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  • clive
    clive Posts: 19,443
    https://www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2024/06/17/bexleyheath-micropub-approved-within-new-development/
  • RaplhMilne
    RaplhMilne Posts: 4,601
    One for the pub connoisseurs amongst you. The Wrong Un Wetherspoons in Bexleyheath, has been taken off the market. An will remain open under Wetherspoons ownership.
  • sunbury-addick
    sunbury-addick Posts: 1,929
    AndyG said:
    bobmunro said:
    ElfsborgAddick said:
    bobmunro said:
    clive said:
    https://www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2024/06/03/bexleyheath-could-see-new-bar-as-part-of-eastside-quarter/

    Bexleyheath has changed a bit since I was last there.

    For better or worse?
    I'd not like to walk through the Broadway after closing time.

    Just the look from an architectural viewpoint - I have no idea what it's like after dark, although when I was growing up in Woolwich/Plumstead, Bexleyheath was always seen as posh!
    I agree Bob we used to frequent the Jolly Draymen a lot and considered it a safe upmarket place
    Jolly Drayman - spent many a night in there, late 70's, early 80's - as did Paul Walsh, happy days.
  • clive
    clive Posts: 19,443
    The Ordnance also known as The Old Gunpit Woolwich has now closed down & is boarded up.

  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,598
    clive said:
    The Ordnance also known as The Old Gunpit Woolwich has now closed down & is boarded up.



    This photo almost makes the place look appealing. 😂😂
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,840
    guinnessaddick said:
    clive said:
    The Ordnance also known as The Old Gunpit Woolwich has now closed down & is boarded up.



    This photo almost makes the place look appealing. 😂😂
    Are they searchlights in the background?
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,735
    My local - The Prince Frederick is up for sale. 
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    SuedeAdidas said:
    My local - The Prince Frederick is up for sale. 
    Is that the one tucked round the back of Bromley North?
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,735
    LenGlover said:
    SuedeAdidas said:
    My local - The Prince Frederick is up for sale. 
    Is that the one tucked round the back of Bromley North?
    it’s just off of the Plaistow roundabout. The one with the Tesco on it. 
  • Radostanradical
    Radostanradical Posts: 844
    Addicktion_to_red said:
    Radostanradical said:
    I'm near the royal oak in Bexleyheath, they cut their opening hours and seemed to cut BT/TNT sports aswell. Think it may only be a matter of time.
    Sad to hear. I lived around the corner from the Polly circa 20 years ago and went in there occasionally. Len was the licensee at the time; top, top man. Pub was immaculate and so was the garden. A really nice local.  Not many of these type of pubs left now in built up areas. 
    Little update went in there recently for the football and it does in fact have new owners, they also look to be expanding the beer garden. Very welcoming and had a nice pint of Morretti, will make an effort to go in more often. Only time will tell if changes will be enough to let it survive. They seemed to do really well during covid as it was got a younger crowd as everywhere else was shut.
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  • InspectorSands
    InspectorSands Posts: 5,185
    clive said:
    The Ordnance also known as The Old Gunpit Woolwich has now closed down & is boarded up.

    Planning permission to turn the upper floors (with an extra floor added) into "serviced hotel rooms" while keeping the pub below was given nearly two years ago - nobody objected so it pretty much whizzed through.

    I doubt whatever replaces the old pub will have a Monday night karaoke...
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,219
    What a place The Gunpit is (was). As some of you know I’m no pub snob but that one could never get me in the door.. I’d crack a joke with Ian saying come on let’s go in on our way home if I was a few drinks in and I’d almost get frogmarched past… just in case i wasn’t joking. No idea how it’s survived as long as it has. 
  • InspectorSands
    InspectorSands Posts: 5,185
    Curb_It said:
    What a place The Gunpit is (was). As some of you know I’m no pub snob but that one could never get me in the door.. I’d crack a joke with Ian saying come on let’s go in on our way home if I was a few drinks in and I’d almost get frogmarched past… just in case i wasn’t joking. No idea how it’s survived as long as it has. 
    I actually used to be a regular in there in the late nineties - a mate lived above it. It was rough and ready back then!
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,640
    A pub with more customers than teeth just about sums it up.
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    Do pubs have teeth?

    I see you had a lay in today.
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,640
    man_at_milletts said:
    Do pubs have teeth?

    I see you had a lay in today.
    Being up at 5 is better than up at 3.
    I'm getting there 👍 
  • CAFCTrev
    CAFCTrev Posts: 5,976
    clive said:
    The Ordnance also known as The Old Gunpit Woolwich has now closed down & is boarded up.

    Walked past that place in a Charlton shirt a few times and would always get stares like daggers from the charming patrons drinking outside it. Horrible place. 
  • stop_shouting
    stop_shouting Posts: 3,678
    SuedeAdidas said:
    LenGlover said:
    SuedeAdidas said:
    My local - The Prince Frederick is up for sale. 
    Is that the one tucked round the back of Bromley North?
    it’s just off of the Plaistow roundabout. The one with the Tesco on it. 
    Not surprised. They lost a lot of regulars to the crown. Was never that busy before anyway. Must face a really unsure future as I don’t see where it fits in now.
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,221
    Used to enjoy the quiz night at the Fred although that is many years ago now.
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,474
    stop_shouting said:
    SuedeAdidas said:
    LenGlover said:
    SuedeAdidas said:
    My local - The Prince Frederick is up for sale. 
    Is that the one tucked round the back of Bromley North?
    it’s just off of the Plaistow roundabout. The one with the Tesco on it. 
    Not surprised. They lost a lot of regulars to the crown. Was never that busy before anyway. Must face a really unsure future as I don’t see where it fits in now.
    No passing trade of course, footfall is virtually nil, a turning where you’d never go down……unless it was to go to The Fred that is.
    I only ever remember it as a ‘real locals’ pub and quite a pleasant gaff.
    Never understood why they didn’t somehow get a sign put up on the busy main road, only a hundred yards or so from  The Fred.
    Good parking…….if my memory serves me.
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  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,989
    I'd lived in Bromley for about 20 years unaware of it's existence until someone on CL mentioned it. 
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,474
    edited June 2024

    iaitch said:
    Used to enjoy the quiz night at the Fred although that is many years ago now.
    Do you remember Dick (Dickie),and Sue Dyckoff….lovely folk and season ticket holder’s at The Valley for many a year. They were staunch 100% attendees of the quiz nights and Sunday lunchtimes too.
    I wonder if Sue still goes to The Fred and our home games, Dickie very sadly passed away a few years back, he was a very popular fella.
    The chapel was packed. 🙂‍↕️
  • stop_shouting
    stop_shouting Posts: 3,678
    Apparently the only pub in the UK called the prince Frederick too.
  • Plumstead_Micky
    Plumstead_Micky Posts: 932
    What was the name of the pub next the Richard I in Greenwich? (Not a quiz - I genuinely can't remember!)
  • stop_shouting
    stop_shouting Posts: 3,678
    Plumstead_Micky said:
    What was the name of the pub next the Richard I in Greenwich? (Not a quiz - I genuinely can't remember!)
    Greenwich union. May have been the fox and something previously. 
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,484
    SuedeAdidas said:
    My local - The Prince Frederick is up for sale. 
    Not far from Grove Park BR station
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,840
    stop_shouting said:
    Plumstead_Micky said:
    What was the name of the pub next the Richard I in Greenwich? (Not a quiz - I genuinely can't remember!)
    Greenwich union. May have been the fox and something previously. 
    It was called the Observatory before the Greenwich Union and the Fox and Hounds before that.
  • Rob7Lee
    Rob7Lee Posts: 9,593
    Gribbo said:
    SuedeAdidas said:
    My local - The Prince Frederick is up for sale. 
    Not far from Grove Park BR station
    Thats got the Baring Hall opposite that is supposedly reopening at some point.
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,221
    Gribbo said:
    SuedeAdidas said:
    My local - The Prince Frederick is up for sale. 
    Not far from Grove Park BR station
    You'd be better off going to Sundridge Park station.
  • Stuart_Learys_Boots
    Stuart_Learys_Boots Posts: 89
    The Greenwich Union was a Meantime brewery pub. 
    Asahi have announced they are closing the Meantime brewery in Greenwich and moving operations to Chiswick. 
    Death of another British beer at the hands of a multinational. 

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