{"id":3593,"date":"2023-07-21T10:25:58","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T10:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=3593"},"modified":"2023-07-25T17:21:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T17:21:28","slug":"letters-july-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2023\/07\/21\/letters-july-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters &#8211; July 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Pub closures<\/strong><br>Your April\/May edition\u2019s editorial certainly hits the nail on the head. I\u2019m saddened to learn of pubs being permanently closed but do understand, and sympathise, when owners deem their businesses no longer viable. In Romford\u2019s bustling South Street, near the town\u2019s railway station, the World\u2019s Inn has called it a day. This establishment was well furnished, had a wide range of quality beers (supplemented by guest ales), good food at competitive prices and trade was always brisk. The last point makes it the \u2018economics of the mad house\u2019 to have the premises now boarded up. Many objections were raised and letters expressing dissatisfaction with this closure have appeared in the local press. This business was run by a major pub chain to whom I wrote requesting that they reconsider. All I got in return was an e-mail from one person informing me that my views had been forwarded to somebody else. It\u2019s bad enough when pubs are forced to close but even worse when those closing make it onto London Drinker\u2019s ever lengthening closure list when they were doing well!<br><strong><em>Dave Ainsworth<\/em><\/strong><br><br><strong>Kicking off\u2026<\/strong><br>I started to watch the Champions League final in a pub near Fenchurch Street station. I ordered a drink just before kick-off which cost \u00a35.50. When I went back to the bar for another I was told that the price was now \u00a36 as the match had started. In 50 years of drinking and watching football in pubs I have never come across that situation before. Needless to say I left and went to another establishment. As Tommy Cooper used to say, it wasn\u2019t the principle, it was the money!<br><strong><em>David Docherty<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pub closuresYour April\/May edition\u2019s editorial certainly hits the nail on the head. I\u2019m saddened to learn of pubs being permanently closed but do understand, and sympathise, when owners deem their&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3599,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593\/revisions\/3599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}