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  • Badger
    Badger Posts: 4,842
    Beer Festival at Welling United Friday 14th if anyone is interested.
  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256
    Thanks VF, very interesting. I wonder what happened to the Lord Nelson, it seemed to be in the middle of nowhere with only some old barges for company!
  • Viewfinder
    Viewfinder Posts: 4,910
    March51 said:

    Thanks VF, very interesting. I wonder what happened to the Lord Nelson, it seemed to be in the middle of nowhere with only some old barges for company!

    March51 - I think you'll be interested in this film location website: http://www.reelstreets.com/index.php/component/films/?task=view&id=572&film_ref=long_memory&limitstart=0

    I gather you were watching 'The Long Memory'; note the four pages of film location stills around Tower Bridge and Gravesend. You can roll over some of the images to see - with horror - what the locations look like now. Image no. 30 shows your Style & Winch pub, the Lord Nelson; apparently it was at Iwade, on the south side of the old Sheppey bridge.

  • Viewfinder
    Viewfinder Posts: 4,910
    March51 - Two more photos of the Lord Nelson here: http://www.dover-kent.com/2014-project/Lord-Nelson-Iwade.html
  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256
    Thanks again VF, I'll have a good look at everything tomorrow : I imagine there have been a few changes since I wandered the back streets of G'end , puffing through a packet of 5 Weights in the school lunch hour with a couple of chums. But the old place certainly seemed to have a lot of pubs n those days,
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    Badger said:

    Beer Festival at Welling United Friday 14th if anyone is interested.

    Yes I'm going. Look out for my advert in the programme.
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,145
    @Riviera‌

    Any update on your opening date?
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    Hoping for first weekend in December but everything has to be 100%. I won't open until everything is absolutely spot on.
  • red_murph
    red_murph Posts: 2,460
    Riviera, do you have a website?

    Good luck with it all by the way, sounds like a great venture.
  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,900
    PL54 said:

    lolwray said:

    i had the misfortune to meet up with someone at the "hole in the wall" at waterloo on friday evening ...back in the 70s it was a lovely real ale pub with fullers,waddingtons,theakstones etc on tap ...now its a hell hole ...why and where did it all go wrong ?

    In the 70s.....40 or so years ago?

    Lots of things did well in the 70s - miners, Jimmy Savile, Liverpool FC.

    All long gone.
    yes but this thread is about beer !

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  • Robbo on the wing
    Robbo on the wing Posts: 4,135
    Goonerhater said:

    the for sale sign is up now on the Sun in The Sands

    That's handy. Could do with another African church.
  • willieduff
    willieduff Posts: 986
    I just love beer
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,145
    Riviera said:

    Hoping for first weekend in December but everything has to be 100%. I won't open until everything is absolutely spot on.

    If you get to 21st December and are still not sure, how about a "soft launch"? my family and any other Lifers who promise on here to only write good things about it

    :-)

  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    red_murph said:

    Riviera, do you have a website?

    Good luck with it all by the way, sounds like a great venture.

    It's still under construction www.thelongpond.co.uk

    We're on FB and twitter @thelongpond

  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,918
    Anyone know anything about Glouster Brewery ? I'm doing a limited edition label for them real soon

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  • IAgree
    IAgree Posts: 1,839
    Anyone gone to this years Medway Beer Fest? Never been and I wondered if it is worth a visit? I think that today is the last day.
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    Went to Welling yesterday, very well organised and attendance was well up on last year. Excellent range of beers, never heard of any of them; which is how a beer fest should be.
  • Charlton_Charlie
    Charlton_Charlie Posts: 1,428
    Went for a pint (or 3) in the Lyric pub, Soho (Great Windmill St I think) last night after being recommended...one word: awesome. Best selection of craft beer I've seen in one place for a while (apart from the Craft Beer Co pubs - I work opposite the one on Endell St)...reasonable prices, great location and room to move/get a bar stool...loved it and will be back... Had a couple of pints of Thornbridge Chiron (American Pale Ale) which was superb.. Opposite a 'Be At One' which was packed full of the Ted Baker crew...don't understand it myself but then guess I am getting old...
  • Killarahales
    Killarahales Posts: 1,057
    Loving this thread. For a few months now I've been brewing with Hillside Brewery at Longhope in Gloucestershire. Check us out at www.hillsidebrewery.com. If anyone is in the area midweek you can drop in anytime.
  • IAgree
    IAgree Posts: 1,839
    Shame we couldn't put on a Charlton beer fest at the Valley. With Guest addick IPA brewed by Killar and raise some money for a good cause.

    Seems to be enough beer drinkers on here!
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  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,778
    IAgree said:

    Shame we couldn't put on a Charlton beer fest at the Valley. With Guest addick IPA brewed by Killar and raise some money for a good cause.

    Seems to be enough beer drinkers on here!

    Indeed. I'm rather partial to a decent pint of lager shandy.
  • A-R-T-H-U-R
    A-R-T-H-U-R Posts: 7,678
    Interesting developments today regarding Tied Landlords.
    Could see the rise of wholesalers again and more choice in the pubs.

    From The Guardian politics blog
    ''Ministers have lost a vote on pubs after Lib Dem and Tory rebels united with Labour to back a proposal to loosen the control of pub companies over pub landlords.''
  • willieduff
    willieduff Posts: 986
    edited November 2014
    A-R-T-H-U-R said:

    Interesting developments today regarding Tied Landlords.
    Could see the rise of wholesalers again and more choice in the pubs.

    From The Guardian politics blog
    ''Ministers have lost a vote on pubs after Lib Dem and Tory rebels united with Labour to back a proposal to loosen the control of pub companies over pub landlords.''

    Brilliant news

  • PL54
    PL54 Posts: 10,757
    I had a pint of (Green King) Noble English Craft Lager yesterday - very nice
  • superclive
    superclive Posts: 1,809
    Any news on the opening @Riviera‌
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    superclive said:

    Any news on the opening @Riviera‌

    Hoping for first weekend in Dec but if not certainly second one, 12th.
  • superclive
    superclive Posts: 1,809
    Excellent. I have already got two groups of mates interested in coming. Cant wait.
  • Davo55
    Davo55 Posts: 7,836
    I don't drink very much but had some Blandford Flyer (Badger Ales) down in Dorset last weekend. Really lovely stuff.
  • Dippenhall
    Dippenhall Posts: 3,919
    Just on my way back from brewery tour of Harvey's in Lewes. Cracking range of beers, and worth the 2 hrs seeing how it's made before sampling!
  • mid_life_crisis
    mid_life_crisis Posts: 3,263
    Dippenhall said:

    Just on my way back from brewery tour of Harvey's in Lewes. Cracking range of beers, and worth the 2 hrs seeing how it's made before sampling!

    The King of real ale brewers.

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