Essex – Page 4 – Walking. Gossip. Travel.

Braintree – The Picture Palace

On the way down to London last week, we popped into this JD Wetherspoon pub in Braintree (a town we

I’ve worked my way around many pubs in Colchester, but I was delighted to hear (on an LDWA walk where

I visited this pub in October 2020, this isn’t some lockdown breach…… Although it’s Greene King, it’s also in the

Just for clarity, this visit is from a couple of months ago, this isn’t a pub serving illegally during the

This visit was a few weeks ago, this isn’t a pub staying open during the lockdown….. The pub is very

This stay was a few weeks ago, before everything was shut back down. One thing I’ve noted is that motels

This visit was from a few weeks ago, when we went to this craft beer bar and BBQ restaurant, which

As an aside, and not one of the most decadent things that I’ve written about, this type of story is

I quite liked this story from the Chelmsford Chronicle in 1832, which was written after the passing of the Great

How beautiful Basildon’s railway station looks from the exterior…. It’s a relatively new railway station, opened in 1974 on an