A REAL YULETIDE

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 32, 7 February 1930, Page 3

A REAL YULETIDE

; - ♦ "I want to spend Christmas in. a real old-style Dickens inn," wrote an American to the TraVel Association of Great Britain and Ireland. The right place, he was;'told (says the London "Daily Chronicle").,.; was \ "Ye, Olde,. Leather. Bottei," at Gobhain^ near "Gravesend, where Christina's ! dinner consists of roast beef," turkey, pliim-pudding, snapdragon, mulled'; ale, mistletoe, and blind man's buff. The inn had oak-beam-ed rooms, old: furniture, old print, and many memories of Pickwick the Immortal. Other Pickwickian associations are attached to "The Hop Pole" at Tewkesbury. The East- Armg, Hurley, an inn' for more thaii 300 'year's;' made the tempting offer of log fires in open, fireplaces, and an. ox roasted whole on Christmas Day. Near Peterborough, at "Wansford-in-England; is "The Haycock." It stands on the -Great North, road, and a famous coaching inn, and serves punch made to thetFue Dickena recipe. Other Christmas festivities include carol singing-, games, snapdragon, and dancing under the merry .mistletoe. Lastly, there is The Eose and Thistle, at Alwinton, Northumberland, the last inn on the border, where Bob Roy stayed. Here the good old Christmas is kept up, with frummety supper on the Eve, Yule cakes, Christmas tree, Tula logs, the gooso, and the huge steaminghot punch bowl. ■ -