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WHAT's DOING Speen GEN’ the MANCHESTER B E E R DRINKER’S MONTHLY MAGAZINE WHAT'S DOING Speen GEN’ THE MANCHESTER B E E R DRINKER’S MONTHLY MAGAZINE NEW ROAD PLAN SAVES ECCLES PUBS CAMRA h a s won a reprieve for t h e Royal Q a k a n d Crown & Volunteer in Eccles. T h e t w o Holts pubs were to b e demolished f o r a n e w road scheme, as outlined in What's Doing in November. As well as the pubs, the houses a n d the Borough Band R o o m o n Corporation Road a n d t h e doctor's surgery o n Church Street w e r e to go. CAMRA s e t up a campaign and formed an action group with local residents and t h e Borough Sand. Holts Brewery joined i n and a n alternative p l a n , designed by a CAMRA member, w a s submitted t o t h e p l a n n e r s . This re-routes the n e w road v i a the Health Centre and the Labour Exchange (newish buildings which can easily be re-located) a n d the video shop on the other s i d e of Corporation Road. T h e planners have accepted this proposal and it will n o w b e p u t before the full Council Planning Committee for approval. UNHOLY ALLIANCE Speculation about a possible merger of Whitbread and Allied Breweries has resurfaced. This move, to avoid the reduction in pub ownership required by the Monopolies & Mergers Commission, would result in an enormous combine with over 12,000 pubs. The breweries would presumably be hived off a la Courage into a separate organisation with a 25% market share. The twin threats, as ever, are to breweries and to beers. What's Doing has already suggested that Whitbread's consider- able portfolio will be rationalized. A merger with Allied would make that rationalization take place sooner rather than later. At present the following cask beers are brewed by Whitbread and Allied at the sites shown: WHITBREAD ALLIED Manchester Alloa OB Mild Arrols 80/- OB Bitter Birmingham Boddingtons Mild Ansells Mild Boddingtons Bitter Ansells Bitter Plymouth Castle Eden Dartmoor Best Bitter Castle Eden Ale Dartmoor Strong Cheltenham Cockleroaster West Country Pale Ale WHITBREAD continued ALLIED continued Wolverhampton Wethered Bitter Holt Mild Wethered SPA Holt Bitter Wethered Winter Royal Holt Entire Fremlins Bitter Burton Flowers IPA Burton Ale Flowers Original ABC Best Bitter Best Bitter Benskins Best Bitter Strong Country Bitter Friary Meux Best Bitter Halls Harvest Bitter Sheffield Shipstones Mild Chesters Best Mild Shipstones Bitter Chesters Best Bitter Taylor Walker Best Bitter Trophy Leeds Higsons Mild Tetley Mild Higsons Bitter Tetley Bitter Bentleys Yorkshire Bitter Warrington Tetley Dark Mild (Other beers in the Whitbread Tetley Mild portfolio are produced at Tetley Bitter breweries which are not under Walkers Mild Whitbread's direct control, Walkers Bitter such as Pompey Royal and Walkers Best Bitter Marstons Pedigree) Walkers Winter Warmer Greenalls Mild Greenalls Bitter Greenalls Original That's 49 beers from 11 breweries. How many of these are likely to survive? Given Whitbread's record of closures and badge brewing, the demise of perhaps a dozen beers and two or three breweries may be expected. The MMC, which in the past has demonstrated spineless compliance, will, of course, have to be consulted. In Manchester, we can perhaps look forward to the demise of OB mild and bitter, Castle Eden, Chesters bitter and Greenalls mild and bitter in the immediate future, with more to follow as the rationalization progresses in the hands of blinkered accountants. If the merger does go ahead, where does this leave CAMRA's boycott of Whitbread? Will we be asked to shun all Allied products as well? What on earth will we be able to drink? Holts? According to Beinlos, that's pretty ropey. So, it's down to Tescos and crates of Chimay! Roger Hall IEEE HIIHGIEHEEEIGHIO EHH THE EIEIO TIGER Once again the Great North Western Beer Festival is being held in Bolton and the organisers are reat ort appealing to CAMRA members from near and far to come and help run this major event in the beer eyte rn festival calendar. i If you are able to work, even for eer es tiv just one session, please telephone Roger Bullock, 061 795 9399 (home) or 061 236 3764 x2453 (work). The festival takes place at the Bolton Sports Centre, Silverwell Street, from 17th to 20th April. As well as the time the festival is open, help is also needed in setting up and taking down on the Sunday. Last year many members worked very long hours. To make things a little easier this year the festival will be closed on the Wednesday after- noon and for two hours on Saturday afternoon. PRESTWICH NEWS Dramatic changes are taking place at the Welcome Inn (Holts) on Bury Old Road. Its a long time since music has been heard in the place (apart from the taped variety), but Sunday nights at the Welcome are now definitely ‘rocking’. The new licensee is Christopher Smalley, who has come from the Broadway in Salford. The place is currently being re-wired prior to a refit which will include new carpets, furniture and tapestry-style upholstered fixed seating. Handpumps are coming back and the upstairs function room, which has been closed for several years, is to be reopened for public use. Chris also intends to have regular quiz nights and, in the warmer months, beer garden bar-b-q's. Also being considered is the possibility of regular ‘dance sessions! upstairs - blimey! The Welcome will never be the same again! In Prestwich village, Davenports bitter has disappeared from the Grapes (Greenalls) and has been replaced with Stones bitter. Glenn Worth HHH III KIKI IK IERIE HIE EEE IEEE EEE KHER KEKE HK EKER HERE EERE EE Contributors to this issue: Roger Hall, Roger Bullock, Stewart Revell, Graham Mason, Keith Egerton, Glenn Worth, Peter Barnes, Peter Wadsworth HHH HII IEE III IEE IEEE EEE IEE TERE EEE EERE HERES IE HEHEHE EEE HE KEKE HE KEE SALFORD ROUND-UP North Manchester branch recently visited pubs in Seedley and the Ordsall area. The good news is that Alan and Iris Johnson are still serying an excellent pint of Lees at the Welcome in deepest Ordsall. On Oldfield Road, real ale has taken the place of keg beer at the Hobsons Choice/Brown Cow (Chesters mild, Trophy, Boddingtons bitter) and Dave the landlord is well and in evidence again at the Prince of Wales (Chesters mild, Trophy, Boddingtons bitter) In Liverpool Street there is some excellent Wilsons mild at the Mariners-and Websters Green Label mild is on good form at the Ship. The bad news is that Brett the dog at the Welcome has died, aged 19 years; the Langworthy is still on keg Whitbread and, back on Oldfield “Road, the beer at the Wellington (Boddies mild and bitter) was only just palatable and at the Kings Arms (Holts bitter) it wasn't very a: oe Peter Barnes ~ YOUR PEDIGREE CHUM _ Boddingtons and Holts are not the only companies which are progress- ively turning pubs from tenancies into managed houses. Marstons are losing some long-established tenants and in some cases the pubs are becoming managed. The Royal Oak in Didsbury and the King William IV in Partington are going through a process of change. It will be interest- ing to see how the changes are handled and whether the pubs retain their character. 5TH- OLDHAM BEER FESTIVAL Friday 5th - Sunday 7th April at the Werneth Park Music Room, Frederick Street, Werneth, Oldhan. Opening Hours Friday: 6.00pm - 11.00pm Saturday: 11.30am - 4.00pm, 6.00pm - 11.00pn Sunday 12 noon - 3.00pm Over 25 real ales and ciders; foreign bottled beers and wine. Entertainment on Friday and Saturday evenings. Food at all sessions. Admission: £1 evenings, 50p lunchtimes Free entry to CAMRA members The beer festival is presented in association with the Mayor of Oldham's Charity Appeal. UNICORN SHEDS SCAFFOLDING The refit at the Unicorn in Hale Barns is now complete and the awful red spiked ceiling has gone. (The customers held a sponsored smash-up for charity.) The interior is much improved and has a more leisurely atmosphere. There is comfortable, quality seating in different areas, no gimmicks and no loud music. The vault has been retained as a separate, carpeted "games area" and there is now no price differential between the lounge and the vault areas. The upstairs has been transformed and now boasts a function room with traditional ale and a dance floor if required. The pub now has five letting bedrooms. Food is available from the main bar every session except Sunday evenings, and Hydes bitter and Light are served through electric metereded pump s in oversizersi glaslasses. Raithi Geerton PIED PIPER FOLLOWERS Ann and John Mistiades recently took on the Pied Piper, Eastham Way, Little Hulton (Robinsons). Readers in the Trafford area may remember Ann Adams when she ran the Melville (Holts) about three years ago. Old friends may wish to renew acquaintances and enjoy a really good pint of Robinsons at the same time, ARSON ABOUT Someone seems to have bobbed into the Bobbin in Beswick and set fire to it. The pub, which has been boarded up for some time, is now burnt out. COACH & HORSES STUDY Peter Wadsworth Further to the report in last month's WD on the Strategy Study for the Coach & Horses, London Road, Manchester, favourable comments have already been received.
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