Lockdown doodles!

[blackshiver]

I would like to post a picture of The Crown in Hutton Le Hole drawn (like most North York Moors Caving Club surveys) on the back of a beer mat. But due to current circumstances we are a bit short of beer mats.
Here?s a plug for The Crown if anyone fancies a visits to Excalibur or Jenga when we can get underground again. Jake at The Crown has put up with our various late night antics for over a decade, both the beer and food is excellent, there is accommodation, it?s in an excellent position in the national park and there are plenty of friendly cavers in the area to advise where to go caving & walking.

 

[AR]

The best of them all was the New Inn which was directly facing onto Priddy Green!  It was run by one very elderly lady who sat in a sort of wooden cubby-hole which was straight ahead as you went through the door.  The usual cavers bar was to the right as you went in and when you wanted beer you tapped on her little window and she drew it from the racked up barrels and served it from a jug into your pot.  The back of the settle kept the draughts out and we used to dry our wet socks or gloves on the open door of the range.  They'd sawn the top twiddly bits off the grandfather clock so it could stand upright agaist the wall (the ceiling was too low otherwise) and there was a large framed picture of Queen Victoria next to it - was it commerorating the Jubilee?  The old lady definitely didn't do "food", though I think you could get a bag of crisps.

Then someone bought it after the old lady died and "improved" it so we stopped going.

That reminds me of the Moorcock at Langdale End in the depths of the North York Moors when I first knew it in the late 1980s, old Maud who had it didn't have a bar, she just sat by the door from the public area to the back kitchen and hobbled off to open some bottles when you wanted more beer. The gents was a corrugated iron shed out the back, with a corrugated iron sheet propped in a bit of guttering doing service as urinal...
However, after Maud eventually retired, the people who took over did try and keep some of the character - they put a folding flap over the back doorway and put pumps around the corner, so you still got served at the doorway. The other facilities were improved though...