Hello Kim, Pub crawls are well known here in the UK. When Newbury had almost 100 pubs it would have taken an awful lot of crawling to get round them all! Phil -----Original Message----- From: berkshire-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:berkshire-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Kim Spangrude Sent: 13 October 2009 16:27 To: berkshire@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [BRK] Newbury Breweries Kim here, in Salt Lake City, Utah - really wish I were in England to partake with the good folk of Newbury in their Newbury Brewery lecture; and it would be so interesting to imagine my ancestors partaking of the ale from these very breweries. Here in the states we have what is called a "Pub Crawl", that is, going from pub to pub trying out their specialties. Indeed, one crawls by the time they are at the end of the event. On Oct 13, 2009, at 5:16 AM, Phil Wood wrote: > Hello all, > Those of you living close to Newbury may be interested to hear that > the > Newbury District Field Club (Newbury’s local history society) is > starting a > series of evening lectures to complement their afternoon meetings. > The first talk, at 7.30pm on 27 October in the Parish Room at St > John’s > Church (corner of St John’s Rd and Newtown Rd) is entitled: > A History of Newbury’s Breweries > The speaker is yours truly. I have been researching the pubs and > inns of > the town for some time now, during which I have learnt a lot about the > breweries that supplied them. > Cost £1 members, £3 non-members (membership only £7). > More information: www.ndfc.org.uk > Hope to see some of you there. > Phil > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BERKSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BERKSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Quite so Phil I suspect its another of our successful exports <g> (I think we have had pubs a wee bit longer :-) Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) Hello Kim, Pub crawls are well known here in the UK. When Newbury had almost 100 pubs it would have taken an awful lot of crawling to get round them all! Phil