Yr Hen Dderwan, Carmarthen

The pub is called Y hen dderwen not dderwan as the photo shows .

Dyfed ceased to exist many years ago and it should read

Carmarthenshire.

The clientele are largely seedy and from Park Hall estate.

14 Oct 2010 03:20

The Wenlock Arms, Hoxton

I never mentioned a conspiracy . I am a longstanding committee member

of another London CAMRA branch who is very well aware of the

procedures and deadlines involved in GBG selection .

The Duke of Hamilton has been under serious threat

for over nine months , this wasn 't just rumour and tittle tattle and only

received a limited reprieve very recently . This pub should not have been

included in GBG 2011 for that reason.

The real threat to the Wenlock has only emerged

recently , well after the deadlines for shortlisting and surveying . If

branches excluded every pub where the licencees were rumoured to

be leaving the GBG would be a very thin volume.

While I'm at it how has North London branch managed

to exclude the superb Southampton Arms in Gospel Oak and The Jolly

Butchers in Stoke Newington while including a raft of very average

pubs in the Euston /Kings Cross area ?

14 Oct 2010 02:52

The Wenlock Arms, Hoxton

If the Wenlock was excluded on that criteria why did North London

CAMRA include the similarly - threatened Duke of Hamilton in

Hampstead ?

13 Oct 2010 11:37