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About John

About John

John Conen is a member of Britain’s Campaign for Real Ale and a member of the British Guild of Beer Writers. He has been visiting Bamberg for over thirty years and this book is the product of the many enjoyable visits he has made. Bamberg and Franconia: Germany's Brewing Heartland can be bought from CAMRA Books or from Amazon.

Other books by John Conen

Holborn and Bloomsbury Revisited (2008)

I look back at this historical area where I worked in the 1970s. This booklet reproduces a series of articles written for the staff magazine of my employer. There’s also a look at the changes of the past forty years.

Larkswood School 1906 - 2006 (2006)

A history of my former primary/infants school, which Chris Pond and I wrote for its centenary year. A valuable social record drawing on school log books which the head teachers kept from the founding of the school through to the 1980s as well as personal recollections of former pupils. OUT OF PRINT but can be obtained from the school.

The Flower Show at Farnham Royal (2013)

A brief look at the popular local Village Show in this Buckinghamshire parish. It can trace its origins back to 1883.


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