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David and Maureen James invited Wakefield CAMRA for a farewell brewery tour and social on July 17 2007, a couple of weeks before the hand-over to Ossett Brewery. About twenty people were expected but thanks to the beat of those jungle drums, many many more folk came along to wish them well.

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	Photographing Dave James is usually about as difficult as photographing a cat - you know how they insist on lifting their tails and turning their backsides towards you. On this historic occasion, however Dave is wonderfully relaxed.		The guy on the left is Wakefield CAMRA member George Denton for whom the building also holds many memories as he began his working life here when it was the bottling store for Beverleys Brewery.
	It was all tinged with moments of reflection for Dave.		Quite an emotional time for Maureen, too.......
	........although she was not lost for words.		ooooooh! (note big hanky in presentation pictures below)
	For a time we were stuck as to what to put on yet another award for Fernandes.....		.........but the map says it all ( The two presentation photos are by Dave Martin, whose battery had not run out!)

The Real Ale Map of Britain (Wakefield CAMRA version), where there's only one place!

In a decade Dave and Maureen James have put our city firmly on the Real Ale Map.

Dave's final brew as head brewer was to be James' Last, although he continued as a consultant for the changeover period.

His new brewery is East Coast Brewery Co.3, Clay House Yard, rear of Mitford St, Filey, North Yorkshire YO14 9DX Tel: 01723 514865

....and these are the press clippings.

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