Social and beer scoring trip by minibus from Shrewsbury to Wem and Ellesmere. Departing from Salopian Bar at 7pm. Places must be pre-booked with Dave Ricketts - he can be contacted using the email address below. For more information about our Beer Bus trips, please see the About Our Events page.
Shrewsbury & West Shropshire CAMRA committee meeting. All members welcome
Shrewsbury & West Shropshire CAMRA Branch Meeting. Meeting will be upstairs in the Royal Oak, Coton Hill. All welcome
Social and beer scoring trip by public transport from Shrewsbury to Ludlow. Note this trip has been moved from the 14th December. Members and non-members welcome! Outward train 10:40 from Shrewsbury arrives Ludlow 11:09. For those who prefer to use their bus pass, the 09:55 435 from Shrewsbury bus station gets to Ludlow railway station at 11:10. Suggested return trains to enable onward bus connections from Shrewsbury are 16:19, which arrives in Shrewsbury at 16:48, or 16:52 arrives 17:24. The 15:55 bus from outside the Compasses arrives in Shrewsbury at 17:11. First port of call the Railway Shed (Ludlow Brewery bar). For those who don’t know, there is an extra pub to visit following the re-opening of the George in the market place. For those who want to stay later, the Blood Bay and the Dog Hangs Well open at 17:00. For more information about our Public Transport Group (PTG) trips, please see the About Our Events page.
Christmas Eve Shrewsbury Walkabout. Starting at the Peacock on Wenlock Road at 12pm, then onto the White Horse at the Column, then down Abbey Foregate towards town. Members and non-members welcome!
Shrewsbury & West Shropshire CAMRA committee meeting. All members welcome
Social trip by public transport from Shrewsbury to the Dale Street area of Liverpool. This is the first of our 'out of area' PTG trips that we do in January and February each year. Members and non-members welcome! Suggested itinerary is as follows: Ship & Mitre, 133 Dale Street; Excelsior, 121 Dale Street; Vernon Arms, 69 Dale Street; Thomas Rigby’s, 23 Dale Street; Lady of Mann, 19 Dale Street; Saddle Inn, 13 Dale Street; Hole in Ye Wall, 4 Hackins Hey; Denbeigh Castle, 10 Hackins Hey All offer a good selection of cask beers although the Saddle will probably only have national brands. All open at 12:00 with the exception of the Ship which opens at 11:00, making it our first visit. Suggested train is the 09:26 from Shrewsbury to Chester. Then onwards on the 10:31 from Chester arriving Liverpool Lime Street at 11:13. The first pub is an eight minute walk from there. The Anytime Day Return from Shrewsbury to Chester is £15.90 which has no restrictions on outward and return times to/from Chester. Shrewsbury booking office also sells the Merseyrail Day Saver All Areas for £5.95. Suggested return is from Moorfields station which gives an opportunity to visit the excellent Lion pub on the way. For those living north of Shrewsbury who are travelling to Liverpool via Crewe, the 08:57 from Wem / 09:06 from Whitchurch will get to Liverpool Lime Street at 10:42. Return times from Lime Street are 16:08, 17:08 and 18:43. For more information about our Public Transport Group (PTG) trips, please see the About Our Events page.
Shrewsbury & West Shropshire CAMRA branch meeting. Members and non-members welcome.
Social and beer scoring trip by minibus from Shrewsbury to Ludlow. Departing from Salopian Bar at 7pm. Members and non-members welcome. Places must be pre-booked with Dave Ricketts - he can be contacted using the email address below, or by phone after 4:30pm (SMS text preferred). For more information about our Beer Bus trips, please see the About Our Events page.
A trip to Salopian Brewery bar for everyone who volunteered at the Shrewsbury Beer Festival in September 2023, as a thank you for their hard work during the festival. Anyone that helped in any way is welcome to come along. There will be a free bar and we will order takeaway pizza for everyone. Please make your own way to the the brewery, which opens for us at 7pm. Most people will be travelling by public bus from Shrewsbury to Hadnall. The branch will then book taxis to get people back to Shrewsbury afterwards. If you have any questions, please contact Dave (chair@saws.camra.org.uk) or Norrie (press@saws.camra.org.uk). If you know of anyone that helped with the festival who may not have heard about this thank you trip, please try and contact them and let them know the details. Thanks.
The branch's Annual Dinner will be held again at the Prince Rupert Hotel in Shrewsbury on 9th February 2024. Please get there at 7pm as the meal will start at 7:30. All members and partners welcome. The menu is below with the prices, which are £32.95 for 2 courses and £37.95 for three. If people wish to come, they need to let Helen Arkell know along with their meal choices, either in person or by using her Pubs email address (pubs@saws.camra.org.uk). Payment will be needed up front, but if that is an issue then please contact Helen. For those that haven't been to an Annual Dinner at the Prince Rupert before, there is a bar at the hotel where people can order their own drinks. However, there is no real ale available at the bar, so we take two casks of ale with us from local breweries, which is available to purchase for around £2.50 a pint.
Shrewsbury & West Shropshire CAMRA committee meeting. All members welcome
