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.

November 2019 news

Here's an update on the latest news and information from West London branch of CAMRA for November 2019. Further news can be found in the October/November edition of London Drinker.

 

Branch events
  • November
    • Wed 13 Branch mtg: (7/7.30pm) Star Tavern, 6 Belgrave Mews W SW1X 8HT.
    • Wed 20 Soho soc: (7pm) Clachan, 34 Kingly St, W1B 5QH; (7.45pm) Old Coffee House, 49 Beak St, W1F 9SF; (8.45pm) Crown, 64 Brewer St, W1F 9TP; (9.15pm) Queens Head, 15 Denman St, W1D 7HN; (10.15pm) Lyric, 37 Great Windmill St, W1D 7LT.
    • Thu 28 At Leisure in Oxford Circus soc: (2.30pm) Argyll, 18 Argyll St, W1F 7TP.
  • December
    • Sun 1 At Leisure in Parsons Green soc: (12noon) White Horse (for their Old Ale Festival), 1 Parsons Green, SW6 4UL.
    • Tue 10 Xmas ale/pizza night: (from 7pm) Albion, 121 Hammersmith Rd. W14 0QL (charge for food).
  • January
    • Tue 14 branch mtg: (7pm/7.30) Harp (upstairs), 47 Chandos Pl. WC2N 4HS.
    • Thu 23 Fitzrovia soc: (7pm) Jackalope, 43 Weymouth Mews, W1G 7EQ; (8pm) Stag’s Head, 102 New Cavendish St, W1W 6XW; (9pm) Ship, 134 New Cavendish St, W1W 6YB; (10pm) King & Queen, 1 Foley St, W1W 6DL.
Other CAMRA events
  • On 3rd to 7th December, it's the Pigs Ear Beer Festival at The Round Chapel, 1D Glenarm Rd, Hackney organized by CAMRA East London and City Branch.
  • CAMRA's London Pubs Group will be having their next crawl of historic pubs on 11 December in Battersea, Wandsworth, Southfields and Earlsfield. See the London Pubs Group website for details.

 

Pub events

  • The White Horse, Parsons Green is having its annual old ale festival in November. We'll be having a social there on Sunday 1st December at 12 noon.
Branch and regional CAMRA news
  • The October/November 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.