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Darlington
Drinker 167 Newsletter
of the Darlington Campaign for Real Ale - Dec/Jan 2007/08 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- S&N:
The Final Battle? THE BIGGEST brewing group based in Britain is in an acrimonious battle for survival. But past actions by Scottish & Newcastle mean the level of sympathy and support for it from beer drinkers is likely to be low. The rival multi-national conglomerates Carlsberg and Heineken have joined together in an unlikely partnership to make a £7.3bn takeover bid for S&N. The S&N board swiftly rejected the approach, saying it “substantially undervalues the unique strengths and market positions” of the company. The
predators plan is to split S&N’s global operations between
them, with Dutch-based Heineken taking
the UK business - including the Federation brewery in Gateshead and Magnet
brewery in Tadcaster - and some other western European assets. The S&N board has responded by claiming that Carlsberg’s actions have breached their BBH agreement and has launched an arbitration claim in Stockholm for themselves to buy Carlsberg’s stake in BBH. The board has also shown its macho business credentials by announcing cost-cutting measures, including contracting out more UK brewing and - naturally - significant price increases. Scottish & Newcastle’s actions in recent years that have angered drinkers and entire communities include closing their once core breweries in Edinburgh and Newcastle, shifting production of Newcastle Brown Ale out of that city to Federation (then shifting bottling of it to Tadcaster) and contracting out the production of John Smith's ‘Yorkshire’ beers across the Pennines to Cheshire. It earlier axed traditional breweries in Nottingham, Halifax and Bristol. Flats
Snookered PLANS TO convert the historic Darlington Snooker Club into apartments
have been firmly rejected by Darlington council following protests by club
members and the local community in Northgate. Club
proprietor Peter Everett leases the first floor hall above White Bros
motorcycle shop at the corner of Northgate and Corporation Road. Without
warning, owner Derek White
submitted a planning application for conversion of the club - purpose
built in 1915 - into four flats. Council
officers had recommended that the plan be approved, but after a half-hour
hearing of the planning committee, addressed by club spokesman Graham
Turner in front of dozens of placard-waving protestors, councillors voted
12 to one to refuse the proposals. Mr
Turner told the committee: “It doesn’t really matter what the name of
Darlington Snooker Club is - it is a community facility. There are wedding
receptions, funeral teas, fundraising, holiday specials for kids and
coaching”. He said Northgate was in danger of becoming a “heartless
area of flats”. Councillors had concerns over a lack of parking, the
loss of a community facility, too many flats in the area and alterations
to a building in a conservation area. Councillor
Bill Stenson said: “Some great snooker players have played there for a
number of years and it would be a shame if it was to go”. Mr
White said he was surprised the plans were rejected: “I will wait and
see what the written reasons are for refusal before we consider an
appeal.” The club has been named CAMRA North East Club of the Year on four successive occasions and is the only snooker club to regularly feature in CAMRA’s national Good Beer Guide.
Darlington
Drinker .…Twenty-Five
Years Ago “SAMUEL
Smith’s are turning their only Darlington house, the Casanova Bar in
Stonebridge (formerly the Pheasant, and before that called the Glittering
Star), back into “an ordinary traditional pub” after a 15-month
flirtation with leotards, loud music and lager. We’re waiting to hear from the Tadcaster family firm whether this will mean the return to town after four years of the admired cask version of Old Brewery Biter. In many Sam Smith's pubs this is still selling at only 50 pence a pint!” Darlington Drinker 9, January 1983
Bull’s
Head Restored ONE OF
Darlington’s most prominent ‘lost’ pubs is being brought back to
life, fifty years after it closed.
Peter and Gary Stephens, who run the MSD plant hire business in the town,
are converting the former Bull’s Head in the Market Place - next to the
Pennyweight - back into a pub and restaurant. The building, which is
listed and dates from the 18th century, last functioned as pub in 1956.
Apart from a twenty year spell up to 2002 as an amusement centre and cafe
it has been a vacant, boarded-up eyesore for most of the time since. Freehouse
Sales THREE FINE local country pubs have been put on the market for sale. Top priced, at £695,000, is the County in Aycliffe village, renowned for its fine dining over the past ten years under owner-chef Andrew Brown. Tony Blair treated President Chirac to a pint and a bite here. The agents, Christie & Co. of Newcastle, say that with a trade split of 70% food and 30% drink sales the business is more of a restaurant than a public house, but Andrew has in fact always welcomed non-diners and shown a resolute commitment to real ale. Andrew is selling in order to purchase another business, possibly in Darlington. The small, stone-built, Kirk Inn in idyllic Romaldkirk, upper Teesdale, features in the current edition of the Good Beer Guide. Darlington agents Fine & Country are asking a tenner under £400,000 for the business, which presently doubles on midweek mornings as the village post office. Meanwhile, in North Yorkshire the Hack & Spade
in the tiny village of Whashton, north of Richmond, is being offered by
agents Charltons at £475,000. Lauded in Darlington Drinker 166 for
its move back from a restaurant to community pub under Anne
and Alastair Dowson-Park, owners
since summer 2006, it is described as an easy manageable business
retaining a wealth of original features. Anne explained the
decision to sell: “We are now looking to take forward one or two other
business ideas. Our family has put an awful lot into this pub.” All three pubs are presently free-houses but given the current acquisitive activities of pub chains will not necessarily remain so. They continue to operate as normal while on the market. *THE
GREYHOUND in Darlington’s Parkgate is being offered by Admiral Taverns
on a three year tenancy or 10-20 year lease. Greene
King Swallows New Century THE ACQUISITIVE East Anglians, Greene King, have snapped up another clutch of pubs in their pursuit of a national empire. And this time they are in the North East and North Yorkshire. The Suffolk brewers-cum-pub-chain have bought the 49 tenanted pubs of Billingham-based New Century Inns for £32.6m. In 2006 they bought Hardys & Hansons of Nottinghamshire for its 230 pubs; the brewery that made its name was immediately closed. Greene King now own 3,000 pubs nationwide; in 2000,
before their growth spurt, they owned around 1100. Their
newest acquisitions include the
Bridgewater Arms at Winston, the Blue Bell at Bishopton - both real ale
stockists - and the keg-only Dalesman in Victoria Road, Darlington. Greene
King said the purchase of New Century would give them a base to acquire
further freehold pubs in the North and provide further distribution
opportunities for their ‘core ale brands’, Greene King IPA, Abbot Ale
and Speckled Hen. The reality is that
many of their northern pubs - including the Red Lion and the
Shuttle & Loom in Darlington, both acquired a couple of years ago - no longer serve real ale. NEW
CENTURY was founded
in 1999 by the one-time managing director of Camerons Brewery, Alistair
Arkley, and two partners. It followed the sale of their first pub chain,
Century Inns, to another mega-group, Enterprise Inns. Mr Arkley says
that running a small tenanted estate nowadays is a ‘non-starter’.
“There is more regulation and it’s getting more expensive to operate a
business like ours", he said. A small managed
estate - where landlords are on weekly wages and the company takes the
profits - has more potential, he believes. Mr Arkley remains chairman of
Passionate Pub Company, a North East-based group which operates 24 managed
pubs. Community
Spirit CAMRA
wants the help of DD
readers once again to find the best community pubs in our area -
Darlington, Aycliffe, Teesdale and adjoining areas including parts of
North Yorkshire. We want the names of those fine establishments which deserve
recognition for the contribution they make to their community, whether in town
or village, in the true tradition of the British public house. The 2007 winners in, respectively, the town and country categories were the Britannia in Darlington and the Crown at Manfield. Who will it be in 2008? We
need your nominations please by 7th January: send them to the Editor (contact
details at the bottom of the page), saying why they merit particular
praise. Entries will be judged by CAMRA members at an open branch meeting
the following evening. COMMUNITY Pubs Week is a week of action aimed at helping preserve and promote true local pubs in the face of closures and insensitive changes nationwide. It will run from 16th-23rd February and will be a call for proper appreciation of the role of community pubs by politicians, owners - and members of the public themselves. Dozens of pubs are lost in Britain every month - and it is not theme pubs or chain bars that are under threat but local pubs at the heart of their community. CAMRA chief executive Mike Benner said: “The threat is dire and unless we do something to curb the trend many communities will find their local pub torn from them."
Plain
John Smith’s ? WE TOLD in Darlington Drinker 166 how production of ‘John Smith’s’ ‘Yorkshire’ real ales was being contracted away from the brewery founded by John Smith in Tadcaster in 1879 to a brewing company in Cheshire. We said that this - following on from other recent decisions - meant the owners of the Smith’s brands, the now-international giant Scottish & Newcastle, no longer brewed real ale. But we were wrong. Forgivably perhaps, for if S&N don’t brew their own cask beers why should we think they brew any at all ?. However, with the kind of economic logic that pervades British brewing it turns out that that they do indeed brew real ale. And at Tadcaster’s Magnet brewery. They just brew it for somebody else. Because S&N brew Theakston’s Best Bitter for T&R Theakston Ltd under a contract dating from 2003. Theakston was an S&N subsidiary for many years but regained its independence when members of the founding family bought it back. All other Theakston ales are produced at the tiny Masham brewery in Wensleydale but capacity constraints mean that production of the top-selling Best remains with S&N, at the now erroneously-named ‘Magnet’ brewery. S&N HAD to temporarily resume the brewing of John Smith’s Cask at Tadcaster in September following ‘product quality issues’ with the new Cheshire version. Regular Smith’s drinkers complained that the brew from the Thomas Hardy Burtonwood brewery had less head and was ‘tangy’; some stopped drinking it. A spokesman for S&N admitted: “We have been producing supplementary brews at our Tadcaster brewery.” But although drinkers said the beer was ‘massively improved’ when it came back to Yorkshire, S&N have reiterated that the decision to transfer cask Smith’s production to Cheshire still stands. Michael
Jackson MICHAEL
JACKSON, the world’s foremost writer on beer has died, aged 65, of a heart
attack at home in London. ‘The
Michael Jackson who didn’t sing and didn’t drink Pepsi’ was born in
Wetherby of a mother from Redcar and a father of east European descent. He
described himself as a Lithuanian Jewish Yorkshire Englishman. A
recurring subject, after British cask ale, was the great beers of Belgium.
His book of that name is into its 5th edition and such is that country’s
respect for him it was published first in Belgium. In the USA he is
regarded almost as a patron saint of new-wave brewing: a nationwide toast
was held to him after he died. His
widest acclaim in Britain came with the classic Channel 4 series ‘The
Beer Hunter’, broadcast in 1990. But his general under-recognition at
home - and the fact that the series has been oft-repeated abroad but not
here - illustrates how lowly beer, our national drink, is regarded by
British pundits and ‘polite society’. In stark contrast to wine.
Michael suffered in recent years from the debilitating effects of
Parkinson’s Disease. He described in an article written just eight days
before his death how he wanted his next book to be an account of his
dealings with it. That’s
not to be, but Michael the Beer Hunter will be remembered by true
beer-lovers for the inspiring words he did pen. Arc,
The Ale Calls THE
2008 Stockton beer festival is
taking place from 7th-9th February at the Arc in Dovecot Street, Stockton-on-Tees. Cleveland
CAMRA will be putting on more than 70 real ales plus a range of ciders, perries and
bottled beers between 11am-5.30pm and 6.30-11pm daily. The Wildcats of
Kilkenny, The Foundations, New Age Jam and the BeatleManiacs will be
playing during the evening sessions too but not in the same hall and
drinkers will have the option of paying to hear them or not: beer
fest-only entry is £4 (£3 Saturday), with music is £10; tickets
available now from the Arc on (01642) 525199 or www.arconline.co.uk.
Daytime tickets will be available on the door, admission 80p (CAMRA
members free). For beer information contact
Denise on (01642) 654158, (07969) 657257 or denise.p@ntlworld.com. Other
2008 festivals: January 16th-19th,
NATIONAL WINTER ALES FESTIVAL, New Century Hall, Manchester. 200 beers;
Champion Winter Beer of Britain competition; CAMRA members £1 off
admission. www.winterales.uku.co.uk March
13th-15th, DARLINGTON SPRING
THING, Arts Centre, Vane Terrace; beers organised by Darlington CAMRA, folk festival by Darlington Folk
Club. August
5th-9th, GREAT BRITISH BEER
FESTIVAL, Earl’s Court, London. September
18th-20th, DARLINGTON RHYTHM
‘N’ BREWS 2008, Arts Centre, Vane Terrace; organised by Darlington CAMRA and the Arts Centre
R‘n’B Club. October 17th-19th, RICHMOND BEER FESTIVAL, Market Hall, Richmond; organised by North West Yorks CAMRA. Kiwis
Bear Fruit IAN CAIG was a founder committee member of Darlington Campaign for Real
Ale in 1982. He’s since worked his way around the world with his wife
Louise and growing family. They’re now settled in New Zealand, where
Ian’s helped start up a version of CAMRA - the 'Society of Beer
Advocates’ (a.k.a. SOBA!) Ian tells us more
... I
FIRST arrived in Auckland in June 2005, just in time to celebrate my
son’s 18th birthday. At
that time he lived on Auckland’s North Shore and he suggested we share a
few legal beers at a bar called Speaker’s Corner in Brown’s Bay. This
had a bit of a Brit feel, there being Toby jugs, photos of UK soccer
teams, etc, around the place. The beers on tap were Bombardier, Young’s
Special, Abbot - about six UK beers in total. Their availability came as a
surprise to me, however the quality was nothing to write home about - they
all tasted very similar, metallic. The
reason for my visit then was to find a job, so I set off on what is called
a ‘tiki’ tour. My first destination of beer interest was Nelson, which
is something of a craft beer centre, having five craft breweries and a
small industrial one, Macs. This used to be a craft brewery until it
became successful and was bought out by one of the two beer majors. Macs
still produces a couple of tasty beers and an occasional seasonal beer. From
Nelson I continued south towards Christchurch, coming across the Blue Moon
brewery on the way. As I was driving I only had a couple of samples of
what were mediocre beers in their bar, and bought a couple of bottles to
try later. Unfortunately these were tainted by an iodine flavour. Christchurch,
reckoned to be the most English of New Zealand’s cities (maybe it is the
amount of chewing gum on the streets ?) is another micro-brewing centre.
Two of the breweries here produce for their own bars - Twisted Hop and Dux
de Lux. The
Twisted Hop was set up by two Brits who missed a decent pint in a UK-style
pub environment, so they converted an old warehouse into a bar and
brewery. The Dux de Lux operates in what used to be an old student union
building; the brewery being run by an American, Paulie, who cut his teeth
during the early stages of the micro-brewery revolution there. Since
moving here permanently I’ve gradually come across more breweries. The
craft brewers are proving to be every bit as adventurous as their opposite
numbers in the UK and USA, it being possible to find wheat beers, porters,
American-style super-hoppy pale ales, IPAs, milds and even a beer based on
one Captain Cook brewed when he first visited the islands - Wigram Spruce.
The industrial brewers are no different from those elsewhere, churning out
bog-standard lagers. I’m
now living in Wellington where it is possible to do a good crawl of pubs
that sell craft beer. There is even one which stocks Samuel Adams’
Utopias ‘beer’ from the States. About 26% abv it tastes like port -
you can buy a bottle for approximately GB £185! *To find out a little more about NZ beers visit www.soba.org.nz
or www.realbeer.co.nz. Sisters
Doing it for Themselves TWO
BREWSTERS - female brewers - came out on top at Darlington’s Rhythm ‘n’ Brews
festival. The
Beer of the Festival, voted by drinkers, was Windie Goat Brewery’s
Peden’s Cove (3.5% abv). It’s brewed by Michelle Kesall at the
Failford Inn in Ayrshire, Scotland. Pale malt with Fuggles hops and a late
blast of Goldings give it a lovely hoppy flavour. Michelle picked up her
skills on a brewing course at Sunderland’s Brewlab. After acquiring
brewing equipment she had to think of a name for the new brewery.
Windiegoat Wood is nearby so seemed a good choice, with local ties. Meanwhile,
the highest placed North East/North Yorkshire beer was Silver Cascade
(4.2%), produced specially for Darlington CAMRA’s 25th anniversary
celebrations by Sue Simpson of the Brown Cow brewery, near Selby. A
refreshing pale beer, it’s made with Lager Malt and Cascade hops, with a
touch of Amarillo hops for a clean hoppy finish. Other R‘n’B Results: Beer of the festival runner-up was Maypole’s Gate Hopper with Highland Orkney IPA third. Gwynt y Ddraig’s Black Dragon was named best cider. The top selling bottled beers were Boon Framboise and Boon Kriek. CHARITY BOOST: £191 was raised for the Great North Air Ambulance from drinkers in the form of donated credit on beer cards. A total of £628 has now been collected for charities since the card system began at Darlington CAMRA festivals in Spring 2005. Thanks to for your continuing generosity. *NEXT UP in Darlington is the annual Spring Thing Festival: at the Arts
Centre, March 13th-15th. FREE ENTRY !
. Guiding
Light WE HAVEN’T been notified of any further changes to our acclaimed local beer guide, Real Ale in and around Darlington & Teesdale, since the last edition of DD. But for the convenience of the near- 5,000 people who have the guide we reproduce the changes to date below. Please tell us if you learn of other changes to the availability of cask beer in the area, both good or bad. A few copies of the 36-page, full-colour CAMRA guide are still available free of charge from the editor on request: see details at the bottom of the page. Additional
Real Ale Outlets: Darlington (town) ARTS CENTRE, Vane Terrace, DL3 7AX. Tel. (01325) 483271. Old Speckled Hen. County Durham Hurworth
Place COMET, 16 Tees View, DL2 2DH. Tel. (01325) 722228. Open
11.30-3 & 5-11 Mon-Thu; 11.30-11 Fri & Sat; 12-10.30 Sun. Black
Sheep Bitter, John Smith's Cask Bitter. North Yorkshire Whashton HACK & SPADE, DL11 7JL. Tel. (01748) 823721. Open
12-3 (not Mon & Wed; 12-3.30 Sun) & 6-11 (not Sun). Guest
beer. Updates: North Yorkshire Great Smeaton BAY HORSE temporarily closed. Welbury MONK’S
TABLE (ex Duke of Wellington) has reopened. Open
lunchtimes & 5-11.30 Tue-Sat; 12-5 Sun. Pedigree plus guest. Deletions
(No Real Ale at Present): Darlington (town) RED
LION, Priestgate, SLATER’S ARMS, Bondgate. North Yorkshire Dalton TRAVELLERS REST
Champions ! 250….That’s the number of people in the Darlington branch of the Campaign for Real Ale. Yes, after ‘only’ 25 years CAMRA finally has 250 members in the Darlington branch area, which covers south Durham and part of North Yorkshire as well as the town itself. Or two per real ale pub. Congratulations Mr H of Lock Street, Darlington - you were the 250th to sign up! With over 88,000 CAMRA members nationwide, Darlington is one of the smallest branches in terms of numbers, but more than makes up for it in activity. Click here to find out out what's happening in the branch. Ale
Mail FOR YEARS
I had quarterly business in Carlisle and let the train take the strain.
The journey from Newcastle is marketed as the Tyne Valley line, for the
rail track runs alongside the Tyne and then the South Tyne. I have always wanted to travel the Carlisle/Settle
line and wondered how I could accomplish my ambition. Well, the answer
came when I saw the Solway beer festival advertised, and by purchasing a
round robin ticket was able to travel from Darlington to Newcastle and
onto Carlisle. After the festival I would travel from Carlisle to Settle,
then to Leeds followed by York and back to Darlington. After an enjoyable sojourn it was time to catch my
train, and what a memorable journey on ‘England’s Most Scenic Line’.
Many of the stations resemble a former railway age, of tended platforms
and gardens along with former gas lamps. The initials of an old railway company, GWR came to
mind: God’s Wonderful Railway, or the Great Way Round !. PHIL
CHINERY, Darlington THE
BRANCH'S latest edition of its local Real
Ale Guide - picked up at the Rhythm ‘n’ Brews festival - is brilliant,
and certainly a lot better than the first copied type-written lists I
recall (and I may still even have one somewhere !). Mind you, given the
amount of real ale now available compared to when branch was formed it
needs to be !. JOHN
HOLLAND, Low Fell, Gateshead CAMRA
MEMBER? Live in or around Darlington
(including Teesdale, Aycliffe and Yorkshire north of Richmond)? Got an
internet connection? Not receiving email updates from Darlington CAMRA but
would like to? Then publicity officer Trevor Daynes wants to hear from
you! Email him at TVDaynes@aol.com and he’ll do the rest. New
England Glory BEFORE
a recent trip to New England, DD
editor Brendan Boyle suggested we would not be disappointed with the beer
we might find. He was absolutely right. Every bar, restaurant and even
hotel had a micro-brewery beer available. The best finds were
micro-brewery bars in Boston and on Martha’s Vineyard. The
Radisson hotel in Plymouth, Massachusetts stocked an excellent unfiltered
IPA from Long Trail Brewing in Bridgewater Corners, Vermont. This was very
bitter but as with most bars there was no information on strength. IPAs
tended to be around 6%. A
trip to Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard found us lunching at the
Offshore Ale Company. This brewpub had cask-conditioned Beach Road Brown
(4.8%), lightly hopped with a sweet malty finish of bitter sweet
chocolate. Even the catamaran between Hyannis and Oak Bluffs stocked IPA,
from the Cape Cod Brewery. Our
hotel in Lincoln, New Hampshire stocked a bottle-conditioned IPA from
Tuckerman Brewing in Conway similar to White Shield Worthington. A trip to
Montpellier in Vermont found us in the Thrush Tavern which had a good
range including an unfiltered IPA from Switchback Brewing in Burlington
and an excellent porter from the Rock Art Brewery in Morrisville. As with
many bars they also had an ‘Oktoberfest’ brew which was a red beer
comparable to Cameron’s Strongarm. Boston
has a very good selection of brewpubs. Close to the centre we found Boston
Beer Works on Canal Street which had Fenway American Pale Ale, a 6% beer
using Cascade hops, and cask-conditioned Carly’s Irish Stout. Slightly
out of the centre the Rock Bottom restaurant-brewery had cask Improper
Hopper IPA (5.9%) and Shea’s Irish Stout (4.6%). In
the bars it was quite strange being shown to a table and ordering beers
from waiting staff. Everywhere we visited had good food. Clam chowder is
available everywhere in New England and we enjoyed lobster on Cape Cod. We
found information on the breweries at www.beerme.com. David
Hill. BREWS, NEWS AND VIEWS NICK STAFFORD’S Hambleton Ales have finally moved into a brand new brewery at
Melmerby, near Ripon, two years after leaving their cramped base at nearby
Holme-on-Swale. Hambleton have been operating from temporary premises at
Melmerby while the £700,000 bespoke
development was underway. Other recent investment in equipment,
including new fermenters and a state of the art bottling
line, has taken the cost of accommodating the rapidly growing and highly
ambitious business up to £1 million. One of the first jobs for the
bottling line was a £50,000 order
for the USA. Hambleton’s equine-inspired cask ale brands include
Nightmare porter stout, Stallion and Stud. Master
brewer Peter Wesley also produces the Village Brewer beers for
Ralph Wilkinson of Darlington’s Number Twenty-2.
Fri
7 Dec : Rural
Coach Crawl: East Cowton
to Hurwurth-on-Tees. Bus departs Feethams (opp. Town Hall) 7pm.
Details/bookings: Pete
Fenwick (01325) 374817; (07792) 093245. Wed
12 Dec : North East CAMRA Regional Meeting: Bridge
Hotel, Newcastle. 8pm start. Thu 27 Dec : Darlington CAMRA Branch Christmas Social: Darlington Snooker Club, Corporation Rd (cnr. Northgate), 7.30pm onwards. Ring bell for entry. Buffet and pint for members. Guests welcome; quiz. Details/bookings: Pete as above Tues 8 Jan : Darlington CAMRA Branch Meeting: Darlington Cricket Club, Feethams South. 8pm start. All welcome Fri 18 Jan : Rural Coach Crawl. Preston-le-Skerne to Ovington. Bus departs Feethams 7pm. Details/bookings: Pete as above. Tues 5 Feb : North East CAMRA Regional Meeting: Tap & Spile (upstairs), Bondgate, Darlington, 8pm. All members welcome. Darlington
Drinker is
published every two or three months by the Darlington branch of CAMRA, the
Campaign for Real Ale. Circulation 3,500. News, articles and letters
welcome. All items © Darlington CAMRA but may be reproduced if source
acknowledged. Editor: Brendan Boyle, 6 Clareville Road, Darlington DL3
8NG; (01325) 362092; email: brendan@bjboyle.freeserve.co.uk.
Additional contributors this issue: Ian Caig, Peter Fenwick, David Hill
and Colin Holmes. To
advertise, contact Fred Lawton: email: Lawtonfred@aol.com;
(07710) 493514. Rates a snip at quarter-page £30, half page £50, full
page £80; sixth consecutive insertion free. CAMRA HQ is at 230 Hatfield
Road, St Albans, Herts AL1 4LW; (01727) 867201; see www.camra.org.uk
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