Followup to: uk.food+drink.real-ale
I wonder if anyone can satisfy my curiosity. I have just been reading a book entitled, 'Back Door Britain' by Anthony Burton. It is about a journey around the canals of England by narrow boat in 1975.
This was around the time when the Campaign for Real Ale was just making its presence felt, and the author has a bit of a pop at the Campaign. Despite that he likes his ale, and appreciates unspoiled pubs. At one point he enthuses about a pub called The-Bird-in-Hand at Kent Green, on the Macclesfield Canal. The trouble is, I can't find any place called Kent Green, although there is a Key Green just off the canal east of Congleton.
The Bird-in-Hand which he describes would be a shoo-in for CAMRA's National Inventory. It gives the impression that you are in someone's living room as there is no bar, and with an ancient landlady who takes the glasses down to the cellar to fill them with ale from wooden barrels.
It sounds a wonderful place, but I bet it doesn't exist any more, does it?