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Jane Jephcote, London Pubs Group Chair
Welcome to the website for the London Pubs Group of the Campaign For Real Ale. The London Pubs Group was established in the early 1990s to promote pub preservation and good pub design in London. Meetings are held regularly (six times a year) and are open to any CAMRA members who wish to attend. At present the meetings are held at the Royal Oak, Tabard Street, SE1 (near Borough underground station). Crawls are also arranged about six times a year and are open to all, whether CAMRA members or not. The crawls usually concentrate on historic pubs but occasionally new or refurbished pubs are included in order to assess the quality of the design.
Two new articles are on the Historic London Pubs page: one about Trumans pubs and one about historic pub interiors featured in paintings by the artist, Mick Smee. The Historic London Pubs page is for articles, news and photos of pubs in the Greater London area that are on the national or regional inventories. If you wish to submit an article and/or a photo for this page, please e-mail them to Jane Jephcote at jephcotej@hotmail.co.uk.
London Heritage Pubs: An Inside Story. Historic Pub Interiors in the Capital by Geoff Brandwood and Jane Jephcote. This has just been published and contains 156 entries of the most intact and interesting interiors covering the whole of Greater London. It is available from the CAMRA shop at www.camra.org.uk or by phone on 01727 867201 - £14.99 or £12.99 for CAMRA members plus £1.50 postage and packing. It is also available in bookshops and on bookselling websites."
The Grade II* listed National Inventory pub, Crocker's Folly, Aberdeen Place, London NW8 has been put on English Heritage's Buildings at Risk register. Andrew Davison and Jane Jephcote, on behalf of CAMRA's Pub Heritage Group and the London Pubs Group, requested that the pub should be placed on the register. It is hoped that the placing of the pub on the register will lead to a safer future.
Retention of its use as a pub is regarded by the London Pubs Group as the best option. For more information on the English Heritage Buildings at Risk register go to www.english-heritage.org.uk/bar
The Old Pack Horse, Chiswick W4
photo taken by Kim Rennie 2005
On Saturday 19th February, when Lord Seb Coe and Ken Livingstone were out there persuading the great and the good; London Pubs Group's daytime crawl arrived (about ten of us at the time) at The Old Pack Horse, Chiswick, notebooks and cameras in hand to admire the beautiful and stylish Nowell Parr design and the equally beautiful and stylish Fullers beers, when one of the group was pulled aside to be asked "Are you lot a delegation from the Olympics Board come to test out the ambience of London for the prospective tourists?!"
Catriona Stuart.
