The latest issue of CAMRA Angle (74) is due to appear in pubs and clubs soon, so please look out for it. If you can’t wait, it is now online Branch Magazine: CAMRA Angle Issue 74 – Spring – SST_CAMRA
The front cover is about Maxim Brewery moving this year. There is an article about their last bar night. Also at this time of year we announce the results of our Pub & Club of the Year contest. This ia a two page spread in the middle of the magazine.
As a teaser there are three stories articles from Yorkshire : A Stormy Weekend in Leeds, a Pub Crawl in Helmsley and a Pub Rescue TV review. We have an exclusive personal story about a former Vaux Breweries drayman, a reminder about National Bass Day , plus all the regular features : Pub, Brewery Heritage news. and the Pub Quiz.
If you have any news, articles, or suggestions for articles for CAMRA Angle; and if you are able to help distribute and replenish CAMRA Angle in pubs you visit on a regular basis, please get in touch. Also if you are aware of any venue is interested in advertising in the magazine, please let us know – this could be a pub, a club, a brewery , a beer festival or even any other business. Please make contact and more information can be provided.
magazine01@sst.camra.org.uk
Here are a couple of items that didn’t make the Angle:-
CAMRA’s online pub and club guide ( formerly Whatpub) contains a record of all our pubs, clubs and breweries here An important job which members can help with is to keep the branch up to date with what is happening in our area. Information required could include :-
- Opening and closing times
- Changes in beers and ciders sold
- Features and facilities added or removed
- Closed pubs and clubs and future plans
- Change of ownership and licensees
- External or internal photographs
- Mobility Access.
The last item is important. This is about access into a pub and also whether there are accessible WC’s. Pubs Officers are being asked to provide this information in the form of a Mobility Access Statement. The screenshot below shows that of The Courtyard in Washington as an example. So information about getting into the building and the toilets is needed please.
Several members already do updates ; but more information is never too much and will be gratefully received so the CAMRA online guide can be kept up to date. To do this, either email pubsofficer@sst.camra.org.uk or complete the feedback form for each pub/club entry then scroll down till you reach this ;_
Click on the Suggest an edit button and complete the approriate fields.
Thank you
Update on the South Tyneside Red Bench Project
https://theredbenchproject.co.uk/about-us/
You may recall an article in Issue 69 ( Winter 2024 page 17 here ) about the Red Bench Project in South Tyneside. Called “ Saving Lives, One Bench at a Time it was written by Peter Tong and featured its founder , Wayne “Rambo” Groves.
Well, the project has gone national and features on BBC Sounds (lasts about 10 minutes https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0n2y4gt
Wayne was a guest at our 2024 Beer Festival ( he’s the tall chap holding a CAMRA Angle ; Peter is to his left)
Compiled by Ken Paul – March 2026 –