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Issue 157 | February - March 2011

PLOUGHMAN

Peterborough Pub of the Year 2011

IN THIS ISSUE: VISIT TO OAKHAM ALES |PUB NEWS | RHYTHM AND BOOZE | NEW BEER FROM CASTOR ALES | JOIN CAMRA & MUCH MORE Peterborough & District Branch of CAMRA | www.peterborough-camra.org.uk

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Chairman’s Corner | 3

Chairman’s Corner

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o we’ve made it into another year! If we are to take notice of all the doom and gloom forecasts for the New Year, then it’s going to be very tough for the licensed trade and pubs in particular. With a minimum of 5-6 pence on a pint of beer imposed on the long-suffering discerning drinker due to the rise in VAT on 4th of January, margins will be stretched even more.

As we all know beer prices over the bar do not increase by those fractions, (at least very rarely) so 10 pence extra will most likely be the normal increase, after other cost increases are taken into account.

As I reported in a previous issue of BAE, we invited any of our branch members to come and join our committee. I’m glad to say that we have now got our team back up to full strength. We welcome the return of John Hunt as our Social Secretary, and look forward to him organising some more social events this year. Another role he has taken on again is the Vice-Chair position.

This was secured after a written vote was taken at our AGM in December 2010, the opposing candidate being Paul Brammer. I would like to thank Bram for stepping in last year to fill the position and did so to act as cover for me in case of absence. Relieving him of this responsibility gives him more time to concentrate on the task of editing this newsletter and run his pub! The other committee post to change hands is that of Membership Secretary. Having been in the post for several years I wish to thank Daryl Ling for his efforts and to ensure the incoming new man takes over smoothly. We welcome Steve Saldana as our new Membership Secretary. Steve actually brings on an international mix to our team, as he originally hails from Texas – yes the USA one! I wish all our new and present committee members good luck in their posts and, hope that our members will give them all the support they need.

Our bi-annual mail-out to all members got once again a mixed response in replies to vote for both our POTY and GBG entries. I expect when the final decisions are made the usual comments about certain pubs not being included will be almost as abundant as the number of votes actually cast. If we don’t get a response from our members we cannot alter the results.

Finally with that in mind our congratulations must go to our POTY (Pub of The Year) 2011 The Ploughman in Werrington Peterborough.

After the last three winners of the award going to a Stamford pub, our city pubs have fought back.

Runners up to the winners were The Hand & Heart, The Cherry Tree (also both in the city) and The Golden Pheasant in Etton. The award takes place in February – see diary dates.

Cheers for now David Murray - Branch Chairman.

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MARCH Events Fri 4th Mar Dog House Sat 5th Mar Malingerers Fri 11th Mar Sell Out Sat 12th Mar Kick Back Fri 18th Mar Pulse Sat 19th Mar TBA Fri 25th Mar Children of the Revolution Sat 26th Mar The Influence

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Old Scarlett Peterborough Cathedral you will find these words written in the style of the day: You see old Scarlett's picture stand on hie; But at your feet here doth his body lye.

His gravestone doth his age and death-time shew, His office by heis token[s] you may know.

Second to none for strength and sturdy lymm, A scare-babe mighty voice, with visage grim; He had interd two queenes within this place And this townes householders in his life's space Twice over, but at length his own time came, What he for others did, for him the same Was done: no doubt his soule doth live for aye, In heaven, though here his body clad in clay.'

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obert Scarlett, Sexton of St John’s Church, Peterborough, died on July 2, 1591. As Sexton, he swept the churchyard, rang the bell and buried the dead of the Parish. He also dug graves for other churches in and around the city and when he died at the remarkable age of 98; he had also buried two generations of the population of the city which would have been about 1,500 at that time.

As well as the good and the righteous, Old Scarlett also buried two queens!

Catherine of Aragon, the first wife of Henry VIII whom he divorced who died in 1535 at Kimbolton Castle. She was buried in Peterborough Cathedral where she still lays to this day.

52 years later, he buried Mary Queen of Scots who was executed by beheading at Fotheringhay Castle near Oundle in 1587. Her body was later exhumed and re-buried in Westminster Abbey when her son James I of England (or James VI of Scotland) became King.

Beneath his portrait at the West End of

Old Scarlett is reputed to have befriended the son of the Dean of Peterborough Cathedral who took him to The Tavern in London where he met William Shakespeare who it is said later modelled the famous gravedigger in “Hamlet” on him. “Alas poor Yorick,,,,” In commemoration of this remarkable son of Peterborough, local brewery Castor Ales is pleased to produce an ale bearing his name and launch it on the 476th anniversary of the burial of his first Queen, Catherine of Aragon.

The dark colour reflects the trade he mastered during his 98 years and 10 months of his life, and the fresh fruity taste reflects the spirit and longevity of a man that would be considered remarkable even in this day and age!

Charge your glasses and salute a Peterborough legend!

We give you “OLD SCARLETT” Brian Gascoyne www.real-ale.org.uk

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ello readers, and a belated Happy New Year to you all.

I don’t suppose for one moment the year got off to the greatest of starts, as before you had chance to break those well determined resolutions, VAT went up by another 2.5% for the second year running, and many pubs were not that slow off the mark in putting their prices up by around 10 – 20 pence a pint. We know the industry cannot help it. We all know the poor old customers can’t afford it, but there you go – Democracy at work! And if you want the arithmetic, then that now equates to approximately £1.15 going to the treasury (one way or another) on a pint of beer you have just paid £3 (of your hard earned money, after tax) for.

So, I already hear you groaning – yes, he’s going to bang on yet again about political interference and the death of that great British Institution, the pub. What me? That’s the strange thing about campaigning, in that once you really believe in something, you cannot let it lie without a fight. Old ladies have appeared on the front page of the national press for managing to overturn a council’s decision to remove a bus shelter or their last telephone box; certain celebrities have raised their profiles even further by siding with minority groups on a number of political issues, from war in Iraq to basic human rights, and when ever anyone needed a boost for charity coffers in aim of a good cause, even Z list ‘celebs’ get raked in.

I’m very fortunate to have spoken with so many of our local branch members over the festive period, and appreciate their comments that they thought I put a lot of consideration into compiling these rants, and my concern for the brewing industry. The fact is, despite our committee team now being back to full strength, www.real-ale.org.uk

many of the near on three thousand branch members decline to get involved on a regular basis. So OK, I’m not suggesting for one minute that you give up those few hours a year you help out at the beer festival, but so many of our branch members have talents that could help our cause, so perhaps use the contacts page to get a little more involved?

So what are the main issues? Successive blinkered governments that seem to think taxing the industry into oblivion will somehow solve the problem highlighted in the gutter press by the likes of the Daily Snail. Well yes & no actually.

For some strange reason, the sensationalism of binge drinking no longer makes front page news in that particular rag, but I was a little surprised to read an article in The Guardian (or should that be Grauniad?) only this week extolling the perils of our nation under the headline - “UK drinking out of control, say public”.

For the 98% of the populate who don’t read that particular paper, it concerns a (publicly funded) Home Office report suggesting that alcohol related crime (both witnessed & experienced) had spiraled out of control, such that 93% of those under the age of 35 were affected.

Despite ministers suggesting that their intended plans to restrict sales of beer or lager to a minimum of 38p a can: wine at £2.03 a bottle or £10.71 for spirits, would have an impact on bringing things under control. Health campaigners were quick to point out however, that this still leaves the ‘supermarket’ shopper paying just ‘pocket money’ to drink without supervision, and that reducing retail costs to a mere 50 pence per unit of alcohol could save more than 3,000 lives a year.

That’s the point. It always has been. Two completely different groups of individually minded homosapiens: One that enjoys social integration and the warmth and safety of a pub.

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While the other group tends to be either responsible people enjoying a few beers while watching the match, or sharing a bottle of wine over lunch with the missus, or maybe, those with a serious alcohol problem. It is no longer a strange thing to observe a bunch of seriously inebriated people in the city centre around 10.30am in the morning!

I can well understand in these days of the beloved Health & Safety regulations, how we must seriously address these issues. CAMRA have, and always will promote drinking safely & within recommended guidelines. That is why CAMRA champions the great British Pub. Whilst the nation continues to lose around 50 of them a week, it has been suggested by those great landlords – The Pubco’s – that ‘Only the fittest will survive’!

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“Our current Pub of the Year, the Ploughman in Werrington, is a success story that flies in the face of such adversity”

Well the truth is this, the industry has just 6 months left in which to prove they can make things fairer for their tenants, mainly by removing beer ties, thereby leveling the playing field, or face the consequences? Yeah right! And the other half of the problem will most probably take back in duty any short-gained savings? Most pubs are both highly regulated and safely controlled environments these days, yet both parties choose to ignore this in their calculations. So why not impose a lower rate of VAT charged for ‘On Sales’, or is that really absurd?

establishment it is now. Other recent examples include Dean & Gill’s makeover of the multiaward winning Jolly Brewer in Stamford, and that of Linda & Pete at the Woolpack in Stanground, who have revived the fortunes of a back-street community pub to the enjoyment of many, with little more profit to show for it than bus fare money into town occasionally!

So, without a tie; slightly fairer leases and some restraints on the price of ‘off sales’ booze, enterprising pub landlords may stand a chance?

There are many great pubs in our branch area.

Some of those pubs have events I never get to hear about, so how can I help promote them?

I’m busy running a pub myself, but I’d love to come and chat with you if you would possibly consider allowing your comments to be aired in our newsletter? The pub is the hub, and the grapevine works far quicker than either text messages or email. Trust me!

For all those breweries producing quality ales, and for everywhere I drink serving up some well-kept beer, I salute you, the beer-keepers of our land.

For everybody else, if the only reason you’re putting a copy of this in your pocket is to hide the Valentine’s card for your loved one in, then read this again. Everyone has both a talent and at least an hour a month to spare. If you don’t recognize your talents, then we certainly will!

Keep your local branch of CAMRA alive & active, so don’t be shy and please get involved today?

Cheers

Bram

Our current Pub of the Year, the Ploughman in Werrington, is a success story that flies in the face of such adversity. Threatened with closure & demolition to make Tesco’s a bigger store in which to spend your beer money in (‘every little helps’ after all), the majority had given up on the cause when the Simmond’s brothers took over and turned it into the award winning and friendly www.real-ale.org.uk

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They close and they open, and the pantomime continues

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ust as I had got used to visiting the village of Eye and sampling the beers on offer I noticed that the Spade & Shovel is boarded up. Not only was this an excellent pub with three handpumps on the go, but also their St Austell’s Tribute was some of the best I’ve had. Hopefully this is only a temporary situation and someone will have a chat with County Estate Pubs & Co and take on the lease.

Luckily the Blue Boar over the road is doing well with fine Oakham Ales on offer amongst others and the Red Lion nearby now sports new signs telling us that food is available 7 days a week. Hopefully there’ll be something drinkable to wash it all down with.

The Vine in Market Deeping has now closed and rumours that a ‘brewery’ is looking to buy it may or may not be true. Watch this space, or at least the boarded up space in Church Street.

A pub that is definitely open is the Hare & Hounds in North Brink, Wisbech. The pub had been closed since April last year following the disastrous fire next door at the Pheonix Hotel. Following the complete but sympathetic restoration the pub reopened its doors in December with long-time landlady Jacqui Wadsley proudly standing behind the bar. Jacqui would like to pass on her thanks to the staff, the builders and Elgood’s Brewery for all their help and invites anyone who is passing to drop in and say hi.

Awards a-plenty It’s nice to get a bit of recognition occasionally and in this area we have a couple of pubs who have had a mention in wider circles. The Olive www.real-ale.org.uk

Olive Branch Clipsham

Branch in Clipsham is listed in the top 50 Gastro Pubs in the UK. The awards for 2010 are organised by the Morning Advertiser. Meanwhile in Nassington the Queens Head Inn has been given a 4 star rating and a rosette by the AA. If anyone has visited the pub they’ll know that the beers are also excellent and the decor suitably elegant. The only downside is it’s a bugger of a walk to the riverside beer garden.

Queens Head - Nassington

A Green Man with a new look OK, we all know it by its alias but officially it’s called the Fitzwilliam Arms. The small and perfectly formed village of Marholm is now home to one of the area’s most recent refurbishments.

The new look pub has had a substantial

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amount of cash spent on a new colour scheme and full makeover. At the VIP opening in December it was nice to see local mayor Keith Sharp in attendance along with a host of other dignitaries.

A carvery and just around the corner from where I live The Elmtree Tavern, once known as the Comet, is now getting into its stride and offering a carvery. The pub has changed hands several times in recent years with varying degrees of success. Currently the place is looking fairly busy with the food doing remarkably well. The beers on offer are GK IPA and recently some Rosey Nosey was spotted. The IPA is selling very well at the moment but I’m sure you all know my views on Greene King beers so I’ll say no more. I’m confident that the pub is destined to thrive, and if they change the ales I’ll help it thrive a bit more.

Whittlesey, a good place for a day out I know I mention Whittlesey quite a lot but it’s a place I’ve grown fond of after a lifetime of visiting the Straw Bear Festival, The Letter B, The Bricklayers Arms and the Boat. Old habits die hard so I’ll continue anyway. Now we have the George well and truly open I thought I’d mention that a place has just opened nearby. In the corner of the Market Place you'll find Hub’s Place which has recently been spotted selling Adnams. The place is owned by local man Barry Hubbard and is a welcome addition to the town.

Although I don’t know much about the place at the moment, it’s nice to see somewhere new opening in what was until last year possibly the most depressing town centre in the area. My thanks to Dave Bailey (guitarist, spoons player and shoe salesman) for this little snippet. Make sure you drop by and have a look (at Hub’s that is, not at Dave).

Easton-on-the-Hill and Collyweston Another pub that has successfully wrangled itself from the grip of a pub company is the Blue Bell in Easton-on-the-Hill. Alex Rambaldi and his partner Cinzia Mellina have run the pub for a number of years and have done a superb job.

They have now managed to lease the pub direct from Burghley House Preservation Trust and can now make plans on how to improve the pub and not be inconvenienced by the restrictions put upon them by the previous Pub Companies. Alex said “In the past, it has been difficult to get the landlords to invest in the pub, and we have been unable to move ahead with plans to improve the interior layout and décor.

Plus with all the uncertainty over the lease recently, it’s been a difficult time. We’re delighted now though, and have some really exciting plans to improve the Blue Bell and not just restore its former glory, but make it the best local for miles around.” There are quite a few local groups that use the pub and the huge garden is used for the Annual Village Gala and the 'Big Squeeze' a cider making festival.

So if you're in the area you could do worse than check out the Blue Bell, nip around the corner to the recently reopened Exeter Arms and sample an Ufford Ale or two and then have a look in the Oak on the main road. Sounds like an evening out to me.

Collyweston Slater

Just around the corner in the village of Collyweston you’ ll find the Collyweston Slater.

Many of you will remember it as the Cavalier but the name changed many years ago. Everard’s beers are on offer here with food being popular.

The tenancy is now up for grabs so if anyone fancies their chances at running a popular pub not too far from Stamford then here’s your chance.

And speaking of Everard’s ales I think it’s about time we mentioned the famous Bull in Continued Overleaf

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Market Deeping. As most of the discerning drinkers in the town will know the Bull is famed for the quality of its ales, so I thought it only right and proper to give long-time landlord Burt Murray a mention. Now all of you discerning drinkers outside of the town will be reminded of where to go when in town! Market Deeping does of course have other pubs and I'm sure you’ll all enjoy checking them out.

A Club, CAMRA members welcome Having had a chat with John of the Boy’s Head the other week I was informed that his other venture in Westwood, the Stafford Hall Club has real ale on and CAMRA members are welcome on production of their membership card. You’ ll have to pay your £1 fee but real ale is invariably available. To find the club head for Westwood and look for Hampton Court. The club is located in the corner, sort of diagonally opposite the chip shop.

Stamford Stuff My thanks to my three Stamford Pub Spies for their diligent undercover work seeking out intelligence from Lincolnshire’s most perfect Georgian town.

A little pub tucked away from the knowing public is the Hole in the Wall in Cheyne Lane.

Historically it has connections with our Peasant Poet, John Clare who said the place “was famous for strong ale and midnight merriment”. After being closed for some time the pub has now reopened. Three handpumps are on the bar but only one is in use at the moment, dispensing the Grainstore produced Phipps IPA, the rest will kick in when trade allows. The nightclub that was upstairs has now been renamed ‘Sins’ and will no doubt continue the tradition of midnight merriment. The strong ale will no doubt have to wait until a later date.

A pub we don’t mention at all is the Danish Invader in Empingham Road, but now we know they have 4 handpumps serving London Pride, Bombardier, John Smith’s and a guest ale we might do a bit more often.

After what seems a lifetime the Bull and Swan is now open. Now refurbished and open for business the place looks to be a destination pub

when in the town. Serving 4 beers at the moment including a bitter called ‘Bull’ which is apparently brewed for them by Molson Coors, so try it and see what it’s like. The beer policy looks to be an ever rotating choice of local beers with Barrowden and Ufford spotted when our Pub Spy visited. The newly decorated bedrooms are named the Ram, Greyhound, Lamb, Wild Horse, Badger, Stag and Lyon and the restaurant is curiously named the Bedlam. What an unusual idea? Are they trying to market the pub towards animal lovers, is the restaurant so named to remind diners of the bad day they had at work? A bit of research revealed all. The pub

Bull and Swan - Stamford

takes inspiration from the Honourable Order Of Little Bedlam, a drinking club established in 1634 by the Earl of Exeter who lived at Burghley House. Membership of the club was made up of the wealthy, the very wealthy and the disturbingly powerful, names to strike low scraping obedience in the mud splatted peasantry of the countryside. All of the Earl’s chums were given animal names probably just for a bit of fun. The man himself was the Lyon, Earl of Denbigh was a Tyger, George Crook Esq was a Wolf, the Duke of Devonshire was a Leopard with other members given less ferocious titles probably in order of their standing in the club.

Quite what George Leafield Esq had done to gain the title of Guineapig is anyone’s guess!

Steve Williams - Pubs Officer www.real-ale.org.uk

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Remember that the design will be used on glasses and shirts where the number of colours is limited, on full colour posters and in greyscale on printed documents. It will also need the CAMRA logo included but you don’t have to draw it – just leave a blank circle where we can place it.

Why bother entering? For the £200 prize for the chosen design!

Send your sketches and your own details to Festival Logo, 49 St Margarets Road, Peterborough, PE2 9EA or email them to logo@peterborough-camra.org.uk

Calling all of our members Have you tried any really tasty pints in the last few months? If so, were any of them brewed in East Anglia or the East Midlands? If so then please vote for them to go into the competition to choose the Champion Beer of Britain, held at the Great British Beer Festival each year.

Just go to our website, www.peterboroughcamra.org.uk /cbob to enter your votes. You will need to sign in as you do on the main CAMRA website. If you don’t know how to do that then send an email to help@peterborough-camra.org.uk.

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2011 Licensees Lament Our poor old publicans sigh with despair Not one customer from out of the cold air, The only person that comes through the door Is the greedy taxman who wants even more?

The pubco landlords clobber them bad And the area manager is a right cad, They try to sell their beer at a good price But the nasty pubcos make them pay twice.

Has now been swapped for some muck in a can.

This tale of woe will go on and on Till every one of our pubs are gone So to our rulers I send this plea Save our pubs before their tax free!

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When they complain that their moneys all spent The pubcos ‘help’ by increasing the rent, We can’t go on like this our man cries Fine ‘we’ll close the pub’ is the cynical reply The local community will look at the space Where a block of flats are now in its place What used to known as the Green Man

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Diary Dates FEBRUARY Sat 12th Heritage Pubs trip to Liverpool by train. Contact Mick Slaughter for details.

MARCH Mon 28th, 8.30pm Committee Meeting, Brewery Tap, PE1 2AA

Tue 22nd 8.30pm Committee Meeting.

Coalheavers Arms, PE2 9BH

APRIL Sat 9th Heritage Pubs trip to York by train. Contact Mick Slaughter for details.

Wed 23rd 8.30pm Pub of the Year Presentation to the Ploughman, 1 Staniland Way, Werrington, PE4 6NA Sat 26th Noon East Anglia Regional Meeting, Stuart House, Kings Lynn, PE30 5QX Sat 26th Noon East Midlands Regional Meeting, Roundhouse, Derby, DE24 8JE

Fri 15th – Sun 17th CAMRA Members Weekend & AGM in Sheffield.

Tue 26th 8.30pm Committee Meeting, Ploughman, Werrington, PE4 6NA Sat 16th April Official naming & launch of RNLI Lifeboat Peterborough Beer Festival IV at Skegness. Further details on our website & in next issue. (Bus trip currently being arranged.)

Selected Beer Festivals (CAMRA events shown in bold) FEBRUARY Thu 24th - Sat 26th 10th Derby Winter Beer Festival, Roundhouse, Derby College, Pride Park, Derby, DE24 8JE (close to Derby station) http://www.derbywinterbeerfestival.co.uk / MARCH Wed 9th – Fri 11th London Drinker Beer & Cider Festival, Camden Centre, Bidborough Street, WC1H 9AU (close to Kings Cross station) http://www.camranorthlondon.org.uk Wed 9th – Sat 12th Leicester Beer www.real-ale.org.uk

Festival, Charotar Patidar Samaj, Bay St /South Churchgate, LE1 3AE http://www.leicestercamra.org.uk / Thu 10th – Sat 12th St. Neots ‘Booze on the Ouse’ Beer & Cider Festival, Priory Centre, Priory Lane, PE19 2BH http://www.huntscamra.org.uk /festival APRIL Thu 21st – Mon 25th Hand & Heart Spring Beer Festival, 12 Highbury Street, PE1 3BE

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aturday 4th December 2010 saw a party of local CAMRA members and associated fans of Oakham Ales take in a visit to the Maxwell Road brewery. The freezing cold and dodgy road conditions meant that a number of certainties for the trip had to call off, but some 25 souls braved the conditions to face the arduous task of a look round the brewery and drink some top quality beer.

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aving got to know Jan & Gerry of the Cornish CAMRA branch over the years at Peterborough Beer Festival and the Green Man, Tony Shilling finally agreed to attend this years Falmouth beer festival, as a judge.

When he mentioned this to me I said I too would be interested. Hence, arrangements were made to spend a couple of days in Cornwall.

Wednesday 20th October

We set off from Peterborough for the long train journey to Falmouth, via Kings Cross & Paddington, at around 10:20am. The journey was uneventful until we reached Truro, where we discovered that the previous train on the Falmouth line was cancelled due to a broken down train. However, our train was, in the end, only slightly delayed.

On arrival at Penmere station, the northernmost station in Falmouth, we discovered that Falmouth was very hilly. Being a typical Brit I failed to re-consult the local map and led us down the hill.

After a quarter of a mile the roundabout I expected to see wasn’t there. Re-checking the map I realised I’d led us the wrong way. Retracing our steps up the hill we finally reached our guesthouse at about 5:40pm.

After checking in we set off to check out some pubs, hoping to be able to pick up a meal in the process. Going downhill, in the other direction, towards the harbour we came across the Masons Arms. This pub was a typical small local with low beams, horse brasses and a choice of 3 St Austell ales – HSD, Tinners and Tribute. The Tinners was sampled and found to be in good form.

Moving on we decided to bypass the Packet Station, the Falmouth Wetherspoons, and continue towards the harbour. We also passed the Seven Stars, a regular in the Good Beer Guide

(GBG), as it didn’t do food at night. A number of other pubs were ignored, for the same reason. On the harbour there were a number of pubs with BYO mentioned in their outside advertising.

Eventually we realised what this meant when one pub advertised we supply the pub, you supply the grub. Ah! BYO meant Bring Your Own. We stopped in at The Front, a pub in the 2011 GBG and discovered it had 4 hand-pumps and a small stillage. There was only around 6 beers available from the stillage, but nonetheless, a good selection. The Skinners Heligan Honey and Green Hop Ale were both in fine condition. At this point a few of the advance Peterborough contingent arrived, John Rice and Kevin & Jackie Fordham who understood BYO. We, therefore, had further beers with them, Driftwood Bolsters Blood, Penpont An Howl and Skinners Betty Stogs, all on form.

Food was now our priority, so we returned to the street above the harbour where we had seen a pub, the Quayside Inn, doing 2 selected meals for £10. A decent size, thick gammon steak with the trimmings was chosen by us both. Most enjoyable!

While we were eating a microphone announced that a quiz was about to start, so we decided to have a go. The quiz consisted of a two-part snakes and ladders board and room for 25 answers. The idea was that every correct answer was worth a value from a dice. All teams had the same questions, worth the same dice throw, but each had a different arrangement on snakes and ladders. The winning team finished on square 62 of 64. We kept hitting the snake on square 27. It turned out we had got more correct answers than the winners, but were unluckier on the snakes.

Our final port of call that night was up a side street, the Oddfellows Arms. Sharps Own and Special were sampled.

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Thursday 21st October

After breakfast we headed in yet another downhill direction towards the Princess Pavilion, where the beer festival was to be held. On the way we took in the seafront. The beaches were deserted apart from a few dog walkers. A number of freighters were moored in Falmouth Bay, just offshore.

Since we were not needed for the judging until 2:30pm, we continued around to the harbour.

After looking at the RNLI station we moved on to the National Maritime Museum.

Entry was £9.50, but this included a donation to gift aid and allowed re-entry for a whole year. In the main hall the first exhibit we saw was one of the boats used by the cockleshell heroes. Seeing the size of the boat, we could see why they were called heroes. Another exhibit was an old Mini with a hand-built dinghy on the roof. This boat had been made by the television DIY expert Barry Bucknell.

Hanging from the ceiling were a large selection of boats, including a Maltese gondola-type boat, a Sri Lankan outrigger and the yacht in which Ben Ainslie won his 2000 Sydney Olympic gold medal.

Also on the ground level were exhibits on survival and lighthouses. On the next level was a large room that explained the significance of Falmouth as a prominent port from the 1700s to the mid 1800s.

Falmouth was the westernmost deep-water port in England and became the centre for trade and mail to the United States, Caribbean, South America and Africa. Initially clipper style vessels, called packets, were used before the onset of steam, when the company changed its name to the Royal Mail Steam Packet. When telegraph was introduced vessels from all over the world stopped in at Falmouth to pick up their sailing orders. Falmouth lost its position as a major port in the late 1800s when larger steam vessels started to be built which could depart from ports all over England. On the next level there were exhibitions on weather forecasting and navigation. Moving up to the observation deck there were spectacular views of the docks, marina and the Fal and Penryn estuaries.

From here we could see a ferry in for repairs, a minesweeper that had just been sold to the Lithuanian navy, a large yacht apparently owned by the head of Santander and a Dutch tallship.

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Behind the repair yard was a private marina development, which included housing and moorings established by Peter de Savory, the man who caused controversy by charging people to get to Lands End. We could have spent longer here but we had to get back for the judging.

The tasting started with the judging of the beers to go through to the 2011 GBBF. There were 6 of us, me, Tony, John Rice, Stuart Symonds, from the Ploughman, his brother Chris, from Brixham British Legion, and a local lad. The results we came to were – 1st Skinners Heligan Honey, 2nd Moor Peated Porter and 3rd O’Hanlons Dry Stout. After this additional judges arrived and all 200 ales were tried across the 7 tables.

Unfortunately for Stuart most of the beers we were given were dark beers, not his style. It took nearly 3 hours to complete the judging. We were asked if we could lend a bit of time to serve the sponsors who were due at 8pm. This gave us a couple of hours to grab some food.

We returned to the harbour area and took our BYO into The Front, where we sampled Dartmoor Legend and Skinners Heligan Honey.

Returning to the festival for the sponsor’s session, we discovered why we were needed. There were a couple of hundred guests. Snacks were laid on and each guest was given a 1/3 pint glass which allowed them free beer until 9:30pm. After that they had to purchase a festival glass and tokens.

We were again asked if we could help out the following day, when the festival opened to the general public.

Friday 22nd October

We turned up to assist on the near east bar, which had local beers to Peterborough, such as Digfield, Oakham and Ufford. Shifts were allocated which meant we had a couple of hours to spare.

We walked down to the Seven Stars, a regular GBG pub with all the beers on gravity, especially noted for being run by a local priest. It was like a blast from the past. Dark Star Old Chestnut and Oakleaf Hole Hearted were sampled. We then looked into the Packet Station, but none of the

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beers appealed to us. i.e. they had the usual Wetherspoons standard beers plus a Skinners and two Exmoor beers. We, therefore, moved on to Nancy’s where we sampled St Austell Bucket of Blood, a special Halloween beer.

We returned to the festival and started working on the near east bar. We were borrowed a couple of times to restock glasses and I was co-opted to the cider bar. From around 4pm the place filled up with customers, many of whom were students. It was hectic through to close. The ciders were dropping like flies and it appears that 10 casks ran out on the near east bar during the session. Once everyone had gone the organisers supplied a light supper, including crusty bread, cheese, olives and ginger cake.

Saturday 23rd October

Although our itinerary had us leaving Falmouth at 2pm, we thought we would take a look at Truro before getting in our reserved seats to London.

Walking down into Truro we found our first port of call, but it wasn’t quite open. We went looking for a newspaper shop but couldn’t find one. We did, however, find the cathedral. We first circumnavigated the exterior to discover how big and ornate it was. Inside we purchased a small guidebook to make it easier to recognise what we were seeing.

There were large numbers of plaques dedicated to those killed in the world wars, beautiful stained glass windows, wooden and metal organ pipes, ornate pulpits, stunning hand-carved choir stalls and a tomb of an Elizabethan lord and lady. The most amazing item, as far as I was concerned, was a terracotta frieze of the road to the cross. The detail was incredible, down to the curly hair on the people and the finger and toenails.

There was just time for a couple of beers before getting the train. First we went to Bunter’s Bar, a huge sports bar that appeared to be a converted shopping arcade. Dartmoor Best Bitter and St Austell Tribute were tried. After finally finding a newsagent and purchasing the days papers, we moved on to the Crab & Ale House where we tried Coach House Dick Turpin. On the way back to the station there was just time for the Wig & Pen, where we sampled St Austell HSD.

On the train it was fairly quiet until we made an extra stop at Newbury Racecourse where a crowd of race goers joined us. An Australian man and his Lithuanian girlfriend joined us and explained how easy it was to lose a lot on the horses. Heineken had apparently invited them to the races, and we assisted them in tasting their free wine and cider.

On arriving in London there were a large number of engineering works on the tube, so we had to go a long-winded route to Kings Cross. We were greeted there by a large police presence. It appeared our train was going to be full of Newcastle fans returning from West Ham. Six officers remained on the train and all was quiet until about halfway home when they all headed towards the buffet car.

On arrival at Peterborough more police were on the station and the troublemakers were forcibly removed from the train.

All in all it had been an interesting, tiring but enjoyable break.

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Branch Committee Secretary: Harry Morten 49 St Margarets Road, Peterborough PE2 9EA 01733 764296 07900 056940 08707 620848 (fax) info@real-ale.org.uk Chairman: David Murray 01733 560453 chairman@real-ale.org.uk Treasurer: Paul Beecham 01733 311981 07710 008693 treasurer@real-ale.org.uk Vice Chair: John Hunt 07923 489917 vice-chair@real-ale.org.uk

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Please send stories and other copy to Bram (Paul Brammer) bae-editor@real-ale.org.uk 07922 604988 Beer Around ‘Ere is published by Peterborough & District Branch of CAMRA Copyright © 2011, The Campaign for Real Ale Ltd. Views or comments expressed in this publication may not necessarily be those of the Editor or of CAMRA.

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