Fight to save ‘national treasure’

CAMRA members in St Albans are leading a campaign to save a pub described as “a national treasure” as the first branch of the Campaign was formed there in 1972. The Farriers Arms in Lower Dagnall Street, which carries a blue plaque marking the event, was owned by Hertford family brewer McMullen but it was sold to sitting tenants Tony and Jannine Passmore, in 2013. The Passmores now want to retire and have put the pub on the market for £725,000. Campaigners fear the pub could be bought and turned into housing....