Beer lover’s epic pub crawl sees him go to 23,000 boozers and down 55,000 pints
Ale lover Peter Hill has pulled off the final word pub crawl – visiting greater than 23,000 inns and downing 55,000 pints over 40 years.
Peter boasts 480 lever arch information full of 90,000 photographs, menus and postcards from his pub odyssey across the UK. The world document holder from West Bromwich, West Mids, fashioned the Black Country Ale Tairsters with fellow fanatics in 1984.
Peter, his dad Joe, and 12 others, had been impressed when brewery Marston’s launched a ‘pint and platter’ map of the West Midlands. He stated: “Around a dozen of us used to go out every Sunday night to the local pubs, but we got a bit bored of it.
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“There are only so many pubs in the Black Country and when the map came out, it set us on a new adventure.”
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They set about visiting all 250 taverns listed within the information – making a donation to native charities for each watering gap they stopped at – and ended up going to greater than 1,000 pubs throughout the area.
The buddies went into the Guinness World Records ebook, comfortably surpassing the earlier prime tally of three,200 pub visits.
Peter stated: “My dad wanted to visit every pub in England.
“I said, ‘We won’t live long enough, there are too many, but you might live long enough to visit them all in Wales.”
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Their Welsh journey took seven years – elevating £11,000 for kids’s hospitals in Wales – earlier than Joe handed away in 2014.
Peter has since visited each island off the coast of the UK with a pub, which took 5 years, elevating £4,000 for air ambulance companies.
He has additionally visited all 4,500 pubs within the Campaign for Real Ale’s Good Beer Guide, producing a complete of greater than £35,000 for charity over the previous 4 a long time.
The retired engineer, now 67, has a meticulous logbook detailing each go to since 1984 together with landlords’ signatures, photographs of every hostelry and an outline of each boozer.
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