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Further to a thread posted a while back Bernie's in ingleton has reopened

https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?threads/bernies-is-now-open.32115/

Can we look forward to a resumption in cafe and gear shop wars with the noisy neighbours ?

I used to be mainly a devotee of the long gone Fountain Café but used to frequent Bernie's after a trip or Inglesport for kit depending on the deal. I quite fancy the new edition of Adventures Underground so should head Ingleton way when it's out.

I loved the Fountains when I was a caver and student in the early 90s.

Breakfast & beans £2

Double breakfast & beans £2.30

Triple breakfast & beans £2.70

Those bad boys kept us going all day underground. 

They were remarkably effective against hangovers as well (or was it the sweating down the caves?)

 We used to live in the cottage between the two halves of the Fountains Cafe. Mrs Ferguson who ran the cafe was our landlady. During the winter, when the cafe only opened on weekends, she would leave any unsold food from the cafe on our kitchen table. We would return from a weekend away climbing to find a pile of pies and cakes that would last us all week.

Alan Steele opened Inglesport at the same time, but unfortunately the Ingleton wall came a bit later. It would have been the perfect climber's house if in addition to a free source of pies, there had been a climbing wall ten paces from the back door.