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Up until last year Nags Head was an older blokes pub in which young hipsters nere dare tread
I heard from a Peckham friend they gave it a slight refit recently and the crowd is now genuinely mixed and rubbing up together okay
However it seems to be leading to brave war journalism such as this
 
In my short stint living in Peckham i never went into Nags Head, I preferred the Irish owned and just as cheap Greyhound (now sadly a hipster place). It never looked the most inviting of places, i recall a big sign saying "NO CHILDREN, NO DOGS" permantly etched onto the tinted windows, for example.

I should have really done my research as now i am aware that it is part of the Craft Union chain which does fantastically cheap drinks yet still has dosh to pay for the sports subsciptions.
 
Can anyone remember the name of the pub (no longer there) directly opposite the Nags Head in what is now the Cooperative Flats building? hipipol maybe?
Only went in there once -everyone utterly utterly pissed by 6pm on a weekday - never seen anything quite like it tbh
 
ska invita said:
Can anyone remember the name of the pub (no longer there) directly opposite the Nags Head in what is now the Cooperative Flats building? hipipol maybe?
Only went in there once -everyone utterly utterly pissed by 6pm on a weekday - never seen anything quite like it tbh
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This is a good site - tracking pubs no longer here..
There are a few in Rye Lane that might jog your memory...

Lost Pubs In Peckham SE15, London

www.closedpubs.co.uk
 
... Mentioned briefly in Ballad of Peckham Rye supposedly. Must be a photo somewhere....

ETA only thing I found is this sketch...cant say this is 100% it but I think 99% it is
it was on the corner and the roads match up too
basically how i remember it

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ska invita said:
... Mentioned briefly in Ballad of Peckham Rye supposedly. Must be a photo somewhere....

ETA only thing I found is this sketch...cant say this is 100% it but I think 99% it is
it was on the corner and the roads match up too
basically how i remember it

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Yeah - I saw this.
Actual photographs seem hard to come by.
I don't expect the pissed patrons would have bothered to take a snap!
 
first-person articles with catchy headlines are all the rage in Google nowadays. and people click on them whether we like it or not. hence they're being churned out. obviously, it's possible to do such an article in a good way but MyLondon opts for work experience kids 'what I did on my holidays' barrel scrapings instead.
 
ska invita said:
Can anyone remember the name of the pub (no longer there) directly opposite the Nags Head in what is now the Cooperative Flats building? hipipol maybe?
Only went in there once -everyone utterly utterly pissed by 6pm on a weekday - never seen anything quite like it tbh
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Heaton Arms - one visit was usually enough - made the Nags feel palatial, but it was the customers that really made the "atmosphere" - only went in once myself - not friendly reminded me of the rub that was once at the top of Asylum Road/Queens road. If you were not a regular you were watched. That was in 95/6 I entered the Heaton. There were a few pubs in Peck like that in ye olden days......the Asylum Road pub was the London to Brighton, smaller and more intimidating then the Heaton, only went once as I was dying for a piss - no way sneak to toilets, whole pub went silent as I walked in, they stared talking agian when I was in the bog, then silent when I came back out, some glaring hard looking as if they were only just able to stop them selves from giving me a decent kicking. Downed the pint I'd had to buy in one. The Heaton was proper friendly by comparison, Nags always better but chaotic......always chaotic.....
 
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Heaton Arms - one visit was usually enough - made the Nags feel palatial, but it was the customers that really made the "atmosphere" - only went in once myself - not friendly reminded me of the rub that was once at the top of Asylum Road/Queens road. If you were not a regular you were watched. That was in 95/6 I entered the Heaton. There were a few pubs in Peck like that in ye olden days......the Asylum Road pub was the London to Brighton, smaller and more intimidating then the Heaton, only went once as I was dying for a piss - no way sneak to toilets, whole pub went silent as I walked in, they stared talking agian when I was in the bog, then silent when I came back out, some glaring hard looking as if they were only just able to stop them selves from giving me a decent kicking. Downed the pint I'd had to buy in one. The Heaton was proper friendly by comparison, Nags always better but chaotic......always chaotic.....
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yeah it was about 96/97 i went in - can imagine that being the case - certainly it was all eyes - but it was so messy in there that evening we were immediately brought into some nonsense conversations - was actually a laugh that night
London To Brighton had a great run as a squatted pub before its demolition - went to a couple of memorable parties in there

...meeting a friend at the Drovers tonight, probably as close it gets to those times
 
"A Corbynista candidate for the Camberwell and Peckham parliamentary seat says he’s been removed from the process because of his “life-long socialism” and anti-racism campaigning ..."
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Maurice Mcleod’s bid to be Labour MP candidate for Camberwell and Peckham halted ‘by party’s right’
 
Do we know if the woman involved did actually steal some stuff and then assault the shopkeeper before he defended himself and his business? The fact she was arrested makes it seem so? Of course the video in that link of him throwing her around by the throat doesn't make for nice viewing and seems pretty OTT, but a braying mob outside a shop doesn't feel too great either.
 
jimbarkanoodle said:
Do we know if the woman involved did actually steal some stuff and then assault the shopkeeper before he defended himself and his business? The fact she was arrested makes it seem so? Of course the video in that link of him throwing her around by the throat doesn't make for nice viewing and seems pretty OTT, but a braying mob outside a shop doesn't feel too great either.
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It does seem like something like that happened. But not clear. And you then wonder why the video doing the rounds is edited. Sigh.

I see one of the guys leading the protests seems to be Khari McKenzie aka Raspact Rebellion who seems to have posted some dodgy anti-jewish, anti-trans stuff online in the past.
 
I've seen on twitter there have been some very unsavoury, anti-asian notes pinned to the shop shutters today. I was thinking of going down there this weekend for the free festival thing going on, but fuck that if there is going to be troublemakers spewing racist shit to local shopkeepers because one them apprehended a violent shoplifter, albeit with OTT force. Yuck!
 
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