Our arrangements for paying by credit card at the KGV have been changed. In the past we have allowed tabs to be run until a customer is about to leave the pub. However, this has led to unintentional errors when someone leaves without settling their bill. Anyone can make that mistake and it’s understandable. But a few accounts have been left for some time and others have not been paid at all. So, now we are operating a system whereby if you want to pay by card, you can leave it securely behind the bar until you are ready to leave and then settle the account. If you don’t find that acceptable there is always the cash machine. Our staff have been instructed not to allow tabs in future without this arrangement, so do be warned.

Plans for our art festival at the pub sometime later in the year have got off to a wonderful start. About a half a dozen artists have already agreed to contribute. So just to recap on the idea. We are inviting artists to submit a works along the theme: Brompton Then & Now. It’s to mark the 200 anniversary of the Royal Engineers in the village. We will feature all the exhibits on our website and display them in the pub for at least two weeks. They will all be put on sale and at least 20% of the value will be donated to Help for Heroes. Painters can create an image of the village as it is now, or we have plenty of old photographs to help work on an image from an earlier era. There is no date yet fixed for the show but this is plenty of early warning so that prospective artists can work on a project now.