The Boat Brewery, Allerton Bywater - Award-winning micro-brewery in a village east of Leeds, producing a wide range of strengths and styles, distributed throughout the UK. Contact and visiting details, and list of beers produced.
The Boat Free House - Public house offering a menu, restaurant information, directions and history.
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
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There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
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You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
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-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
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Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
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-- Thomas Szasz I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
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-- Polish proverb Allerton Bywater
