{"id":835,"date":"2020-03-23T20:19:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T20:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=835"},"modified":"2020-03-23T20:19:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T20:19:08","slug":"35-years-at-the-wych-elm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/03\/23\/35-years-at-the-wych-elm\/","title":{"rendered":"35 years at the Wych Elm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On a Friday night in February members of CAMRA\u2019s Kingston &amp; Leatherhead branch gathered at the Wych Elm in Kingston to make a presentation to the barman and cellarman, Pete Simmons for his 35 years\u2019 service at the pub. Pete explained how it all started, \u201c<em>I worked for British Aerospace and was a regular here. I got to know Manuel (the then landlord) well and one day I was in on a Saturday morning and he told me he was short staffed and asked if I\u2019d give him a hand. I said yes and that was that.<\/em>\u201d Commenting on his 35 year milestone, Pete said, \u201c<em>There\u2019s plenty more where that came from. I\u2019m not going anywhere. I hope the next milestone will be 50 years<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"676\" height=\"497\" src=\"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/image-1.png 676w, https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/image-1-300x221.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Pictured is John Norman making the presentation to Pete,\nalong with Allan Marshall. Owners Fuller\u2019s generously acknowledged the event by\nselling their real ales at the price from 35 years ago, 85p a pint. This was\nmuch appreciated by members and the other ale drinkers present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Clive Taylor, with thanks to Richard Russell for the photo<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a Friday night in February members of CAMRA\u2019s Kingston &amp; Leatherhead branch gathered at the Wych Elm in Kingston to make a presentation to the barman and cellarman, Pete&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":836,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pub-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835","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=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions\/837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}