World's longest pub crawl

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Watch as Peter Hill explains how he came to be the Guinness World Record for the Longest Pub Crawl, and names his top five pubs - including four in the West Midlands.

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00:00Hello, my name's Pete Hill and part of the Black, well I am the Black Montreal Territory Organiser

00:10and there's a group of us travel all around Great Britain and we've been down here for 41 years now

00:16and it all started back in 1984 when Banks's and Hanson's, the local brewery in Wolverhampton,

00:25they've got a map out about this big and they've got 250 pubs on it so my dad turned around and says

00:33why don't we visit everyone and raise a bit for charity on the way and when we finished the 250

00:42see how we do so we raised £500 for Russell's Hall Hospital in the day in Dudley and then somebody

00:51said why they finish every Banks's pub in Great Britain, England, Wales and there was 751 so we

01:00finished them and we raised some more money for different children, there was all these children's

01:05hospitals, local children's hospitals and then we said we'll round it off at a thousand so we got

01:11in touch with Banks's and it was a pub out of Birmingham, The Wharf, The Wharf in Birmingham,

01:16at the time Banks's and that was how a thousandth pub was going to finish and then somebody gave me a

01:22map of every pub in Erriford and Worcestershire, a thousand and seven I think was on it so we went

01:28and visited all them for different children's hospitals and then when we got to 2000 there was

01:35a chap who got in the Guinness Book of Records for visiting 3000 pubs, Stanley somebody, I forgot his name now,

01:43by public transport, I'd have loved to have met him but were to be and Dad says well why don't we go

01:51round the coastline of Great Britain and have a drink in every county in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern

01:56Ireland so we did and we did anyway and by now it all started developing into a serious hobby

02:05we just started collecting photographs and memorabilia from the pubs and everything

02:12and then Dad wanted to visit every pub in England and I said Dad you won't live long enough

02:18I said what about Wales? He said go on and we'll go we'll go to Wales and we was in Wales seven years

02:25and we visited every pub in Wales and we raised £11,000 for different hospitals in North Wales,

02:32mid Wales and altogether it was £11,000 just by asking for pounds you're still asking for pounds

02:39and even today I ask for pounds it's just a bonus so after that we finished in 2013 every pub in Wales

02:51and six months later Dad died but he achieved his ambition of visiting every pub in the country which

02:58as well which is great so I decided I'm now on my own what what can I do um I know I'll visit every

03:06island off Great Britain and Northern Ireland that's got a a bar on or a pub I think there wouldn't

03:14there wouldn't be many I ended up spending five years in 69 islands there was all around Great Britain

03:21and I had to get to some twice like the Shetlands twice Openies twice Outer Ebrides it was hard work but

03:30I had to do for a national charity then and I did it for the Air Ambulance so they got £4,000 and then

03:38when I finished every island I thought well what shall I do now I know I'll visit every pub in the 2020

03:45Good Beer Guide so ever since 2020 I'm still on 2020 Good Beer Guide and again it's for the Air

03:54Ambulance because it's a national thing and I'm up to £6,000 at the moment so I'm hoping to finish

04:02in the near future so if anybody's interested in the end results I'll let you know right my favourite pub

04:10Zoe I'm coming down to it well obviously the Rising Sun in Tipton is my favourite pub because it's my

04:16local but on my tours I only went Sunday funny enough I went up North Yorkshire and I did 32 pubs up North

04:25Yorkshire I got back Sunday night and I went to see one of the my favourite gaffers of all time and his

04:34name's Alan East and he runs the Yew Tree pub in Calden in Staffordshire which is uh between Leek and

04:41Ashbourne and I first met him 1987 and it was pub number 1052 and he's still got my card on the wall

04:52so I'll go every year to see how he is because he's now 88 and I went Sunday and he was sitting there

05:00we did all his sits and uh we had a good chat and it was nice to see he was okay and I'm looking forward

05:08to his 90th how long am I going to carry on going that's the problem I should imagine when the beer

05:17runs out but uh oh or something runs out we'll we'll see what happens but I've got no intention

05:25I'm certainly going to get to 25 000 pubs but we'll see how old I am

05:34or if I'm still walking so we'll we'll we'll see what see what the future brings

05:38eh what else you still do for charity anyway so that's all this about

05:43we'll see what happens cheers we got to meet

05:48we got to meet

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