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FYLDEALE The Magazine of the BLACKPOOL, FYLDE & WYRE Branch of the Campaign for Real Ale ISSUE 96 / WINTER 2016 FREE please • take one M R A 6 1 • A C 0 W 2 I N N T BAR O E R 19 S Blackpool A P E U S B E O F T H IN THIS ISSUE GET REVITALISED CAMRA’s revitalisation project GOING LOCO DOWN IN ...South Manchester ANOTHER NEW BOY The Craft House Beer Cafe Plus Much More... WWW.BLACKPOOL.CAMRA.ORG.UK The Magazine of the BLACKPOOL, FYLDE & WYRE Branch of the Campaign for Real Ale Ship & Royal - LyLytthamha St Annes - Deliciou Sunda2-7p Roas Availabl 1 MoMoMo - MondaMondaM MadnesMaadnesa (free starter with every main courseourse 5-10pm) Tu - Chicke ClubClub Delicious Chicken Specialspecials We - Gril NighNigh 10% o steaks and bburgersurgers Deliciou - Curr ClubClub Foo Serve Fr - Frida ss everyda Sa - Liv Sporpor 12 - 10p Su - Sunda RoasRoas Larg Heate Beer OPENING TIMES GardeGard a thh rearrear SundaySundayt tooT Thursdayhursday 11am - 11pm11 Friday & Saturday 11am - 1am CAMRA Bi Scree member TV ge 10% * discoun Ship & Royal 91 Clifton Street, Lytham St Annes, FY8 5EH Tel: 01253 732867 Email: ship.and.royal.0197 @spiritpubcompany.com www.shipandroya-pub.c.u *With*With a2 validlid CAMRA• ISSUE MembershipMem 96ber s/h ipWINTER CardCard 2016 WWW.BLACKPOOL.CAMRA.ORG.UK The Magazine of the BLACKPOOL, FYLDE & WYRE Branch of the Campaign for Real Ale Ship & ESSENTIAL INFORMATION THE ED SAID... FYLDE ALE welcomes letters, photographs, news, views Royal and ideas for possible articles. Please keep things short WELCOME TO FYLDE ALE MAGAZINE - LyLytthamha St Annes - and to the point. Please supply your name and address (which will only be published with your permission). Deadline for Spring Edition (97): 24th February 2017 s we move inescapably towards 2017, there is Aso much to look forward to - a new US President FYLDE ALE is distributed to many pubs in our Branch (barking or otherwise), the launch of the Brexit fireworks area. They are listed on our website (see below): click on display and (maybe) a “revitalised” CAMRA. “News” and then “Fylde Ale”. But we’ve got to get the annual festive shindig NEIL PASCOE [email protected] over first. Yes, I suppose I’m a bit of a humbugger at Editor t: 01253 734243 m: 07734 473972 heart - it’s the after-burn, and the weather, in January that does me in, as much as anything. Anyway, you The Editor retains the right to edit any submissions. Views expressed in this publication are those of their individual will notice this is almost a Christmas-free magazine authors and are not necessarily endorsed by the Editor, (though some of our advertisers may have a slightly Deliciou Sunda2-7p Roas branch committee or the Campaign for Real Ale different take on things - business is business, after all). Availabl 1 nationally. All editorial copyright © Blackpool, Fylde & In truth, this was more by accident than design. Wyre CAMRA 2016; please contact the Editor if you Lytham Brewery tell us about their very appetising wish to reproduce any of it. Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre MoMoMo - MondaMondaM MadnesMaadnesa CAMRA accepts no liability in relation to the accuracy festive offerings in Brews News. But you may be (free starter with every main courseourse 5-10pm) of advertisements; readers must rely on their own tempted to emulate the global reach of Al in his enquiries. It should also be noted that acceptance of an latest Ale Tale and sample some of the reputed advertisement in this publication should not be deemed best of “world beers”. I have little doubt that Al Tu - Chicke ClubClub an endorsement of quality by Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre Delicious Chicken Specialspecials and Marian will be spending some (most ?) of their WWW.BLACKPOOL.CAMRA.ORG.UK Yuletide leisure time in the vast beer cellar of Doggart We - Gril NighNigh Towers, enjoying the liquid fruits of their many foreign 10% o steaks and bburgersurgers YOUR RIGHTS AS CONSUMERS explorations. He knows a thing or two about such fruits, Deliciou Complaints about short measures etc. should be does Al, so read and learn. - Curr CClublub Foo Serve addressed initially to pub landlords. If you are still not Unfortunately, there are some of our fellow everyda satisfied, you should contact your local Trading Standards imbibers who will not be around this Christmas. Dave Fr - Frida ss Officer, namely: Wood is remembered elsewhere herein, but also Sa - Liv Sporpor 12 - 10p LANCASHIRE: County Hall, Preston. Tel: 01772 254868 Ian Walker and John Hammond - amongst others. BLACKPOOL: Enforcement & Quality Standards, And amongst those others, sadly, is our centenarian, Su - Sunda RoasRoas Progress House, Clifton Road, Blackpool FY4 4US Richard Roper, whose 100th birthday we celebrated in Tel: 01253 478359 last Fylde Ale. So, for those of them you knew, please raise a glass in remembrance this Christmas. Larg Heate Beer CAMPAIGN FOR REAL ALE (CAMRA) It only remains for me to thank all our Contributors OPENING TIMES 230 Hatfield Road, St. Albans, Herts, AL1 4LW. and Advertisers for their essential part in keeping Fylde GardeGard a thh rearrear t: 01727 867 201 e: [email protected] Ale going in 2016, all the Pubs that stock it, and you, SundaySundayt tooT Thursdayhursday 11am - 11pm11 www.camra.org.uk Dear Reader, for, well, reading the result. Please keep Friday & Saturday 11am - 1am FYLDE ALE is published quarterly by Capital Media Group on up the Good Work. CAMRA Bi Scree behalf of Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre Campaign for Real Ale. member TV Advertising Rates are set by Capital Media. Wishing - A JOYOUS CHRISTMAS AND A PROSPEROUS ge 10% * NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL ! discoun Ship & Royal PUBLISHED BY Neil Pascoe - Editor of Fylde Ale 91 Clifton Street, Capital Media Group, First Floor, Central Buildings, Middlegate, Newark , Nottinghamshire, NG24 IAG Lytham St Annes, FY8 5EH t: 01636 302 302 e: [email protected] www.choose.capital Tel: 01253 732867 © 2016 Capital Media Group. All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be transmitted, reproduced, Email: ship.and.royal.0197 recorded, photocopied or otherwise without the express @spiritpubcompany.com written permission of the copyright holder. www.shipandroya-pub.c.u *With*With a validlid CAMRA MembershipMembership CardCard WWW.BLACKPOOL.CAMRA.ORG.UK ISSUE 96 / WINTER 2016 • 3 The Magazine of the BLACKPOOL, FYLDE & WYRE Branch of the Campaign for Real Ale BAR 19 WINTER PUB OF THE SEASON t was a tightly fought contest for the honours this time, Ibut, after being on the shortlist several times before, Bar 19 has at last triumphed as our selection for Winter POTS 2016. This bar on Queen Street in Blackpool is an oasis of cask ale in an area of town more noted for its “fun pubs” and 2-for-1 discounts. It was a china and crystal shop until its conversion into a bar ten years ago. John Willie Lees were closely involved at that time - you can still the came back and has been promoting real ale here for sign over the door. Now it belongs to a small group of the last three years. Not surprising then that he is a very three pubs, the other two being in Manchester. keen CAMRA member himself and actively involved Presenting the award, Pubs Officer Rick Pickup said with our branch social trips. He runs his own Bar 19 trips “we like to award Pub of the Season to bars that offer as well and organises his own beer festivals. You could something unusual, and providing top quality real ale in say he lives the part to the full ! a part of town where it is not readily available definitely He describes the venue as a “drinking pub by fits the bill. Bar 19 is, on the face of it, a bar where you day, nightclub at night.” So, the “shots” and cocktails might not expect to find CAMRA members, but it is a associated with Queen Street bars are readily available, pub that serves incredibly good cask ale. It’s perhaps but pride of place goes to a constantly changing range the one bar in town where you can find people drinking of three guest ales, where north-west breweries are well real ale in the early hours of the morning.” represented. Accepting the award, landlord Lee “Burner” There is great value-for-money here too, with Rawlings said “I’d like to thank everyone who has special reductions for CAMRA members on Wednesday supported us - both the regulars who drink here every (£ 1.75 a pint). At all other times, CAMRA members can day and the CAMRA members who support the beer still enjoy a 10 % discount off a pint - just make sure you festivals we run twice a year.” bring your card. Lee has managed pubs in three different CAMRA Somewhere that’s unexpectedly different and branch areas and won awards in all of them. He was worth exploring. Up to you whether you want continue involved in the original set-up of Bar 19 ten years ago exploring the other delights of Queen Street ! but, after a stint working in other pubs in the group, Russ Cobb BRANCH CONTACTS WWW.BLACKPOOL.CAMRA.ORG.UK CHAIRMAN PAUL SMITH SOCIAL OFFICER GARY LEVIN e: [email protected] e: [email protected] VICE CHAIRMAN GARY WALKEY MAGAZINE EDITOR NEIL PASCOE e: [email protected] e: [email protected] BRANCH SECRETARY ANDREW KNIGHT PUBLICITY OFFICER RUSS COBB e: [email protected] e: [email protected] MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY RAY JACKSON FLEETWOOD FESTIVAL CHAIR RICK PICKUP e: [email protected] e: [email protected] YOUNG MEMBERS’ SECRETARY MATT WALKER LYTHAM FESTIVAL CHAIR PAUL SMITH e: [email protected] e: [email protected]