The Grapes, Wrea Green

1966_and_all_that

1966_and_all_that

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Me, wife and friends go to a good real ale pub each Friday tea-time. This week it was the turn of the Grapes at Wrea Green. No ales. I repeat, no ales. This is The Grapes, legendary home of draft Boddington's. It's a bank holiday and they've no ales. OK, I'll have a San Miguel. It's been taken out, along with the Stella.

We decanted to the Institute which at least had two ales on.
 
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1966_and_all_that said:
Me wife and friends go to a good real ale pub each Friday tea-time. This week it was the turn of the Grapes at Wrea Green. No ales. I repeat, no ales. This is The Grapes, legendary home of draft Boddington's. It's a bank holiday and they've no ales. OK, I'll have a San Miguel. It's been taken out, along with the Stella.

We decanted to the Institute which at least had two ales on.
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Shut It down, not acceptable.
 
Grapes has been piss poor for a few years now. Just think, people pay a lot of money to live in a picturesque Lancashire village and that is the pub they are given, its really bad these days.
My opinion if you want a few nice ales get to St Annes. The local residents can be a bit of a mixed bag! but the Hop Shoppe, Keg n Cask , Pier Inn and best of them 15s will give you a good pint. 15s a very good pint.
 
1966_and_all_that said:
Me wife and friends go to a good real ale pub each Friday tea-time. This week it was the turn of the Grapes at Wrea Green. No ales. I repeat, no ales. This is The Grapes, legendary home of draft Boddington's. It's a bank holiday and they've no ales. OK, I'll have a San Miguel. It's been taken out, along with the Stella.

We decanted to the Institute which at least had two ales on.
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Not been there for years since the drink driving got brought to task. We’ll 3 pints I’d guess. 🙄
 
gjr69 said:
Grapes has been piss poor for a few years now. Just think, people pay a lot of money to live in a picturesque Lancashire village and that is the pub they are given, its really bad these days.
My opinion if you want a few nice ales get to St Annes. The local residents can be a bit of a mixed bag! but the Hop Shoppe, Keg n Cask , Pier Inn and best of them 15s will give you a good pint. 15s a very good pint.
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St Annes is miles better than Wrea Green or Lytham, which are now both 90% credit card millionaires.
 
Lytham_fy8 said:
St Annes is miles better than Wrea Green or Lytham, which are now both 90% credit card millionaires.
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Worth a try. I'll suggest it. When the Fairhaven reopened a while back we went in there. It was upmarket, suavish but expensive so that's not on our list. Perhaps we will try 15s based on this thread's recommendation.
 
Lytham_fy8 said:
St Annes is miles better than Wrea Green or Lytham, which are now both 90% credit card millionaires.
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I'm biased because I live here but you get a real mixed bag of people in St Annes these days but very few, if any of the plastic, weekend millionaire types that you get in Lytham, Poulton and Wrea Green.
Loads of good unpretentious bars and pubs, places with good food and no snobbery, urban arts and the pavilion in the park doing live music and comedy. Best thing for me is the price , I can get a pint for 3.10, same beer not served as well over 4 in the Queens!
Still miss the Queens when it was a proper place but St Annes has places that are sort of as good.
 
1966_and_all_that said:
Worth a try. I'll suggest it. When the Fairhaven reopened a while back we went in there. It was upmarket, suavish but expensive so that's not on our list. Perhaps we will try 15s based on this thread's recommendation.
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In the space of a couple of hundred metres you have 4 bars who take a pride in their beer. Hope you visit and enjoy them.
 
gjr69 said:
I'm biased because I live here but you get a real mixed bag of people in St Annes these days but very few, if any of the plastic, weekend millionaire types that you get in Lytham, Poulton and Wrea Green.
Loads of good unpretentious bars and pubs, places with good food and no snobbery, urban arts and the pavilion in the park doing live music and comedy. Best thing for me is the price , I can get a pint for 3.10, same beer not served as well over 4 in the Queens!
Still miss the Queens when it was a proper place but St Annes has places that are sort of as good.
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Can you imagine the real Queens in Lytham these days? There would be emergency meetings to get it shut down, parents would cross the road so that Tabatha and Tarquin didn't have to walk past...
 
Lytham_fy8 said:
Can you imagine the real Queens in Lytham these days? There would be emergency meetings to get it shut down, parents would cross the road so that Tabatha and Tarquin didn't have to walk past...
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Many of the old Lytham people have moved out, I'm one you probably are. Weird thing is, and I know this for a fact, most of the people that move into Lytham now come from Preston, Blackburn, Burnley, Bolton and parts of Manchester etc. Guessing they have inherited a bit of money sold up and moved to the coast, teenagers living in Lytham are very much in the minority. Wasn't like that when the Queens was at its best!
 
This reminds me of an old (apparently true) story.

Two lads driving late one night pulled over by the police outside Wrea Green.

Officer: What’s your name son?
Lad1: Ray Green
Officer: No I asked for your name. Not where you are.
Lad1: That’s my name. Ray Green.
Officer: And where do you live Ray?
Lad1: Kirkham.
Officer: (sighs) Okay…..And what about you son? Where do you live?
Lad2: Wrea Green.
Officer: And what’s your name?
Lad2: John Kirkham.
Officer: ……. Oh fuck off the pair of you. Just don’t let me see you again tonight.
 
1966_and_all_that said:
Worth a try. I'll suggest it. When the Fairhaven reopened a while back we went in there. It was upmarket, suavish but expensive so that's not on our list. Perhaps we will try 15s based on this thread's recommendation.
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Tried the Fairhaven for a late afternoon meal and thought it was pretty good. As it it was also a vey hot day, the lager fitted the bill.
PS: wasn’t the people who ran it ‘pool fans?
 
gjr69 said:
Grapes has been piss poor for a few years now. Just think, people pay a lot of money to live in a picturesque Lancashire village and that is the pub they are given, its really bad these days.
My opinion if you want a few nice ales get to St Annes. The local residents can be a bit of a mixed bag! but the Hop Shoppe, Keg n Cask , Pier Inn and best of them 15s will give you a good pint. 15s a very good pint.
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Can’t really comment on the Hop Shoppe but the rest are 100% correct - great beer and prices. Don’t forget the Ducks Nuts (Georges number 10 as was). Good beer experience on 2 occasions not tried the food but heard good reports.
 
gjr69 said:
Many of the old Lytham people have moved out, I'm one you probably are. Weird thing is, and I know this for a fact, most of the people that move into Lytham now come from Preston, Blackburn, Burnley, Bolton and parts of Manchester etc. Guessing they have inherited a bit of money sold up and moved to the coast, teenagers living in Lytham are very much in the minority. Wasn't like that when the Queens was at its best!
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Correct 👍
 
Sooty59 said:
Lytham is fairly ok in the day before the Henry's come out. In a loud voice " Oh Charles shall we have the Bollinger Hwaw Hwaw Hwaw" I'm not bothered if people have loads of dosh, but those who feel it necessary to flaunt it are complete wankers.
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This is so true. Much prefer an afternoon/ early evening in Lytham now. Went in Lytham House (where Portefinos used to be) a few weeks ago, £6.80 for a pint of Moretti and more action going on in the toilets than the bar.
 
Remember in the 70s when drink driving was actively encouraged drinking Boddies on the Green outside the Grapes with hundreds of others on a summers night.
Pubs ain't what they used to be.
 
Last time I was in the Grapes was back in the early 90's. I was having a lunchtime drink with a lass I was seeing in St Annes and had come up on my days off to see her. When we were sitting there a Gazette photographer came up to us and asked us if we minded if he took a picture of us for the paper as it had won some Gazette award and that it would be in the paper the next day. I shuffled nervously and said, sorry, I don't want to be photographed........ Reason? My missus was back home in Watford and her family all lived in St Annes and one of her brothers worked for the Gazette so always bought a paper home with him every evening!! Life's so dull these days!!
 
hertfordseasider said:
Last time I was in the Grapes was back in the early 90's. I was having a lunchtime drink with a lass I was seeing in St Annes and had come up on my days off to see her. When we were sitting there a Gazette photographer came up to us and asked us if we minded if he took a picture of us for the paper as it had won some Gazette award and that it would be in the paper the next day. I shuffled nervously and said, sorry, I don't want to be photographed........ Reason? My missus was back home in Watford and her family all lived in St Annes and one of her brothers worked for the Gazette so always bought a paper home with him every evening!! Life's so dull these days!!
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😂 Naughty.
 
Fargo99 said:
Remember in the 70s when drink driving was actively encouraged drinking Boddies on the Green outside the Grapes with hundreds of others on a summers night.
Pubs ain't what they used to be.
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To be fair I don’t think drink driving was actively encouraged in the 70s. But it was definitely more prevalent.

That’s probably one of the biggest changes in my working life. Xmas parties where 95% of attendees were absolutely steaming, to the point of being unable to walk when they left, and most of those climbed into cars. Plus lunchtime drinks on a Friday.
 
TangerineYfronts said:
Can’t really comment on the Hop Shoppe but the rest are 100% correct - great beer and prices. Don’t forget the Ducks Nuts (Georges number 10 as was). Good beer experience on 2 occasions not tried the food but heard good reports.
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Hop Shoppe beer a bit warmer than I would like, Ducks Nuts food portions a bit smaller than I would like but it was good
 
How lucky am I to live in an area of such great real ale bars and pubs.

Saltaire Brewery;
The Fox;
Hullaballoo;
The Crafty Colonel;
The Junction;
Ring O Bells;
Salt Pot;
Fannies Ale House;
Cap and Collar;
The Old Tram Shed.

To name but 10!
 
Curryman said:
How lucky am I to live in an area of such great real ale bars and pubs.

Saltaire Brewery;
The Fox;
Hullaballoo;
The Crafty Colonel;
The Junction;
Ring O Bells;
Salt Pot;
Fannies Ale House;
Cap and Collar;
The Old Tram Shed.

To name but 10!
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That looks like a great pub crawl 😵‍💫 although I’d need 2 sessions nowadays.
 
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