WELCOME
Branch Events
Sat 12 Oct Noon Roberts Ramble, Golden Fleece, 166 Capel Rd, E12 5DB, then 1 pm Holly Tree, 141 Dames Road, E7 0DZ, 2pm North Star, 28 Browning Road E11 3AR and then on to Wanstead. Thurs 17 Oct 6pm Social at LOSC Ale Night, Leyton Orient Supporters Club, Oliver Road, E10 5NF. Doors are open from 4pm. Closes 10pm Tues 22 Oct 7:30pm Pig’s Ear planning meeting, Olde Rose & Crown 53 Hoe St, E17 4SA. Tues 29 Oct Heritage Pub Crawl 6:45pm Three Cranes, 28 Garlick Hill, EC4V 2BA, 7:30pm Woodin Shades, 212 Bishopgate, EC2M 4PT, 8:15pm Lord Aberconway, 72 Old Broad St, EC2M 1QT, 9pm Old Doctor Butler’s Head, 2 Masons Avenue, EC2V 5BT, 9:45pm Craft Beer Co, 82 Leather Lane, EC1N 7TR Tues 5 Nov 7:30pm Pig’s Ear Planning meeting, Black Lion, 59-61 High St, E13 0AD Pigs Ear Beer Festival Publicity Crawl: November 7th : 7pm Sutton Arms, 16 Great Sutton St, EC1V 0DH, 8 pm Bishops Finger 9-10 West Smithfield, EC1A 9JR 8:45pm Olde Mitre, Ely Court, EC1N 6SJ 9:30pm Cockpit, 7 St Andrews Hill, EC4V 5BY Wed 13 Nov 8pm Branch Meeting, Great Beyond Taproom, 417 Union Walk, E2 8HP. Pigs Ear Beer Festival Publicity Crawl: November 14th: 7pm Libertalia Taproom. 8pm Coach & Horses. 8:45pm Leyton Engineer. 9:30pm Northcote Arms. Tues 19 Nov 7:30pm Pig’s Ear planning meeting Olde Rose & Crown 53 Hoe St, E17 4SA. Anyone wishing to make social pub visits or any suggestions or give feedback is welcome to email James Skinner our Social Secretary.
NEWS
Our branch will celebrate being 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
here.
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 2024. Parts of this website were updated 14 October 2024.
The Albion Pub, Victoria Park
The Albion on 36 Lauriston Road is under threat. This pub closed in 2015 following the death of the publican. A planning application has been submitted
to turn it into a single private house. The pub was sold to a developer, at roughly twice its value as a pub, despite interest from local pub operators.
The East London & City Branch of CAMRA registered this pub as an Asset of Community Value in 2016 and will be objecting to the change of use with
Hackney Council. The Albion dates from 1833 and lies within the Victoria Park Conservation Area. Whatpub site.
For further details and advice, please contact East London Pub Protection Officer, James Watson - We had hoped that the days of developers targeting
pubs in Hackney were behind us. Please add your voice in opposition to this.
Over the years 116 pubs have been lost in Hackney, here is the list.
The Albion in 1987.
GOOD BEER GUIDES 2025.
The branch has copies of the new Good Beer
Guide for sale at £12 each. Please email the
branch to order. There are two different
covers this year, the Rovers Return
[Coronation Street] or The Woolpack
[Emmerdale]. If you have a preference,
please can you indicate when ordering,
otherwise we will give you a copy of the one
we have the most of.
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 2023. Parts of this website were updated 11 September 2024.
NEWS
Our branch will celebrate being 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 here.
Do you know of any clubs not on this list?
WELCOME
Branch Events
Sat 12 Oct Noon Roberts Ramble, Golden Fleece, 166 Capel Rd, E12 5DB, then 1 pm Holly Tree, 141 Dames Road, E7 0DZ, 2pm North Star, 28 Browning Road E11 3AR and then on to Wanstead. Thurs 17 Oct 6pm Social at LOSC Ale Night, Leyton Orient Supporters Club, Oliver Road, E10 5NF. Doors are open from 4pm. Closes 10pm Tues 22 Oct 7:30pm Pig’s Ear planning meeting, Olde Rose & Crown 53 Hoe St, E17 4SA. Tues 29 Oct Heritage Pub Crawl 6:45pm Three Cranes, 28 Garlick Hill, EC4V 2BA, 7:30pm Woodin Shades, 212 Bishopgate, EC2M 4PT, 8:15pm Lord Aberconway, 72 Old Broad St, EC2M 1QT, 9pm Old Doctor Butler’s Head, 2 Masons Avenue, EC2V 5BT, 9:45pm Craft Beer Co, 82 Leather Lane, EC1N 7TR Tues 5 Nov 7:30pm Pig’s Ear Planning meeting, Black Lion, 59-61 High St, E13 0AD Pigs Ear Beer Festival Publicity Crawl: November 7th : 7pm Sutton Arms, 16 Great Sutton St, EC1V 0DH, 8 pm Bishops Finger 9-10 West Smithfield, EC1A 9JR 8:45pm Olde Mitre, Ely Court, EC1N 6SJ 9:30pm Cockpit, 7 St Andrews Hill, EC4V 5BY Wed 13 Nov 8pm Branch Meeting, Great Beyond Taproom, 417 Union Walk, E2 8HP. Pigs Ear Beer Festival Publicity Crawl: November 14th: 7pm Libertalia Taproom. 8pm Coach & Horses. 8:45pm Leyton Engineer. 9:30pm Northcote Arms. Tues 19 Nov 7:30pm Pig’s Ear planning meeting Olde Rose & Crown 53 Hoe St, E17 4SA. Anyone wishing to make social pub visits or any suggestions or give feedback is welcome to email James Skinner our Social Secretary. .
