I've just had a chat with Mary, a Tulse Hill character without a doubt, (she's said she doesn't mind me mentioning her name here).
She went into the Hart on Tuesday evening, hadn't even made it to the bar, and the beard came over and asked if he could have a word with her outside. He escorted her out the pub, and, well, the long and the short of it is this - He said the previous owners had informed him that she is not a suitable customer, therefore they wouldn't be serving her and she is not welcome. EVER.
He said 'no hard feelings' and tried to shake her hand, but as you might imagine, she wasn't in an especially accepting mood at that point.
Now - She was not barred before, hadn't been asked to leave in the whole time the previous people were there, so why the previous owner, JP Winter, would be so vindictive as to blot her copy book with the new owners, is beyond me, and I can only take it as a bitter and mean thing to do which is clearly a a result of his own disappointment in himself at having failed to make a business of the place for himself, and feels a need to fuck with other people to spread some of his pain around. Pride hurts, right?
Very sad. I am fucking so angry about it.