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Sale Stroll 2014

Below is the itinerary for the Sale Stroll 2014, our annual wander round the many hostelries of Sale which offer real ales. This year the Stroll will take place on Saturday 20th September. Everybody is invited to join us – either for the whole day or just pop in and out when you are free.

Sale has a great variety of pubs from major chains to small independent free houses so will make for a varied day out.

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Pub Of The Season – Autumn 2014

Stretford Sip Club signThe Trafford & Hulme Branch Pub of The Season for Autumn 2014 is perhaps one of the most unusual “pubs” in the whole of the branch area but one that has made an impression in just six months of trading. Located in former office space above an estate agent’s office, the only sign of the Stretford Sip Club’s existence is a hand painted wooden sign in the window adjacent to the anonymous door of the premises on the corner of Barton Road and Kingsway.

Step inside the door and assorted casks stacked under the stairs are the first clue to what lies above. Climbing to the top of the stairs and you may think you’ve been mistaken and you have entered into somebody’s lounge complete with sofas and dining table – it’s only when you venture to the rear room that you will find the bar complete with it’s two handpumps and well stocked fridge.

Opening in April 2014, The Sip Club was the realisation of the dream of landlady Heather Garlick, a born and bred Stretfordian who wanted to bring to her hometown the kind of place she would like to socialise at herself – a cosy and welcoming space offering only genuine quality beers & wines. How the Sip Club has embedded itself into the local area in such as short period of time is remarkable and testament to the vision and hard work of Heather and the band of family, friends and suppliers who have embraced what she set out to do.

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Pub Of The Season – Summer 2014

Old Market TavernTrafford & Hulme Camra Pub of the season for summer 2014 is The Old Market Tavern in Altrincham – better known as’ O.M.T.’ to most people.

John Glover with his wife Linda and family ‘took over the reigns’ in March, 2005 and quickly set about making the pub what we see today. However when they first entered the building it was in a mess having been closed for a period of time and certain ‘undesirables’ had broken in and the place had been vandalised with many items ‘gone missing’. Over the years the pub has been transformed into a thoroughly enjoyable place to participate drinking some fantastic beers.

2008 was the year that saw the OMT re-enter Camra’s Good Beer Guide and has been in every edition since. Also the same year saw it voted as Trafford & Hulme’s Camra Pub of the Year.

Although the OMT is owned by Punch Taverns, John has an excellent agreement with them which allows him to choose which beers he wants. Six beers are permanent – Caledonian Deuchars IPA, George Wright’s Drunken Duck & Northern Lights, Taylor’s Landlord, Phoenix Arizona and Facers DHB, with a futher five handpumps reserved for guest beers from far and wide.

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