Extra! Extra! Read All About It! So goes the plaintive wail of the newspaper seller - do you even see those anymore? - but the phrase applies equally well to my latest precis of photostream progress. As in June, it's Exploration Extra which has been ploughing the loneliest of furrows to keep the content coming...
Last month I brought you batches from Castle Douglas, Burnham-on-Sea, the Bristol district of Clifton and lovely Chester, so what has July been busying itself with? Our answer starts in the Cheshire town of Congleton where I have developed a mild obsession over Warrington Anglers Association day ticket warnings on canal bridges. The Prince of Wales pub on Lawton Street lends its Joule's Brewery lettering while there's limited headroom on a listed aqueduct.
I've recently reported on visits to Aberystwyth and Rhyl so the Welsh thread holds on Flickr too with a Fishguard flourish from my 2018 archives. Harbourside glimpses of stacked boats and fishing creels mix with unspoiled pub memories of the Fishguard Arms and the Globe, then we have religious ruminations courtesy of St Mary's Church Institute. Nearby Goodwick gets in on the act courtesy of the Methodistiaid Adeiladwyd detailing on the Berachah Calvinist Chapel.
Next up I give you Gloucester through a combination of dock warehouses (Llanthony, Albert and Alexandra), cathedral carvings - or cloisters, should that be of more interest - and pubs. The Imperial Inn's Bass allegiance was always likely to catch my eye but Robert Raikes's House is a Samuel Smiths affair in a handsome timbered property, and the Gloucester Brewery has its beer garden right on the quay.
That's almost everything I need to tell you about, apart from another cheeky Clifton candidate (Cotham Hill's fruit and veg shop), followed by a dash of Dumfries in the form of the romantic Robert Burns mural 'A Merry Squeeze'. There's just time to call in a couple of components from the Crewe Rail Ale beer festival, namely a bus registration plate plus a set of signalling levers (with not a pint in sight I might add), and it's over to August to continue the saga...
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