--- In [email protected], "Trevor Burridge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just returned from a weekend in Stratford and thought I would commend the food and the beer at a pub which we visited at Wilmcote which is accessible from the canal. > > The pub is the Mary Arden Inn and the food was excellent as well as plentiful and was home made and did not appear to have been delivered by a food service and reheated. The Abbot Ale was as good as I have tasted anywhere of late. > > Trevor > > BTW Avon was shut while we were there. Lady Line Hotel Boats had to make for Warwick and not the Avon/Severn. > You all need to make the most of visits to Stratford as I said a few weeks back the tranquillity of the Bancroft Basin area is about to disappear when the footbridge is replaced with a modern monstrosity and many of the trees in Bancroft Gardens and in the recreation ground on the opposite bank of the river are felled as part of a major redesign of the area. See http://www.stratford.gov.uk/publicaccess/framepages/pub.aspx? ref=07/01319/FUL
The next phase is to build a Brindley Place style waterside bar area by the old Western Road Wharf end of town that will at least improve it and make access tot the station from the towpath side easier. See http://www.worldclassstratford.net/urbandesign.php Clive
