A Giant Red Dragonfly Across The Boro Booze. We Built The Pubs, Wind Swept Marshland, Teeming With Wild Fowl.
This will be a suitability rambling article on the History of drinking in Middlesbrough and my own experiences growing up in a beer drinking culture. The History of the English love of ale goes back to the Bronze age, with hairy neanderthals getting pissed and dragging the missus by the hair to their Cave for a quick shag. Not much has changed. I recently read a History of the City of Paris when in medieval times much of France was in English control. The Parisiens complained that the English soldiers garrisoned there spent all of their days drinking in the local taverns, fighting and vomiting in the street. Bringing culture to the French.