Wimpycrawling

Wimpycrawling
Or: Free your mind, and your gut will follow

My Wimpy Odyssey

Wimpy, Retford, Nottinghamshire
Not just for burgers – as you’ll see from the sandwich board, you can walk through the restaurant and go upstairs to find Ricky’s Exclusive schoolwear store

Wimpy Dumfries (closed) Note our Queens Park away shirts to mark the end of our Wimpy crawl – possibly the most Scottish shirts in the universe

Wimpycrawl Scotland ‘07
Portobello (Edinburgh)
Kirkcaldy
Dundee
Arbroath
Aberdeen
Peterhead
Fraserburgh
Dingwall
Kilmarnock
Largs
Johnstone
Motherwell
Annandale
Dumfries (closed)

Me and Stu at Wimpy in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire
A picture paints a thousand words

One we missed… Last year we discovered there was a Wimpy in Motherwell that hadn’t appeared on the Wimpy website in 2007. We couldn’t let that lie

Classic “table service” Wimpy, Dingwall*
* Technically, we’re not being served here, just messing around with our new Mr Wimpy puppets

Mr Wimpy: A life in burgers
1954: Founded by J Lyons & Co
1967: Opened in South Africa in 1967
1977: UK arm bought by United Biscuits
Late 70s: Counter service launched to rival M* D******
1989: Grand Metropolitan takes over and converts most Wimpies to B***** K***s
1990: Management buyout of survivors

Wimpy Manchester: Then and now

The dessert selection at Wimpy, Birkenhead
Deliciously tempting. What I’d really wanted was a classic banana longboat, but they “didn’t have any bananas”

The interior of Birkenhead Wimpy
Even if they do “Brick up the Mersey Tunnels”, you’ll still be able to get a Wimpy in Wirral

Exploring new places For some reason, I took lots of pictures of derelict buildings on this trip. But Fraserburgh is actually a fascinating, if rough-edged, old port. And the largely unexplored coastline between it and Inverness is beautiful

The Mr Wimpy play area upstairs at Wimpy Dingwall, Scotland
The mysterious pink elephant – I like to think it’s an Effervescing Elephant, as in the Syd Barrett song. I could just Google its real name, but that would spoil the fun

The joys of Halton Lea

Wimpy, Nottingham
We asked the waiter to take this picture. His reaction: “Are you students?”

Dining al fresco in Mansfield
It wasn’t really the weather for it, but who can resist an outdoor Wimpy?

Wimpy on the move Today Wimpy also boasts several sites at motorway service stations – counter service only, though. This is how they promote the Annandale Services eatery, near Dumfries

Wimpy as work of art
At another university reunion, this time in Clapham Junction Wimpy, I spotted this local map tile. It won’t surprise you to learn I made this picture into a T-shirt

Get out there and explore … and don’t forget to have a Wimpy Quarterpounder

Wimpycrawling

by Andy Goodwin

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