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
The Town of Ramsgate, London. The Hanging Judge. In this place in 1688 follow...
The Clissold Arms, London Ray & Dave Davies Site of the first public perf...
Braxton's Coffee House (1702) at no.24 Henrietta Street became Rawthmell's Coffee House in 1715 and later moved to no.25, where the (R)SA first met. The image shows the painting by Anna Katrina Zi...
Thanks to (C) Peter Gregson for the picture.
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.
George Richard Eddie was born in 1882 in Market Stainton, Lincolnshire, the eldest of the three children of George William Eddie (1856-1906) and Blanche Adeline Eddie née Ogle (1857-1940). His birt...
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could not abide its left-wing politics, nor its leader, Ken Livingstone. On its 50th anniversary Diamond Geezer posted a goo...
Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.
16 years between the laying of the foundation stone in 1982 and the opening in 1998. The Independent explains the delay: "The reason it has taken so long to build ... has relatively little to do w...
Housing Estate in Eltham. Inaugurated by the then Minister of Health, Christopher Addison. The photograph is an aerial view of the estate taken in 1931.
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