Civic Society of St Ives

See below for photo's taken Saturday 2nd June !

THE BEER IS BACK

The Civic Society of St Ives and the Oliver Cromwell Public House have once again joined forces to offer a limited number of Commemorative bottles of beer. This latest offering follows the great success of the 900th Anniversary beer and this time celebrates HM The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

On sale will be 1000 individually numbered bottles bearing the Diamond Jubilee motif. The first occasion will be on Sat 2nd June in the Town Centre between 10 am and 3 pm. The second round of sales (if there are bottles left) will be on Sun 3rd June in Hill Rise Park from 2pm onwards. Come along to the Civic Society stall on either day and take advantage of this never to be repeated sale.

The Beer is supplied by the Potbelly Brewery of Kettering; it is a bottle-conditioned  4.4% ABV beer of impeccable pedigree based on the famous “Pigs Can Fly” vintage. Light golden in colour it is a single hopped beer using Styrian Goldings. Despite this impressive provenance it will be affordable.

Pause for a moment to consider the irony of the Oliver Cromwell Pub (representing the most famous Republican in our history) celebrating the Diamond Jubilee of the world’s most famous Monarch! Cromwell must be turning in his grave.

Photo's taken on Saturday 2nd June in St Ives Town Centre

You may have seen from the Local Press that we (the Civic Society) joined with Michael Purchas (owner of the Golden Lion) to bid for funding from a Mary Portas sponsored scheme. We did not have a lot of time and there was quite a bit of work to do. Our bid was for £88,400 to be used for maps, signposts, a website and possible Visitor Information facility. We aim to bring people into the Town through advertising ; once here we will encourage them to tour the Heritage sites via the Retail areas. If you'd like to see the short video go to "you tube" and enter "portas pilot bid video st ives" and all will be revealed. Indeed, it would be helpful to the cause if you did have a look as I have a feeling that the judges will want to know the number of hits for each of the many bids. Or of course you can view the video seen above!