Grab; Nice to see the Three Stags' Heads mentioned; It's still going strong, and as eccentric as ever. I'll be camping up there with some friends and playing music first weekend in August. Abbeydale beers are just great, but the high alcohol ones are dangerous! Anyone on Black Lurcher or stronger is more or less forced (by Pat, the landlady) to drink a pint of water before leaving for home, to avoid hangovers!
DtG; I don't know if it's still true, but Holts used to donate a penny from every pint to fund the Holt Radium Institute at Christies Hospital in Manchester. The idea that the more I drank the more funding there was for cancer research appealed to me...
Tim