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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Sir Joseph Lyons

Sir Joseph Lyons

Sir Joseph Nathaniel Lyons was a pioneer of mass catering. Chairman of J. Lyons and Co. Born Kennington,his father being a Jewish itinerant watch seller. Joseph was apprenticed to an optician. Mov...

Person, Commerce, Community / Clubs, Food & Drink

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Anderton's Hotel

Anderton's Hotel

In the fifteenth century this was the Horn tavern. In the early seventeenth century the hotel was popular with the legal community. A new building was erected in 1880 and probably that was the one ...

Building, Commerce, Community / Clubs, Food & Drink

1 memorial
Pinoli's Restaurant

Pinoli's Restaurant

Londonist tells us this restaurant was the venue chosen for the 1920 "the end-of-year dinner of the influential Hampstead branch of the Communist Party of Great Britain", watched closely by British...

Group, Food & Drink

1 memorial
Crosskey's Inn

Crosskey's Inn

In the late 1500s plays were performed in the inn-yard. The Inn was destroyed in the Great Fire.

Building, Commerce, Food & Drink, Theatre

1 memorial