The Anchor, Brampton, Chesterfield

A long thin one room pub just down a side street from the main drag but very visible from it. One end has a games room with pool table, the centre houses the servery and towards the back is seating and an outdoor drinking area with picnic tables. Five pulls with a range of three local beers and two ciders, plus a couple of T-Bars of fairly usual stuff. Quality of my Thornbridge was middling. As with many pubs a lot of interest is in the little details often missed, you always have to look beyond the obvious for the little items and features that may have a story. It’s got the banquette seating and cast iron based tables of old pubs but there’s a lot of sad modernisation has gone on, pace tall seating and big screens.

Side-street pub with hints of Brewers' Tudor on the gable ends and above the central entrance doorway. A dark and traditionally decorated bar with oddly sparse furniture is located on the left-hand side, but it is housed within quite a large building so there must be another room at the other end. Rear patio garden. Three cask ales - TT Boltmaker, Djambo Untrained from Bentley Brook and Castle Rock's seasonal Tackle This! - on the five handpumps, along with Lilley's Peach cider and Broadoak Premium perry.