The Baron of Beef
Introduction The Baron of Beef public house on Bridge Street'''The Baron of Beef''' is a pub in Bridge Street, Cambridge, England, owned by Bob Jones.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. 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. This was dramatised in the 2009 BBC Four television programme ''Micro Men''.Tom Baker, the ''Doctor Who'' actor, stayed at The Baron of Beef while filming ''Shada''.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''.
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