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Reader offer: 15% off entry fee for brewery’s Midsummer Fest
Inside Croydon readers can get a 15% discount on their entry fee for the much-anticipated Anspach and Hobday midsummer beer festival later this month – where the entry ticket includes your first pint free! The independent brewers are bringing back … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Anspach and Hobday, Business, Music
Tagged Anspach and Hobday, Beer, Brewery, CAMRA, Midsummer Fest, Reader offer
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Brakspear seeks tenant for Greenwich Village bar in The Cronx
Brakspear, the pubco based in Henley, say that they want to bring a touch of New York’s trendy Greenwich Village to a busy road in The Cronx. Brakspear has started its recruitment process for tenants or leasees to run The … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Property, Pubs, Restaurants, South Croydon
Tagged Brakspear, CAMRA, Croydon and Sutton CAMRA, pubs, South Croydon, South End, The Store, The Tree House, Whelans
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Brakspear brewers set to move in to former pub The Store
Brakspear, the traditional brewers and country inn operators, are taking charge of a closed pub in Croydon. Henley-based Brakspear, who trace their company’s history back to 1769, are the freeholders of The Store, on South End, which closed in October … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Property, Pubs, Restaurants, South Croydon
Tagged Brakspear, CAMRA, Croydon and Sutton CAMRA, pubs, South Croydon, South End, The Store, The Tree House, Whelans
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Hope wins eternal: Carshalton pub again named London’s best
The Hope on West Street, Carshalton, has been named London’s Pub of the Year for the seventh time. The Hope has only been operating under its current, community management for 15 years. CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale, has again … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Carshalton and Wallington, Pubs, Sutton Council
Tagged Campaign for Real Ale, CAMRA, Carshalton, Croydon and Sutton CAMRA, Sutton, The Hope
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Changing times, and quieter nights, for Croydon’s oldest pub
Our dogged culture correspondent KEN TOWL spent the night, and nearly six quid a pint, checking out the refurbed Dog and Bull, with its ‘banging’ tunes, new high security and its not-so-new beer garden. Photos: SHIRLEY BIGGIN-HILL When a dog … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Ken Towl, Pubs, Surrey Street
Tagged CAMRA, Dog and Bull, Laine, Surrey Street, Surrey Street Market, The Dog and Bull
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No one told us about 3am openings say Surrey Street residents
New owners of The Dog and Bull market pub have yet to submit a licensing application to stay open into the early hours every night. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Residents living in flats near Croydon’s oldest pub, The Dog and … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Laine pubco, Pubs, Surrey Street
Tagged Butcher's Row, CAMRA, Croydon and Sutton CAMRA, Dog and Bull, Laine, Punch Pubs, Surrey Street, Surrey Street Market, The Dog and Bull
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Dog and Bull pub’s new owners accused of ‘cultural vandalism’
There’s a growing row down Surrey Street, where the centuries-old market pub, a Grade II-listed building, has yet to submit a licensing application for planned raves in the beer garden until 3 in the morning. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES The … Continue reading
What a load of old Bull! Chain to rename Croydon’s oldest pub
EXCLUSIVE: The new owners of The Dog and Bull on Surrey Street are installing new sound systems for DJ sessions in the beer garden of the Grade II-listed building, as £125,000 refurb works over-run Surrey Street Market shoppers and pub … Continue reading
The Glam’s not just a pub: it’s heritage, it’s community, it’s IPA
Tomorrow, at The Cricketers on Addiscombe Road, there’s a day-and-night-long ‘lock-in’ from 4pm to midnight, called ‘(Pub)lic House’, to celebrate Croydon pub culture, that will include music, workshops and a film screening led by PHOEBE WAGNER and her father, ROGER … Continue reading
The Carshalton ‘Pub Crawl’ talk, Honeywood Museum, Apr 25
Posted in Activities, History, Honeywood Museum, Pubs
Tagged CAMRA, Carshalton, Friends of Honeywood Museum, History, Honeywood Museum, pubs
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Fires at two central Croydon pubs raise widespread suspicions
The Crooked House Pub in the Midlands burns to the ground under highly suspicious circumstances and creates national headlines. Croydon’s response? “Hold my beer”. Two closed pubs in Croydon town centre were ablaze this morning, having caught fire within an … Continue reading
The Hope named best pub in London for sixth time in 12 years
The Hope in Carshalton, the community-run pub with a village-feel, is not just the best pub in Croydon and Sutton, it’s the best pub in the whole of London. And that’s official. Again. CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale, has … Continue reading
Wetherspoons confirm imminent closure of second busy pub
After a month of issuing “no comments” on its future, Wetherspoons have confirmed that they are to close the popular Skylark pub on South End. The move has been described as “a huge loss for the area”. The decision comes … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Property, Pubs, South Croydon
Tagged CAMRA, Croydon and Sutton CAMRA, JD Wetherspoons, South Croydon, South End, The Skylark, Tim Martin
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Planning’s latest nadir as Olde Clocktower pub is demolished
Croydon has lost another community pub in what the local beer campaign group has described as an act of “blatant vandalism” after Ye Olde Clocktower on the corner of the busy Whitehorse Road and Union Road was demolished without any … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Planning, Property, Pubs, Selhurst
Tagged CAMRA, Croydon and Sutton CAMRA, Selhurst, Whitehorse Road, Ye Olde Clocktower
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Golden Ark’s laidback landlord meets Orwell’s demands
CROYDON PUB OF THE YEAR: Our man standing at the bar with a packet of pork scratchings nearby, a pint of pale ale in hand and a dog-eared paperback of Animal Farm poking out of his jacket pocket, KEN TOWL, … Continue reading
Posted in Ken Towl, Pubs, Selsdon and Addington Village
Tagged CAMRA, Croydon and Sutton CAMRA, Ken Towl, The Golden Ark
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CAMRA counts cost of covid as 12 local pubs fail to reopen
A local beer campaign organisation says that at least a dozen pubs in Croydon and Sutton that closed their doors at the start of the first coronavirus lockdown in March 2020 may have called “last orders” for a final time. … Continue reading
CAMRA’s South Norwood Beer Festival, Feb 8-10
Posted in Business, Pubs, South Norwood, Stanley Halls
Tagged CAMRA, Croydon and Sutton CAMRA, South Norwood, Stanley Halls
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Quality and service see Clarets maintain its high standards
ANDREW LENG, Inside Croydon’s Pubs Correspondent (how do you get a gig like that?), visits the Pub of the Year and calls on locals to sign up for CAMRA The Claret Free House, or “Clarets” on Lower Addiscombe Road, has … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Pubs
Tagged Addiscombe West, Andrew Leng, CAMRA, Clarets, Sutton and Croydon CAMRA
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Trebles all-round as the Claret is named pub of the year
The Claret on Lower Addiscombe Road has been named as Croydon’s Pub of the Year by the local branch of CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale. The presentation was made last night by branch chairman Terry Hewitt to Claret’s manager … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Pubs
Tagged Addiscombe West, Beer, CAMRA, Claret, Croydon, pubs
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