{"id":589,"date":"2019-11-20T17:28:31","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T17:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=589"},"modified":"2019-11-20T17:28:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T17:28:33","slug":"memorial-crawl-for-bill-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/11\/20\/memorial-crawl-for-bill-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial crawl for Bill English"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Twenty members of the Society for the Preservation of Beer from the Wood (SPBW) and friends from all over the country gathered in Alton, Hampshire, for the first Bill English \u2018DFE\u2019 (Double Full English) Breakfast Memorial crawl. This was combined with the 10th Alton Classic Bus &amp; Country Pub Running Day on Saturday 20 July. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"755\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/image-6.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/image-6.png 755w, https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/image-6-300x167.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Over ten people, including Bill\u2019s family (Janet and Chris) started the day at 8am at Piggies Caf\u00e9 at Clapham Junction for the first of the double breakfasts before continuing by train to Alton. There, at either the Plus Caf\u00e9 or Stones, some people had their first or second breakfast, as had been occasioned by Bill himself (three people managed a \u2018double breakfast\u2019). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Early afternoon we gathered at the\nFlowerpots Brewery and pub (one of Bill\u2019s favourites) where the SPBW National\nExecutive vice chair, Aidan Kerrigan, gave a fulsome tribute oration in the\nsunlit garden. People then dispersed for the rest of the day to various pubs,\nmost of which had been visited by Bill over the years, travelling by bus\nsupplied free by the Hants &amp; Surrey Bristol RE Group. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"755\" height=\"481\" src=\"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/image-7.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/image-7.png 755w, https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/image-7-300x191.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The event commemorated not only Bill himself but also a legend about him. A group of Camden Hill SPBW branch members, including Bill, occasionally met at Marie\u2019s Caf\u00e9 in Waterloo for breakfast before catching trains to events outside London. On one occasion, Bill had a \u2018Full English\u2019 there before we travelled to Alton for that year\u2019s RE Bus event which he had always enjoyed. After arriving in the town, Bill joined some members of the Kingston branch at Poppin\u2019s Caf\u00e9 in the High Street. He was witnessed ordering another one and demolished it! One wag gave him a new nickname: Bill \u2018Double Full\u2019 English! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>From the\nSPBW magazine, courtesy of Aidan Kerrigan<\/em><\/strong>\n\n\n\n\n\n\b\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdU\ufffd\ufffd#<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty members of the Society for the Preservation of Beer from the Wood (SPBW) and friends from all over the country gathered in Alton, Hampshire, for the first Bill English&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pub-crawl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","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=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions\/592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}