Dale Harvey is attempting to visit every pub in the UK.
The Great British Pub Crawl’s Dale Harvey embarked on his latest epic tour of Sheffield’s watering holes in February, and was once again impressed by the city’s many fine drinking establishments.
A former pub landlord says he has visited more than 5,000 watering holes across the nation - in an effort to boost the British pub industry.
Dale Harvey, from Nottingham, set off on a challenge to visit every pub in the UK about three years ago as part of "the Great British Pub Crawl".
The Great British Pub Crawl’s Dale Harvey embarked on his latest epic tour of Sheffield’s watering holes in February, and was once again impressed by the city’s many fine drinking establishments.
A former pub landlord says he has visited more than 5,000 watering holes across the nation - in an effort to boost the British pub industry.
Dale Harvey, from Nottingham, set off on a challenge to visit every pub in the UK about three years ago as part of "the Great British Pub Crawl".
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00:00The great British pub has been there for eternity, really, for as long as we've been a nation.
00:05We can't lose them. We've got to do more to make sure they keep going.
00:09Yeah, every single pub in the UK. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
00:13It started as a hobby. I ran pubs for 20 years, stopped in COVID, and I know how hard the industry
00:18is. So I said, look, let's go out as a little hobby and just try and visit as many as we can.
00:22Initially, we live in Nottinghamshire, so we were just going to do Nottinghamshire.
00:25So we did Nottinghamshire, and it just grew. And it grew on social media to the point where
00:29we said, you know what, let's keep it going. And then someone, might have been me, had the
00:34stupid idea of making it the whole of the UK and just changed it to be the Great British Pub Crawl.
00:39And there it was set in stone, and now I've got to finish it, I'd say.
00:43This pub that we're sat in now is number 5,171 so far in the journey.
00:49Pubs are very important for communities. They're not just, I keep harping on about it,
00:52they're not just a place to get drunk. Pubs are literally the heartbeat of a community.
00:56They can be the difference for someone between any kind of social interaction that week or not.
01:01I've met a chap once over in the Blackburn, who's 85 years old, lost his wife five years ago.
01:05All his friends are dying. He's still fit and healthy enough to live on his own.
01:09But the only social interaction he gets is when he walks to his local pub. That's it.
01:12And they now close Monday and Tuesday because they couldn't afford to keep the lights on.
01:16So on a Monday and Tuesday, he says he doesn't speak to a soul.
01:19You lose that pub, you lose your life home.