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Vol 33 No 2 Apr May 2011 D ON ON L Apr Vol 33 May No 2 2011 The Harp is National Pub of the Year (see page 28) Tel: 020 7281 2786 Steak & Ale House CAMRA North London Pub of the Year 2011 finalist present our EASTER ALE FESTIVAL Monday 18th to Easter Sunday 24th (including St George’s Day on the 23rd!) Celebrate Britishness with real British ale! Come and try our Cask Marque-accredited ales ...Six Cask Marque and vote for us to be pub of the year! accredited real ales Don’t forget to book your Easter Sunday roast. always on tap and Follow us on twitter@north_nineteen or on our 40+ malt and blended Facebook page - North Nineteen whiskies also now on. Real Ale, Real Food, Real Pub Membership discounts on ale available, All proper, fresh sign up at www.northnineteen.co.uk Steakhouse food. In the main bar: Food is served: Tuesday - Live music and open mic 8pm start Tuesday-Friday 5-10pm Wednesday - Poker Tournament 7.30pm start Saturday 12-10pm Dart board and board games always available Prefer a quiet pint? Sunday 12-7pm Our Ale and Whisky Bar is open daily for food, drinks and conversation. We always have six well Please book your Sunday Roast Cask Marque kept real ales and 40+ top quality whiskies. accredited There are no strangers here, just friends you haven’t met yet Editorial London Drinker is published by Mike Hammersley on behalf of the London Branches of CAMRA, the Campaign for Real NDO Ale Limited, and edited by Geoff O N Strawbridge. L Material for publication should preferably be sent by e-mail to [email protected]. Correspondents unable to send letters to the editor electronically may post them to Brian Sheridan at 4, Arundel House, Heathfield Road, Croydon CR0 1EZ. Press releases should be sent by email via [email protected] Changes to pubs or beers should be reported to Capital Pubcheck, 2 Sandtoft Road, London SE7 7LR or by e-mail to [email protected]. For publication in June 2011, please send Campaign now to save our pubs electronic documents to the Editor no later than Wednesday 11th May. SUBSCRIPTIONS: £4.00 for mailing of 6 am delighted to have been asked There is no better place to editions or £8.00 for 12 should be sent to to be Guest Editor for this issue enjoy our national drink, which is Stan Tompkins, 52 Rabbs Mill House, I Chiltern View Road, Uxbridge, Middlesex, of London Drinker , London our burgundy or bordeaux, than in UB8 2PD (cheques payable to CAMRA CAMRA’s excellent magazine. I London, the great capital city of London). am going to begin by taking the our exceptional beer nation. I was ADVERTISING: John Galpin Tel: 020 3287 2966. opportunity to congratulate the honoured to open the recent Printed by Cliffe Enterprise, Campaign for Real Ale, CAMRA, Battersea Beer Festival, as well as Eastbourne, BN22 8TR on their 40 th Anniversary this year. having the pleasure of attending Views expressed in this publication are those Forty years of campaigning and the London Drinker Beer Festival. of their individual authors and are not championing issues nationally and At both I was able to sample a necessarily endorsed by the Editor or the Campaign for Real Ale Limited. here in London and as relevant range of ales from the many today as when it was formed. I was excellent smaller brewers that have Advertise in the next LONDON DRINKER delighted to host a CAMRA popped up in London, another sign Our advertising rates are as follows: reception in Parliament recently of the success of real ale. Whole page £300 (colour) £240 (mono) and raise a glass (or two) of real ale Organisers of both festivals are to Half page £180 (colour), £135 (mono) to CAMRA alongside Colin commended not only for the Quarter page £95 (colour), £70 (mono) Phone John Galpin now on Valentine, CAMRA’s national chair excellent events that took place 020 3287 2966, Mobile 07508 036835 and Bob Neill MP, the Community under their stewardship, but also [email protected] Pubs Minister. In my speech I for starting the festivals on a pointed out that not only were Wednesday evening – clearly aware In this issue CAMRA formed 40 years ago, but that MPs travel back to their so was Greg Mulholland! (Readers constituencies on a Thursday, thus News round-up 10 will be pleased but not surprised to enabling us to attend! th CAMRA awards 28 know that my 40 birthday party But equally, there is no finer was in a pub that brews excellent place in the world to enjoy a great Festival reports 32 real ale!) pint than in the many excellent and Book reviews 40 I also reminded MPs, peers, many quite unique pubs in Greater CAMRA activists and others just London. Indeed it has been a great Letters 43 what CAMRA have achieved in pleasure over my last nearly six Branch diaries 46 their history; no less than saving years down here to get to know a Capital Pubcheck 49 real British beer which has led to us few pubs in London. Sitting hours having the remarkable and of the House of Commons don’t Membership form 51 wonderful range of beer we enjoy allow many trips out but I have Craft brewing 64 today and indeed to the point managed to visit a good number of where real ale sales increased by London pubs, often of course to Obituaries 65 5% in 2010. I welcomed that the two neighbours to Parliament, Continuous success 68 CAMRA were now also firmly St Stephen’s Tavern (the only pub established as the leading in England with no sign?) and the Real ale girl 71 organisation fighting for the pub Red Lion (the Prime Minister’s Idle Moments 72 also, which is equally important, as local!) but also visiting gems like Ye the pub is the unique place in Olde Mitre in Holborn, the Crossword 74 which to enjoy a pint of the good Pineapple in Kentish Town and the stuff. Royal Oak in Borough to name a 3 Save our pubs few. The last parliament also threw up two Greater a sad reminder of the challenge we are all facing, London by-elections, Bromley & Chislehurst in with pubs closing temporarily and, alas all too often, 2006 and Ealing Southall in 2007 which allowed for good, thus robbing a community of its local. me to sample some pubs there. In the latter case I The Save the Pub Group, together with CAMRA, happened one night canvassing to come across the are leading the fight to change that. wonderful Fox at Hanwell, which then became an First of all, if pubs are important, then they end of night haunt for me and Lib Dem colleagues should be recognised in planning law as important. till polling day! I hope to continue my visits and The cold hard reality is that currently, despite the hope London CAMRA members can suggest the rhetoric from successive Governments about the best pubs in London I should visit: drop me importance of community pubs to their local a line at the House of Commons or to communities and to the nation, such institutions [email protected] ! have virtually no protection in planning law at the As Chair of the Parliamentary Save the Pub moment and local communities have virtually no Group, I am proud to be working alongside say over their future. CAMRA to champion the interests of community It is nothing less than national scandal that pubs, including tabling EDM 210, with 270 profitable, wanted pubs are being closed up and signatures the most supported Early Day Motion in down the country against the wishes of the local the current parliament, a CAMRA backed motion community and the small business person, the that calls on the Government to implement policies landlord or landlady, who run the pub. It is also to protect well run community pubs. For those disgraceful that a pub can be shut permanently who haven’t yet heard of us, the Save the Pub against the wishes of the local community in spite Group is an all party group of MPs and peers all of the fact that other companies or individuals want committed to protecting and promoting pubs to buy and run it – just so that greedy owners can which we believe are vital community institutions make money from development. and part of our national heritage. As most CAMRA members will know, Like me, London Drinker readers are all too currently a freestanding pub can be demolished, or aware of the plight of many pubs, including here in turned into various other things, a supermarket, a the capital, and the Capital Pubcheck pages provide restaurant or a bookies without any need to seek 4 Save our pubs planning permission, which means without even a real say in the future of their local and stop giving the locals the chance to have a say. The Save owners seeing pubs as opportunities to make money the Pub Group are calling, alongside CAMRA, for by development or selling them for alternative use the disgraceful demolition loophole to be closed, (notably for supermarkets at the moment – the and for planning permission to be required for ANY disgrace that local communities are losing their pub change to a pub. which becomes a Tesco overnight, without them A very positive and exciting trend at the even having the chance to comment). moment is that whilst huge pub companies and So please do write to your local MP and to Bob large breweries are closing and selling pubs, a Neill MP, the Community Pubs Minister, number of pubs are now being bought by successful demanding that the Government require that all small pub companies, run on very different models changes of use or demolition to any pub require and also by small breweries, who are now seeking to planning permission and also that the Government take on a few pubs.
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