I was at university in Leicester in the mid '70s. CAMRA was just beginning to have a big impact and my friends traveled far for interesting pubs. I even tried jokingly to launch a rival organization that recognized that there was more to a good pub than good beer. I called it the Campaign for Real Authentic Pubs (CRAP).
I recall pubs with wooden bar games like Skittles and one in Stratford on Avon with an ancient wooden bowling alley that wasn't there a year later. I spent weeks of the drought summer of '76 in an archaeological dig at the top of Breedon Hill. We had lunch in a pub in the village every day It was an all you can eat ploughman's for 25p a head (I kid you not) with local cheeses, home made pickles, and big jugs of bitter shandy!
Happy memories!
Last edited by JCK; 28/03/20 11:04 AM.
