{"id":6637,"date":"2026-09-29T17:58:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T17:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=6637"},"modified":"2026-09-29T17:58:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T17:58:05","slug":"letters-september-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2026\/09\/29\/letters-september-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters &#8211; September 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>All readers \u2013 not just CAMRA members \u2013 are invited to submit letters for publication to <em>London Drinker<\/em> but please remember that the letters column is intended for debate and constructive criticism.\u00a0 The editor reserves the right not to print any contributions that are otherwise.\u00a0 Please e-mail letters to <em><a href=\"mailto:ldnews.hedger@gmail.com\">ldnews.hedger@gmail.com<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 If you do not have e-mail, hard-copy letters may be sent to the same address given for subscriptions on page 3, addressed to <em>London Drinker<\/em> Letters.\u00a0 In both cases, please state \u2018letter for publication\u2019 so as to avoid any misunderstandings.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Elephants<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Firstly, may I congratulate the LD team for an excellent August\/September issue. A great mix of interesting features and the usual informative news content. &nbsp;LD&#8217;s award at the last CAMRA AGM was well deserved and long overdue, in my opinion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I particularly liked the articles on John Young and Chiswick Bitter, both sorely missed by your correspondent. &nbsp;I always look forward to Christine Cryne&#8217;s articles on London&#8217;s microbreweries but was, as a proud South Londoner, a little surprised to learn that Peter Jackson of Southwark Brewery thinks that the elephant has no connection with the borough in question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He may like to take a short trip to the Elephant &amp; Castle where the elephant sign from the pub that gave its name to the district now stands in the new residential development east of the railway viaduct. &nbsp;I believe it was formerly outside the now demolished shopping centre, next to the also now vanished Newington Butts pub. &nbsp;Happily, the current incarnation of the Elephant &amp; Castle (with a smaller golden elephant sign) appears to be alive and well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Robert Preston<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All readers \u2013 not just CAMRA members \u2013 are invited to submit letters for publication to London Drinker but please remember that the letters column is intended for debate and&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-6637","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\/6637","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=6637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6638,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6637\/revisions\/6638"}],"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=6637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}