAcklington, Morpeth, NE65 9BPt: 01670 760 320

THE RAT INNAnick, Hexham, NE46 4LNt: 01434 602 814

THE RIDLEY ARMSStannington, Morpeth, NE61 6EL t: 01670 789216

THE SUN INN Acomb, NE46 4PW. t: 01434 602934

THE SUN INNHigh Church, Morpeth, NE61 2QT, t: 01670 514153

Cheers is all about pubs in the North East and this should be a good place to start...

COUNTY DURHAM

BUTCHER’S ARMSMiddle Chare, Chester le Street, DH3 3QBt: 0191 388 3605

DUN COW37 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HN. t: 0191 386 9219

HALF MOON INN130 North Gate,Darlington, DL1 1QSt: 01325 465765

HAT AND FEATHERSChurch Street, Seaham, SR7 7HF. t: 01915 133040

HEAD OF STEAM3 Reform Place, Durham, DH1 4RZ. t: 0191 3832173

HOLE IN THE WALL14 Horsemarket, Darlington, County Durham DL1 5PT t: 01325 466720

ITALIAN FARMHOUSESouth Street, West RaintonHoughton - le - SpringDH4 6PA. t: 0191 5841022

NUMBER TWENTY-222 Coniscliffe Road, Darlington, DL3 7RGt: 01325 354590e: [email protected]

SURTEES ARMSChilton Lane, Ferryhill, DL17 0DHt: 01740 655724

THREE HORSESHOESMaiden Law, Durham, DH7 0QT t. 01207 520900

YE OLDE ELM TREE 12 Crossgate, Durham City, DH1 4PS t: 0191 386 4621

THE AVENUE INNAvenue Street, High Shincliffe, DH1 2PTt: 0191 386 5954 THE BAY HORSE28 West Green, Heighington, DL5 6PE t: 01325 312312

THE BEAMISH MARY INN No Place, Nr Beamish, DH9 0QH t: 0191 370 0237

THE BLACK HORSE Red Row,Beamish, DH9 0RWt: 01207 232569

THE BRITTANIA INN 1 Archer Street, Darlington County Durham, DL3 6LR t: 01325 463787

THE CLARENCE VILLA Durham Road, Coxhoe, County Durham, DH4HX t: 0191 377 3773

THE COUNTY 13 The Green, Aycliffe Vilage, County Durham, DL5 6LX t: 01325 312273

THE CROSS KEYSFront Street, Esh, DH7 9QRt: 0191 3731279

THE CROWNMickleton, Barnard Castle, DL12 0JZ t: 01833 640 381

THE BLACKSMITHS Station Road, Low PittingtonDurham, DH6 1BJ0191 3720287 THE DUKE OF WELLINGTONDarlington Road, Durham DH1 3QN t: 0191 375 7651

THE DUN COWFront Street, Sedgefield, TS21 3AT t: 01740 385 6695

THE FLOATER’S MILLWoodstone Village, Fence Houses, DH4 6BQt: 0191 385 6695

THE GARDEN HOUSE INNNorth Road, Durham, DH1 4NQ t: 0191 3863395

THE GEORGE & DRAGON 4 East Green, Heighington Village, DL5 6PP t: 01325 313152 THE GREY HORSE 115 Sherburn Terrace, Consett, DH8 6NE t: 01207 502585

THE HALF MOON INN 86 New Elvet, Durham, DH1 3AQ t: 0191 3741918

THE HONEST LAWYER Croxdale Bridge, Croxdale, DH1 3HP t: 0191 3783782

THE JOHN DUCK91A Claypath, Durham City, DH1 1 RG

THE LAMBTON WORM North Road, Chester le Street, DH3 4AJ t: 0191 3871162

THE MANOR HOUSE HOTEL The Green, West Auckland, DL14 9HW t: 01388 834834

THE MANOR HOUSE INNCarterway Heads, Shotley Bridge, DH8 9LXt: 01207 255268

THE MARKET TAVERN27 Market Place, Durham, DH1 3NJ t: 0191 3862069

THE MILL Durham Road, Rainton Bridge, DH5 8NG t: 0191 5843211

THE MINERS ARMS 41 Manor Road, Medomsley, DH8 6QN t: 01207 560428

THE NEWFIELD INN Newfield, Chester le Street, DH2 2SP t: 0191 3700565

THE OAK TREE Front Street, Tantobie, Stanley, DH9 9RF t: 01207 235 445


THE SWINBURNE ARMS31 North Side, Stamfordham, NE18 0QG t: 01661 886015

THE TANNERYGilesgate, Hexham, NE46 3QD t: 01434 605537• Beer & Whisky room• Live music• Dog friendly THE TAP & SPILEEastgate, Hexham, NE46 1BH, t: 01434 602039

THE TRAVELLERS RESTSlaley, Hexham, NE46 1TTt: 01434 673231www.travellersrestslaley.com

THE WELLINGTONMain Road, Riding Mill, NE44 6DQ t: 01434 682531

THE WHITE SWANMain Road, Ovingham, PrudhoeNorthumberland NE42 6AG t: 01661 833188

THE WHEATSHEAFSt Helens Street, Corbridge, NE45 5HE t: 01434 632020

THE VICTORIA HOTEL1 Front Street, Bamburgh,NE69 7BP, t: 01668 214431

THE VILLAGE INNLongframlington, Morpeth, NE65 8AD t: 01665 570268www.thevillageinnpub.co.uk

TEESSIDE

BEST WESTERN GRAND HOTELSwainston Street, Hartlepool, TS24 8AA t: 01429 266345e: [email protected]

BRITANNIA INN 65 High Street, Loftus, TS13 4HG t: 01287 640612

CLEVELAND BAY Yarm Road, Eaglescliffe, TS16 0JE t: 01642 780275

THE CLEVELAND HOTEL9-11 High Street WestRedcar, Cleveland, TS10 1SQ t: 01642 484035

TYNE & WEAR

ALUM ALE HOUSEFerry Street, South Shields, NE33 1JR

ASHBROOKE SPORTS CLUBAshbrooke Road, Sunderland, SR2 7HH, t: 0191 528 4536

BACCHUS42-48 High Bridge, Newcastle, NE1 6BX. t: 0191 2611008

BENTON ALE HOUSEFront Street, LongbentonNE7 7XE t: 0191 2661512

BEST WESTERN ROKER HOTELRoker Terrace, Sunderland, SR6 9ND t: 0191 5671786e: [email protected]

BIERREX 82 Pilgrim Street, NE1 6SG

BRIDGE HOTELCastle Square, Newcastle, NE1 1RQ t: 0191 232 6400e: [email protected]

BRIDGE TAVERN7 Akenside HillNewcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3UFt: 0191 232 1122

• Selection of real ales• Food served daily• Roof terrace

BRIDLE PATH101 Front Street, Whickham, NE16 4JJ t: 0191 4217676

CHESTERSChester Road, Sunderland, SR4 7DR t: 0191 5659952

COPPERFIELDSGrand Hotel, Grand ParadeTyne And Wear, NE30 4ERt: 0191 293 6666 CUMBERLAND ARMS12 Front Street, Tynemouth, NE30 4DZ t: 0191 2571820www.cumberlandarms.co.uk

DELAVAL ARMSOld Hartley, NE26 4RLt: 0191 237 0489

CROWN POSADA31 Side, Newcastle, NE1 3JE t: 0191 2321269

FIRE STATIONYork Road, Whitley Bay, NE26 1AB t: 0191 293 9030

FITZGERALDS60 Grey Street, Newcastle, NE1 6AF t: 0191 2301350 FITZGERALDS10-12 Green Terrace, Sunderland, SR1 3PZt: 0191 5670852 FITZGERALDS2 South Parade, Whitley Bay, NE26 2RG t: 0191 2511255

FOX & HOUNDS Coalburns, Greenside, NE40 4JN t: 0191 4132549

FREE TRADE INNSt Lawrence Road, Byker, Newcastle, NE6 1APt: 0191 265 5764

GOSFORTH HOTELHigh Street, Gosforth, NE3 1HQt: 0191 2856617

HOTEL DU VIN & BISTROAllan House, City RoadNewcastle Upon Tyne,NE1 2BE

HUGOS29 Front Street, Tynemouth, NE30 4DZt: 0191 2578956

ISIS26 Silksworth Row, Sunderland, SR1 3QJt: 0191 5147684

IVY HOUSEWorcester Terrace, SunderlandSR2 7AW

LA TAVERNA Stella Road, Ryton NE21 4LU t: 0191 413 2921

• Tapas • Real Ale • Chicken

LADY GREY’S20 Shakespeare Street, Newcastle, NE1 6AQt: 0191 2323606

MAGNESIA BANK1 Camden Street, North Shields, NE30 1NH t: 0191 257 4831

MARKET LANE72-74 Pilgrim Street, Newcastle, NE1 6SG t: 0191 232 0251

MARQUIS OF GRANBYStreetgate, Sunniside, Newcastle, Tyne & Wear NE16 5ES t: 0191 257 4831

NEWCASTLE ARMS57 St Andrews Street, Newcastle, NE1 5SEt: 0191 260 2490

ODDFELLOWS7 Albion Road, North Shields, NE30 2RJ t: 0191 4358450

OSBORNES BAR61 Osborne Road, Jesmond, Newcastle, NE2 2AN t: 0191 240 2811

PUB & KITCHEN 13/14 Albion Road, North Shields NE30 2RJt: 0191 2573199

RED LIONRedcar Terrace, West Boldon,NE36 0PZ t: 0191 536 4197

ROCKLIFFE ARMSAlgernon Place, Whitley Bay, NE26 2DT t: 0191 2531299

ROSIES BAR2 Stowell Street, NE1 4XQt: 0191 2328477

SHIREMOOR HOUSE FARMMiddle Engine Lane, North Shields, NE29 8DZt: 0191 2576302

SUN INNMarket Lane, Swalwell, Gateshead, NE16 3ALt: 0191 442 9393

THREE MILE INN,Great North Road, Gosforth, Newcastle, NE3 2DS t: 0191 255 2100

TILLEYS BAR105 Westgate Road, Newcastle, NE1 4AG t: 0191 232 0692

TOBY BARNESDurham Road, SunderlandSR2 7RB, t: 0191 5285644www.tobycarvery.co.uk

TRAVELLERS RESTNorth Road, Wide OpenNE13 6LN t: 0191 2366300

TWIN FARMS22 Main Road, Kenton Bk Ft, NE13 8AB t: 0191 2861263

TYNE BARMaling Street, Newcastle,NE6 1LP

TYNEMOUTH LODGETynemouth Road, North Shields, NE30 4AAt: 0191 257 7565

THE BEEHIVE Hartley Lane, Earsdon,NE25 05Zt: 0191 2529352

THE BODEGA125 Westgate Road,Newcastle, NE1 4AG t: 0191 221 1552

THE BRIAR DENE71 The Links, Whitley Bay, NE26 1UE t: 0191 2520926

THE BRANDLING ARMS176 High Street, Gosforth, NE3 1HD t: 0191 28540

THE BRANDLING VILLAHaddricks Mill Road, South Gosforth, NE3 1QLt: 0191 2840490

• Large selection of real ales• Regular food & drink festivals• Food served

THE BROAD CHARE25 Broad Chare, Trinity Gardens, Quayside, Newcastle, NE1 3DQ t: 0191 211 2144

THE CAUSEY ARCH INN Beamish Burn Road, Marley Hill, Newcastle, NE16 5EG t: 01207 233925

THE CENTRALHalf Moon Lane, Gateshead, NE8 2AN t: 0191 4782543e: [email protected]

THE CENTURIONNeville Street, Newcastle, NE1 5DG, t: 0191 261 6611

• Real ales• Food available• Live sports shown

THE CHILLINGHAMChillingham Road, Newcastle, NE1 1RQ t: 0191 265 3992

THE CLUNY36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle, NE1 2PQt: 0191 230 4474

THE COPT HILL Seaham Road, Houghton le Spring, DH35 8LU t: 0191 5844485

THE COTTAGE TAVERNNorth Street, Cleadon, SR6 7PL t: 0191 519 0547

THE COUNTYHigh Street, Gosforth, NE3 1HB. t: 0191 285 6919

THE COURTYARDArts Centre, Biddick Lane, Washington, NE38 8ABt: 0191 219 3463

THE CUMBERLAND ARMSJames Place Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle, NE6 1LDt: 0191 265 6151

DAT BAR11 Market St, Newcastle, NE1 6JN t: 0191 244 2513

THE DUKE OF WELLINGTONHigh Bridge, Newcastle NE1 1EN t: 0191 261 8852 THE DUN COW 9 High Street West, SunderlandSR1 3HA t: 0191 5672262

THE FIVE SWANSSt Marys Place, Newcastle, NE1 7PG t: 0191 2111140

THE GREENWhite Mare Pool, Wardley, Gateshead, NE10 8YBt: 0191 4950171

THE GREY HORSEFront Street, East Boldon, NE36 0SJ t: 0191 519 1796

THE GREY HORSEOld Penshaw Village,Houghton-le-Spring, DH4 7ER. t: 0191 512 6080

THE HARBOUR VIEWBenedict Street, Roker,

Sunderland, SR6 0NUt: 0191 5671402

THE HASTINGSWheatridge Row, Seaton Delaval, NE25 0QH t: 0191 237 6868

THE HEAD OF STEAM2 Neville Street, Newcastle NE1 5EN t: 0191 230 4236

THE HEAD OF STEAM 3 The Arcade, Front Street, Tynemouth, NE30 4BSt: 0191 272 8105

THE HOTSPUR103 Percy Street, Newcastle, NE1 7RY t: 0191 2324352

THE JOB BULMAN St Nicholas Avenue, Gosforth, NE3 1AA t: 0191 2236320

THE JOLLY STEWARDFulwell Ave, South Shields,NE34 7DF t: 0191 427 2951

THE KEELMAN Grange Road, Newburn, Newcastle , NE15 8NL t: 0191 267 1689

THE KEEL ROWThe Gate, Newcastle, NE1 5RFt: 01912299430

THE KINGS ARMSBeech Street, Deptford, SR4 6BUt: 0191 567 9804

THE KINGS ARMSWest Terrace, Seaton Sluice, NE26 4RD t: 0191 2370275

THE KING GEORGENorth Parade, Whitley Bay t: 0191 251 3877

THE LOW LIGHTS TAVERN Brewhouse Bank, North Shields, NE30 1LL t: 0191 2576038

THE MERCHANTS TAVERN1 St Peters Wharf, NewcastleNE6 1TZ. 0191 5971212

THE MID BOLDON CLUB60 Front Street. East Boldon, NE36 0SH

THE MILE CASTLE52 Westgate Rd, NE1 5XUt: 0191 2111160

THE MILL HOUSEBlackfell, Birtley, DH3 1REt: 0191 415 1313

THE MILLSTONE HOTELHadricks Mill Road,South Gosforth, NE3 1QLt: 0191 285 3429

THE NEW BRIDGE2 -4 Argyle Street, Newcastle, NE1 6PF t: 0191 2321020

THE NORTHUMBRIAN PIPERFawdon House, Red House Farm Estate, Gosforth, NE3 2AHt: 0191 2856793

THE OLD GEORGEOld George Yd, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1EEt: 0191 260 3035

THE PACKHORSECrookgate, Burnopfield, NE16 6NS t: 01207 270283

THE PAVILION Hotspur North, Backworth,

NE27 0BJt: 0191 2680711 THE POTTERS WHEEL Sunniside, Newcastle, NE16 5EE. t: 0191 488 8068

THE PRIORYFront Street, TynemouthNE30 4DX. t. 0191 257 8302

THE QUEEN VICTORIA 206 High Street, Gosforth, NE3 1HD. t: 0191 2858060

THE RAVENSWORTH ARMSLamesley, Gateshead, NE11 0ER. t: 0191 487 6023

THE RED KITESpa Well Road, Winlaton Mill, NE21 6RU. t: 0191 414 5840

THE RISING SUNBank Top, Crawcrook, NE40 4EE. t: 0191 4133316

THE ROSE & CROWNNorth Street, WinlatonNE21 6BT. t: 0191 4145887

THE RUNHEADHolburn Lane, Ryton, Tyne & Wear, NE40 3HJt: 0191 413 9517

THE SANDPIPERFarringdon Road, Cullercoats, Tyne & Wear, NE30 3ER t: 0191 253 5050

THE SCHOONERSouth Shore Road, Gateshead, NE8 3AF t: 0191 477 7404

• Cask & craft beers & ciders• Fab food to feast on• Old school, not retro

THE SIR WILLIAM DE WESSYNGTON2-3 Victoria Road, Concord, Washington, NE37 2JY t: 0191 418 0100

THE STAITH HOUSE57 Low Lights, North Shields, NE30 1JA t: 0191 2708441

THE STEAMBOAT27 Mill Dam, South ShieldsNE33 1EQ t: 0191 454 0134

THE TANNERS1 Byker Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2NS

THE THREE TUNSSheriffs Highway, Gateshead, NE9 5SD. t: 0191 4870666

THE TOWN WALLPink Lane, Newcastle, NE1 5HXwww.thetownwall.com

• Selection of real ales• Food served daily• Cinema room available

THE TURKS HEAD41 Front Street, Tynemouth, NE30 4DZ t: 0191 2576547

THE VICTORYKillingworth Road, South Gosforth, NE3 1SYt: 0191 285 1254

THREE HORSESHOES HOTELWashington Road, SunderlandTyne & Wear, SR5 3HZ0191 519 2006

YE OLD CROSS INNRyton Village, NE40 3QPt: 0191 4134689


FUN STUFF

1 What is Tiger Woods’ first name?

2 What colour bow tie does Donald Duck wear?

3 How many countries make up Great Britain?

4 Dating from 1582, what is the oldest pub in Newcastle?

5 What is the fewest number of countries you could cross travelling between Norway and North Korea?

6 Is a jaffa cake a cake or a biscuit?

7 How many children are there in the Famous Five?

8 Hector Castro scored the winning goal for Uruguay in the first World Cup final in 1930, but what was unusual about him?

9 What do you call the small metal discs around the rim of a tambourine?

10 Which Newcastle pub’s sign shows a man with an arrow in his head?

11 What is the main food of the oyster catcher?

12 What does a costermonger sell?

TWELVE BRAIN TEASERS TO TRY IN THE PUB

THE DIRTY DOZEN

QUIZ ANSWERS 1 Eldrick. 2 Red. 3 Three (England, Scotland, Wales). 4 The Old George. 5 One (Russia). 6 A cake, according to a 1991 VAT tribunal. 7 Four. The other is a dog. 8 He only had one arm. 9 Jingles. 10 The Hotspur. 11 Mussels. 12 Fruit and veg.

A BLONDE WALKS INTO A BAR…… AND THE BARMAN SAYS: ‘I RECOGNISE YOU, YOU’RE THE WOMAN WHO WAS DRAGGED INTO THE GORILLA CAGE AT THE ZOO AND MOLESTED.’ THE BLONDE SAYS: ‘YES, THAT’S ME RIGHT ENOUGH.’ THE BARMAN SAYS: ‘HOW ARE YOU AFTER THAT TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE?’. THE BLONDE SAYS: ‘HOW DO YOU THINK I FEEL? ‘HE’S NEVER PHONED… HE’S NEVER TEXTED…’

SIGN OF THE TIMESEvery day, The Chronicle invites readers to guess the year of a photo from its archives. Some are easy while others require more thought. The caption to this recent one drops a heavy clue (in case you can’t make it out, it reads “today’s picture… in 1972”).

CHEERS ON TOURWe’re constantly amazed at loyal Cheers readers taking the time to pack a copy of the magazine to photograph on holiday. In recent times, we’ve been spotted in locations as far apart as New Zealand and America. Here are a couple of snaps taken in O’Donoghue’s in Dublin, a pub once frequented by The Dubliners – showing a trio fair maidens out enjoying the atmosphere (sent in by Austin Dunphy) – and Ken Paul at Fyne Ales brewery in Argyll (“A great place,” he says).


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