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9500 BC The first beer is brewed.
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189? The Albany, our local pub in Cardiff is built. The question mark is deliberate- the final number on the sign above the pub fell off before we started drinking there!
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1914 The Three Arches viaduct is built, it would later give its name to a pub and then to the Fourth Arch.
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1953 The Three Arches is built, named after the nearby railway viaduct.
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1980’s The birth of the rest of Team Fourth Arch crew- Rich, Mogi, Gez, Matt, Brother Dave and Brother Steve. Also Great Paul’s wilderness years.
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The late 1990’s The meeting of Team Fourth Arch in the Three Arches.
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2000, the launch of the original Fourth Arch website.
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Early 2000’s, the switch to the Albany
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2009: The Fir and Feather, Woodbastwick
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2010: The Ilchester Arms, Symondsbury
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2011 Bury St Edmunds. East Anglia for Richard’s choice as we visited Britain’s smallest pub, The Nutshell and Greene King Brewery.
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2012: The Hollow Bottom, Guitting Power
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2013 Windsor was Matt’s choice and we visted The Horse and Groom and the local brewery, which was… well actually we didn’t, we saw Windsor Castle instead!
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2014: The Turf Tavern, Oxford. Brother Dave’s choice and a sterling one too. The City of Dreaming Spires and many pubs provided all the group could want for a Fourth Arch Weekend.
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2015: The George Inn, London Bridge. Brother Steve’s choice and we finally make it to the capital. The George Inn is the feature pub: a galleried 17th Century Coaching Inn. The intriguing Bermondsey Beer Mile (six breweries open their doors for sampling) took the place of the traditional tour and it was excellent.
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2016: The Lady of Mann, Liverpool. Brother Rhys took us on a Magical Mystery Tour around the Beatles’ own heartland.
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2017: The Black Sheep, Masham. Chris’ choice took us to God’s Own Country in all its rural splendour, where we enjoyed two Brewery Tours, at Theakson’s and Black Sheep.
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2018: The Fat Cat, Norwich. The choice made by Paul of Norwich takes us East Anglia bound this coming September.
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2019: The Maple Leaf, London
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2020: No formal trip due to Covid-19
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2021: No formal trip due to Covid-19