NEWS
Our branch was 50 years old in 2024.
Back in the day (1980-1989) the branch
produced a local newsletter named
unsurprisingly enough, Pigs Ear. Here is the
Nov/Dec 1981 edition. One from Feb 85. But
before that Bas Clarke produced the East
London Newsletter. Here is the first volume
from December 1976, Volume 3 and Volume
6. Volume 7 , Volume 10, Volume 13 , Volume
14 , Volume 15 , Volume 17, Volume 18 ,
Volume 19 and Volume 20.
Photograph a pub.
What do the following pub/bars have in
common?, Bistrotheque, 23–27 Wadeson
Street, E2 9DR, Gantry ,40 Celebration
Avenue, E20 1DB, Bourbon, 387 Roman Road
E3 5QR, 40ft Brewery Tap Bootyard, Abbott
Street E8 3DP, Beer Merchants Tap, 99 Wallis
Road E9 5LN.
None have a picture on Whatpub. If you can
help please send us your photograph. A list of
all the
pubs is
here. A
map
with all
the
pubs
plotted
on
them is
here.
Brewery History Society Website.
The latest London Drinker is available here.
CAMRA London Pubs Guide.
London Beer & Pub Guide.
Beer Barrels and Brewhouses Publication on
forgotten East End breweries. See here. PDF
Do you know of any clubs not on this list?
Campaigning for real ale,
pubs & drinkers' rights
since 1971.
ABOUT CAMRA
CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale is an
independent, voluntary organisation once (Dec
2019) with 192,289 members campaigning for
real ale, community pubs and consumer
rights. Down (Dec 2023) to a seven-year low
of 150,728 possibly due to the pandemic
without beer festivals for renewals/new
members.. But it could be that now members
have been deprived of a monthly What’s
Brewing paper and can only view information
online that they find it no longer value for
money?
CAMRA acts as the champion for beer
drinkers and pub-goers on issues ranging from
protecting pubs from closing down, keeping
the lid on the price of a pint and ensuring there
is fair competition in the beer and pubs
market. CAMRA supports well-run pubs as the
centres of community life and believe their
continued existence play a critical social role
in UK culture.
© Disclaimer and Copyright Notice: “All pages, their contents and related items are provided as is. Thus no liability, consequential or otherwise, rising from them is accepted. Where not already
belonging or assigned to others, all material remains our copyright. CAMRA East London & City 2025. Parts of this website were updated 19 July 2025..
WELCOME
Branch events
Thursday August 28
8pm Pub Of the Year Presentation, Ye Olde
Mitre, 1 Ely Court, Ely Place EC1N 6SJ
Wednesday September 3
7:30pm Pigs Ear Planning Meeting, Golden
Fleece, 166 Capel Rd, E12 5DB.
Wednesday September 9
8pm Branch Meeting, Holly Tree, 141 Dames
Road, E7 0DZ
Tuesday September 23
7:30pm Pigs Ear Planning Meeting, Olde
Rose & Crown. 53 Hoe Street, E17 4SA
Roberts Ramble in Winchester. 6 Sept
2025.
We will meet outside Winchester Railway
Station (town centre exit) by 12.15.
We will then take a two-minute walk to our first
pub, The Albion, 2 Stockbridge Rd, Winchester
SO23 7BZ. This pub is run by Hop Back
Brewery and normally has four or five real ales
on. Any latecomers will be able to join us
there.
The next leg will be a 20 minutes walk. We will
walk down to Winchester High Street, go past
the front of Winchester Cathedral, through
Inner Close and its lovely old buildings to
arrive at the GBG listed The Wykeham Arms,
75 Kingsgate St, Winchester SO23 9PE. This
Grade II listed Fuller’s pub normally has four
or five real ales available.
The next stage will be a seven minute walk.
We walk down Kingsgate Road to The Queen
Inn, 28 Kingsgate Rd, Winchester SO23 9PG.
This GBG listed pub has its own microbrewery.
It normally has around eight real ales
available.
We will then do a 15 minute walk to the
medieval buildings of St Cross Hospital that
function as almshouses. The Grade II listed
The Bell Inn, 83 St Cross Rd, Winchester
SO23 9RE is close by. It serves a selection of
real ales from the Greene King range. We will
decide as a group on the day whether to visit
this pub.
The next leg will be around a 25 minute walk.
We will walk through the Water Meadows
alongside a chalk stream of the River Itchen
back into Winchester. We will then visit the
Grade II listed The Black Boy, 1 Wharf Hill,
Winchester SO23 9NP. This GBG listed pub
normally has four real ales available.
From here it is a 25 minute walk back to the
railway station. There will be an optional visit
to another GBG pub a short walk from the
station, The Hyde Tavern, 57 Hyde St,
Winchester SO23 7DY. This normally has
around four real ales available and is also
Grade II listed.
Apart from the walk between the railway
station and the town centre, the ramble will be
mainly flat. It is around five miles in length.
Please note that the path through the water
meadows section can get a little muddy if
there has been rain.
Winchester is about an hour from London
Waterloo on South Western railway.
Anyone wishing to make social pub visits or
any suggestions or give feedback is welcome
to email James Skinner our Social Secretary.
James Watson presenting the ELAC Cider
Pub of the Year certificate to Peter from the
Chesham Arms.