Ilkeston Road, not Ilkeston. In Ilkeston it would probably be called Nottingham Road....
On a lighter note. The beer & indeed the cider will be cheaper in the Tesco Express than it was in the pub.
I don't think the pubs have been screwed over by Tesco. Most people don't drink in pubs anymore because of the cost & they can't smoke except outside in the cold. A better comparison might be pubs being screwed over by Weatherspoons which is to tenanted pubs what Tesco Express is to privately owned local shops.Which is why more and more people are drinking at home and the pubs are therefore emptier
Pubs must feel like they've been screwed over twice by Tesco
They're on the point of knocking it down and replacing it with one of their warehouse-style buildings (or a shed as some people seem to be calling it!)
If thats the torrington finchley ,i saw the late great steve marriot and his packet of three thereand starbucks
now a starbucks
Thank fuck that is not the orange tree totteridge lane a real nice pub with a duck pond and ducks at the frontthe orange tree, friern barnet
there used to be four or five pubs in friern barnet, the orange tree's a tescos, the duck became a restaurant about 20 years ago, the triumph seems shut down, and the next pub nearer woodhouse college is members only. i think there's some small pub there: but nothing to right home about.
That they are going for pubs in some places probably says more about the sort of commercial property available to them at the right prices for conversion into a convenience store and maybe local licensing issues?
Round here its old banks and other similar commercial premises that are the sought-after sites for convenience stores and occasionally the odd pub club.
The one pub here that has been converted to a Sainsbury Local, despite its olde-worlde styling was actually converted in the late 80s from a religious bookshop that had previously been occupying the former site of one of the very first supermarkets in area - Low's, world famous as the source of our Typhoid outbreak. So I hope what goes around doesn't come around again! I wonder if anyone told Sainsbury?
it's like the torrington, it had a back room where bands played. there's the arts depot down the way, but that's not the same. the only three musick venues i was aware of between north finchley and high barnet were really the torrington, the dandelion and the old bull arts centre. the torrington's gone, and i don't know if the dandelion puts bands on anymore. though the auld moss (now the elephant inn) used to have jazz on a sunday afternoon.
Trust me it wasn't. Unless you like BNP supporting coke dealers. Crown Point isn't great in general.
That looks a lovely little place
Dafuq!?
Probably a condition of their licence that they posh it up a bit.Looks like it's reopened as a pub but I haven't been in there becuase it looks like they've made it all posh and I used to love that place
Dafuq!?
I'm sure Kaya foods on Raddy Rd are massively unimpressed at the Tesco's that's gone up practically next door by the crack flats.
