This is now stored on the Pigs Ear Website. Visit all the pubs (with updates to July 2008), see top bar above for links to updates. Old Beer Guides.... Check out this site for the 1983 beer guide. Check out this site for the 1986 beer guide. Check out this site for the 1991 beer guide. The Online and Old Beer Guides Always follow your local team. There are too many armchair supporters. A supporter is someone who gives their club money, everyone else is a fan. My ‘blog’ for 2010 is here. 2011 here and 2012 here.  Here is my history  of the club during the 1960's and 70's. Colin Worrell one of our players from the 1960's is featured here. Bobby Moss scrapbook here.  Leyton Orient Darts Darts has been my sport. My grandfather played so that may be where my love of it comes from. I started with the East London & City CAMRA team know as the Spratts. Originally they played in the Bricklayers Arms EC2 before finding a home in the Fish & Ring in E1 which has sadly been converted to flats. For five years I played for British Coal where I managed to be team champion for three years but I was by no means their best player. I returned to play for the Spratts until they disbanded around 2000. By this time I was playing twice a week. Wednesday nights I turned out for the Albany playing in the Wenlock Arms N1. If you want to know how to set up a dartboard then  this is the place to look and armed with the measurements you can make a rod like the picture ont eh right. The angle at the bull end should be cut to 54^o Which make the floor angle 36^o. Throwing a dart is more difficult! This site tells you how it should  be done. Practice makes perfect. Who was it that said "the more I practice the luckier I become". The way I do it? Have ten throws at the board, add up each throw and jot down. After ten throws add them all up dropping the last of the three figures to give you your average. Do it 12 times then work out your average and try to improve every time. Finally as Bobby George more than once said "Scores for show, double for dough" It does not matter how many tons you hit if you cannot finish. My double practice comes from the darts501.com site (above). Starting with 170 throw a maximum of 15 darts finishing on a double. Best is three my best is four. If none of this makes sense then download this spreadsheet which is designed for six throws at 19 x ten and six at twenties x ten. I've added a version that you can use as you throw! Darts go all over the place? Use this site to see what triple you should be aiming for. If you have a computer near your dartboard and playing with a friend you can use this spreadsheet that I found on the web and gives you a three dart out. If you want to follow our progress in the Trafalgar League  then try their site or the Albany site where you will find out how I am playing!  The Albany team is still struggling to come to terms with the loss of team member Joe Belka who was found dead at his home on 23rd December 2010 at the age of 48. Joe was a lovely man and we always chatted football, he was a season ticket holder at Reading. He was also our secretary and statistics man for many years. A pleasure to have known him. The object of this web site is to keep the East London drinker up-to-date with the ale scene since the publication of the guide in 1991. Updates appear in London Drinker but this can prove time consuming. If you still want a copy of the guide,or more importantly want to update the guide then email keith.   In the beginning.... Initially the data was stored on an Amstrad PCW8256 using Datastar to store the data. An extra disc drive and more memory were purchased but updating became more time intensive. The current data for the guide is stored in Lotus Approach   Thank you.... This web site would not be possible without the surveying work carried out by the branch members of East London CAMRA back in 1991. The photos were also supplied by the budding David Bailey's of the branch. My thanks to them all. The site was launched in April 2000. My cousin Raymond has been researching the family tree and here  it is. Also in  .RTF format or even PDF though there is 18 pages of it. If you know any of the missing dates don't hesitate to let me know. This page was last updated 30 September 2011.  Emmerson Family Tree.