The Baron of Beef

The Baron of Beef is a pub in Bridge Street, Cambridge, England, owned by Bob Jones.

The Baron of Beef public house on Bridge Street

Michael Peacock, columnist of the Town Crier, gave his former paper, the Daily Mirror, a story about Chris Curry and Clive Sinclair having a fight there.[1] This was allegedly over Curry's decision to leave Sinclair to join Hermann Hauser to establish Acorn Computers in competition with Sinclair's ZX80 microcomputer.[2] This was dramatised in the 2009 BBC Four television programme Micro Men.[3]

Tom Baker, the Doctor Who actor, stayed at The Baron of Beef while filming Shada.[4]

Douglas Adams, creator of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, drank at The Baron of Beef also, according to an interview on The South Bank Show.

References
  1. Ian Kitching, The Baron of Beef, Bridge Street.
  2. David Manners, of Beef, Cambridge, Chips and Beer blog, Electronics Weekly, 19 August 2008.
  3. John Naughton, Just as in Clive Sinclair's day, Silicon Fen remains challenging ground, The Observer, Sunday 11 October 2009.
  4. Tom Baker. Who on Earth is Tom Baker? HarperCollins Publishers, 1997. ISBN 978-0-00-255834-1.
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