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CHE39 Cover.indd 1 01/04/2014 10:13 CAMRA 2013 Easter Scottish Overall Northumberland Winner Beer Festival Thursday 17th April - Monday 21st April 40+ of the fi nest Scottish cask ales plus a selection of ciders Live music - Saturday night with the Mudskippers - starts 7.30 pm Buskers Nights - Thursday 8th & 22nd April Saturday 26th April - Live Band Pretty Weeds starts 8.30 pm Freshly baked steak/mince pies & mushy peas, toasties & sandwiches available every day. Enjoy your pint while sitting round our real fi re.

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CHE393902 The P2.indd Boathouse.indd 2 1 01/04/201420/03/2014 10:1312:54 WELCOME We’ve sprung forward into the lighter nights at last. All we need now is some balmy weather to enjoy our al fresco drinks after work. Doesn’t it make a CONTENTS di erence being full of the joys of… pub-going. is is the time of year that YOUNG MAN da odils nod their approval to all the beer and food festivals going 18 ON THE MOVE on, from Whitley Bay to Hedley on e inside of Dave Carr’s head must be a tangle of the Hill and all points in between. ideas, ambition and dreams. His ideas for getting It’s important that we support bums on seats in pubs are to be admired – because them when and where we can. most of them work. No sooner has he  gured out We’ve got a packed issue for how to construct a cider room in an empty space you this month and the breadth than he’s o inventing a new style of sandwich (or of subject matter simply “sammidge” as he endearingly labels them). Dave has demonstrates the huge variety of recently taken control of e Tannery in Hexham activities taking place around the and his and his team’s e orts are already paying North East’s pubs. dividends with customers making tracks there, eager It’s terri c to witness the to be part of the pub’s innovative approach. But it’s

con dence of entrepreneurs who and Dave Carr Robinson, Frnak Skelton. Right: Lou cover photo by Peter Front not all easy; there is no magic formula. just know something’s going to work – and it’s not through luck COVER: DAVE CARR AT THE TANNERY IN HEXHAM or gut instinct either, it’s sheer hard work. Dave Carr’s pub experience is a AFTER A FEW case in point. He’s a young man DRINKS WE CAME who puts the graft in and works LATEST TAKE THE at a project until it comes good. If UP WITH THE only some of us had half the fertility 04 NEWS 22 RAIL TRAIL of imagination that he has. SCENARIO THAT IF We continue our look at what pubs FAMOUS PAINTERS can o er on a plate and talk to a A PENNY THE PUB man who paints like Picasso. And HAD COME TO Van Gogh. And Monet. en we OFF A PINT 2610 PAINTER take a train ride along the Tyne NEWCASTLE WHAT Valley – stopping o at lovely pubs, WOULD THEY of course. CUT INTO ENJOY THE Join us in our North East pub HAVE PAINTED? round-up. It’s great to have you 11 A STEAK 30 FUN PART on board. A TOAST THE A-Z OF Alastair Gilmour JIM HARKER Editor, Cheers North East ILLUSTRATOR 16 TO BUDVAR 32 GREAT PUBS

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STARTER FOR TEN AT FOOTBALL QUIZ A Newcastle city-centre pub has scored TOP FERMENTERS: Brewing teams from Allendale, Wylam, Tyne Bank, Mordue and Anarchy with the introduction of a sponsored football quiz. The Hotspur on Percy Street has run the event for some time but THE WINNER IS. . .THE NORTH EAST DRINKER manager Gareth Frazer decided a brewery tap take-over would fi t the format perfectly The region’s brewers came home from the with bronze awards for Jake Head IPA (6.3% – then it really took off. Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) abv) and Flannel Hammer (7.5%). “We had 17 teams with 65 players for BeerX festival with a magnifi cent haul Mordue’s Garry Fawson says: “This goes to the last one,” says Gareth. “We have involved of trophies. The event, held in Sheffi eld, show the strength and depth of brewing we have Sonnet 43 and Jarrow breweries and it has underlined what many of us have known for in the North East.” become a fantastically popular event. some time – that the North East produces Dawn Miles from Anarchy Brew Co says: “The format is multimedia and traditional some of the nation’s best beer. “We’re really proud of the North East for these quiz questions with football on screen Mordue Brewery won a gold award for its beer awards. The trouble is we can’t produce where you have to guess the score and also speciality beer Killswitch 51 (5.0% abv). It then enough to keep up with demand.” picture rounds. The good thing is a lot of the won bronze in the Supreme Champion fi nals, Julia Austin from Tyne Bank Brewery credits younger guys are lager drinkers but we sell making it currently the third-best beer in the UK. the region’s vibrant pub scene. an awful lot of real ale on the night as they Mordue also had another success, winning silver “The pubs are pushing us,” she says. “There start to experiment with decent beer. with keg American Amber (4.3% abv). are so many good ones now the brewers “We even have a regular celebrity Tyne Bank Brewery was awarded gold for have had to raise their game. They are putting sportsman, triple paralympian champion Silver Dollar (4.9% abv), while Anarchy Brewery pressure on us to produce better beer.” Stephen Miller taking part – and winning.” Co also hit the gold trail for Sublime Chaos, a And Allendale Brewery’s Claire Lee agrees: The Hotspur’s next football quiz, 7.0% abv stout. “We’re all very happy – it’s about all of us sponsored by Allendale Brewery, is on Allendale Brewery won bronze for Golden working together to make the North East the Wednesday, April 16. For more information Plover (4.0%) and Wylam Brewery walked off place to come for great beer,” she says. tel 0191 232 4352

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CHANGE OF ROLE FOR TOP BEER MAN The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) has named Mike Benner, currently chief executive at the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) as its new managing director. Benner’s appointment follows a strategic review which will see SIBA combine the management of the trade association and its commercial arm to create a MATCHMAKER unified organisation. Benner, right, has been at Camra for 10 years, during which time the organisation’s MATCHMAKER membership has doubled and it has been placed on a financially stable platform. He has been at such a great organisation. I am very excited to MAKE ME A BATCH the forefront of many campaigning successes, join SIBA at a time when there is such enormous including the scrapping of the hated beer duty opportunity for independent brewers and I look To mark the 50th “gyle” from the Bridge escalator and planning reforms to benefit pubs. forward to working towards its vision to build the Tavern’s in-house brewery, the Newcastle He said: “It’s been an honour to be part of future of British beer.” pub organised a beer and food-pairing evening. Needless to say, such is the appetite for sampling the best in food and drink at the moment, the event sold out within two days. CITY SPRINGS INTO FESTIVAL MODE Tavern Ales brewer Joe Roberts and Bridge Tavern chef Tony Renwick explained The Tyneside & Northumberland branch of that in mind, so look out for Anarchy Brew the reasoning behind the match-making to the Campaign For Real Ale (Camra) hosts Co’s Punk Era (6.0% abv), Mordue Apollo the 24 guests with sampler “planks” of beer its Newcastle Beer Festival this month at Red 40 (4.8% abv), High House Farm Ruby and food sliding back and forth across the Northumbria University Students’ Union. The Mild (3.5% abv) and Cullercoats Black Pig tables. (The Cheers recommendation is to (almost) annual event is its 38th, celebrating (5.0% abv) which celebrates the first colour dip radishes into a goats cheese mousse 40 years of the branch’s existence, so this transmission of Captain Pugwash. The then coat that with caramalt from the year’s Battle of the Beers competition has event promises to be a lot of fun and it’ll be brewery. Divine. Ask Tony). a 1974 theme. Brewers in the branch area interesting to sample the results. For future events, keep an eye on have been invited to present a beer with www.cannybevvy.co.uk www.thebridgetavern.com

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AREN’T WE A KEEPING JAZZ ALIVE CLEVER LOT? IN NEWCASTLE • Hawkshead Brewery took bronze for Lakeland Gold (4.4% abv) and silver The Cooperative Enterprise Hub and the for Windermere Pale (4.0% abv) at last Pink Lane Jazz Co-op have extended their month’s SIBA BeerX competition (see community share issue to allow supporters page 5 for North East winners). more time to invest in the venture to buy and refurbish The Globe pub on Railway Street in • Glasses are also being raised at Rooster’s Newcastle. The new closing date is midnight Brewing Co – the North Yorkshire brewery on Monday, April 14. was highly commended in the same The co-operative enterprise was born out of competition for best range of bottle labels a wish to keep alive the spirit of Keith Crombie, and best total design concept. former owner of the Jazz Cafe in Newcastle, who died in 2012. Pink Lane Jazz Co-op set its • Hadrian Border Brewery is still looking sights on purchasing The Globe where it plans to for its elusive fi rst pub to develop its host live jazz events and classes, and transform The Sage where Pink Lane Jazz Co-op is also business further. “The choice has got to the venue into a hub for jazz education, while running a jazz workshop. be right,” says brewery manager Martin renting it to its current tenants to run the bar. Dave Parker, one of the founder members Hammill. “Then more should follow.” Needing more than £200,000 to make this of the co-op, said: “The share issue is really dream come true, Pink Lane Jazz Co-op has gathering momentum. Over 120 people have • The Wellington at Wolviston, Stockton set a fundraising target of £125,000 and is bought shares so far and more applications are on Tees, has recently had a refi t and to currently appealing for music fans to become coming in every day.” celebrate, Consett Ale Works – whose shareholders in the enterprise. Those interested can apply online via the beers are popular in the 1821-vintage pub New investors are being sought during the community shares platform, – has brewed a special house ale called Gateshead International Jazz Festival (April www.microgenius.org.uk and clicking the Iron Duke. 4-6) which brings thousands of jazz lovers to Pink Lane Jazz Coop button.

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CHE39 News 4-9.indd 8 01/04/2014 10:16 NEWS Manager John ‘Jay Jay’ Bennett LA TAV ERNA Real Ale & Chicken Bar

C3 SET FOR CP FROM 04.04.14 A rare event takes place in early Weekend, starting on Friday, April 4 Our own rotisserie cooked chicken April at the Crown Posada in will feature the launch of Allendale with a Mediterranean twist Newcastle with the addition of End 65, a dry-hopped rye pilsner, an ultra-modern keg beer line and the unique C3 – brewed using Four Real Ales • Two Real Ciders in such a historic bar promising Chinook, Cascade and Centennial to be the fi rst in a series of hops – formed specifi cally for the Bar open from 12pm Every day exciting events. Crown Posada, as well as other Food served daily The Allendale Brewery Ale beers from the Allendale portfolio. Mon to Fri 3pm - 9pm Sat and Sun 12pm - 9pm

Follow us on Twitter @_LA_TAVERNA / Like Us On Facebook Stella Road, Blaydon On-Tyne, NE21 4LU 0191 413 8975 NEXT DOOR TO MICHELANGELO’S

THE PLAY’S THE THING All the world’s a pub, and all Entry is £3 on the door with all the men and women merely money raised going to support a pub-goers. Graduates of Live project to take more Shakespeare Theatre’s playwriting course into schools. will be performing the work Among those taking part they have created in a series of are Jane Pickthall, joint owner script-in-hand shows throughout of Newcastle-based Out There April, May and June – in a pub. Brewing Company, performing An The plays will be read by a Illuminating Yarn. group of actors in The Bridge Details about the plays, the Hotel, Newcastle. Eight plays will writers and timings at the Bridge be performed during the run under Hotel are on the Facebook pages the group’s banner Playing Up. of Arts In Touch and Playing Up.

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NOT A PENNY-PINCHING BUDGET A penny off a pint, cheaper will match it. Camerons pub estates PLEASED TO long-haul fl ights, fuel duty frozen and operations director Joe Smith – it was a cracker of a Budget said: “It’s only right this saving package if you’re a bingo-player was passed on to our customers with a few quid in his pension to raise some funds for this fund to buy a Lamborghini. fantastic charity.” So, what of George Osborne’s Mark Anderson of Maxim MEAT YOU announcement last month that Brewery in Houghton le Spring for the second year in a row beer understands it’s not easy for pubs duty would be cut by 1p per pint? to reduce their beer by a penny a Cheers North East asked around. pint, as drinks are invariably priced Martin Hammill, brewery in round numbers. manager at Hadrian Border “Most pubs are not reducing Brewery in Newcastle, welcomed the price by a penny although all the penny reduction. breweries should be reducing the He said: “It should help things price to customers by the full 1p and means we’re not going to raise per pint,” he said. our prices – yet again – for the fi fth “The big brewers have successive year.” recently put their prices up and “But probably the best support increasingly competitive with the Customers across the 12 consequently are now reducing this year is the £1,000 off the new ‘pound pubs’ popping up – the managed pubs in the Camerons them. Most pubs have gone for 5p business rates bills for pubs and latest being Stockton. “Tied houses retail estate will be given the choice a pint for the annual price increase, small retailers with business rates would be lucky to buy their beer at to receive their 1p back or donate so overall the pub trade should be up to £50,000.” less than £1.50 plus VAT per pint, it to the charity WaterAid. And for very, very slightly better off showing He also added a warning which means £3.60 on the bar to every penny donated, Camerons the Government’s support for pubs. “Pricing continues to be the customer.”

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CHE39 Food.indd 10 01/04/2014 10:17 PUB FOOD: STEAK PLEASED TO MEAT YOU e steak in all its guises, from a hot sandwich to a melt-in-the-mouth  llet, still makes one of our most popular pub meals, writes Alastair Gilmour

Study a quality pub menu popular around the region with its and you’ll nd the pièce de sizzling skillets and ame-grilled résistance is the choice of steak. food – and what is top Newcastle Many pubs present sirloin, llet venue Hotel Indigo’s major and rump particularly well – in attraction?  e Marco Pierre fact many of them specialise in White Steakhouse Bar and Grill. steak in all its styles.  e word steak comes from We are familiar with pub steak an Old Norse term “steikjo” nights, steak and grill events and which means to roast on a spit, steakhouses, while the Flaming and it has probably been in Grill chain is proving amazingly existence long before Norsemen

Traditional pub in the heart of Matfen village

4 Real Ales on tap - Wylams fi nest! Guest Ales coming soon! The Robin Hood Inn Good range of beers & fi ne wines Steak Night Special Now serving home made beefburgers 2 x 10 oz rump steaks + bottle of wine £25.00 using 100% local beef, rib eye & rump steaks Served Friday & Saturday 6pm - 9pm from Thursday evenings Sunday Lunch - choice of roast with seasonal veg and home made yorkshire puddings A warm welcome awaits from Ali & Nigel Main course £8.95, 2 course £11.45, 3 course £13.95 Served noon - 5pm Excellent selction of Real Ales on tap Follow us & like us B & B Accommodation Ample parking Children, cyclists & dogs welcome East Wallhouses, Military Road, The Black Bull, Matfen, Northumberland, NE20 0RP Northumberland, NE18 0LL E: [email protected] • T: 01661 855395 Telephone 01434 672 273

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christened it. Cuts of steak vary from country to country but in all cases the most important are from the part of the animal where the ribs join the backbone, between the shoulders and the hip. In Britain, steaks are named according to the basic joints from which they are cut – the llet (also known as tenderloin or undercut) is the leanest and most tender. e sirloin, removed from the bone and cut into slices, also becomes steaks which are less tender than llet but with more avour. e rump is a big piece of very lean meat, usually sliced to produce large steaks which have a good avour but are less tender than sirloin. Steak cookery at its most simple involves For example, Cut orn Farm is located on and in a sustainable manner aided by our little more than grilling them under a erce the Gibside Estate, between Burnopeld and farm diversication projects. We have recently heat to a specied degree of “doneness” and Rowlands Gill and has been farmed by the taken our rst two animals all the way to the can be “blue” where the inside of the cut Gibson family since 1948 – currently managed plate. ey were taken to a farmer and butcher remains red; “rare” in which the inside of the by Alastair Gibson (pictured above). in Stockseld who has a brilliant set-up and meat has heated up but the bres are soft and “We breed Beef Shorthorn cattle and bedded down for the night in clean straw, so still very pink; “medium” where much of the usually carry around 40 breeding females, plus they’re really well looked after.” pink colour has disappeared and the bres their ospring,” he says. “ e market is split One of Alastair’s “secrets” is feeding his have started to congeal, or “well done” at between pedigree sales for breeding and the pedigree Shorthorns on spent grain collected which stage the inside of the meat is uniformly remainder for meat production. once a week from Hadrian Border Brewery at brown-grey and has lost much of its juiciness. “Our vision is to breed top quality animals Newburn, Newcastle. An old Swiss tradition But it’s animal welfare that has the biggest and produce high quality meat with low food was to feed beer to cattle with stomach eect on the meat – stress-free environments miles, so essentially our customers will be problems and now many beef farmers and top-class feeding are paramount when it ‘eating the view’. We farm in a very traditional worldwide even massage their beasts with comes to providing the best quality steaks. manner, with high regard for animal welfare beer – again as part of a welfare programme.

TRY A RANGE OF FINE STEAK DISHES The Pavilion AT THE CROWN MICKLETON One of a kind Josper grill Joe Simpson’s 28 day dry aged Aberdeen Angus Rib Eye, Since opening in 2009, The Pavilion has gained a local following Sirloin and Feather Blade Steaks for its excellent grill menu. Home to one of only a few Spanish Try our most popular dish, Twice Cooked Beef Steak. A slow roasted Josper Grills in the North East, each dish on its grill menu has a beef steak cooked overnight giving it a full flavour whilst being soft unique char grilled flavour that you won’t find anywhere else. and tender. From juicy burgers, succulent king prawn skewers, For more information on our menu or to make a booking visit sumptuous steaks and delicious marinated chicken breasts our website www.thecrownatmickleton.co.uk – there’s a Josper dish to suit all taste buds!

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If you don’t live in Amble now is your chance to shop at The Amble Butcher! • Dry Cured Own Bacon • Fantastic sausage • Award winning Pies Also available a wide range of locally reared and butchered fresh and cooked meats, homemade pease pudding, homemade quiche lorraine

And we can report that the Cut still contains about a third of its 31 Queen Street, Amble NE65 0BX Tel: 01665 712700 orn Farm meat – hung for 30 goodness, so there’s a lot in it Open Mon - Sat 9am - 5pm, Sun 9am - 2pm days – is absolutely superb. and I think it makes a hell of a www.theamblebutcher.co.uk “ e cows love the grain and dierence. Hadrian Border have it helps with the winter feed,” been great – big brewers used to says Alastair. wash the grain through to start “If I’m not using it straight o their next brew so this is even away I bag it like silage with better. I don’t know what I would drainage at the bottom so it can do without it.” HIGH HOUSE FARM dry out. I reckon the spent grain www.gibsideyurts.co.uk BREWERY • VISITOR CENTRE • BAR • RESTAURANT Fancy a pint of our own Real Ale, home cooked food or a look around our brewery then High House Farm is the place for you. STEAK-FRIENDLY PUBS Our home made Matfen Magic Sausage & Mash is a must try! A wonderful traditional hearty dish of sausage made with High House ale, TO STAKE OUT on a bed of cheddar mash & red onion gravy Wedding bookings now The Black Horse The Three Horseshoes being taken for 2015!! Red Row, Beamish, County Leamside, Durham, DH4 6QQ Durham, DH9 0RW Tel: 0191 584 2394 Tel: 01207 232569 Rib eye steak with BlackHorse Grill: 10oz rib eye onion rings and chips, £14.95 steak, £18.50; 12oz sirloin steak, Sirloin steak with £19.95; 8oz fillet steak, £24.95, all onion rings and chips, £14.95 Tel: 01661 886192 • [email protected] served with slow roast tomatoes, www.highhousefarmbrewery.co.uk grilled flat mushroom, onion rings, The Barrasford Arms hand-cut chips and garnish. Barrasford, Northumberland, NE48 4AA Tel: 01434 681237 NEW LOOK  NEW CHEF  NEW MENU The Rat Inn Award-winning chef Tony Binks’ Anick, Hexham, signature beef dish, Braised Beef Northumberland, NE46 4LN Rump in Newcastle Brown Ale is Tel: 01434 602814 one of the most popular dishes Dishes change daily but check on the menu out Northumbrian rump steak Grilled Rib eye steak, hot black Home made wholesome food at its best! Chefs daily specials! sandwich with Cos lettuce and peppercorn sauce and hand-cut fried onions, £7.50 chips, £ 17. Grill Night - Tuesdays - 2 x steaks only £14.95 Peppered Northumbria steak, Pensioners Specials Now available Wed to Fri - 2 meals for £10 + FREE ice cream roasted tomato, watercress and Flaming Grill pubs include: chips – rump £12.50; fillet £21. The Duke of Wellington Curry Night - Friday 4th April - 3 course £9.95 - Book your table NOW! Roast Northumbrian rib of beef Kenton, Newcastle, NE3 3BQ Easter Sunday bookings now being taken! (for two), watercress, chips and Tel: 0191 285 6621 Food served Tue 5 pm till 9 pm, LIVE Wed to Sat noon till 2pm & 6 - 9 pm, Sun noon till 3 pm SPORTS Bearnaise sauce, £45.00 The Pack Horse SHOWN “Legendary” Sunday roasts Crookgate, Burnopfield, NE16 6NS Real Ales on tap - Bar open Tues 5 pm - till close Wed & Thur noon - 3 pm & 6 pm till close , Fri, Sat & Sun noon till close (booking essential) include Tel: 01207 270283 Telephone 01661 843146 • www.bluebellmickley.co.uk roast rib of Northumbrian The Black Bull beef (served pink) with Benton, Newcastle, NE7 7XE THE WEST MICKLEY Yorkshire pudding, £9.50. Tel: 0191 266 2103 BLUEBELL INN NE43 7LP www.cheersnortheast.co.uk / CHEERS / 13

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CHE39 News 15.indd 14 01/04/2014 10:19 NEWS Join us for our Wine Tasting Dinner AIN’T NO TUESDAY 15TH APRIL, 7PM FOR 7.30PM STOPPIN’ £45 per person US NOW The Yellow Bus is on the move. Regular Cheers readers will The team at Battlesteads is on hand to take the mystery recall that, following a few pints out of matching wines to specific dishes and we’ve invited our very in The Angel in Corbridge, two own wine expert Richard Pickles from Bibendum to spend an Hexham lads, Tom Henriksen evening explaining what goes with what. and Simon Hall, had the bright international sporting friendship. idea of driving an American “It’s all go – bus bought and full Enjoy a delicious six course meal with specially selected school bus from Vancouver – of passengers,” says Tom, pictured organic and biodynamic wines. Richard will talk us through the where Tom is now based – to Rio above. “Welcome to The Moose, individual characteristics of each wine and explain his choices to de Janeiro, in time for the World ladies and gentlemen. A brewery accompany each dish. Visit www.battlesteads.com to see our menu. Cup Finals in June. tour in Portland, Oregon, is our They then put out a call for crew first stop.” Stay Overnight members through Cheers and their Simon and Tom will be keeping Make it a tasty retreat with a luxurious social networks – and got them. Cheers updated throughout May, overnight stay, wine tasting dinner and full The international team are spending June and July with their pub visits English breakfast for two for just £180 10 weeks driving 15,000km and other adventures through 14 counties, stopping off – don’t miss them. Battlesteads Hotel & Restaurant, Wark on Tyne, at pubs and breweries along the For more information visit nrReal Hexham, Northumberland Ale, NE48 3LS trail as well as tourist sites such as www.facebook.com/WorldCupBus Tel: 01434 230209 Email: [email protected] Machu Picchu in Peru, plus they The World Cup Yellow Bus Real Food,www.battlesteads.com have arranged football matches project still needs funds to see it with local teams in a gesture of through. www.indiegogo.com Real People NEWCASTLE’S MOST All Newcastle matches IMPRESSIVENOW shown WATERING HOLE!! PUB GIANT JACKS IN NAME The city’s largest screen for In June 2013, Cheers North this issue went to press in late 6 Real Alesmajor always sporting on tap events including, Black- East learned that the new JD March the pub’s proposed name sheep, Jarrow Brewery’s Rivet Catcher Wetherspoon pub in Whickham, changed to the Harry Clasper, in Goodand Beer Deuchars Guide IPA2012 Gateshead, was to be named honour of the 19th Century rower the Jack Roll. and Tyneside sporting legend. 5Monday Handpulls Nights featuring - Live Singerlocal Despite the company’s Clasper’s tomb lies mere yards and national real ales commendable background from the new pub – former council Tuesday Nights - Open Mic in researching local themes offices – in the village churchyard, Make Centurion your meeting for naming and decorating its so one would imagine he would Food servedplace before from 6am or after - 7pm your Mon - Fri, premises, nobody we talked to have been top of any list for 7am-7pm ChristmasSat, 8am - Party7pm Sun in C.C knew Jack Roll’s history – and consideration. So why the sudden Hudsons & from 11am in The Grand it also left Whickham residents name change? Apparently “jack Snug Bar availableRoom for private scratching their heads. Who is/was roll” is a South African term for functions including Christmas Jack Roll? However, shortly before “recreational gang-rape”. Watch many majorparties sporting events on our bright 4m projector Private Meeting & Function rooms available for private hire YEAR ALL WELCOME NOW Function Rooms Alison Cassidy and Nigel vibrant community focus – through Pattinson have celebrated their local nous, great weekend food, first year at the Black Bull in terrific live music and top notch Bar & Deli Matfen, Northumberland – and beer. They want to thank every Grand Central GrandStation, Neville Central St, Newcastle Station, upon Tyne, NE1 5DG what a year it’s been. customer who has visited over the Neville Street, The couple have managed to past 12 months – and new ones Tel: 0191 2616611 www.centurion-newcastle.com turn a dawdling village pub into a will be made equally welcome. Newcastle Upon Tyne, www.cheersnortheast.co.ukNE1 5DG / CHEERS / 15 Tel: 0191 2616611 CHE39 News 15.indd 15 01/04/2014 10:19 www.centurion-newcastle.com NEWCASTLE CITY QUIZ BUDVAR HERE WE COME

e suspense is over – the winners of the month-long search to  nd the Budweiser e teams contesting the Budvar UK Budvar Newcastle City Quiz champions Newcastle Pub Quiz Final were: are the underbastards, representing e Schooner in Gateshead. ey win N’on the ’Weiser, representing e Brandling a fantastic trip to the iconic brewery in Villa, South Gosforth Ceske Budejovice in the Czech Republic Earth Mother Sex Assembly with a winning score of 39/40, beating (Head of Steam, Durham) the Pedalling Pirates (from e Plough, e Vikings (Bacchus, Newcastle) Cramlington, 37.5) who were second, Princess Louise Invitational XI and third-placed Les Quizerables ( e “We did a lot of reading up from the Budvar (Bridge Hotel, Newcastle) Chillingham, Newcastle) in the  nal at e website,” admitted Brian (pictured far right). ree And A Half Men Brandling Villa in South Gosforth. Congratulations to all who took part and ( e Central, Gateshead) A delighted underbastards team leader a big thank-you from Cheers North East and Les Quizerables ( e Chillingham, Newcastle) Brian Burton said: “Bloody hell, we didn’t Budweiser Budvar for playing your part in a Bohemian Rap Study ( e Bodega, Newcastle) expect to win. We’re gobsmacked but very terri c sporting series. Huge thanks too to e Ideas Of March ( e Cluny, Newcastle) happy about it.” quizmaster Chris Betts and organiser Alice Here For e Beer As expected, the speci c Budweiser Budvar Cowley who made everything run smoothly (Hugo’s At e Coast, Tynemouth) round of questions proved crucial in the and kept glasses topped up – as well as setting Pedalling Pirates ( e Plough, Cramlington)  nal reckoning. the questions. underbastards ( e Schooner, Gateshead)

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CHE39 Budvar_Gigs'n'Fests.indd 16 01/04/2014 11:14 GIGS ‘N’ FESTS UNTIL APRIL 10 APRIL 17-21 MAY 2-3 WETHERSPOONS SPRING SCOTTISH BEER FESTIVAL GLENSIDE SPRING BEER FESTIVAL The Boathouse, Wylam, NE41 8HR BEER FESTIVAL All outlets nationwide will feature around Tel: 01661 853431 The Glenside, Main Road, Mickley, 50 guest ales. Details from individual pubs. More than 50 Jock-ular beers served over the Stocksfield, NE43 7BW weekend. Live music on Saturday 19. Tel: 01661 843060 Twenty local and guest ales plus 16 ciders. APRIL 9-12 APRIL 18-21 Hot food, live music. Entry £5 includes TH souvenir engraved glass. 38 NEWCASTLE BEER & FOOD FESTIVAL WEEKEND MAY 2-4 BEER FESTIVAL The Feathers Inn, Hedley on the Hill, 5TH GATESHEAD Students Union, Stocksfield NE43 7SW Tel: 01661 843607 Northumbria University, Newcastle Easter weekend includes farmers’ market, BEER & MUSIC FESTIVAL Around 130 beer, ciders and perries from people’s choice beer competition, pie and pint Gateshead Rugby Club, all regions. quiz and the famous Hedley barrel race Low Fell, NE9 5UB. www.cannybevvy.co.uk (Easter Sunday) – win 72 pints and have Tel: 0191 420 0207 lots of fun. Over 100 beers, 30 ciders, sourced locally and www.thefeathers.net nationwide, plus cava bar.. APRIL 17-21 www.gatesheadbeerfestival.co.uk BANK HOLIDAY APRIL 25-26 ALE & PIE FESTIVAL PONTELAND BEER FESTIVAL MAY 9-10 The Gosforth Hotel, Ponteland Leisure Centre, Callerton Lane, HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING High Street, Gosforth, Ponteland NE20 9EG Tel: 01661 825441 NE3 1HQ Friday: Sponsors players and friends from BEER FESTIVAL Eight gravity-fed beers and nine on handpull 6.00pm. Saturday: Everyone welcome, noon- Welfare Hall, Station Road, complemented by pies from the renowned 11.00pm. 30 beers, 10 ciders, lager, wine, soft Houghton-le-Spring DH4 5AH New Zealand Pie Company, plus Jarrow drinks, food, live music. Tickets £10 includes More than 30 real ales and ciders from all Brewery Roadshow (Thurs 17). glass, programme, three beer tokens. around the country. Gigs ’N’ Festivals www.gosforthhotelnewcastle.co.uk www.pontelandrfc.co.uk www.houghton-beer-festival.co.uk

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CHE39 Budvar_Gigs'n'Fests.indd 17 01/04/2014 10:21 FEATURE: ENTREPRENEURS IN PUBS WHAT DRIVES DAVE CARR? Taking over a new pub in an unfamiliar area is a risky business, so what do you do? More of what went before or rip up the script? Alastair Gilmour n d s o u t

When publican Dave Carr took over e all-but given up by its owners Punch Taverns Tannery in Hexham, he found a menu from and was struggling to even get onto its “disposal” the previous owners that proudly featured list. Formerly e Skinners Arms – named in “Sponge of the Day”. It was illustrated with deference to Hexham’s 19th Century leather and photos of wrinkled peas and a “Classic tanning trade (282,048 pairs of gloves were made Lasagne” seemingly set with rigor mortis. in the town in 1823) – it had all the hallmarks Whatever culinary image is conjoured by of a sleeping beauty to the Dave Carr eye. He that, it’s certainly a million miles from the young and his partner Lou Robinson (pictured on page entrepreneur’s vision of serving the likes of 3) saw potential in its three distinct rooms, its Jaipur IPA-battered North Sea cod with home- mixed residential location and a desire among made chips and mushy peas. customers to be presented with the opportunity OK, elsewhere e Tannery o er may delight of having a “local” they could be proud of. in burgers such as e Day Emily Bishop Went Out went the pool table and in came a Insane (£11.50) but it’s a tiny example of how cider room and fascinating island-style back Dave Carr has been building a reputation over bar, although the dart board survives to live the past few years by turning around static pubs another day. A range of well-proven national and and breathing whole new lives into them. local beers with a hint of rebellion about them e Brandling Villa in South Gosforth, animates the main bar (which also features a Newcastle, is a case in point. When he assumed cheese counter) and, crucially, customers are responsibilities there four years ago it was a pub loving the whole thing. Local publicans have going nowhere with a dull o ering and little also been popping in to admire what’s going on, reason for anyone to darken its door. With a to show support and to perhaps pick up a few WE OFFER A REFLECTION lot of thought, lashings of imagination, pulling pointers for themselves. together the ideas and experiences gleaned “ e Tannery has given us the opportunity OF OUR OWN from running e Market Tavern in Durham to do something a little bit di erent to e and Tilleys in Newcastle – plus a refreshingly- Brandling Villa,” says Dave. “We’re going to be PERSONALITIES. sympathetic relationship with his pubco owners trying lots of things here – like the cider bar IT’S NOT PERFECT – the large corner pub is a bustling, thriving and having a great gin selection, plus the best community attraction o ering the best in beers, meats, cheeses and sausages. I didn’t want to BUT PEOPLE LOVE FLAWS some amazing whiskies and well-planned, be known just for inventing a burger with a brilliantly-presented food with a touch of sausage roll on top of it ( e Dirty oughts of IN PUBS; IT’S WHAT wackiness on the side. Cheryl Cole, £11.50) or for the dog beer at e e Tannery, in Hexham’s Gilesgate, was Brandling Villa. THEY’RE ABOUT

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CHE39 Dave Carr.indd 18 01/04/2014 10:21 FEATURE: ENTREPRENEURS IN PUBS

Tannery man: Dave Carr with Frank the beagle

“We’ve been picking up ideas from going to pubs all over the place – even in Tallin in Estonia and a little one on Skopje in Macedonia where there were just two options on the menu – meat or sh – plus the Marble Arch in Manchester. Barcelona is great and New York is just brilliant. “Places there are not meant to be cool, they’re just ordinary, but it’s New York so it’s cool anyway.” It’s that not-trying-too-hard approach that Dave Carr wants to achieve at e Tannery and to a certain extent has done that at e Brandling Villa, where he and Lou continue to divide their time. e Tannery is bright – two huge corner windows see to that – and though it’s worn around the edges it’s aged well since it was built in 1897. e new team have discovered DIY skills they never thought they possessed, while the neighbours are even eager for the two corner doors to be ung open – something that hasn’t happened in decades and regarded as a nod of approval. “We can’t compete with Wetherspoons but we can oer a reection of our own personalities – which a pub should be,” says Dave. “It’s not perfect but people love aws in pubs; it’s what they’re about. e Market Tavern in Durham was a baptism of re but I gave it a bit of a pulse and this place feels a lot like e Brandling Villa when I moved in – the ideas come rst and the logistics come after. It’s still all a bit of a risk though.” ere’s no risk with A Night In With Susan Boyle (£11.95) mind. e 8oz hand-made beef burger is served with poached free range egg, crispy pancetta, Heinz baked beans, fresh leaves, mushrooms, gherkins, tomatoes and relish. Dave Carr has a lot on his plate, but he’s loving it. And no Sponge of the Day, either.

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CHE39 Dave Carr.indd 19 01/04/2014 10:21 Delicious Food, Fine Ales and somewhere to sleep...

Summer is almost upon us! With one of the best views around, GIGS ‘N’ THINGS IN APRIL why not relax in our beer garden with a refreshing pint of local Ale! SAT 5 APR Mojo Hand 8:30PM Some things never change SUN 6 APR Buskers Afternoon 4:30PM Homemade quality local food SUN 6 APR The Bonnevilles 8:30PM Delicious Sunday lunch, served from 12-7pm SAT 12 APR Dust Town Dogs 8:30PM A wide range of fantastic real ales from all over the North East SUN 13 APR The King Bees 4:30PM Quality wine selection from all over the world SAT 19 APR Struggle Buggy 8:30PM Beautiful en-suite bedrooms SUN 20 APR Ruby & the Mystery Cats 4:30PM Dog friendly bar area with a roaring open fi re FRI 25 APR Shipcote & Friends 6:00PM SAT 26 APR The Fractured Valves 8:30PM Something to keep you guessing SUN 27 APR The Tin Stars 4:00PM Our great pub quiz from 8pm-9pm! SUN 27 APR Erin Harpe 8:00PM On the fi rst Thursday of every month! £1 entry per person, with all proceeds going to Josie’s Dragonfl y Trust SAT 3 MAY The Honey Bop Trio 8:30PM SUN 4 MAY Buskers 4:30PM Why not treat yourself to a pie and a pint for £8? EVERY WEDNESDAY IS QUIZ NIGHT Our pies and beers may change, but our quality is always the same! SIX REAL ALE HAND PULLS AND ONE CIDER GREAT FOOD SERVED 12-8 MON TO SAT AND 12-4 SUN Tel: 01207 255 268 | Email: [email protected] The Manor House Inn, Carterway Heads, Shotley Bridge, Northumberland, DH8 9LX

TYNEDALE BEER & CIDER FESITIVAL The Courtyard 12 to 14 June 2014 Tynedale Rugby Club Corbridge - In aid of The North of England Situated within the delightful surrounding Children’s Cancer Research Fund of the Arts Centre Washington - The Percy Hedley Foundation Eight hand pumps serving the finest ales from local - Queen Elizabeth High School Rowing Club and national micro brewers plus a real cider and a real perry. - Over 130 beers & ciders! Great live music! - Wine bar Thursday - Vieux Carré Jazzmen and Tyne Valley Big Band Easter Beer Festival - - Hot food stalls Friday - Diablo and The Baboons - Saturday afternoon fun Saturday - Northumberland Thursday 17th April - Easter Monday 21st April for the kids! Fayre, Ali Reay, The Happy Cats, MLC and the Gangsters of Ska - Camping Main Sponsors Thursday 12 June 6pm to 11pm Showcasing over 50 cask conditioned ales plus real cider and perry. Friday 13 June 6pm to 11pm A selection of imported bottled beers. Saturday 14 June 1pm to 11pm Quality homecooked food available. Buy online! Live music Tickets £10 per day You can now get tickets from the festival Arts Centre Washington, Fatfield, Washington NE38 8AB website. Alternatively, call 01434 652 220 or buy at Hexham or Corbridge Tourist T: (0191)417 0445. E: [email protected] Offices or by post. www.tynedalebeerfestival.org.uk supported by Leamside Brewery

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LIQUID GIFT WILL DO FOR THE PRESENT One of beer’s great ingredients Parting Gift (4.2% abv) is being is tradition. It’s not just about distributed throughout North East water, yeast, malted barley and pubs and a bottled version is to hops but time-honoured rituals follow this month. that you can’t actually taste but Although Tim retired as director which are there all the same. of branded contracts at Simpsons So, when Tim Gatenby Malt, his working life has been (pictured) retired from Berwick- steeped in beer, having enjoyed based Simpsons Malt last year, he stints as a brewer at Scottish followed the company practice of & Newcastle’s Tyne Brewery in presenting fellow directors with a Newcastle and the Federation parting gift. He decided something Brewery in Dunston. liquid would be appropriate. He says: “I chose Golden “I also decided it would be Promise barley as part of the personal to me,” says Tim (pictured ingredients because I played a right). “So I developed a beer with signifi cant role in preserving the ingredients I have had a close variety, which is very low yielding in malty characteristic to beer which says Tim, rather intriguingly. “The association with throughout my comparison to others. American brewers like.” hops are Northern Brewer because career. Wylam Brewery produced “Timothy Taylor Brewery uses Tim also included Golden Naked that’s been my career all along.” Parting Gift – and the reception the a lot of it in Landlord and it’s one Oats for a tight, creamy head and And is there any reason for the beer got was so positive I decided of the nation’s classic beers. I also Crystal Malt for an old-gold hue. beer to be 4.2% abv? “Of course,” it might become something I could found a healthy market for Golden “There’s another malt in it as says Tim. “The answer to everything put on the market.” Promise in the US. It provides a real well but I’m keeping that a secret,” is 42.” The Black Horse Low Fell, Gateshead

The Black Horse is a traditional, community pub set off Durham Road, Low Fell. A family run pub for 36 years, with the longest running licensee in Low Fell, probably Gateshead. We are a Cask Marque accredited pub and have three hand pulls. Deuchars IPA is the permanent national ale with the other two on a rotation from local breweries, one always being a blonde ale. We also serve Hambleton Ales Gluten Free Ale and Lager in bottles. We also sell a selection of Cocktails, Prosecco, Cava and Champagne. We offer customer parking, heated outside drinking areas, quiz nights and jukebox. We have both BT Sport and Sky Sports and show Newcastle United matches. You will find artwork for sale on our walls by local artist Jim Harker, some commissioned especially for The Black Horse, all with our region in mind but in the style of famous artists.

For futher information please follow us on facebook and twitter Black Horse, Low Fell • @BlackHorse_GHD

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CHE39 News 21.indd 21 01/04/2014 10:22 FEATURE: RAIL TRAIL - PART ONE CHOO CHOO CHOOSE YOUR PUB e Tyne Valley railway line is as picturesque as it gets, while the stop-o s along the route are well worth lingering in

Railway pioneers William Hackworth and George Stephenson would hopefully be very proud of their contribution to a great Tyne Valley day out. ere are some terri c pubs sitting along the Sunderland to Carlisle Tyne Valley line and since the pair of them were born in Wylam, Northumberland, they’d be doubly pleased at how easy it is to hop on and o the train and enjoy a few pints in between. e Tyne Valley line is one of England’s scenic railways and between Carlisle and Newcastle trains run hourly for most of the day, every day including Sundays. All trains call at Haltwhistle, Hexham and Prudhoe.

We’re departing Newcastle Central Station at 11.54 on a Saturday, having limbered up with a glass of Jarrow Rivet Catcher in e Centurion. Formerly the station’s First Class Refreshment Room it’s one of the city’s cultural jewels and awe-inspiring surroundings to begin a great day out. On the bonny  rst-leg run along the riverside to the pub you can almost hear Stephenson say of the white-painted cottage on the opposite bank as they near Wylam: “Why Timmy, there’s wor hoose ower there – still looking good after all these years.”

We’re in the Traditional family G d B­  Guide... again run pu since 1975 (2013) Fully re-furbished gem, nestling in the heart of the popular Roman town of Corbridge The Pub next to Accommodation available with views the Station of the Tyne Valley and Corbridge Sunday Carvery served 12-3pm £7.95 Adult • £5.45 small portion

Regula Music & Folk Night Set Menu - Served 12-3pm & 5-7pm, Mon-Sat Mon - Fri: from 4pm • Sat: from 12pm 1 course £5.95 • 2 courses £7.95 • 3 courses £9.95 Real Ales, Open Fire, Friendly Welcome Sun: 12pm - 3pm & from 7pm See page 2 for more details Wheatsheaf Hotel, St Helens Street, Corbridge NE455HE • Telephone:+44(0)1434 632020 Telephone 01661 853431 Email: [email protected] BRIDGE END INN, Ovingham 01661 832219

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CHE39 Tyne Vally Rail Trail.indd 22 01/04/2014 10:25 FEATURE: RAIL TRAIL - PART ONE

12.10: We’ve arrived at Wylam with only a few yards to walk from the platform to The Boathouse, a regular Campaign For Real Ale (Camra) winner as pub of the year. Home to a terri c range stretching over 15 handpulls it’s the  agship for Hadrian Border Brewery ales, cider is a speciality too.  e pub is divided into separate bar and lounge, which gives it the advantage of being almost two pubs in one.  e bar is one of those typically English pub rooms with a forest of handpulls on the counter – real ale rules here – and a large (recently refurbished) replace at one end. It’s comfortable, sociable and dog friendly, which is a boon for thirsty walkers. We’ve given ourselves a couple of hours so we can meander over the bridge and head for e F o x , e Ship or the Black Bull in Wylam village. e Black Bull is a traditional pub o ering a warm, friendly and laid-back welcome to accompany The Adam & Eve a selection of Wylam Brewery beers. While enjoying our nibbles tapas-style we take a note that on Tuesdays two lunchtime Ideally located if you fancy a drink when you courses are £10 and on Wednesdays it’s two steaks for £21. get off the train at Prudhoe! Open 7 days from noon - Food served every day 3 Course Special £4.95 Mon - Fri noon till 8pm Steak Nights Fri and Sat - 2 x 10 oz rump + bottle of wine £25 (6pm - 9pm) 14.23: e Wellington, Riding Mill, appears Real Ales regularly changing on the other side of the car park – again just Live Music in April - 5th Contraband, 19th Dave a short hop from platform to pub. Now part Black, 26th Tommy and the Oddballs - starts 9pm of the Chef & Brewer chain, the building itself is dated 1660 – since when it was known as a Prudhoe Station, Low Prudhoe, NE42 6NP witches meeting place. A famous trial took place when a local Telephone 01661 832 2323 woman, Anne Baites, was accused by a “witch nder” of dancing with the devil.  e case was thrown out of court. Today this is a homely venue with two open res, beamed ceilings, secluded areas for private dining and a large outside area with sturdy benches where you can watch the world – and trains – go by. It’s a di cult choice between Deuchars IPA, High House Farm Wellington and Cullercoats Brewery Jack  e Devil. We’ve got an hour to think about it.

15.26: Our turning point of Corbridge is only three minutes from Riding Mill, but it’s a fair old hike into the village proper so best gird our loins in e D y v e l s right by Corbridge Station.  e pub’s ales – Black Sheep Bitter and Deuchars IPA – accompany sausage and mustard mash nicely and on a sunny afternoon the beer garden is a huge plus. It’s a favourite meeting point for local clubs and societies, particularly vintage car fanatics and their waxed beauties. Corbridge is characterised by a chaotic Co-op piled high with Selection of real ales & Traditional, fresh, produce and impossibly narrow aisles contrasting with country- home cooked food served clothing shops – everything for the discerning gentleman – plus NEW menu now available served daily ladies’ fashion for the Next-free generation, with high-end 12pm - 8pm including daily specials jewellers, a contemporary art gallery crammed with cutesy prints and paintings of sheepdogs, “little scamp” children and Great selection of real ales, wines, beers & ciders illustrations where everybody sports an umbrella. B&B accommodation But above all, Corbridge has some terri c pubs. All Rooms have En Suite, TV, Wi , Hair Dryer,Tea & Coee making e Golden Lion occupies a huge corner site on Hill Street, facilities. e prices include a full Breakfast. having crept into the houses next door, step by step. It manages We have recently tted Orthopaedic Mattresses to all of our beds! to hang on to tradition, however – dining areas are clearly Live bands and entertainment every weekend designated and well-lit and the whole open-plan interior is divided into ve or six separate areas which actually makes it NEW Quiz night & Key draw every Thursday work as di erent pubs. For example, a small snug area features a Live sports shown huge replace while the room at the far end is more of a dining room in ambience.  e toilets are immaculate, nicely tiled and Hill Street, Corbridge, Northumberland, NE45 5AA are worth commenting on. T: 01434 632216 • E: [email protected] www.cheersnortheast.co.uk / CHEERS / 23

CHE39 Tyne Vally Rail Trail.indd 23 01/04/2014 10:25 FEATURE: RAIL TRAIL - PART ONE

e menu relies on trusty staples – steak and ale pie, whole tail scampi and chips, and classic 4oz cheeseburger, while there’s also a takeaway selection. Similarly secure is the beer choice of Caledonian 80/-, Deuchars IPA and Adnams Broadside. e Wheatsheaf Hotel’s lounge is very much like that of a city-centre hotel with panelled walls, low tables, leather seating and a racy carpet. Is that Talking Heads playing? If so, we’re impressed. e small public bar is a touch more earthy and a television with rolling sports news is a magnet while supping a pint of High House Farm Nel’s Best or Hadrian Border Tyneside Blonde. Newcastle United memorabilia lines the walls; a reminder of the late Sixties Fairs Cup run and the visits of Feyenoord, Rangers and Vitoria de Setubal, among others. Nostalgia also in uences the menu with lamb’s liver and crispy bacon a perennial favourite, and grilled gammon steak with fried egg and pineapple as much North ey must be doing something right at East Swinging Sixties as Willie McFaul and e Angel Inn. Here it’s the “grey pound” Wynn Davies. which Corbridge attracts in droves. But it Odd nooks and mismatched furniture plus begs the question: Where does a pub stop and an open lounge re ect tidiness, e ciency a restaurant start? e interior is a curious and a sense of personal attention at the mix of pastel blue and natural timber – but it Black Bull. e pub is comfortable in its works – and the lounge is “gentleman’s club” in rustic, small-town skin and its reputation for style where clouds of cigar smoke would seem food is well deserved with enough of a choice more appropriate than a family sipping tea and to add up to home-cooking at reasonable nibbling sandwiches. Daily specials include prices. Beers are mainly from the Greene King pan-fried hake  llet, curly kale, pancetta, stable but Black Sheep Bitter represents the hollandaise sauce and new potatoes. And North and Budweiser Budvar indicates a sense the beer range is impressively local – Mordue of enterprise which slides into the wine list Workie Ticket, Hadrian Border Tyneside – the pick being classic Chianti with hints of Blonde and Corby Ale from further west along oak and spice. the Tyne Valley line.

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CHE39 Tyne Vally Rail Trail.indd 24 01/04/2014 10:27 FEATURE: RAIL TRAIL - PART ONE

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CHE39 Tyne Vally Rail Trail.indd 25 01/04/2014 10:27 FEATURE: THE PUB PAINTER PAINT YOUR PALETTE BLUE AND GREY Works of art hanging in pubs are a real draw, writes Alastair Gilmour

Some pubs have local scenes a collection to a particular person framed around their walls – or place that makes them unique. nostalgia-tinged images from So, when you sit down to enjoy a golden age that was not as your pint in e Black Horse in gilded and carefree as we like Low Fell, Gateshead, you soon to think it was. Others display realise you’re in the midst of o -the-shelf nick-nackery that a small art gallery with North bears little relationship to the East-inspired works by local place in question and serves artist Jim Harker looking awfully only to collect dust. like something out of a classic e most appropriate pictures artworks catalogue. though are the site-speci c ones Jim is a freelance illustrator – those created for that pub or doing most of his work for that room alone. ey can still Washington-based card and craft be appreciated when hung out of company La Pashe. He has worked context but it’s the connection of in London and Amsterdam as

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CHE39 Pub Painter.indd 26 01/04/2014 10:29 FEATURE: THE PUB PAINTER

well as the North East and was history as well as displaying an for a while resident artist in a enviable artistic ability. Durham business, drawing and “I don’t just copy famous painting landscapes, buildings, paintings, I study them for a customers’ pets and cars “and while then go o and do my own anything they wanted me to” from version from what I’ve learned. I its shop window. did most of the Black Horse ones But it was following a few a few years ago but people still drinks in e Black Horse in Low comment on them so I started Fell, Gateshead, that he and co- making prints to sell owner Chris Robinson got talking (www.art2gogo.co.uk). Customers about using the pub walls as an often ask me to do a version for art gallery, something dierent to them, like the sunowers I did for prompt conversation. someone in a Jack Daniels bottle “We came up with the scenario because that’s what she drank. that if famous painters had come “I’ve done quite a few but I to Newcastle what would they certainly couldn’t make a living have painted,” says Jim. “For out of it.” instance, Claude Monet lived in Jim has painted e Black London for a while and painted Horse as centerpiece to Van Waterloo Bridge and Westminster Gogh’s iconic Starry Night Bridge when he was staying at imagery along with Durham e Savoy. I thought if he came Cathedral set in the same here he would maybe stay at background – as well as St James’ Malmaison on the Quayside so Park. Penshaw Monument has I painted a picture of the Tyne also come under his cultured Bridge from there in his style. eye, along with Picasso’s Toon I also imagined Vincent Van Army, the Gateshead Millennium Gogh would have painted his Bridge in the style of Salvadore sunowers displayed in a bottle of Dali and Geordie Scream “by” Newcastle Brown Ale.” Edvard Munch. e pub even uses a Picasso- To celebrate Jim Harker’s esque image of a rearing black work, e Black Horse is to host horse for its signage – a huge a Meet e Artist evening where marine ply image that’s dicult he’ll explain the background to to miss. his work and will also have prints “Picasso often used horses in available to buy. bullghting pictures representing *Meet e Artist Jim Harker at the Spanish people as the bull e Black Horse, Kells Lane, being attacked by forces of Low Fell, Gateshead NE9 5HY THE FEATHERS INN, HEDLEY ON THE HILL, Fascism,” says Jim, who reveals Follow e Black Horse on NEAR STOCKSFIELD NE43 SW an astonishing knowledge of art Twitter @BlackHorse_GHD

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CHE39 Taste Test.indd 28 01/04/2014 10:38 TASTE TEST

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CHE39 Taste Test.indd 29 01/04/2014 10:38 FUN STUFF SIGN OF THE TIMES THE DIRTY DOZEN TWELVE FOOD AND DRINK QUESTIONS TO WHET YOUR APPETITE 1 Which vowel is on the middle letter row on a computer keyboard? 2 What is the name of the strip club in the TV series The Sopranos? 3 Dipsophobia is the abnormal fear of what? 4 Which county is known as The Heart of England? 5 In Friends, what is Joey’s surname? 6 Which US comedian is credited with saying: “You’re only as old as the woman you feel”? 7 What is Homer Simpson’s middle name? A fan of Belgian beer sent us his version of the country’s 8 In curling, how many stones does a team have? fl ag to highlight the importance of the stuff. It’s a neat idea 9 Superciliaray relates to which part of the face? – let’s start a campaign for all nations to honour their beer, 10 Suricate is another name for which animal? wine and spirits in the same way (we might have to wait 11 The mountaineering “death zone” starts at what altitude? until after the Scottish independence referendum though). 12 What is Prince William’s second name? JULIUS CAESAR WALKS INTO A BAR IN ANCIENT ROME ...... AND HOLDS UP TWO FINGERS IN A V-SIGN. “I’LL HAVE FIVE PINTS,” HE SAYS. HE THEN CROSSES HIS TWO INDEX FINGERS. “AND TEN PACKETS OF CHEESE AND ONION.” LATER HE ASKS FOR A MARTINUS. THE BARTENDER SAYS: “DON’T YOU MEAN MARTINI?”. CAESAR REPLIES: “IF I WANTED MORE THAN ONE I WOULD HAVE ASKED FOR MORE THAN ONE.”

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Hi, Craig David from The Free Trade Inn in these frosty mornings. I fi rst peered through the window about 15 Newcastle here – now it’s my turn to fi ll this months ago but was too timid to venture inside – it was a quiz night spot on behalf of Blue The Dog. He’s having a I recall and The Free Trade had just been voted Tyneside Pub of the wee rest away from the keyboard – and there Year, so I fancied seeing what the all fuss was about. you go, I’ve just mentioned my favourite word. After a couple of “window-shops” I decided to stay – well, I get Rest, not keyboard. That’s what I do all day, just stroked by all and sundry, get fed from morn till night and I even have lie and rest and lie and turn around and rest in my own Facebook page at CraigDavid Pubcat, so who can blame a another position. guy? If somebody offered me beer I’d probably lap that up us well. My favourite place at the moment is on top And I can’t even remember who came up with my name – of the juke-box. Some customers like to think it’s barmaid Alice perhaps – but the Free Trade being the Free Trade, it because I’m into my music – The Animals in particular wasn’t exactly going to be Fluffy or Boots, was it? I’ve never dared – but it’s actually the warmest spot in the pub on ask but maybe it’s all about me being Slicker Than Your Average cat.

QUIZ ANSWERS 1 A. 2 Bada Bing. 3 Alcohol. 4 Leicestershire. 5 Tribbiana. 6 Groucho Marx. 7 Jay. 8 Eight. 9 Eyebrow. 10 Meerkat. 11 8,000 metres. 12 Arthur.

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High Street, Gosforth, THE GREY HORSE Sunniside, Newcastle, • Home cooked food BEST WESTERN ROKER HOTEL NE1 6AQ NE3 1HD Old Penshaw Village, NE16 5EE • Accomodation Roker Terrace, Sunderland, t: 0191 2323606 t: 0191 28540 Houghton-le-Spring, DH4 7ER t: 0191 488 8068 SR6 9ND, t: 0191 5671786 t: 0191 512 6080 e: [email protected] LYH THE PRIORY THE SEVEN STARS 10 Northumberland Road, THE BRANDLING VILLA THE HARBOUR VIEW Front Street, Tynemouth 21 Main Street, Ponteland, BORGOGNES Newcastle, NE1 8JF Haddricks Mill Road, Benedict Street, Roker, NE30 4DX. t. 0191 257 8302 NE20 9NH, t: 01661 872670 Hexham Road, Swalwell, t: 0191 2321308 South Gosforth, NE3 1QL Sunderland, SR6 0NU Newcastle, NE16 3AA t: 0191 2840490 t: 0191 5671402 THE QUEEN VICTORIA THE SHIP INN t: 0191 488 6801 MAGNESIA BANK 206 High Street, Gosforth, Marygate, Holy Island, 1 Camden Street, • Large selection THE HEAD OF STEAM NE3 1HD. t: 0191 2858060 TD15 2SJ, t: 01289 389311 BRIDGE HOTEL North Shields, NE30 1NH of real 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Whickham, NE30 2RJ THE CAUSEY ARCH INN t: 0191 2236320 NE16 4JJ, t: 0191 4217676 t: 0191 2574288 Beamish Burn Road, Marley Hill, THE ROSE & CROWN THE TANNERY Newcastle, NE16 5EG THE JOLLY STEWARD North Street, Winlaton Gilesgate, Hexham, BRITANNIA PUB & KITCHEN t: 01207 233925 Fulwell Ave, South Shields, NE21 6BT. t: 0191 4145887 NE46 3QD 3 Boldon Lane, Cleadon, SR6 7RH 13/14 Albion Road, NE34 7DF t: 01434 603486 t: 0191 536 4198 North Shields THE CENTRAL t: 0191 427 2951 NE30 2RJ Half Moon Lane, THE SCHOONER • Beer & Whisky room CHESTERS t: 0191 2573199 Gateshead, NE8 2AN THE KEELMAN South Shore Road, • Live music Chester Road, Sunderland, SR4 t: 0191 4782543 Grange Road, Newburn, Gateshead, • Dog friendly 7DR t: 0191 5659952 RED LION e: [email protected] Newcastle , NE15 8NL NE8 3AF Redcar Terrace, t: 0191 267 1689 t: 0191 477 7404 COPPERFIELDS West Boldon, THE TAP & SPILE Grand Hotel, Grand Parade NE36 0PZ THE CENTURION THE KEEL ROW • Cold welcome Eastgate, Hexham, Tyne And Wear, 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6AF, t: 0191 2301350 105 Westgate Road, Newcastle, THE COPT HILL THE MALTINGS THE THREE TUNS NE1 4AG Seaham Road, Houghton le 9 Claypath Lane, South Shields, Sheriffs Highway, Gateshead, FITZGERALDS t: 0191 232 0692 Spring, DH35 8LU NE33 4PG . t: 0191 4277147 NE9 5SD t: 0191 4870666 TEESSIDE 10-12 Green Terrace, t: 0191 5844485 Sunderland, SR1 3PZ TOBY BARNES THE MID BOLDON CLUB BEST WESTERN t: 0191 5670852 Durham Road, Sunderland THE COTTAGE TAVERN 60 Front Street. 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