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Just updated the Lost Brixton shops section with an interesting account about Gresham Spares shop being trashed in the riot and a tribute to the tigress of the PO, Mrs Roy.

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bit of long shot this - but does anybody remember a squatted house in sudbourne road? I stayed there for a while in 1988...and I often wondered how long the main tenants stayed.....they were a couple - the woman was aussie and they had one of those gpo vans (I think)
 
Kelly's along Clapham Road (formally Dorset Arms) looks like it has pulled its last pint. Sad to see another local boozer go, but in its most recent crappy karaoke form, I can't say I'll miss it.

The asking price is £1,300,000. Fancy a whip round? Looks like it will go the way of 'property investment.' :hmm:

Straying slightly, but has anyone seen the wonderful art installation (don't laugh) that has transformed the derelict William the IV along Albany Road in Walworth? Haven't got any pictures yet, but it's been camouflaged with a huge taupalin and painted green to blend in with Burgess Park. Local schools were involved as part of an art project. Not sure what the future is for the old place, but it was looking a sorry state before as crack den central.
 
Tricky Skills said:
Kelly's along Clapham Road (formally Dorset Arms) looks like it has pulled its last pint. Sad to see another local boozer go, but in its most recent crappy karaoke form, I can't say I'll miss it.

The asking price is £1,300,000. Fancy a whip round? Looks like it will go the way of 'property investment.' :hmm:

Straying slightly, but has anyone seen the wonderful art installation (don't laugh) that has transformed the derelict William the IV along Albany Road in Walworth? Haven't got any pictures yet, but it's been camouflaged with a huge taupalin and painted green to blend in with Burgess Park. Local schools were involved as part of an art project. Not sure what the future is for the old place, but it was looking a sorry state before as crack den central.
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That leaves very few pubs indeed in the Stockwell / Brixton Road area. There are close to none now between South Lambeth road and Brixton road aren't there?
 
Bob said:
That leaves very few pubs indeed in the Stockwell / Brixton Road area. There are close to none now between South Lambeth road and Brixton road aren't there?
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There are one or two around Albert Square - the Canton Arms on South Lambeth Road, Royal Albert on St Stephens Terrace, also two towards Oval tube: Roebuck on Ashmole Street and Fentiman Arms on Fentiman Road plus of course the ones near Oval tube station. A mixture of done up made trendy establishments and more traditional pubs. I used to live on Fentiman Road so have happy memories of all...
 
Tricky Skills said:
Kelly's along Clapham Road (formally Dorset Arms) looks like it has pulled its last pint. Sad to see another local boozer go, but in its most recent crappy karaoke form, I can't say I'll miss it.

The asking price is £1,300,000. Fancy a whip round? Looks like it will go the way of 'property investment.' :hmm:

Straying slightly, but has anyone seen the wonderful art installation (don't laugh) that has transformed the derelict William the IV along Albany Road in Walworth? Haven't got any pictures yet, but it's been camouflaged with a huge taupalin and painted green to blend in with Burgess Park. Local schools were involved as part of an art project. Not sure what the future is for the old place, but it was looking a sorry state before as crack den central.
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Fuckin hell we only wen tin there before Christmas! Don't go towards the stockwell end of Oval much but that's sad :(

I'd been wondering about the William IV actually, go down Albany Road quite a bit. Has the council said what it'll be turned into?
 
Yeah, there's nothing now between the Memorial Gardens and The Oval tube. There's a few Porto bars along Lansdowne Way, but they're more cafes than boozers.

The Royal Albert has lost it in my opinion over the past couple of years. There was a decent garden, but that's now overgrowing with weeds. The Fentiman Arms is alright if you go in with your copy of The Guardian and expect a meal rather than just a drink. The Canton is fine, although business has looked bleak in recent months.

The two boozers towards around The Oval tube seem to have more people smoking outside then people socialising in the pub.

I can't say I'll mourn Kelly's. It was crap. But I'd rather see a boozer than more over-priced housing. I think it will be interesting to see how this stretch of Clapham Road changes in the next 18 months. The conversion of the Freeman's flats is already underway.
 
El Jefe said:
Yeh, was my local for years and it has its ups and downs, but at the moment is VERY down.
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I think they destroyed a fundamentally good pub when they converted/ built the flats on top.

The garden used to be the best thing about the place in summer

I have happy memories of the late nights they used to run (in about 2005 or so) until 1am on Fridays when they would start handing round small glasses of random cocktails. Always a pleasure at the time but a source of regret in the morning!
 
Remember the beach volleyball from around that period? Sounded wanky, but it actually worked rather well. The only sport you see in there now is wall-to-wall football. Which although I like, it's not as if you can't watch Bolton away in the UEFA Cup anywhere else. It's not a local anymore.
 
Really sad about the Royal Albert, for years it was the best pub in Stockwell by a mile and nicely tucked away so a bit of a find. It had been pretty up and down for a while I think, but selling off the old pool room for flats and the stupid 'posh', New York cocktail bar style conversion job that was all done about 3 years ago really screwed it imo.

Does anyone go back to the early 90s with the Albert? Days of Fergie & Trish (the glaswegian couple)? Or even earlier, mad Shirley - when the pub still had two bars, public bar off to the right when you came in (which was why there was the gents loo off that way), lounge bar to the left. Watching Shirley - a tad overweight I think anyone would admit - tottering down Bolney Street on a pair of towering stilettos yelling "you're fucking barred!" at a retreating barred punter and hurling a plastic ashtray after the said barred punter is one of my first memories of that pub.

She ended up working at the Canterbury - I saw her there a couple of years later.
 
Just 7 mins down the road from me!

Tricky Skills said:
Straying slightly, but has anyone seen the wonderful art installation (don't laugh) that has transformed the derelict William the IV along Albany Road in Walworth? Haven't got any pictures yet, but it's been camouflaged with a huge taupalin and painted green to blend in with Burgess Park. Local schools were involved as part of an art project. Not sure what the future is for the old place, but it was looking a sorry state before as crack den central.
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Please post your pix! I've got some myself, but they're not online ... :oops:

It's well worth a look that one people, really impressive. Still standing as Public Art for now ... :)
 
I reckon it's the cost of a fucking pint that has damaged a lot of these places.

So much cheaper to drink at home. Or in a park. :(
 
Onket said:
I reckon it's the cost of a fucking pint that has damaged a lot of these places.

So much cheaper to drink at home. Or in a park. :(
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Totally agree. I saw proper Becks in bottles at (I think, from memory) about 38p each advertised the other day. Admittedly that was by the case, but that's way cheap - not sure about my conversions but well under a pound a pint. And that's for a good quality lager that isn't full of whatever shite they put in the ghastly stuff on draft in pubs. Almost the same bottles are ? £3 in a pub or even a cheaper club, that's 7 or 8 times more expensive ....ridiculous.
 
Onket said:
I reckon it's the cost of a fucking pint that has damaged a lot of these places.

So much cheaper to drink at home. Or in a park. :(
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Mation ordered one of those Copperburg's (sp?) the other night in the dog house, it was £3.60 :eek::(
 
Well it's all about to go up by at least** 4p a pint from Sunday or Monday ... :(

**To say the least -- breweries and pubcos will add their 'budget excuse' cut :mad:

Top tip for cheapest in-pub drinking :

1. Avoid poncy 'bars'
2 Go for ale-friendly pubs -- bitter, ale, proper beer etc. is cheaper than Guinness, cider, skanky chemical industrial production line 'lager' , etc. Not just my CMAR head saying this, it's empirically true -- usually.

Agree that London pubs are ever more pricey generally though ... :(
 
editor said:
After I was reminded of my abandoned project to snap closed pubs in Brixton, I'd be grateful if peeps could list any closed pubs in and around their Brixton 'hood (incl the full address) and I'll go around on my bike and snap them all for a "those we have loved and lost" ( © Donna) 'closed pub' section on the site.

These are the ones I've photographed so far:

Plough Stockwell (I know it's not quite Brixton, but it's close enough)
Hamilton Arms
King of Sardinia
That pub at the top of Acre Lane
The pub that is now a building society on Brixton Road opp the job centre
Green Man
Bradys
Junction
Mucky Duck Coldharbour La (has this opened?)

Your help please Brixton folks!
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I've noticed you have the King of Sardines as being in Streatham Hill. It is off BRIXTON Hill
 
I cycled from Brixton to Greenwich the other week, through Peckham and Deptford etc. I must have seen over 20 closed pubs on my journey.. :(
 
Giles said:
It's the same developer bought both the Green Man and the Junction / Warrior, isn't it?

I think that the plan is for the Junction to still be a pub eventually, but the ground floor of the Green Man is going to be some other commercial use. Shop maybe, or restaurant?

Giles..
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it's a joke coz they've been made residential properties no-one wants to take them on as any kinda bar/restaurant.

It's a nationwide problem. I'm lucky that my local the Elm Park is still going :)
 
In the Kennington / Camberwell section
- The Alderman - Stannary Street
- Prince of Denmark - Denmark Road
- Cheeky Chappy - Vassal Road
 
DJWrongspeed said:
it's a joke coz they've been made residential properties no-one wants to take them on as any kinda bar/restaurant.

It's a nationwide problem. I'm lucky that my local the Elm Park is still going :)
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I know. It really irritates me that councils allow planning permish for these schemes through.

There is a PPG about not losing pubs, so if someone bought a rundown old pub and actually applied to make it into flats, the council would be pretty much obliged to say "no". But: they can apply to make all of it except the ground floor into flats, and say they will keep the pub bit as a pub or restaurant or similar.

Then two years later, they've renovated, built and either sold/let the flats, and surprise, surprise, no-one wants to rent a "pub" with: no managers accommodation, no staff accommodation, no possibility for a late licence or live music / DJs because of people living right above it, etc.

Then they go back to the council and say "look we've been trying to rent this as a pub, but there are no takers, can we make it into a shop instead? Or even another flat? The council then say yes....

Its bollocks.

They've just started building work on a big old corner pub near me in Kilburn, and I hope the property crash f***s their economics.

I actually thought about buying the "Junction" although the building was, according to some friends who also seriously looked at it, falling to bits.

I wouldn't have turned it into flats.

Giles..
 
The William IV on Albany Road has a future! :) Not as a boozer, but as a 'juice bar' for Yoof.

More over HERE.

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