Group    From 1971 

Campaign for Real Ale

Categories: Food & Drink

Countries: Ireland

An independent consumer organisation based in St Albans, and known as CAMRA. Founded in Kruger's bar in Dunquin, Kerry, Ireland, by a group who were opposed to the growing mass production of beer and the homogenisation of the British brewing industry. Its original name was the Campaign for the Revitalisation of Ale.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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Campaign for Real Ale

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George Jeffreys

The Town of Ramsgate, London. The Hanging Judge. In this place in 1688 follow...

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Ray and Dave Davies

The Clissold Arms, London Ray & Dave Davies Site of the first public perf...

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Cornhill Standard

Cornhill Standard

A water conduit, and point of measurement. From Wikipedia: "first mechanically pumped public water supply in London, constructed in 1582 on the site of earlier hand-pumped wells and gravity-fed con...

Building, Food & Drink

2 memorials
Pall Mall Restaurant
1 memorial
Waterloo Free Buffet

Waterloo Free Buffet

Fed over eight million soldiers and sailors from British, Imperial & Allied Forces. Worked and supported entirely by voluntary effort, probably also entirely female.We could not find a picture...

Event, Armed Forces, Food & Drink, Philanthropy

1 memorial
White Horse Cellars at Hatchett's Hotel

White Horse Cellars at Hatchett's Hotel

This building is still at 66-68 Piccadilly, on the north-east of the junction with Dover Street.  Architect: Weatherley and Jones. From British History (written in 1878, just 10 years before Selby...

Building, Commerce, Food & Drink, Transport

1 memorial
The George Pub, Fleet Street

The George Pub, Fleet Street

Founded in 1723 as a coffee house, became Georges Hotel in 1830 and then a public house as it is today. Current building is late Victorian.

Building, Commerce, Food & Drink

1 memorial