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Drinkers visit 15,000 pubs in 26 year pub crawl
A group of dedicated drinkers have spent the last 26 years on a massive pub crawl which has seen them visit 15,000 boozers and drink 92,000 pints.
The four beer lovers have spent thousands of pounds and travelled 250,000 miles to every corner of the country during their epic beer quest.
Peter Hill, 54, John Drew, 46, Gary Mountain, 52 and Joe Hill, 79 set off in 1984 after getting bored of always drinking in the same pub, the Old Crown pub in West Bromwich.
They initially had a list of 'just' 300 pubs to visit, but this soon grew and the group kept finding new places to have a pint… now it's a surprise they can remember where they started.
This week they called in at the Water Mill, in Kiddemrinster, Worcs, their 15,000th boozer.
It means the foursome, all from West Bromwich, have now drank in every pub across 11 English counties.
Peter said: “It feels great to have reached this milestone, especially as we were able to mark it with a pint in a Marston’s pub in the Midlands, where it all began.”
The group list their favourite pubs as the Farmers Arms, in Cwmdu, Wales, the New Inn Hotel, Newbridge-on-Wye, the Rising Sun, Tirphil, also both in Wales.
They have spent evenings sleeping rough in barns and churchyards raising over 10,000 pounds for charity along the way.
With thousands of pubs still to visit, Peter says they will keep making their way through as many as possible.
He said: "If we want to go for a drink in a pub we haven't been to before it will probably involve a 200 mile round trip, so sometimes we just have to settle for a nice pint down the local.
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http://newslite.tv/2010/08/09/drinke...pubs-in-2.html