A visit to EC1

On the day after New Year’s Day I took myself up to London. Perhaps, on reflection,…

Celebrating ‘Spoons 40th

The cover of the last London Drinker reminded us that the JD Wetherspoon pub chain (JDW)…

A palace of variety

Crystal Palace is famous for a long burned down, rather large greenhouse. Or perhaps the two…

London Heritage Pub Visitors’ Club

Justifying a monthly pub crawl gets easier when you can call it educational. As the ‘London…

Memorial crawl for Bill English

Twenty members of the Society for the Preservation of Beer from the Wood (SPBW) and friends…

The Roberts Ramble

Pete Roberts was a member of CAMRA’s East London and City branch whose loves were real…

And so to Bedford

A group of us visited the town in January. We started at noon in Pilgrim’s Progress,…

Bromley Pub Walks

There are many miles of footpaths in the rural parts of the borough of Bromley. These…

A walk down Union Street SE1

Towards the end of March I decided to pay a nostalgic visit to the pubs along…

Bow Belles – the London Pubs Group crawl of Bow

On 22 August last, some forty members and supporters of CAMRA’s London Pubs Group undertook an…