London; UK; Politics; Crime; Transport; Health; Education While the club started out as something a little bit different, where people would actually take part in jazz lessons, this spot is somewhat nostalgic for dozens of adults who grew up in the Sixties and 70s. A few notes for each pub have also been added for each pub. Photo credits for some of the pics below from SarfLondonDunc Flickr Set of Pubs and Dead Pubs. The Royal Fountain Hotel in St Margaret's Street, Canterbury - where the entrance to the Marlowe Arcade now stands - was perhaps Kent's first ever pub. None of these pubs is any longer open for business, although, rather surprisingly, the buildings of three of them still exist in some form.6 Of course, this was just a fraction of the total number which once ran the length of the road. Factfile:This pub closed back in 2006 after a shooting in the May of that year. For lists of pubs by postcode area, visit my London Pubology site. The historic Thomas a Becket pub in the Old Kent Road has reopened as a Vietnamese restaurant. Bobby went on to become a respected drummer and orchestra leader, and spent his whole life in the music industry, though I doubt he will be pleased to be reminded where he started. Dark wood flooring and beams surround drinkers and diners with a roaring open hearth fireplace in the winter too. London Pubs. The PHS mission statement is 'Promoting the heritage of British pubs and the people connected with them' It was later demolished. When was the Oxford Arms demolished? Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. The boozer was once owned by brewers Shepherd Neame and had a "spacious car park" up until the year 2000 when it was too converted into private residence. Thomas a Becket pub 320-322 Old Kent Road. What a blast from the past - who remembers a night out in Pipers? 10. 386, and The Windsor at No. Olde Three Tuns, Bow Road, London E3 Panther, Turin Street, Bethnal Green, London E2 Prince Albert, Old Church Road, Chingford, London E4 Prince George, Parkholme Road, Hackney, London E8 Prince of Wales, Preston Street, Bethnal Green, London E2 Prince of Wales, Prince Regent Lane, Silvertown, London E16 Retreat, Morning Lane, Hackney, London E9 276-280. In the fall of 1980, the second Hitchhiker book was published in England, around the same time that Harmony Books published the first book in the United States. Prince of Wales, Lant St Demolished Collectively, their faces bore the traces of hundreds of years worth of drinking in this pub. The history of Old Kent Road stretches back more than 2,000 years. 6. ACCOUNT. He said access would be via an existing right of way off Victoria Road and the flats would be for the private sector. A list was not available for Walworth area. Red Cow, Grange Walk Flats === Dunton Road=== Humphrey Street=== Rowcross Street. 799. The Rising Sun's building dates back to the 18th and the 19th century. 711. I did the same depressing walk as you down the Old Kent Road about a year ago researching and photographing the pubs for the Deadpubs website. Bristol's Historic Inns by Helen Eason 1982 Weve found it the best resource for mapping what a massacre there has been of local pubs in the last 15 years in the North Southwark area. [7] I took this information from the otherwise exceptional Russ Willey, Chambers London Gazetteer (Edinburgh: Chambers, 2006), but Diamond Geezers information (along with that on Wikipedia) suggests that this was not in fact the River Neckinger but presumably another minor tributary now long-lost. 9.1 miles away. I used to go drinking down the old kent road 30 years ago its shocking what has happened to all the pubs i went in .GREAT PUBS GONE GREAT MEMORIES REMAIN. Like the Strand, The Old Kent Road is a ghost of what it once was.The Bricklayers' Arms roundabout takes its name from the railway goods depot that drove the development of local industry from the 1850s onwards, making this bit of Southwark a sort of land-locked counterpart of the great Victorian docks. Great to receive your comments. Our Society was founded in 2001 by a small group of like-minded pub history enthusiasts. Now, in its place is a multi-storey of modern space for businesses, with Josh De Haan's company View London being the anchor tenant. Ledgers in 1996 (Image: Ian Brown). It was demolished in 1988. === Coopers Road=== Marlborough Grove=== Lovegrove Street. Further alterations and extensions followed in 1983. According to Dover Kent Archives, the pub called its orders for the final time in 2009. 50 Saint Albans Road, Barnet, EN5 4LA. I'm going for sunday lunch there in a couple of weeks. Enter your e-mail address to follow 'London Pubology' and receive notifications of new posts. During the 1950s, 40,000 people a day traveled between Hartford and Meriden. Factfile:The pub remains largelyderelictto this day, with old posters advertising a circus show at nearby Radnor Park on the windows. Old Photos of Sittingbourne, Kent - browse nostalgic, historic local photos online. === Asylum Road=== Gervase Street=== Leo Street. It later became a Noodle Bar but closed in 2014. Britannia: 12 Bermondsey Street. [5] The six volumes are available on the British History website. The Brighton. Sitting in its place is a Tesco Express store, which includes a car park at the front. Houses in Canterbury Road c1960 Ref. The pub is still in use. Repurposed evangelical churches in former office units or light engineering premises promise to set the captives free, whilst neighbouring buildings are home to equally anomalous nightclubs. Factfile: The Trafalgar used to be at 48 Royal Road but is said to have closed in the early 1970s and was converted into a house ever since. Dun Cow pub 279 Old Kent Road. Frog and Nightgown, Old Kent Rd Demolished Movement has been seen on site, but news as to what its future holds is not yet known. The Post Office's Valentine's gift to New Cross is its plan to close the Post Office at 199 New Cross Road on 14 February 2018. . Shard Arms Old Kent Road 1950s (thanks to Fred Roll for the pic), HENRY COOPER DURING TRAINING AT THE THOMAS-A-BECKET PUB, OLD KENT ROAD, LONDON, 7TH FEBRUARY 1966. Writing these pages means there is a lot to check. Britannia, Tooley St Offices Walworth Road Walworth South East London England on a hot summers day in 1980. 1903 St Saviour's and St Olave's Church of England School opened on New Kent Road. People living nearby told Kent Live after the pub closed drug takers have been getting into the site, including during the last period of snow, and could clearly be seen injecting drugs. People Leave. OLD KENT ROAD MAPS AND RESEARCH SOUTHWARK MAPS INCLUDING EH LISTING ETC OLD KENT ROAD EH LISTINGS GEORGE LIVESEY STATUE THE WHITE HOUSE . (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 222 Fore St, Enfield, London, N18 2QD. Demolished. The Amicus Apple on Frederick Street was a popular bar and restaurant in the early 2000s, and was also known as The Victoria & Albert pub back in the 1970s and 80s. Thanks It is understood the pub closed in 2012 and it is not known what the future holds for the premises. PC Luke . The Brighton. Yes, it has taken over six years (at three blogs a week, you work it out!) Landlord Matthew Liles was jailed in 2014 after he glassed a man in the face. Demolished. Some local people actively opposing but also writing a lot about the regeneration & gentrification of Southwark that's happened over the last 20 years. Victory, Barlow Street Flats, Cliftonville Tavern, Ilderton Road Flats Swan pub 82-86 Old Kent Road [not listed in Kellys 1977]. 64-66. Over the years the boarded-up pub became one of the towns most notorious eyesores and at one point became an unofficial car lot. [Beer house.] Red Lion, Surrey Docks Gone 588. The Swan (later the site of Caesars). 567. Built on Mulgrave Street in 1840, it was overlooking the beach at the time and received the second liquor license issued in New Zealand. The Dun Cow confuses me every time I walk past it (my route from home takes me around the corner there). 731. Demolished. Crystal Tavern, Rotherhithe New Road Evangelical Christians place The Lord Nelson. The premises is now operating as a Londis, but still retains the pub signs and name at present. Lilliput Hall, Old Jamaica Road Flats And about 3.4 percent of Americans 80 or older were in the work force last year.30 The worker who is 30 years old in 2010 has lived in a much different world from that of the worker who is 60. They were very good. The premises closed in 2004 to become a surgery. My Grandmother lived in Palamon Ct, Coopers Rd Estate can anybody remember the name of the pub that was situated in Coopers Road please? Flats The Major Yorke pub - formerly the Brokers Arms - reopened in 2002 and was in Major York's Road opposite the Spa Hotel. Just to say, the Thomas a Becket hosts a Vietnamese restaurant, not Thai. I am still intrigued by its blasted quality, by its epic dereliction and anomalous fragments of elegance. Hi you dont happen to know if the landlords are with a surname Rogers? Factfile:This bar is a part of Folkestone's more recent history, being a part of the bar and club scene dating from 2009 to 2011. I was a fireman at Old Kent Road Fire Station in the mid 60s and tried on more than one occasion to drink in all of the pubs on one side of the road starting near the Bricklayers Arms but only ever making it as far as some- where near New Cross in a somewhat over relaxed state. Southwark Council Officers and East Walworth Ward councillors rejected developers Terrameks application to demolish and replace with 9 flats on 8th Sept 2010, citing the character of the pub and the impact of the proposals on Nursery Row Park but local users and supporters of the pub fear that a new plan will be submitted to the Council. It is now an Indian restaurant called Flavours by Kumar. By 2007 it had been transformed into a private residence. Needless to say, youve done a much better job with the camera than I managed. 279 opened in 1856 and was well known as a gin palace, and later became a champagne bar and featured DJs such as Steve Walsh and Robbie Vincent. Demolished. Surrey Arms, 5 Surrey Square Flats All. The Grapes in Winchelsea Street, off Folkestone Road, was once one of two pubs in Dover with that name. google_ad_width = 970; The Brunswick Tavern. The Dead Pubs website, an excellent resource, lists 39 drinking establishments, which Ive listed in an appendix at the end for reference. True, it may look a little dark at times, but it remains resolutely open. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. //-->. tollgates at the Green Man Pub, Old Kent Road c.1865. This Thomas a Becket was famous as a boxers pub, with a gym on the first floor: Henry Cooper patronised this gym, along with various sixties gangland soldiers (also James Fox, preparing for his role as Chas in Performance). The club is said to have attracted stars such as Eric Clapton and the Four Tops. The Lost Pubs (of London) website is an amazing labour of love and also a depressing window into development realities as it records all the boozers that are closing down to become flats, bookies, pound shops and hostels. The Dun Cow at No. It was commonly known beforehand as Mustang Sally's. The City Arms. It was a well-used break on travellers journeys, as it stood by a crossing of the (now buried) River Neckinger,7 and the spot was thus known as St Thomas Waterings. The Thistle Inn in the centre in 1866. The Black Bull (or The Bull). What was the name of the bar above some of the shops near the Green Man? Glenn Moore of G M Moore and Associates said the pub would be replaced with a three-storey building with three underground parking spaces. The Save The Crown Campaign has been organising and gathering support. Many apologies to the (late) creator of this site, and to his friends and family. Theres no fake-history on this Website. And it is probably doomed. 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