Author: ted bruning

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  Sidebars - Travel Features

  Inns with Good Beer

  September 1, 2000 - Ted Bruning Ostrich Colnbrook, Berkshire (close to Heathrow airport) Courage Best Bitter, Directors Bitter, Marston’s Pedigree George & Dragon West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire Courage Best Bitter and guest beers Hardwick Arms Arrington, Cambridgeshire Greene King IPA and guest beers Olde Custom House Chester, Cheshire Bank’s Original, Marston’s Bitter and Pedigree Black Bull Inn Coniston, Cumbria Coniston Bluebird Bitter,... View Article
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  Full Pints - Travel Features

  The Historic Coaching Inns of England

  September 1, 2000 - Ted Bruning Until the arrival of the “iron way”⎯the railroad network⎯in the 19th century, people traveled by horse-drawn coaches that also carried the mail. Journeys were long and tiring, so a vast network of “coaching inns” offering food, drink and accommodations sprang up all over England. Many survive in all their half-timbered glory, as Ted Bruning discovered... View Article