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Yep it featured in the top 4,500 pubs in Britain and if I could be bothered to add symbols to this blog I’d give it a tick too. Two ticks even, one for charm and one for beer knowledge. Strange though, that a ‘2009’ pub guide includes a ‘smoking’ symbol at the end of the write up? Hmm. Maybe a pair of scissors have been put to use here? Which is fine, the place is proud and can doctor whatever literature it wants to line its walls with. In my book that just means they’re trying hard to please.

Ok, so the front window looks like a notice board, but I like reading reviews, especially when it’s summer and you can stand outside reading phrases such as ‘weave your way through the lanes’ – get it?

When I settled down to write this blog-strand I’d intended recounting what I’d found inside a little metal tinder-box mounted on the wall near the exit. However I was hammered and forgot what was written inside. Apparently the walls were covered in boxes and people are encouraged to open them and leave messages inside them. What a great idea. I obviously appreciated it at the time of closure, because the next morning I found the following fuzzy picture on my phone… So let’s ask some questions. Anyone found anything in a box at the Basketmakers? Anyone written something for a box in the Basketmakers? Anyone want to think of something funny that they would like to put in a box at the Basketmakers? Anyone know anything about the original Basketmakers, before the Basketmakers became a pub also called the Basketmakers?

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