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Opening Times

Issue 137 Winter 2008

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CHEQUERS, LITTLE GRANSDEN

East Anglia Pub of the Year

In early September the judges announced their decision regarding CAMRA’s East Anglia Pub of the Year - the best pub in Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk … and the judge’s decision was … the Chequers at Little Gransden!

A presentation was made on the opening night of the St Ives beer festival to a surprised and very happy Bob and Wendy Mitchell, owners and licensees of the Chequers.

The Chequers is now being judged in the competition for the South East Pub of the Year. After that, the next round will be for the national Pub of the Year.

Earlier, it was announced in the Summer edition of Opening Times that the Chequers had been judged Cambridgeshire Pub of the Year, having been chosen earlier in the year as the 2008 Huntingdonshire branch Pub of the Year - the fourth year in a row that the pub had achieved this accolade.

CAMRA felt that it would be appropriate to have a special celebration day at the Chequers, and in October, CAMRA representatives from Huntingdonshire, Cambridge, Bedford and Luton joined many locals from the village of Little Gransden in calls of “three cheers” to Bob and Wendy. CAMRA’s Regional Director Andrea Briers presented Bob and Wendy with a plaque for the East Anglia award.

Bob laid on one of his legendary hog roasts, and five of his Son of Sid beers were available to sample.

This happy occasion was chosen to launch a new CAMRA campaign, LocAle, in Huntingdonshire. LocAle promotes locally-brewed beers, and we judged that the Son of Sid beers at the Chequers could not be more locally-brewed, so the Chequers was selected as the first pub to be accredited in this new scheme. More details on the LocAle campaign.