Whilst walking through Wordsley earlier this week, I noticed a new Mad O’Rourke pub, specifically Mad O’Rourke’s Pie and Grill Factory. There used to be a chain of Mad O’Rourke establishments, and (in an earlier journey, similar the the Shepherd Neame passport recounted earlier) I once visited most of them collecting a set of coffee [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Electric Eel Pie
Posted in Memory, tagged mad o'rourke, pie factory, real ale, wordsley on September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Reclaimed memory park: Wolverhampton to Stourbridge
Posted in Accounts of the walk, Memory, tagged penn, stourbridge, wolverhampton on September 28, 2008 | 7 Comments »
The Black Country is a fascinating region, varied, surprisingly green in places, full of heritage, rich in language and humour. There are plenty of interesting and rewarding journeys to be made through this hard-to-define region. This, however, wasn’t one of them. A combination of post-viral feebleness, chilly grey aspic weather and too many memories made [...]