{"id":5705,"date":"2025-09-24T11:40:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T11:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=5705"},"modified":"2025-09-24T11:40:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T11:40:52","slug":"book-reviews-londons-real-heritage-pubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2025\/09\/24\/book-reviews-londons-real-heritage-pubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Book reviews &#8211; London\u2019s Real Heritage Pubs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/shop1.camra.org.uk\/app\/uploads\/2025\/07\/thumbnail_London-RHP-frcvr.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Much has changed since 2008 when the first edition of this book was published.\u00a0 The pub heritage officers of two of CAMRA\u2019s London branches, Neil Pettigrew (South East London) and Rex Ward (South West London) have combined to produce this revised edition, managing to retain the style of Jane Jephcote and Geoff Brandwood\u2019s original while ensuring that all of the information is up to date.\u00a0 Unlike the <em>Good Beer Guide<\/em>, this is not a guide that focuses on beer quality; this is all about the pubs themselves, in particular their historically important interiors.\u00a0 It covers 249 pubs and is illustrated throughout with top quality colour photographs.\u00a0 It also contains a number of explanatory articles and features, such as a profile of the architect, T H Nowell Parr. \u00a0There is also a comprehensive listing of the changes in entries between the two editions.\u00a0 If you like traditional pubs, then this book is an essential companion.\u00a0 It is available on-line from <a href=\"https:\/\/shop1.camra.org.uk\/product\/londons-real-heritage-pubs\/\">CAMRA Books<\/a> <em>.<\/em>\u00a0 The cover price is \u00a38.99, with a discount for CAMRA members.\u00a0 A4 size 216 pages.\u00a0 ISBN 978-1-85249-398-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much has changed since 2008 when the first edition of this book was published.\u00a0 The pub heritage officers of two of CAMRA\u2019s London branches, Neil Pettigrew (South East London) and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5705","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5707,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5705\/revisions\/5707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}