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Opening Times

Issue 136 Autumn 2008

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Opening Times has received a report that the lease of the Crown at Broughton has been taken over by chef David Anderson. New menus have been introduced and on the real ale front, Adnams Bitter has replaced Greene King IPA.

The Three Horseshoes at Abbots Ripton has new licensees, Ronan and Jane McLister who have moved from a well-known Greene King pub in Cambridge, the Fort St George in England. The Three Horseshoes now offers four cask beers and four imported draught beers.

In Hemingford Grey, the Cock has dropped Elgoods Black Dog from its real ale offerings. Hopefully it will reappear after the summer as previously. Meanwhile the Cock's annual real ale festival in the garden over the August bank holiday weekend is keenly anticipated. There will be 25 beers, 3 bands and a barbeque.

The Saddle in Kimbolton has replaced Greene King IPA by a changing real ale from the Marstons portfolio, which now includes Hobgoblin and Brakspears as well as Ringwood, Jennings, Banks's and Mansfield.

At Gamlingay, the Wheatsheaf has new tenants and has undergone a minor refurbishment.

Churchill Taverns have sold the Lion in Buckden, along with a number of other pubs, to the Clear Pub Company.

The White Horse in Eaton Socon is under consideration for entry in CAMRA’s East Anglia inventory of pubs with outstanding, unspoilt historic interiors. A photograph of the pub dated 1901 has shown that changes in certain parts of the pub since then have been minimal. The White Horse is a historic pub, formerly a coaching inn on the Great North Road. These inventories are drawn up by CAMRA to protect and draw attention to pub that are most worth visiting, cherishing and protecting for their historic pub interiors. A National Inventory lists the most important ones that have seen the least change, in particular those that have remained much as they were since the Second World War. Cambridgeshire’s only entry on the national inventory is the Hand and Heart in Highbury Street, Peterborough.

It has been reported that changes of licensee are expected at Tilbrook White Horse and in Hartford at the King of the Belgians, the subject a few years ago of a community campaign to prevent closure and conversion to housing.