Welcome to West London CAMRA!

Campaigning for real ale and pubs in West London.

The branch of the Campaign for Real Ale for the London boroughs of Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington & Chelsea and City of Westminster.

July 2019 news

Here's an update on the latest news and information from West London branch of CAMRA for July 2019. Further news can be found in the June/July edition of London Drinker. Apologies for the recent delays to website updates.

 

Branch events
  • July
    • We'll be having a social at 4pm on Wednesday 10th July at the Ealing Beer Festival, Walpole Park, W5 5BG. Meet at the wine bar.
    • The July branch meeting is on Tuesday 16th July at the Star Tavern, 6 Belgrave Mews West, Belgravia (upstairs). We'll be meeting from 7pm for a 7.30pm start to the meeting.
    • Tue 30th, 4pm: Teatime at the Temple - social at the Temple Brew House, 46 Essex Street, WC2R 3JF.
  • August
    • Wed 7th, 4pm: Social at the Great British Beer Festival, Olympia. Meet at the glasses return stand.
    • Wed 14th, 7pm: 'Ammersmith Amble - Old Suffolk Punch, 80 Fulham Palace Rd, W6 9PL; 8.15pm Distillers, 64 Fulham Palace Rd, W6 9PH; 9.00pm Craft Beer Co, 17 Broadway Shopping Centre, W6 9YD; 10.15pm William Morris, 4 King St, W6 0QA.
  • September

    • Wed 11th 7pm: Made à Maida: Maida Vale Heritage Social: Warrington, 93 Warrington Cresc, W9 1EH; 8.00pm Prince Alfred, 5a Formosa St, W9 1EE; 9.15pm Warwick Castle, 6 Warwick Pl, W9 2PX; 10.15pm Bridge House, 13 Westbourne Terr Rd, W2 6NG.

    • Wed 18th 7/7.30pm Branch meeting: Carpenters Arms, 12 Seymour Place, W1H 7NE (nearest tube Marble Arch)

    • Thu 26th 2.30pm: At Leisure in Marylebone: Afternoon Social at the Thornbury Castle, 29a Enford St, W1H 1DN.

Other CAMRA events
  • Ealing Beer Festival is on from 10th to 13th July. For more information go to their website.
  • CAMRA's London Pubs Group will be having their next crawl of historic pubs on Wednesday 21st August in Holborn, Bloomsbury, Farringdon and Clerkenwell. See the London Pubs Group website for details.
Branch and regional CAMRA news
  • The June/July issue of London Drinker is out in pubs across London and online with all the latest news about pubs, CAMRA and beer related events.
 Pub and brewery news
  • We'll be adding pub and brewery news at a later date.

 

For the latest news check out our Facebook and Twitter pages! Also for news from CAMRA across London see London Drinker, and the London CAMRA Facebook page.

Presentation to the Victoria

As is usual at this time of year, we’ve been busy presenting the winners of the West London CAMRA Pub of the Year award with their certificates. The award is presented following a vote by branch members, and normally we present a third, second and first place award. The results were counted and this time we had a draw for second place!

The Victoria in Strathearn Place, W2 (a short walk from Paddington station) was one of the joint second place winners. It’s a great historic pub with a warm welcome, good food and well-kept beers including a wide range of Fuller’s beers and a guest beer. The ornate interior (featuring in CAMRA’s National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors) is a wonderful survivor from the mid-Victorian period – refurbishments of other pubs from the late-Victorian period onwards mean that such pub interiors are very rare indeed.

Pictured is our branch chairman Les Maggs presenting the award. We’ve also presented the other joint second place award to the Temple Brew House, and I’ll be writing about that here soon. The final presentation to the overall winner, the Cask Pub and Kitchen, Charlwood Street, Pimlico will be on Sunday 9th June from 5pm.