The Market Town Taverns are a refreshingly different kind of pub in Yorkshire, England. Barrie Pepper reports
Faced with the choice of remaining as a reasonably well-paid accountant or taking a chance and sinking most of your capital into an unestablished and therefore unproved pub company; what would you do?
Ian Fozard chose the latter. And it certainly has been a case of third time lucky for him for he h...
Spotlight
from Issue 12 published on 25/05/2007
A day out in Masham is always a pleasant occasion made even more so by the company you’re in. Barrie Pepper recently spent a day with Simon Theakston to talk about the renaissance of the family firm
I always enjoy meetings with Simon as I did with his late father Michael. For me they epitomise the real spirit of Yorkshire and in particular the Dales.
Such meetings usually start with a smile, a firm handshake and the question: “What are you having?” But on my recent meeting the answer was “a cu...
Beer Legends
from Issue 8 published on 27/09/2006
Yorkshire is one of Britain’s finest beer regions. We have extensively covered North Yorkshire in past issues. Here Barrie Pepper goes West and South
The 1974 edition of the Good Beer Guide – the very first which warned you to avoid Watney’s like the plague – lists 10 breweries in South and West Yorkshire.
Of these eight have closed. In this year’s guide there are 41, showing a net gain of 39.
This remarkable statistic takes no account of a doz...
Regional Focus
from Issue 5 published on 24/03/2006
