{"id":660996,"date":"2026-06-27T11:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T11:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/660996\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T11:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T11:16:09","slug":"kent-pub-owner-continues-34-wimbledon-queue-streak-despite-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/660996\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent pub owner continues 34\u2011Wimbledon queue streak despite heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A tennis fan who is camping out in a queue for Wimbledon tickets for the 34th year on the trot says he is continuing the tradition despite soaring temperatures in the South East.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harry Taylor, owner of the Red Lion Inn in Bridge, Kent, arrives on Saturday morning and plans to camp overnight every day throughout the championships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Even though the Met Office forecast is for temperatures to reach 30C during Wimbledon fortnight, the 52-year-old said he had come &#8220;fully prepared&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve bought pallets of bottled water,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve packed cooling towels, travel fans and ice cubes which we will place inside portable coolers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Taylor added he bought a heat-reflective tent, which cost \u00a3300, so he could get a good night&#8217;s rest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In the past years, when it was hot, the tent I had used was like sleeping in an oven,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has also packed white linen clothes, large portable batteries and solar panels to sustain the charging units.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tennis fan who is camping out in a queue for Wimbledon tickets for the 34th year on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-660996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}