The FREE Magazine of the Thanet Branch of the Campaign for Real Ale ALE Quarterly Summer 2015 Circulation 2500 Guest the Pub? Page 5 Bar None Page 3 Impromptu Visit to the Pub of the Year Capital Presentations Page 12 Page 10 Folkestone Micropubs Micro Moves Page 19 Page 7 reverted to the pub’s previous incarnation as the London Tavern. Bar None NORTHERN BELLE Maison Street Margate David Davies has now departed from this Local Pub News Good Beer Guide regular hostelry. Eli WELCOME to this issue’s Bar None. Thompson and Keith Roberts who cur- rently run the Westcoast bar and Black EVERYBODY’S INN Addington Street Cat Club have now taken the pub on and Margate This pub opposite the Theatre Royal has installed Andy Jefferson as manager. TURNEROUND Buenos Ayres Margate The former Railway Cafe on the corner of Buenos Ayres and Railway Approach has been opened as a ‘Micro Bar’. Run by Dave Everybody’s Inn soon to be reverting to its old name - Chapman The London Tavern Turneround Microbar housed in the & Brooke former Railway Cafe been brought by Carl & Nancy Hilliard of Etheridge the Ales of the Unexpected micropub. The it is serving its real ales straight from the pub is closed at present while the couple cask from auto-tilt stillages situated in give the pub a good make-over and have the main bar area. Real cider along with provisionally marked in the August Bank wines is available while they hope to offer Holiday weekend to reopen. They plan to a food menu in the coming months. BRANCH EVENTS CONTENTS Below is a selection of branch activities 3 - Bar None - Pub News BRANCH SOCIALS 4 - Bar None Continued Wednesday 15 July 2015 5 - Name That Pub? EVENING WALKABOUT 6 - Pubs Selling Local Beer Meet Ales of the Unexpected - 7.30pm then wander towards Margate Old Town. 7 - Micro Moves BUSINESS MEETING 8 - Beer & the Meaning of Life September 2015 10 - POTY Presentation Pictures Date & venue TBA - 8pm 11 - Membership Application Form MID-WEEK WALK 12 - Impromptu Visit to the Capital Thursday 23 July 2015 16 - CAMRA Press Releases Meet Conqueror, Ramsgate CT11 9LR - 11.30am 17 - CAMRA Press Releases Our meetings and events are sometimes subject 19 - Folkestone Micropubs to change so keep up to date by visiting our We are always interested in pub or website at www.thanet-camra.org.uk or our brewery news items, along with articles - facebook page where full details of these and not necessarily beer or pub related - and other up and coming events are listed. pictures to fill the pages of this magazine. Send in the first instant to the Editor at [email protected] 3 THE TWO HALVES (or TWO HALF'S), BRITANNIA Fort Hill Margate 2 Marine Drive, Margate This pub next to Margate Police Station A planning application by Shaun closed since the New Year has reopened Smethers to turn a former retail outlet with former Sundowners bosses Paul and on the seafront Edna Rollins in charge, assisted by into a micropub Academy FM DJ and performer Horace. has been granted BAR ONE Marine Gardens Margate by the local This bar has reopen as Meze Bar & Restau- council. Sub- rant jected to him OLD COTTAGE High Street Margate being granted a Work is continuing on the rebuilding and premises license refitting of this pub. he hopes to be ROYAL VICTORIA PAVILION Harbour open for business Parade, Ramsgate by 20 July. Pub chain J D Wetherspoon who applied for FEZ MICROPUB, planning consent in March to create a new The home of the new 40 High Street, public house in the grade II-listed building Margate micropub Margate have No planning held a application has yet been filed to convert day’s the former Margate Card Centre next public door to Sands Hotel into a micropub. consul- (BRACKET] Marine Esplanade tation Margate giving The ground and upper storey's of this details of former Thorley Tavern pub have their become plans. Proposed frontage of Royal Victoria Pavilion the HQ of Pictures of what the company want the revived place to look like after its £3 million rejuve- Dream- nation of the derelict building were on land show. Amuse- Their ment plans Park. The include [Bracket] is now Dreamland HQ basement restoring bar area formerly known as ‘The Bit on parts of the Side’ has the exte- and the Quarterdeck Cafe rior become the Bar Quarterdeck Bar fascia Proposed interior of Royal Victoria Pavilion & Cafe. While that the former have been lost over the years along with Escape nightclub community spaces. next door is also DERBY ARMS Margate Road Ramsgate being used by The planning application submitted to the Dreamland. local council for conversion of this closed VICTORIA Ramsgate Road Margate and for sale Shepherd Neame pub to a This pub has opened as the Secret’s house in multiple occupation has been Spices Indian restaurant. refused. HARRY’S BAR – Marine Terrace, BELLE VUE Northdown Road, Cliftonville Margate Rayce Knowles has taken on the tenancy of Is now a cafe and retail outlet known as this keg only bozzer. He hopes to reintro- Margate Rocks. duce real ale in the near future. 4 THE MINNIS The Parade Birchington- the building, to include overnight accom- on-Sea modation. Brewery Shepheard Neame has bought this bar and restaurant from freehold That’s it for this issue, owner Jason Freedman who is now Cheers going to focus on other projects. Steve Saunders It is reported that Shepheard Neame are If you have any pub news or views please to invest £2m renovating and extending email me at: [email protected] GUESS THE PUB? Our photographer has cropped some of his Thanet pub pictures to show just their ④ ① windows. Can you guess which pubs? Answers on page 18. w ③ ⑤ ⑦ ⑥ ⑧ 5 THANET PUBS SELLING LOCALLY BREWED BEERS Listed below are pubs and bars that are known to regularly sell real ales from breweries within 20 miles of Thanet. Birchington Pegwell Wheel Alehouse Sir Stanley Gray Broadstairs Ramsgate Bradstow Mill, Chapel, Charles Dickens, Artillery Arms, Churchill Tavern, Comfort Inn, Dolphin, Little Albion, Pavilion, Tartar Frigate, Conqueror Alehouse, Elephant & Castle, Great Thirty-Nine Steps Tree, Hotel De Ville, Hovelling Boat, Mariners, Dumpton Montefiore Arms, Oak Hotel, Queen Charlotte, Brown Jug Queen Head, Red Lion, Rose of England Margate St. Peters Ales of the Unexpected, Harbour Arms, Hoy, Four Candles, Yard of Ale Lifeboat, Mechanical Elephant, Wig and Pen Westgate Minster Bake & Ale House Hair of the Dog, New Inn, Minster & Monkton Reading Street (St. Peters) Royal British Legion Club White Swan Thanet CAMRA cannot guarantee the availability of a local ale or the quality of the ale served in any establishments listed and cannot be held responsible for any errors or omissions to this list. TRADING STANDARDS If you feel that you have been treated unfairly in a pub, club or bar you should contact Trading Standards by either speaking to an advisor at Consumer Direct on 08454 04 05 06 or visiting the Consumer Direct website at www.comsumerdirect.gov.uk ALE OF THANET Summer 2015 — Published quarterly by Thanet CAMRA - the Thanet Branch of the Campaign for Real Ale. © Thanet CAMRA 2015 - Circulation 2500 Printed by printcarrier - www.printcarrier.com Any views or comments expressed in Ale of Thanet may not necessarily be those of the Editor, Thanet CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale or their officials. The taking of advertising does not imply that Thanet CAMRA or the Campaign for Real Ale endorse the pub, product or service on offer. Campaign for Real Ale Limited 230 Hatfield Road, St Albans AL1 4LW Tel: 01727 867201 www.camra.org.uk Picture contributions this issue are from Beery Steve, Tony Walbank & Tony Skirving while articles were contributed by CAMRA, Tony Skirving, Keef & Tony Walbank. Articles, letters, pub reports & news, photos and suggestions are always welcome. Please email them to: [email protected] or send to Ale of Thanet c/o 31 Nash Court Gardens Margate CT9 4DG Maps used in this publication are downloaded or are based on data from Open Street Map © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC BY-SA www.openstreetmap.org BRANCH EVENTS Visit our website at www.thanet-camra.org.uk or contact Graham on 01843 835793 for further details. BRANCH DETAILS Chairperson: Julian Dungey - via branch contact; Secretary: Dennis Brandrick - via branch contact; Treasurer: Debbie Aris - [email protected]; Membership Secretary: Jez Lamming - via branch contact; Pubs Officer and Aot Editor: Steve Saunders - [email protected] Branch Contact: Graham Rickett - [email protected] All correspondence should be addressed to: Thanet CAMRA c/o 11 Sea View Road, Broadstairs, CT10 1BX Tel: 01843 835793 or emailed to: [email protected]. 6 MICRO MOVES At the beginning of May, the Harbour Arms micropub on the town’s Stone Pier, up sticks in the middle of night to move into a new home – the unit next door. When this unit became empty, Harbour Arms publicans Richard & Carol Lane were asked whether they would like to take it on. The couple couldn’t refuse, as they were out growing the original unit in two former fisherman's net stores. They stopped serving on the Saturday night and along with friends and relatives had moved everything out of the old and into the new unit by 4 am and were up and The new units glass frontage giving views into the pub ready to open for business at noon that day. Although the new bar has twice as much space in it, it has retained the character of The old unit can be seen beyond the pub’s new bigger premises the former with all the original decor and novel bits and bobs including the piano, where beer drinkers can gather for a sing- Landlord Richard behind the new bar and to the right the viewing window into the cold room a-long, moving into the new unit as well.