As you can see from the graphic above, beer duty is 4.8p a pint in Germany, but 54.2p a pint in the UK. The Long Live the Local campaign say that £1 in every £3
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Tag: where’s my boozer gone
The Geezers are working to highlight the demise of the East End Public House. Share your stories and pictures of what the local pubs meant to you at www.facebook.com/groups/wheresmyboozergone
37 Pubs Saved in Tower Hamlets
Last week, Tower Hamlets Council’s Cabinet agreed that 37 of the borough’s most historically and culturally significant venues will be given ‘locally listed’ status. The pubs were listed for the following criteria: Local character and
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Transport Strategy Survey, Police Firearms Event, Pubs to be Listed
Tower Hamlets Transport Strategy Tower Hamlets Council are to be congratulated for sharing with residents a 48 page pdf full of data called Travel in Tower Hamlets. This needs reading very critically. Page 5 is
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Geezers Organised Activities inc Bow Bowls: April – June 2019
April 2019 Weekly Weight Training sessions at gym in Bethnal Green for men over 55. Tues 16th April: The Geezers go to the City to visit the Museum of London. Bow Bowls 4 Sessions Mondays
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Was this the last pub in Bromley by Bow?
Photo above – vanished without trace – The Blue Anchor. Philip Mernick, Chairman of East London History Society, kindly sent us the article below. It also appears in their Summer 2019 Newsletter. You can download
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Geezers New Book
On Tuesday 14th May 2019 fourteen of The Geezers made a trip to the Town Hall Hotel, Bethnal Green, to investigate using it for launch of the forthcoming book: Where’s My Boozer Gone? They were
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Popular Spitalfields Pub to Close
The Water Poet at 11 Folgate Street will be closing on 29th March. Having read this in Time Out, I thought I’d drop in today. The building hadn’t been used as a pub for some
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Isle of Dogs pubs plus wrapping the presents
At last Tuesday’s regular meeting of of the Geezers in Bow, Malcolm Barr-Hamilton, our Borough Archivist, came along to talk about pubs! Malcolm kindly brought along a laptop and projector to show us a huge number
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