Crockie

The same as a Clay, i.e. a marble made of fired clay.

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This time the occasional PC companion, Lady Janet of Crockie Park, dusted down her own jalopy to transport Yours Truly for a day out far beyond the boundaries of our own galaxy to a pub in Littleborough, a village just outside Rochdale.

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Already, there is a rumour doing the rounds suggesting the Blues have reached a gentleman's agreement with Peter Kenyon, allowing Joe Cole to come to Goodison on loan next season in return for first refusal on the `prodigy from Crockie'.

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It certainly made an impression on the Pub Column's companion for the evening, Lady Janet of Crockie Park, an avowed teetotaller.

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And we - that is yours truly and the required female company Lady Janet of Crockie Park - have, to our eternal shame, only just discovered it.

Go the extra mile for Ramsey's Indian; Mike Chapple, a noted curry-head, goes the distance and finds a gem RESTAURANTS

The rendezvous was with Lady Janet of Crockie Park.

Pub Column; pubs

So it did make a refreshing change to be able to enjoy a quiet pint there one dinnertime this week accompanied by the Lady Janet of Crockie Park, a mere fresher in the glugging stakes.

They include the lovely Karen who served Lady Janet, who typical of the Crockie Park landed gentry, had ordered steak and ale pie with chips which she regally declared 'delicious - and dead cheap'.

Pub: The Cambridge; National Pub/Bar Writer of the Year

Indeed Lady Janet of Crockie Park and yours truly parked our bottoms there on a dinnertime visit this week.