LEEDS, GARDEN GATE, 3 Whitfield PLace, Hunslet LS10 2QB. Great news for this Edwardian marvel of a pub. It has been taken over by Leeds Brewery, Leeds’ largest independent brewer who started brewing in 2007. So now it looks like a prospect of good beer in good historic surroundings. For anyone who doesn’t know the pub, a visit is highly recommended. Hardly altered since it was built just over a century ago, with its multiple rooms, glass, ceramics (incl ceramic bar counter), and mosaic floor, this is really one of the must-visit historic pubs. As a result of an application from CAMRA’s Pub Heritage Group, it was recently up-graded from a grade II statutory listing to the very elite II* category (thus putting it in the top 6% of all England’s listed buildings.See the entry on the Heritage Pubs web site.

BIRMINGHAM, BLACK HORSE, Bristol Road, Northfield, B31 2GT. This truly magnificent interwar pub, one of the biggest ever built, is due to reopen as a Wetherspoons on Friday 23 July. See the entry on the Heritage Pubs web site.

GLOUCESTERSHIRE, PURTON, BERKELEY ARMSGL14 1ES. Mike Jackson says the trading times are now 7-10 Mon-Sun, and additionally 12-2 Sat and Sun – it sells Uley Bitter. See the entry on the Heritage Pubs web site.

KENT, IGHTHAM COMMON, OLD HOUSE is currently closed for essential maintenance and is due to re-open – more reports would be very welcome. See the entry on the Heritage Pubs web site.

SOMERSET, BATH, LONG ACRE TAVERN . Russ Durbidge reports that this rare 1960s pub with an original interior, is up for sale. Not known if the intention is to market as a pub or for alternative use. See the entry on the Heritage Pubs web site.

SOMERSET, QUEEN’S HEAD, WILLSBRIDGE . Now on the South West Regional Inventory, due to changes that led to its removal from the national list, there have been fears about closure. Mike Jackson tells us that it has been taken on a locally successful publican and is currently selling Wells & Young's (Courage) Directors and Cheddar Potholer.

NORFOLK, NORWICH, WOODSIDE . Thorpe St Andrew, Norwich – further to the report in Bulletin 87, the pub, sadly, has been demolished.

HERITAGE PUBS WEB SITE. The Heritage Pubs web site is undergoing a major redesign, and many pub entries are being extensively updated. Mick Slaughter is ensuring that the very best of his photographs will be in place for the pubs that are in the National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors Part One and Part Two. A number of new Regional Heritage Pub Guides will now be available online (London, East Anglia and North East England, to add to Northern Ireland and Scotland that had already been published online). Also for the first time there is a special section for CAMRA members. CAMRA members can login to the site, and access all the Regional Heritage Pub Guides, including guides that have recently been published (like the Real Heritage Pubs of Wales), and guides that are still being researches, the latter because we hope CAMRA members will help us with surveying the pubs in these regions. The new site will be launched on August 3rd, and the existing site will be unavailable from the 1st to the 2nd August.

HERITAGE PUBS AT THE GREAT BRITISH BEER FESTIVAL. As in previous years, there will be a heritage pub stand at the Great British Beer Fesival with displays and books for sale. Do come and say hello to whoever is manning the stand from CAMRA’s hHeritage pPub team. If you haven’t got your Real Heritage Pubs of Wales/Tafarnau Treftadaeth book yet (hard to believe!), this will be a chance to remedy such a gross oversight!