Pub Passports - a vanished phenomenon, or one that's worthy of a comeback?

Following on from my previous article about biting the bullet and retiring completely from my current part-time job, I received a number of suggestions about how to enjoy the additional time I’ll be granted. First and foremost, amongst these was a slightly facetious suggestion from an anonymous correspondent that I could try drinking in all the Shepherd Neame pubs during my first twelve months of retirement. My response was that I’ve been there, and done that, even though it was over 40 years ago. It was a labour of love slog back then and having experienced the mad dash of getting round all 286 Shepherd Neame houses, it is not an experience I’d care to repeat. However, that’s not to say that it’s a topic I don’t wish to write about, as I certainly do, but the trouble is where to start? Pub passport schemes is an area that isn’t particularly well documented, and with my memory of events that occurred four decades or so ago, I wasn’t sure where to start, which is why I turned to AI,…