CAMRA\u2019s legendary Canterbury cricket tent will be in operation again this year for the Kent v Middlesex County Championship match from Friday 19 to Monday 22 June.\u00a0 The venue is Kent CCC\u2019s St Lawrence Ground on the Old Dover Road.\u00a0 It is part of their cricket festival week.\u00a0 Here are the things you need to know:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 The tent is for CAMRA members and their guests only; it\u2019s not open to the general public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Admission to the CAMRA tent is free. CAMRA members need to show their membership cards and to sign themselves and their guests into the visitors\u2019 book. You may bring as many guests as you like, within reasonable limits!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 It is possible to join CAMRA at the tent and we also offer cricket-tent-only membership at a reduced price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 You will need to pay to get into the cricket ground (unless you are already a Kent CCC member). See the KCCC website, www.kentcricket.co.uk<\/em><\/a> for admission details. Look under \u2018Tickets and Shop\u2019. It could be cheaper to get advance tickets or ticket bundles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 The tent will be open from 10am each day until after close of play (about 7pm). Play is scheduled to begin at 11am. Keep an eye on cricket news to check that the match hasn\u2019t ended early; County Championship matches do not always last for the full four days. The tent will not open on the fourth day if the match has already ended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 We have our own private seating at the front of the tent, overlooking the pitch. If all the seats are taken, you are welcome to carry your drinks to other seating areas but please ask us for plastic glasses if you are moving away from the tent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 We serve cask beer, draught cider, wine, soft drinks, tea and coffee. At our very successful 2025 tent we had 30 different beers and cider from 15 producers, mostly from Kent. We aim to have four beers on at any one time to maintain quality, usually a bitter, a best bitter, a golden ale and a dark ale. As one beer runs out, a new one is put on. This can happen very fast!<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 We do not sell food (except for crisps etc) but there are plenty of food outlets on the cricket ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 We take cash or card payments. Beer is about \u00a34 to \u00a34.50 a pint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Any surplus made is donated to two charities which, this year, are Cancer Research UK and Alzheimer\u2019s Research UK. We welcome donations of beer and cider from brewers and cider producers. Any offers of sponsorship are welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 If you have any further questions, please contact Gill Keay on gillandgerrykeay@btinternet.com<\/em><\/a> or call 01227 463478 or 07976 431886 (text messages are usually best as I never seem to hear the phone). These details are also on https:\/\/kent.camra.org.uk\/<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Gill Keay<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CAMRA\u2019s legendary Canterbury cricket tent will be in operation again this year for the Kent v Middlesex County Championship match from Friday 19 to Monday 22 June.\u00a0 The venue is… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beer-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6336","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=6336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6338,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6336\/revisions\/6338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}