Pub interiors - a visual record...

[co-op]

Well this really follows on from the (Dying) Swan thread which got me reminiscing about the old interior, doubtless ripped out now. The thing is, it was tacky but also really representative of an era long gone now when a spanish holiday made you a bit jetset. And that got me thinking about pub interiors in general, partly because I had a lock-in at an old boozer in Stockwell on Tuesday night (bad idea weekdays boozing, as it happens, but well, you know) - and the interior was just time-warp; it was Goodnight Sweetheart, maybe 1950s at its most modern. Excellent place - I hadn't been inside it in 10 years but it hadn't changed a bit. But it really can't last, it really can't. And all that meant that I started drunkenly reminicisng about the old Atlantic Tavern on Railton Road - it had a huge caribbean sunset panorama on the back wall - but I really couldn't remember if it was a photo or a painting...

We need photos....and we need them of the lovely but slightly bonkers old interiors which will get ripped out first.


Editor? Is this a worthy task and a righteous addition to the U75 website?

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Well this really follows on from the (Dying) Swan thread which got me reminiscing about the old interior, doubtless ripped out now. The thing is, it was tacky but also really representative of an era long gone now when a spanish holiday made you a bit jetset. And that got me thinking about pub interiors in general, partly because I had a lock-in at an old boozer in Stockwell on Tuesday night (bad idea weekdays boozing, as it happens, but well, you know) - and the interior was just time-warp; it was Goodnight Sweetheart, maybe 1950s at its most modern. Excellent place - I hadn't been inside it in 10 years but it hadn't changed a bit. But it really can't last, it really can't. And all that meant that I started drunkenly reminicisng about the old Atlantic Tavern on Railton Road - it had a huge caribbean sunset panorama on the back wall - but I really couldn't remember if it was a photo or a painting...

We need photos....and we need them of the lovely but slightly bonkers old interiors which will get ripped out first.


Editor? Is this a worthy task and a righteous addition to the U75 website?


Definitely a worthy task, and let's have the pool tables as well - now an endangered species :(

[editor]

Editor? Is this a worthy task and a righteous addition to the U75 website?Sounds good to me!

Here's the Hamilton Arms:

http://www.urban75.org/brixton/history/images/hamilton3.jpg

[co-op]

Sounds good to me!

Here's the Hamilton Arms:

http://www.urban75.org/brixton/history/images/hamilton3.jpg


Bingo! Even if I'd drunk in there 100 times it'd be pretty hard to remember what the decor was really like in a pub like that - it's just such a hotch-potch, but a really nice and homely one. In fact I don't think I ever went in there if it's the pub I'm thinking of, was it on Railton Rd?

This is the kind of thing that might make me go and actually get a camera.

[teuchter]

I like the Elm Park Tavern interior.

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I like the Elm Park Tavern interior.


:D :D :D

Wonder when they last had a refurb

[story]

My Beloved and I did our courting in the Springfield Tavern on Kepler Road, behind Acre lane. It was an excellent local pub, alas torn down to build yuppie flats.

The interior was bang up to date in the 70's, with beaten copper table tops and sauna-type wooden slats on the dropped ceiling. A gorgeous wrought iron divide hung above the bar, foolishly removed by a later landlord who made an attempt to modernise. The saloon bar was more utilitarian, with a linoleum floor and a pool table, and one bar stool.

We saw in many New Years in that pub, with platters of curly snadwiches handed out by Mrs Landlord, and Papa Barry on the wheels of steel.

Oh! we had some fine times in that pub!

I'd love to see some photos, if any exist.

[editor]

The Half Moon, Herne Hill has a fabulous interior, all original Victorian wooden fittings, engraved mirrors and immaculate windows.