Campaigning for real ale,
pubs & drinkers' rights
since 1971.
Pub History
Links to the online East London Beer Guides of 1983, 1986 and 1991. The latest pub information appears here. This file, Local Updatets since
1991 will be amended to include the updates that appeared locally. For a list of all the updates that appeared in London Drinker begining with the Real Beer In London
suppliments in 1983 through to the latest are available through the above link. This will (hopefully) be updated bi-monthly. I am indebeted to Roy Tunstall for supplying the
spreadsheet.
There is also a Pub History database - to be found here.1991 Beer Guide.
How the beer scene looked then. 1986 Beer Guide The second guide we produced and the first using a database (Datastar) and mailmerge. In 1985 the branch started a project to photograph all the pubs in our area. It took until 1994 before they were all done. Whatpub has now been populated with all these pictures. Doing so has thrown up two anomalies. In E14 the Marshall Keate at 29 Prestons Road does not appear in our database though it appears in our 1983 beer guide. It does appear with a line drawing in the 1986 guide albeit on page 151 amongst the E15 pubs stating it had been demolished in 1986. In E16 the same can be said of Bentleys 23 Barking Road though there is no mention of the pub anywhere in the 1986 guide. Formally the Bridge House it was demolished sometime after August 1988 when the above photograph was taken. If you have any photos of our pubs from another era then send them to us stating the date the photo was taken. Thanks to TricC and Kim Rennie for their photos. 1983 Beer Guide. The original mass produced guide, Every word typed using a golfball typewriter I imagine. This was the typed beer guide issued to branch members in March 1983. PDF available here.
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Campaigning for real ale,
pubs & drinkers' rights
since 1971.
Pub History
Links to the online East London Beer Guides of 1983,
1986 and 1991. The latest pub information appears here. This file,
Local Updatets since 1991 will be amended to include the updates that
appeared locally. For a list of all the updates that appeared in London
Drinker begining with the Real Beer In London suppliments in 1983 through
to the latest are available through the above link. This will (hopefully) be
updated bi-monthly. I am indebeted to Roy Tunstall for supplying the
spreadsheet.
There is also a Pub History database - to be found here.1991 Beer Guide.
How the beer scene looked then. 1986 Beer Guide The second guide we produced and the first using a database (Datastar) and mailmerge. In 1985 the branch started a project to photograph all the pubs in our area. It took until 1994 before they were all done. Whatpub has now been populated with all these pictures. Doing so has thrown up two anomalies. In E14 the Marshall Keate at 29 Prestons Road does not appear in our database though it appears in our 1983 beer guide. It does appear with a line drawing in the 1986 guide albeit on page 151 amongst the E15 pubs stating it had been demolished in 1986. In E16 the same can be said of Bentleys 23 Barking Road though there is no mention of the pub anywhere in the 1986 guide. Formally the Bridge House it was demolished sometime after August 1988 when the above photograph was taken. If you have any photos of our pubs from another era then send them to us stating the date the photo was taken. Thanks to TricC and Kim Rennie for their photos. 1983 Beer Guide. The original mass produced guide, Every word typed using a golfball typewriter I imagine. This was the typed beer guide issued to branch members in March 1983. PDF available here.
