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  • Thumbnail for Mild ale
    17th century or earlier, and originally meant a young ale, as opposed to a "stale" aged or old ale. Mild experienced a sharp decline in popularity in the...
    7 KB (938 words) - 08:11, 15 April 2024
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    The Winchester is a public house in Highgate, London. It was built in 1881 as the Winchester Tavern, and later became the Winchester Hall Hotel. The name...
    2 KB (152 words) - 23:54, 20 January 2024
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    Holder's Brewers, who owned Birmingham's Midland Brewery, in 1919, and the Highgate & Walsall Brewery in 1939. The company merged with Bass in 1961. With the...
    7 KB (478 words) - 19:33, 20 August 2024
  • Hadley Special Pale Ale, Dinner Ale, ginger beer, and Nourishing Stout. Twenty to thirty barrels of barley wine (Old English Ale) were made every year...
    3 KB (371 words) - 15:09, 24 December 2022
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    Swearing on the Horns (category Highgate)
    traditionally given to visitors at various pubs in the north London suburb of Highgate during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. The oath consists of a series...
    9 KB (1,179 words) - 12:51, 15 September 2024
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    is a short walk down Highgate Road, winner of CAMRA's 2011 London pub of year, famous for its very large selection of real ales and ciders, and traditional...
    20 KB (2,661 words) - 14:52, 9 October 2024
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    two - Old Ales and Barley Wines. The new Old Ales category was renamed in 1993 to Old Ales & Strong Milds, changed again to Old Ales & Strong Ales in 1994...
    56 KB (694 words) - 23:45, 17 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Flask, Hampstead
    Campaign for Real Ale. Retrieved 6 March 2014. Samuel Richardson (1748), "Letter XXIX", Clarissa, vol. 5 Edward Walford (1878), Old and New London, vol...
    6 KB (711 words) - 22:39, 6 September 2024
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    Dickens, G. K. Chesterton and Mark Twain. The pub is on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors. Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese is...
    14 KB (1,505 words) - 23:12, 1 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Old Bull and Bush
    the site is of a farmhouse in 1645. The farmhouse gained a licence to sell ale in 1721. William Hogarth drank here, and is believed to have been involved...
    4 KB (340 words) - 11:39, 12 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for The Wenlock Arms
    "Lane & Bowden" (the 1842 Post Office Directory mentions “LANE & BOWDEN, Ale Brewers, 9 Wenlock Road”). John's brother-in-law, John Mitchell (1813–1868)...
    7 KB (782 words) - 18:49, 22 July 2024
  • unbroken succession through five families. The brewery produces a range of cask ales and filtered beers. Production is around 180,000 brewers' barrels a year...
    11 KB (1,245 words) - 02:40, 20 October 2024
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    watered and fed. Usual foods served included pottage, bread and cheese with ale for drinking. In some towns, innkeepers are only allowed to offer food and...
    12 KB (1,562 words) - 08:37, 1 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Terry Jones
    on medieval history. A member of the Campaign for Real Ale, Jones also had interest in real ale and in 1977 co-founded the Penrhos Brewery, a microbrewery...
    61 KB (4,533 words) - 14:37, 7 November 2024
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    Protz, Roger, ed. (2012). Good Beer Guide 2013 (40 ed.). Campaign for Real Ale. ISBN 9781852492908. "The Pub With No Street Entrance", London Loop: 10,...
    5 KB (185 words) - 22:38, 18 July 2024
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    brewery tap) for the Manns Albion brewery, where the first modern brown ale was brewed. The pub was built in 1894 on the site of an inn which had been...
    6 KB (667 words) - 12:17, 16 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for The Black Friar, Blackfriars
    (2008). London heritage pubs : an inside story. St. Albans: Campaign for Real Ale. pp. 28–30. ISBN 9781852492472. "Black Friar pub: London Remembers, Aiming...
    6 KB (225 words) - 10:58, 22 September 2024
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    time to supply Kenwood House with milk and cheese. The main Hampstead–Highgate road was moved to the north between 1793 and 1796 so that it would not...
    22 KB (2,149 words) - 01:23, 29 October 2024
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    St. Albans: Campaign for Real Ale. p. 18. ISBN 9781852492472. "The Vin de Vie Restaurant in Carmel: Where was All the Old Knives filmed?". Wikimedia Commons...
    2 KB (183 words) - 11:27, 9 August 2024
  • Naranee Ruthra-Rajan Labour Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith) Hampstead and Highgate Don Williams Tulip Siddiq Scott Emery Catherine Becker Lorna Jane Russell...
    250 KB (865 words) - 13:10, 26 October 2024
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