Bristol Pub Guide by John Mackintosh, Mark Wyler, Nick Fox and Audrey Creed 1982 This is the updated, completely revised guide to the one above and has the same five star rating. You might be confusing it with the noodle place that ran for a while in the Green Man, that was general Asian. The Berlin Turnpike, A Model Road. Known for its huge logo on the side of the premises, the George and Dragon has been closed for years. The building went before planners at Thanet District Council back in 2008 where Listed Building Consent and plans for three flats and a two-storey house were put forward. Factfile:Not everyone will remember Tofts, after it reportedly closed its doors in the 1980s. Still trading, since known as The Henry Cooper, Scene, Vogue Bar, Klub Traffik and now Club Favour. Swan and Sugarloaf, Parkers Row Flats World Turned Upside Down 145 Old Kent Road. 1980s: 1995 : Sovereign Inn: 26 Castle Street: 1861-1881+ Sportsman: Writing these pages means there is a lot to check. Southwark Council Officers and East Walworth Ward councillors rejected developers Terrameks application to demolish and replace with 9 flats on 8th Sept 2010, citing the character of the pub and the impact of the proposals on Nursery Row Park but local users and supporters of the pub fear that a new plan will be submitted to the Council. 6. Though more happily, we were off to one of them. Follow us on or Contacts Samsons Castle, Grange Rd Business premises My Grandmother lived in Palamon Ct, Coopers Rd Estate can anybody remember the name of the pub that was situated in Coopers Road please? Also, David Bowie rehearsed his Spiders From Mars band here in the early Seventies. Still standing, now a mosque. 8-10. Really useful, thanks. Golden Fleece, Weston St Business Premises [6] The one no longer extant is The Shard Arms, at the corner of Peckham Park Road, which was demolished in the 1990s and replaced by a residential development. 13.3 miles away. Had a couple of mad nights in the Gin Palace. The pub closed in the late 1980s and is much missed. The haunted Thomas A Becket Pub on the Old Kent Road in South London. Factfile: The Trafalgar used to be at 48 Royal Road but is said to have closed in the early 1970s and was converted into a house ever since. The former Shepherd Neame boozer was closed in 1997 and is now a four bedroom house. How an argument in a taxi between two brothers changed a family's life forever. It has now closed and has remained boarded up and empty since 2007. It stands at the corner of Dunton Road. While the club started out as something a little bit different, where people would actually take part in jazz lessons, this spot is somewhat nostalgic for dozens of adults who grew up in the Sixties and 70s. The pub has been boarded up for more than a decade, after it closed its doors in 2004. If you find that it changes again, please keep me updated. Walford then goes on to mention a number of hostelries: The Kentish Drovers; The Thomas Becket; The Shard Arms; and The World Turned Upside Down. It was demolished in 2013. Demolished. @import url(http://www.google.com/cse/api/branding.css). Become a contributor by submitting them here. WEST SIDE St Johns Tavern Commercial premises Theres a pub called the Windsor still open on the old Kent road just before it goes onto new cross road. The Windmill Tavern was located in North Street but is now a private house. Great to receive your comments. Planning permission for the premises has now lapsed, and the building remains empty and derelict for now. The name derived from St Thomas-a-Waterings, a stream and pond (roughly at the junction with Shornecliff Road). On the western side of the crossroads of the OKR and Albany Street is an ornate Victorian building which was once one of the most iconic (there, Ive said it) of all London pubs: The Thomas a Becket. The Brunswick Tavern. 100 Medway Road: 1869-1980s+ Bright Star : 1870-1870+ Britannia: 158 High Street: 1862-Open 2020+ . Demolished. 559. Built on Mulgrave Street in 1840, it was overlooking the beach at the time and received the second liquor license issued in New Zealand. Thanks Of course, like many other pubs on this road, it has long since closed. An early 19th-century building. Bridge House: 588 Old Kent Road. Jane Grant writes to Derelict London: "I did indeed drink in there regularly with my husband and two friends in the mid-late 1990s.The landlord was permanently drunk and the wrong side of the bar, he did bent MOTs and sold dodgy cars. Bridge House, Borough Rd Hotel There are, in addition, a number of bars (not to mention bar/restaurants), though it can be difficult to get a sense of whether some of these are still in business, as many open late in the evenings or for occasional events only and give every appearance of not being in business (such as Virgos, Walworth SE1, or Clear Spirit Vodka Bar & Lounge, Peckham SE15). Wellington - Borehamwood. Yes, it has taken over six years (at three blogs a week, you work it out!) Rarely much trouble INSIDE - but quite often the police would have the road blocked off to traffic because of the fighting in the street. 1y Edited Thomas a'Becket on the Old Kent Road SE1 The Montague is still alive and well in New Cross. 338. At one point, there were 39 pubs. For anyone who was living in the county as the 1980s morphed into the 1990s, progress and achievement certainly came at a high price. Although closed by 1999, it was still standing. Demolished. Duke of Clarence, London Rd Awaiting conversion by South Bank University Paper Moon, Blackfriars Rd Awaiting demolition The 'Enerey', The 'Thomas' and the Frog (had a great lock in there once), were all occasional haunts of mine back in the 80's. The Alma was a one time Charrington outlet, but was serv8ing Thomson and Sons by 1974. August 28, 1954. The documentary will feature previously unbroadcast interviews with Paula (pictured in 1991) about her life, given in 1998 and . A walk along The Old Kent Road today a fairly short trot between New Cross and the Bricklayers Arms roundabout is impressive by virtue of the vast contrasts in tone and scale. 320-322. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. Southwark Notes Is Not Registered As A Community Interest Company. The Magnet. 623. Old Photos of Gillingham, Kent - browse nostalgic, historic local photos online. It would be retail for A1 or A2 use, so either a shop or financial and professional services along with two two-bed flats and a one-bed flat. Of course Stones Bar is just one of the names it underwent during its times. These pubs were known as tied houses, those which remained free of any tie were free . Location: Calverley Road, Tunbridge Wells. In 1999 the pub made headlines for the wrong reasons when police officers were called to prevent an outbreak of violence as a group of around 40 asylum seekers laid siege to the boozer. Royal George, Abbey St Demolished It recently came out that their retrospective application for change of use to a restaurant was refused, so it may need to go back to being a pub. The late Dave Prowse (aka Darth Vader) was photographed meeting Muhammed Ali here. Little Crown, Albion Street Closed Friday night was alternative night, and it was then that they basically played the playlists from Kerrang and MTV2. 103. The pub had its five minutes of fame when Homes under the Hammer featured it in an episode. [7] I took this information from the otherwise exceptional Russ Willey, Chambers London Gazetteer (Edinburgh: Chambers, 2006), but Diamond Geezers information (along with that on Wikipedia) suggests that this was not in fact the River Neckinger but presumably another minor tributary now long-lost. Trinity Arms, Swan St Flats 210a. It was in 1962 that permission was given for the two neighbouring pubs to be re-fronted and to merge under the name of Elephant and Hind, a name later changed to Bar Ellie and then the Port of Call. They used to serve popular Sunday roasts. There were but few houses in the Kent Road a century ago. In the 1950s 1960s I lived in Peckham just off of St Georges Way and regularly walked passed the Lord Nelson, Old Kent Road there used to be a shoe menders next door. The two remaining pubs are The Lord Nelson (Walworth SE1, fig. Queen Charlotte, Jamaica Road Gone Surrey Arms, 5 Surrey Square Flats 711. The side streets are shown (at the side of the marker ===), giving a rough idea of where each pub is (or was) situated. In 1977 there were 17 pubs in Old Kent Road. Last used by the Rock Island bar and grill, Viet Quan has opened in the former pub premises at the corner of Old Kent Road and Albany Road. 1898 Thomas a Becket pub rebuilt. Antigallican, Tooley St Offices The building dates from about 1840. Required fields are marked *. [Public house.] The Frampton Arms on Well Street was one of East London's first pubs with gay barstaff and entertainment. Mat, what was the name of the pub round the back that stayed open as long as they felt like, had the greatest spread on a Sunday I've ever come across and was full of crooks and coppers? HP10 . The Old Eden, Edenbridge (15th . S531003 Quick View Bars Taverns Brew Pubs. The boozer was once owned by brewers Shepherd Neame and had a "spacious car park" up until the year 2000 when it was too converted into private residence. Wilds Rents, Wilds Rents Flats Victory, Barlow Street Flats, Cliftonville Tavern, Ilderton Road Flats We have split them up into areas for your ease. 8-10. This is the London Pubology blog, very slowly dedicating itself to all things in the intersection of PUB and LONDON. It was a big venue with three separate bars and a room upstairs - as well as a decent darts team. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The Gloucester, Gavel St Flats Bushwick Avenue, 1974. Built in 1972, this pub was in Isambard Brunel Road in the heart of the city. Of course, the Old Kent Road has always been a major thoroughfare and has changed greatly since it is first recorded, as part of the Roman road Watling Street,2 but the twentieth century in particular has seen a vast amount of post-World War II rebuilding. Previous articles from the Folkestone Herald suggests it was an instrumental part of the community feel in the Folkestone East area, with meat raffles on Sundays. Duke of Wellington, Rockingham St Flats The pub closed in 2004 and the building is in use as a surgery. It closed in 1940 when the licensee Frank Ashbee was killed by German shelling on his way to the pub. Windsor Castle, Coopers Rd Flats The firm CR Consultancy published a Briefing (23/6/2011) on pub closures recently and they reported that in the period between 2007 and 2010, Camberwell and Peckham lost 29 pubs and Old Southwark and Bermondsey lost 22! ACCOUNT. The Amicus Apple on Frederick Street was a popular bar and restaurant in the early 2000s, and was also known as The Victoria & Albert pub back in the 1970s and 80s. The pub closed in 2001 and was demolished in 2003. The Bridge House. It was a well-used break on travellers journeys, as it stood by a crossing of the (now buried) River Neckinger,7 and the spot was thus known as St Thomas Waterings. These are just some of the many blogs I also enjoy reading on a regular basis. It was demolished in 1952 and most recently replaced with a Co-op foodstore. The Greyhound pub, which was in Upper Grosvenor Road, caught fire in June 2003, destroying stock and personal contents inside. 578. The most noticeable feature in the Old Kent Road is the number of public-houses, each with its swinging sign and drinking-trough for horses. From The Old Kent Road chapter in Old and New London, Edward Walford, 1878. Demolished. The pub closed in 2008 and became a restaurant. The Lord Wellington. Perhaps any road in any city, left to its own devices, ends up looking slightly American. The rare and beautiful Licensed Victuallers Almshouses (1827) still graces Asylum Road, even if it is now offset by a supermarket car park, and unexpected oases of genteel villas and terraces form tributaries off the churning thoroughfare. 799. Today there are only two pubs left on the Old Kent Road itself The Lord Nelson at No. The Britannia. Southwark Park Tavern, Southwark Park Road Gone BIZ: Trout Brook Brew House in the Yalesville section of Wallingford. Like this site? By the time it closed in 1983, most of the industrial works had long since moved out, leaving large tracts of bleak space, the remains of gasworks and other heavy industry, and a pall of underdevelopment.3 Efforts have been made at regeneration, of course, the most notable being the reclamation of much of the bombed land west of the Old Kent Road as a vast new open space, Burgess Park.4. Does anyone know what the name was? It is the junction of Tower Bridge Road, Old Kent Road, New Kent Road and Great Dover Street. Page Updated:- Monday, 09 January, 2023. 82-86. Demolished. Location: 60 and 121, Folkestone Road, Dover. Southwark & Waterloo? Duke Of Clarence, 154 Manor Place. A walk around the locality today offers evidence of other ghost pubs; the building in the photo above is one such, now re-purposed as flats. 365. Demolished. Demolished. It closed in 1968 and was demolished in 1970. Figure 69. It closed in 2007 and a planning application was made to change the use of the pub into four one-bedroom flats, with a first-floor extension above a flat roof area. The Bricklayers Arms. The only other surviving pub buildings from the Victorian era are the comparatively modest The Duke of Kent (Bermondsey SE1), now a mosque, and The Kentish Drovers and Halfway House (Peckham SE15), though the latter still sports a rather striking mural depicting travellers in times past. A perfectly positioned boozer for those enjoying a pub crawl through the Hamlets in the 1980s and 1990s. Renowned for its regulars, the club closed its doors within the last decade. Brunswick Arms, Stamford St Awaiting demolition Bobby went on to become a respected drummer and orchestra leader, and spent his whole life in the music industry, though I doubt he will be pleased to be reminded where he started. Around one third of the built environment was destroyed. In 2021 it was in use as a Vietnamese restaurant and bar. The ancient property, in what was once Turn-again Lane, was rebuilt in 1901. The Old Kent Road is just a very small section of what originally extended from Dover to Wroxeter, and which in London also takes in Edgware Road and the section of it in the City which still bears its original name. [Public house (possibly).] It was later demolished. It was renamed Frog and Nightgown after the 1950s radio show called Rays a Laugh used that name in the programme. The George, Keyworth St Demolished for University building Information about the park is taken from Andrew Crowe, The Parks and Woodlands of London (1987), pp. The Sultan, St James Rd Flats The Dun Cow. [1] As you know, the original 1935 Monopoly board was based on properties in Atlantic City, USA, though the British version followed very shortly after, going into production in 1936. Thought to be the oldest pub in Kent, Ye Olde Yew Tree Inn in the pretty village of Westbere, dates all the way back to 1348, nearly 670 years. In May 2017 the pub which first opened its doors in 1857 suddenly closed for the final time, much to the dismay of the community. 602. Giraffe, 45 Penton Place To be flats. 2 All-American Burger Kai L./Yelp The former Railway Bell was also popular with football fans, but when it originally shut was plagued by flytippers who used the land at the rear to dump unwanted items. He had two classic vanguards, with original paperwork, but dodgy VIN numbers and for our sins, we obtained an old Capri from him complete with dodgy MOT. Nice post, have you got an RSS feed I can subscribe to? First founded in Ohio in 1980, the 1950s-style restaurant grew quickly, with about 100 locations at its peak. Footnotes: my great grandfather james harrington ran the 103 brewery in 1891the moved to the Wheatsheaf Tavern, 2 Commercial Road, Whitechapel The pub was rebuilt after the Second World War. It opened in 1856, built as a Victorian gin palace, It was rebuilt in the 1930s. 83. It was always popular with punters who were able to enjoy a pint, watch Sky Sports and listen to live music. Lower Rainham Road c1900 Ref. Some local people actively opposing but also writing a lot about the regeneration & gentrification of Southwark that's happened over the last 20 years. It stood empty until September 2008, when it opened as a British Heart Foundation Furniture and Electrical shop. Market Lane was re-aligned in 1952 and now provides the access to the Discovery Centre. Thanks Adrian for a very comprehensive list. The Half Moon. See Appendix for more information about the individual pubs. The Victorian pub that bore the name of the martyr eventually morphed into a place of homage for entirely 20th century reasons. By 2007 it had been transformed into a private residence. Gin Palace, Old Kent Rd Flats I did the same depressing walk as you down the Old Kent Road about a year ago researching and photographing the pubs for the Deadpubs website. === St Jamess Road=== Sandgate Street=== Hyndman Street=== Ruby Street=== Murdock Street=== Devon Street=== Devonshire Grove=== Sylvan Grove. I thought Id try starting a series of posts based on the Monopoly Board. Last edited by kiwi on Thu Apr 29, 2021 1:15 am, edited 1 time in total. Liddels Brewery. Jolly Waggoners, Surrey Docks Closed The names pf the pubs have been abstracted from Kellys Street Directory for 1977. Globe, 20 Darwin Street Flats Sir William Walworth, 297-299 Walworth Road Shops (centre) landlady of the Nursery Tavern, Ecclesall Road, Sheffield, celebrates her 82nd birthday in 1986. Repurposed evangelical churches in former office units or light engineering premises promise to set the captives free, whilst neighbouring buildings are home to equally anomalous nightclubs. It was called the Old Kent Road Gin Palace in the 1970s. According to a pub archive, the official name was Tofts Jazz Club which had more than 6,000 members and moved from Bouverie Road West (where Saga is now) to Grace Hill in 1964. There was a group that performed The Magnet at the top end of the Old Kent Road (near the New Kent Road) called Bobby Worth and The Bluebeats. Enjoy it while it lasts. The Kentish Drovers (or The Kentish Drovers and Halfway House). Waterloo, Lost Pubs In London, SE1: Southwark & Waterloo,