East Beers - Wednesdays - The Chesham Arms E9 6DU

It's a bit of a trek

More than 45 miles for the round trip?

if anyone has a suggestion for a pub that actually is East

I’ve suggested some in the past but they got rejected for being a bit Far East.

Probably a bit after 7pm.
Meeting overran, and I just avoided a local shower.

Not so much an Easts but a lovely West-Eastern Diwan tonight.

The Mermaid is good, would go again. The only fly in the ointment is absolutely no bike parking. It would have been perfect in the olden days, Coach and Horses-style, because of the space at the front.

Yep, happy attentive bar/waiting staff, some beers I hadn't heard of, let alone tried before. Seemingly a gusty headwind all the way home with intermittent icy showery needles.

If this is happening tonight,
I will have to tend my apologies,
first Wednesday of the month is the Ruislip Residents' Association committee meeting.

I guess East's really is dead now.

The East will rise again...

Bread-making thread >>>>>>>>

Out of interest, why did it move from the good old Royal Inn on the park?

the smell of the nearby mainline sewer in the summer and the shit bar staff

were my reasons

As 'dead' as Wests!

Well, with the pubs closed, there's not much one can do for the time being other than park beers with 2m between people somewhere that isn't completely overrun, but it's only as dead as people want it to be, well, when this crisis has ended.

As mentioned several times, Easts doesn't currently have a set pub. @dbr suggested the Mermaid in Downs Road, and @mespilus and I had a lovely tête-à-tête there a few weeks ago, so we could go there again when it's open again, but we really just need somewhere where we can be without constantly moving around, and perhaps something further south, i.e. more east than north-east.

All someone needs to say is 'I'm/we are going to be at this or that east-ish pub on this or that Wednesday, come along.' Perhaps in May?

@BQ may remember the full run-down of reasons, but what I seem to remember is that I think @EEI got banned from the Royal Inn, the pub had become fairly packed with people doing British Military Fitness in Victoria Park, and probably other reasons. I personally would have preferred to stay, but it became a moot point when they redeveloped the pub shortly afterwards, and while I've been back there a couple of times, now I don't like it as much as I did then.

Yep twas a good chat.
Looks like it will turn out to be the last Forum f-t-f for quite some time.

Well, with the pubs closed, there's not much one can do for the time being other than park beers with 2m between people somewhere that isn't completely overrun,

Controversial, in the other thread you would be burnt at the stake.

I remember seeing folks doing the drag strip before they put the speed bumps in... to the round about and back. Have they finally removed the LFGSS group photo from the pub? Pretty sure that was there when I was there last - a summer or two ago.
What happened to the Chesham? Why not somewhere round LF?

Is it dead yet?

Maybe a case of suspended animation...

Could be reanimated once this shit storm has passed!

Any Leyton folk? There is a campaign to reclaim a local pub, The Antelope, that has gathered a lot of pace over the past week:

https://instagram.com/theantelopee10?igshid=rdjyp74r8do7

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1386885298309332/?ref=share

If it reopens it would be a handy one for me.

Literally a stone's throw from my running club, and directly on my way home. Balance out my reps and pyramids with a few Panda shandies. Cashback

From what I gather, as part of some sort of hearing with the council taking place across today and tomorrow, a document was referred to as justification for a pub at that site being unviable... as there are 30 pubs within a mile!?! LOL.

I'd genuinely go there a fair bit. I sometimes go to the Hare & Hounds, but probably end up going to the William the Fourth the most locally, although most of the time I tend up walking over to Walthamstow and going to Crate, Chequers and Mirth and The Victoria before they both shut. Hopefully if the Antelope can reopen it's one more place to create a critical mass to make it worth while being in the area. The Markhouse/Lea Bridge Junction is really where I'd love to see some change. Found a nice old photo of it just recently.

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Leyton based and already signed a few days ago. It would be good to have a pub there indeed.

There aren't a great deal in the area, nearest is the H&H.
Gravity Well taproom opening in a proper space has filled a gap over near Midland Road. Also on my way home which was proving a bit too tempting pre lockdown V2.

Maybe we should start a campaign for the Oliver Twist to reopen too

Thanks for flagging this up, Jonathan. I've tried going through the material, but a quick summary would be helpful--is there an application to turn the pub into an HMO, or has it been one for some years? Or is this a planning enforcement case (i.e., conversion without consent, etc.)?

I do think that community pubs are great, and I'm totally in favour of locals taking over things like this, but the immense expenditure of volunteer time needed unfortunately only leads to very rare successes. It's a bit of a fig leaf on the Government's appalling pubs policy (which was appalling even before 2010, by the way).