Bruce Masters visits 45,000th British pub

In the kind of pub crawl even students would baulk at, the 66-year-old covered an estimated million miles since he started visiting watering holes in 1960, sipping his way through 25,000 pints of local-brewed ale in the process.

His latest stop was at the Hole In The Wall pub, in Portsmouth – but he doesn’t plan to call time just yet.

Mr Masters, who travels everywhere by train, said: ‘There are still a great many pubs I have not been to. If something is worth doing, it is worth doing properly.’

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