Crown and Anchor pub, Brixton Road, Brixton goes card-only

[editor]

can't say. the censor has spoken.

((((oppressed poster))))

Or, alternatively, you could you start up a thread and post up as many pictures of exciting northern pub action as you like without fear of it looking a bit out of place in a thread and forum dedicated to Brixton.

No 'censorship,' just sensible advice to help others.

 

[discokermit]

((((oppressed poster))))

Or, alternatively, you could you start up a thread and post up as many pictures of exciting northern pub action as you like without fear of it looking a bit out of place in a thread and forum dedicated to Brixton.

No 'censorship' just sensible advice to help others.

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[Onket]

He said 'no censorship', so go ahead and tell me about the pub, dammit.

 

[Onket]

So does the Crown and Anchor open in the daytime or is it following this annoying trend of not opening 'til 5.00pm?

I was gasping for a drink yesterday afternoon after gardening, and White Horse and George IV don't open 'til 5.00pm and Elm Park wasn't opened 'til 5.00pm either.

Off-licence?

 

[discokermit]

He said 'no censorship', so go ahead and tell me about the pub, dammit.

drug raid.

 

[Onket]

Seems so obvious now.

 

[discokermit]

Seems so obvious now.

shame the conversation wasn't allowed to flow naturally. gave it more importance than it was due.

 

[Onket]

It did, didn't it.

Live and learn. Well, some do.

 

[discokermit]

some.

 

[kalibuzz]

Well so much for gentrification of the area - there's a payday loan/money lending shop opening next door to the crown + anchor. I guess that's potentially helpful if (as has happened several times recently) I leave the place pennilless after a day of drinking.

well they need more of them for those people that can't afford the local prices anymore

 

[editor]

I think, given the choice, the majority of even the poorest locals would rather the pub - even with its non-bargain basement prices - be at least there and open.

Their financial fortunes may change but when a pub closes it's almost always gone forever - and that was almost certainly the fate of the Crown if this lot hadn't taken it over.

 

[Chilavert]

In the Lyric on Great Windmill Street and just ordered myself a pint of Sierra Nevada for the bargain price of £5. *smug*

 

[Mrs Magpie]

In the Lyric on Great Windmill Street and just ordered myself a pint of Sierra Nevada for the bargain price of £5. *smug*

Ah, but was it bog standard Sierra Nevada or Sierra Nevada Celebration? There's a difference.

 

[Onket]

No pint is worth a fiver, tbf.

Give it a year or so, though!

 

[Chilavert]

Ah, but was it bog standard Sierra Nevada or Sierra Nevada Celebration? There's a difference.

It was just the bog standard one Mrs M. Might head to the Crown this evening to taste the £8 version to see if I can tell the difference.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Next time I go I shall be sticking to cider

 

[Winot]

It was just the bog standard one Mrs M. Might head to the Crown this evening to taste the £8 version to see if I can tell the difference.

Had a half of it last night (didn't want to break the bank). It's quite different to the standard SN - deeper in colour, richer in taste, more complex all round. A sipping beer not a session beer.

 

[editor]

No pint is worth a fiver, tbf.

Give it a year or so, though!

They all taste the same after about five of them anyway

 

[Winot]

Very impressed with the Crown anyway, although my head isn't this morning.

Not impressed at the scarcity of places to carry on drinking at midnight in central Brixton, although it's probably for my own good.

 

[editor]

Not impressed at the scarcity of places to carry on drinking at midnight in central Brixton, although it's probably for my own good.

There's the Dogstar. And the Bar and Grill, for starters.

 

[Winot]

There's the Dogstar. And the Bar and Grill, for starters.

Dogstar was closed.

 

[editor]

Dogstar was closed.

Really? It's supposed to stay open till 2am on a Wednesday. Did you try Kaff?

 

[Winot]

Really? It's supposed to stay open till 2am on a Wednesday. Did you try Kaff?

Nah, went the other way to Electric Social (also closing).

 

[Sigmund Fraud]

It's looking mighty fine:

Delerium Tremens on tap!!!

 

[Urbanblues]

My workmates visited the Crown and Anchor in Brixton Road last week. They quite enjoyed it; found the drinks ok; and the ambience enjoyable.

Sadly, this is yet another pub in the area that I can't use due to lack of accessibility. According to my friends, there is an imposing front step and the loos are all downstairs; which is kind of fucking awkward for me, as a wheelchair user.

What a shame; well for me it is.

It wouldn't be so bad if the place was a pokey little pub; but passing the Crown and Anchor to and from work every day, I can't help to notice that it is quite long. Long enough to have accommodated a two-metre square partitioned-off Kharzy.

Sure, it would have displaced a couple of tables; maybe even attracted the wrong kind of boozers - you know, wheelchair users, associated cripples and Radar key users.

Hmm, on reflection, I can actually sympathise with the publican and his clientele; once you let one in, your guard drops, then you're fucked. You end up with an alehouse that attracts a more rounded cross-section of the area.

 

[editor]

The loos are indeed downstairs which, but I'm not sure that the front step is that imposing for wheelchair users - here's a photo of it:

Have you contacted the owners? I would have thought it would be worth voicing your concerns and seeing what they might be able to do to make it properly accessible.

 

[Urbanblues]

The front step looks to be around 6" high. Just look at the height the person in the photo has lifted her/his leg; and, judging by the foot's distance from the step I'd say that leg is still rising.

An independent wheelchair user could encounter difficulties managing a step that high. Of course, there are a range of portable ramps around that would sort out this access problem, with the advantage of being compact enough to tuck away in a discrete corner - like a disabled toilet.

Not yet, Ed. I'm hoping to do so at the weekend.

 

[marty21]

Good point Urbanblues, what are the accessibility rules for pubs? Most pubs I go to seem to have inaccessible loos for wheelchair users, are they exempt from those rules?

 

[Onket]

A radar key is a useful bit of kit for someone interested in a bit of nose bother, btw.

 

[George & Bill]

In the context of fully marketised housing provision - something we're still far from, but moving towards - the distinction between things that regenerate an area and those that gentrify it is virtually meaningless. In this context, having an open Post Office rather than a closed-down one, or having less street crime are gentrification, because anything that makes an area more attractive to live in will increase the amount that can be charged for housing and so determine who can live there.