Queens 'under new management' (archive thread)

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I fucked up there. I didn't mean they barred one of my friends. He told me they barred some other guys who had previously been barred from either the Dogstar or some other pub (can't remember name) and were recognised and barred from the Queens

 

[IntoStella]

But were they barred for actually doing anything wrong or for not being a well-heeled picture of yuppietastic conformity?

If they are not letting old regulars in The Queen for being the wrong sort of customer, I am boycotting the place. (Mind you, if that was the case they most probably wouldn't let me in anyway ).

BTW is it still called The Queen? They haven't changed the name to The Ciabatta & Beamer or anything?

 

[Donna Ferentes]

No, but that's no reason to abandon it as a nickname.

By the way, the Two Woodlice is reopening. I had a flyer through the door promising me Live Sports and Karaoke. Expect new threads from me shortly complaining about how good it was in the old days.

 

[IntoStella]

So what is it called now? I'm not sure I want to know.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Oh, same name. I mean it's a local landmark.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

It's now called The Queenbah

Apparently the new guv had had trouble with the guys he barred in his old pub

Sorry, don't know the full story

 

[Brixton Hatter]

"The Queenbah"

"The Queenbah" - hahaha, are you serious?!!!!!! What a pretentious load of shit.

To be fair, I'll go in there have some pints and check it out for myself, but whoever changed the name to that is a real fuckwit. Just enough to put some old locals off I expect.

Anna Key mentioned Antic Ltd - they're also the people who own the East Dulwich Tavern (or "EDT" as I think it may now be known) and are building the "luxury flats" at the bottom of Tulse Hill.

The name thing is so funny - Antic Ltd are the new Labour of the pub business!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Hatter

Sorry, I should have put a Smiley there.

I was taking the piss. Bah Humbug, Ah Bar, etc.

Sorry

 

[IntoStella]

"The Queenbah"

Min -- please tell me you're kidding. If not, soon to be the "Oh Dear, There go Our Windows Bah", I expect.

Originally posted by Brixton Hatter
Anna Key mentioned Antic Ltd - they're also the people who own the East Dulwich Tavern (or "EDT" as I think it may now be known) and are building the "luxury flats" at the bottom of Tulse Hill.

The name thing is so funny - Antic Ltd are the new Labour of the pub business!

Also developing residential property in Brockley [Boring lewisham Planning App list alert!! ]They seem to taking over south London at a rate of knots. [Refrains, barely, from Godwin-busting Poland invading analogy]

Edited to add: Minnie! you MINX!

I wouldn't have put it past them.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

That's my name

 

[hatboy]

So anyone coming for a pint down the "Queenbarf" then?

Queenbah? Really? That sounds totally stupid.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Hatboy

Suppose it's just in keeping with all the other bars/bahs in Lambeth eh.

I heard they were going to put the name Queenbah in big blue neon lights.

Well I think that road needs some more lighting anyway

 

[IntoStella]

Arf! Don't give 'em ideas, Minnie.

'The Queenbah' is exactly the sort of arsey name a chum of Lazza Merrett would come up with.

Perhaps they could call it The Poohbah in honour of Lambeth's planning officers?

(Nothing to do with a Bear of Little Brain:
POOHBAH
1. A pompous ostentatious official, especially one who, holding many offices, fulfills none of them.
2. A person who holds high office.)

 

[IntoStella]

....or is that a Pooka?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I'm not giving 'em ideas. It's the truth

 

[pooka]

Originally posted by IntoStella
POOHBAH
1. A pompous ostentatious official, especially one who, holding many offices, fulfills none of them.
2. A person who holds high office.)
....or is that a Pooka?

Eh? Care to elaborate, starting with the "office" bit?

 

[Brixton Hatter]

Minnie wrote:

Hatter, Sorry, I should have put a Smiley there. I was taking the piss.

oops!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Oh and asked my friend about the Guv. Apparently he used to have the Royal Oak in Stockwell (before the current landlord) and barred people from the Queens that he recognised as having barred from the Royal - apparently

 

[Mr Retro]

I think thats fair enough tbh.

The landlord had a reason to bar them in a previous pub I don't think it's unreasonable for him to bar them from his new pub.

Depends on the reason, personally I'd be inclined to give people another chance if it was just for being a bit messy but if it was for a more serious reason then it's his call.

 

[editor]

'Scuse me for resurrecting this old thread, but it seems appropriate seeing as it's about the pub when it was open.

I found some old pics of The Queen from 1937:

Here's what it looks like now

Such a shame....

http://www.urban75.org/brixton/bars/the-queen.html

 

[Dan U]

god that is fucking terrible.

taking them years to build that as well

 

[Voley]

God, that's awful.

I've stumbled back from there a few times in the past. It had a refreshing attitude to licensing laws, The Queen.

 

[hipipol]

Looks like a cross between a snail and a giant suppository

Very odd

What a waste

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

god that is fucking terrible.

taking them years to build that as well

They'll probably struggle to sell it as well.

Hopefully one silver lining of the credit crunch will be that there won't be so much interest in buying up pubs and the like for flats.

 

[rennie]

They'll probably struggle to sell it as well.

Hopefully one silver lining of the credit crunch will be that there won't be so much interest in buying up pubs and the like for flats.

They'll just shut and remain empty.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

I'm sure some will tbh. There's a lot of reasons pubs are closing.

Developers wanting to build new flats has been a factor in quite a lot of pubs closing though as far as I know and that should be one pressure at least that will be reduced.