The magazine from the Slough, Windsor & Maidenhead branch of The Campaign for Real Ale FREE Issue 44 - Autumn 2016 | www.swm.camra.org.uk Please take one STOP PRESS Binghams Vanilla Stout crowned Champion Beer of Britain Inside... > MAIDENHEAD PUBS LOOKING VUNERABLE Average house price nearly £500,000 puts pressure on pub viability > MAIDENHEAD BEER & CIDER FESTIVAL SUCCESS Record attendance and the beer & cider Supporting Real Ale, Real Cider & Real Pubs in East Berkshire & South Buckinghamshire www.swmcamra.org.uk sells out! > Page 2 | Supporting Real Ale, Real Cider & Real Pubs in East Berkshire and South Buckinghamshire www.swm.camra.org.uk WELCOME The fi rst choice for pub news in East Berks & South Bucks > FROM THE EDITOR EDITOR Maidenhead... is a large affluent town and unparished area in the Royal Allan Willoughby Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, in Berkshire, England. It lies south
[email protected] ADVERTISING of the River Thames. The town has a population of 67,404... according to Capital Media Group Wikipedia! Tel: 01628 203 203 In this issue we make no excuse for heavily concentrating on the town. Look at 2
[email protected] headlines from its local weekly newspaper, The Maidenhead Advertiser: CONTRIBUTORS ‘House price average nearly half a million, figures show increase of 11.5% from last Greg Davies, Mark Newcombe, year’ and ‘Maidenhead golf club signs deal to surrender lease, 1,500 new homes set to Kevin Phillips, Alan Molloy be built on 130-acre course.’ So what’s this got to do with pubs and real ale? The town & Allan Willoughby centre pubs are being decimated giving a much reduced opportunity to drink real IMPORTANT CONTACTS ale.