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ub with a real local s feel saw a little less conversation when it turned heartbreak hotel in 2009 and closed before the inevitable steamroller blues and redevelopment as flats fleur de lys derelict cambridge under creative commons licence mitre one of the better central pubs back then no doubt owing to the benskins ind coope and burton ales it nevertheless failed to appear again until 1999 proving that even then most of the best pubs were away from the centre zebra a friendly pub with excellent food which is just how i remember it two decades later when i worked in nearby offices and it became our friday lunch venue of choice owing to the excellent pizzas it was always busy and well regarded so it was a bit of a shock when it was closed in 2011 deemed unviable as a pub by greene king with plans approved to convert it to housing more recent plans seek to demolish the building entirely the zebra named after the crossing obviously meanwhile popular local the queen s head in the village of balsham was in the guide less than ten year s later in 1991 it was converted into a house now called town end house recently on the market for 750 000 which is a lot of pints former queen s head balsham image courtesy of g oogle 1984 two new entries one of which would go on to make 20 appearances to date while the other hasn t yet made the guide again kingston arms a busy backstreet pub with the obligatory friendly atmosphere the kingston then served greene king xx ipa abbot and rayment bba nowadays offering twelve handpumps including permanent classics like crouch vale brewers gold hop back summer lightning oakham jhb thornbridge jaipur and timothy taylor landlord with mighty oak oscar wilde providing the mild all at some of the most reasonable prices outside of spoons hard to see this pub dropping out of the guide again any time soon surely old spring the sole appearance for what was an extensively de modernised pub complete with sawdust on floor something it could do with now to soak up all the beer that gets spat out when people find out how much their pint cost in part two more excellent old pubs make the guide and have since been carelessly lost 2 comments posted in cambridge pubs mild out posted on february 28 2018 3 comments isn t it there are very few pubs which have a mild on permanently in cambridge and nearby pubs but when they re as good as the xx at the free press or the oscar wilde at the kingston arms i find they re worth seeking out here s a list of all the cambridgeshire pubs i m aware of that have mild permanently and some which are a good bet updates welcome permanent duke of wellington willingham greene king xx flying pig cambridge rudgate ruby mild free press cambridge greene king xx kingston arms cambridge mighty oak oscar wilde prince albert ely greene king xx waggon and horses milton elgood s black dog usually often elm tree cambridge one from b t black squirrel shefford mild plum mild etc red lion histon guest mild worth a look cambridge blue cambridge guest mild haymakers queen edith devonshire arms cambridge one from milton medusa minotaur etc hopbine cambridge guest mild live and let live cambridge guest mild 3 comments posted in cambridgeshire cambridge pubs in the good beer guide part 1 the 1970s posted on january 10 2018 7 comments the good beer guide was first published in 1972 the year following the founding of camra to help drinkers find pubs serving real draught ale because the majority of britain s brewers have been pursuing a policy of robbing the public of its already limited choice that first issue was just 18 pages stapled together a provisional list put together by a small number of volunteers prior to the commercial publication of a much more comprehensive guide and as a result only featured one cambridge pub the cambridge arms there was no guide in 1973 but the printed guide arrived in 1974 and has been updated every year since this is the first part of a series of posts looking at the cambridge city pubs that featured in the guides across the decades how they were described and what became of them beginning with a look at those in the 1970s editions 1972 the cambridge arms the only cambridge pub in the first good beer guide was to have a remarkable run featuring in the first 14 consecutive editions before dropping out never to return the entry in the 1974 edition is probably my favourite noting that landlord john perry a camra member himself was a fervent anti keg man who believes firmly in traditional methods of dispensation a greene king pub it served their bitter and mild a member from those early days once explained to me that at the time if you walked into a pub that had greene king beers you thought you d reached the promised land it dropped out of the guide after the mid 80s and subsequent rebrands as the brewery and the rattle and hum threw out the collection of breweriana and any traces of the former cambridge brewery now d arry s restaurant and bar although primarily a restaurant it does welcome drinkers and offers a single real ale named george scales best bitter as a link to its brewing past the only other branch pub in that provisional list was the wheatsheaf in duxford sadly this classic village pub then serving abbot rayment s mild and bitter closed as a pub in december 2017 1974 the first printed guide contained a further five cambridge pubs alongside the cambridge arms ancient druids a charles wells pub on fitzroy street that appeared in the guide twice in 1974 and 1975 but was demolished in 1981 to make way for the grafton shopping centre development a new pub of that name was later built on nearby napier street more on that when it comes to the 1980s guides bun shop the 1974 guide contained the sole entry for this pub which once stood on st andrew s hill street off downing street roughly where the back of john lewis is now described as a workingman s pub it was demolished later that decade for the development of the lion yard shopping centre the bun shop name reappeared on king street by the early 90s when the king s arms was renamed with the sign apparently showing a picture of the old pub on it initially in the building now known as the cambridge brew house cricketer s 1974 saw the sole appearance of this pub in over 45 editions of the guide unlike others it escaped demolition and closure and now serves arguably the best thai food in cambridge alongside up to three real ales elm tree in the first three good beer guides in the 1970s my 1976 copy has a poignant amendment a line through the name of the pub which in that year suffered a tragic fire from which landlord peter gowing didn t escape reopened by the following year it would be 1985 before its next appearance in the guide though it s the pub with the third most appearances including the current 2018 edition mill appearing twice in the 70s it then went over a decade before reappearing in the guide renamed as the tap and spile the mill has been in the past five guides including the current edition since reopening as the first of the city pub co venues in cambridge in 2012 1975 green dragon the first of six new entries in the 1975 guide described as a beer drinkers pub with strong local support it had a run of eleven consecutive appearances before dropping out in the mid 80s since when it s made only four further appearances panton arms described as an excellent pub in 1975 and as an attractively modernised victorian pub in 77 nevertheless it s only made five appearances in the guide overall and none in the last 25 years red lion cherry hinton a lovely old 16th century timber framed building complete with large inglenook fireplace and low beamed ceilings appeared five times between 1975 and 1985 but somehow hasn t made it back in over 35 years since although i enjoyed a great pint of timothy taylor landlord on my visit snowcat an estate pub that opened at the end of 1959 named after the tracked vehicles used in the expedition that completed the first overland crossing of antarctica in 1958 noted for its unusual method of dispense from a cellar in the first floor via transparent pipes to taps on a bar that was over 40ft in length it was later renamed the grove but eventually closed becoming the cambridge gurdwara sikh community centre in 2013 snowcat from cambridge new architecture nicholas taylor 1964 unicorn cherry hinton a down to earth pub making its first of eight appearances serving the best mild in cambridge according to the 1984 guide sadly by 2011 it was closed and boarded up deemed unviable by greene king and facing redevelopment however though no longer a pub the building survived and is currently occupied by a coffee house eatery bakery grocery called cofifteen weathervane opened in november 1959 just a few weeks before the snowcat the estate pub now known as the med made its first and only appearance in the guide in 1975 currently an outlet for turpin s brewery the award winning local brewery based in pampisford perhaps its chances of making the guide again have never been better 1976 bakers arms one of three new entries the friendly and cheerful bakers arms made eight consecutive appearances before it dropped out and hasn t appeared in the past 35 years after several refurbishments in recent times including the bizarre and short lived boxing themed noble art it was renamed the duke of cambridge in 2014 dew drop the first entry in the guide for the local s town pub that has since made more appearances than any other cambridge pub appearing in 36 of the 46 guides and has enjoyed the longest consecutive run by appearing in every single guide from 1990 to the current edition including all but one year since 1987 when it was renamed the cambridge blue granta the pub in a picturesque setting surprisingly hasn t been back in the guide since its run of eight appearances in a row ended after 1983 meanwhile village pubs the pemberton arms in harston excellent locals pub the fox and hounds in weston colville and the hoops in great eversden a pub described by roger protz in 1987 as the epitome of a thriving village local all featured in the guide none have survived as pubs 1977 cross keys one of only two new entries in 1977 the small friendly split level pub made the last of its seven appearances in 1986 before closing as a pub in 2009 it s currently the japas sushi restaurant i remember the landlord in the early 2000s had what you might call a challenging sense of humour a newly wed friend of mine moved to a nearby street and went to the pub for the first time proudly asking for a pint for himself and a half for the woman who had just become his wife well the landlord is claimed to have said as he looked her up and down if that s what you ended up with you can have these on me salisbury arms after being closed for a few years it had reopened the previous year as one of the short lived camra investments pubs according to the guide prior to reopening in 1976 only three breweries provided real ale in cambridge but this increased to ten under its new ownership with the likes of samuel smith bateman adnams bass elgood hannan marston s and ruddle s available complimented by possibly the largest selection in the country of bottle conditioned english and belgian beers despite increasing the number of breweries available to twelve by 1979 it failed to appear in that year s guide and has only appeared in five of the past thirty four 1978 while there were no new entries for the city in 1978 popular village local the jolly brewers in haslingfield an excellent local with lots of atmosphere was in the guide for the second of four consecutive appearances in 1980 jack and ivy wallwork retired after 29 years at the pub and it was closed for good by the following decade 1979 there were five new entries for cambridge city pubs in the 1979 guide free press the first appearance for the pub which has since had the second most entries overall appearing in 33 of the 46 guides the pub was closed and the interior gutted at the end of 1975 as it awaited demolition as part of the area s slum clearances thankfully it was decided the pub could be retained after all and after a period of renovation it reopened in february 1978 serving greene king xx mild abbot and ipa as it still does perhaps the only pub in cambridge that still has the mild on permanent and it is worth seeking out jolly millers a once lively pub overlooking the river at the mill pond facing the granta pub the jolly millers closed as a pub in 1981 latterly an indian restaurant it has been closed since it suffered fire damage in august 2016 sad to see a former good beer guide pub in a prime location standing empty queen edith the youngest of the three estate pubs to appear in the 70s guides the queen edith opened at the end of 1961 it made two appearances then dropped out of the guide until a new build pub of that name was built on the car park of the previous pub that pub milton brewery s third in the city has already featured in the guide twice since it reopened in april 2015 royal standard a lively friendly town local making the first of nine appearances with real sandwiches and jellied eels in 1980 a pub that hasn t been in the guide since 1988 and which looked lost for good when it was converted to an indian restaurant in 2007 when that closed in 2011 it served as a charity shop while awaiting its likely fate of redevelopment for housing however it reopened in 2015 and it s surely only a matter of time before it makes the guide again spade and becket a modernised pub with a pleasant riverside garden making the first of seven appearances over an eight year period the name refers to fenland peat cutting tools peat was sent to the nearby quayside and stored in a riverside building called sedge hall which stood there until 1924 peat was used as fuel by the cambridge colleges and by bakers to heat their brick ovens enid porter fenland peat 1969 formerly the george and dragon the spade and becket became the rat and parrot before the handsome building in an enviable location closed in 2004 to become la mimosa restaurant meanwhile excellent village local the tree in stapleford was in the guide the pub closed in 2013 and there has been a fight to prevent it being turned into housing with a group campaigning to turn the tree into a community hub a total of 22 different cambridge city pubs appeared in the guide in the 1970s and 15 of them are still open in some form and serve real ale albeit in a new building on the same site in the case of the queen edith the next post will walk through the gbg pubs in the 1980s which saw nine cambridge pubs make their only appearance while over a third of all the pubs that featured in the guide during that decade have since closed 7 comments posted in cambridge pubs cambridge pubs free press posted on december 30 2017 11 comments probably cambridge s most celebrated ale house a hearty little building with wall settles and panelled walls 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