Lost pubs, cinemas, theatres and squats of Brixton

**editor** · 06-12-2005 10:57

After I was reminded of my abandoned project to snap closed pubs in Brixton, I'd be grateful if peeps could list any closed pubs in and around their Brixton 'hood (incl the full address) and I'll go around on my bike and snap them all for a "those we have loved and lost" ( © Donna) 'closed pub' section on the site.

These are the ones I've photographed so far:

Plough Stockwell (I know it's not quite Brixton, but it's close enough)
Hamilton Arms
King of Sardinia
That pub at the top of Acre Lane
The pub that is now a building society on Brixton Road opp the job centre
Green Man
Bradys
Junction
Mucky Duck Coldharbour La (has this opened?)

Your help please Brixton folks!

**lang rabbie** · 06-12-2005 12:46

Lord Stanley, 31 Hinton Road (demolished???)
Russell Hotel, 116 Brixton Road
Warrior, 242 Coldharbour Lane
Duke of Cornwall, 89 Lyham Road (converted to flats)
Royal Oak, 2 Lyham Road (under threat of demolition?)
and I'm sure Lyham Road has lost at least one other one.

The Two Woodcocks did reopen after a prolonged close down in 2003, didn't it

**Donna Ferentes** · 06-12-2005 12:47

The Two Woodlice? Yes, I believe so.

One local boozer I had no intention of patronising.

**Minnie_the_Minx** · 06-12-2005 12:52

It's the King of SARDINES

**Minnie_the_Minx** · 06-12-2005 12:53

Originally Posted by lang rabbie

and I'm sure Lyham Road has lost at least one other one.

The Two Woodcocks did reopen after a prolonged close down in 2003, didn't it

were you thinking of the Waggon and Horses?

**Brixton Hatter** · 06-12-2005 12:57

Other boozers have been closed and re-opened with a makeover so complete that they pretty much qualify as new "pubs" (I use the term 'pub' loosely) including The Queen, Ferndale Road; The Commercial in Herne Hill; the Brockwell Park Tavern (now 'Ganleys')...etc

Also, what was the name of the pub on Coldharbour Lane that is now 'Living' (sic)...I can't for the life of me remember it...it was only about 5 years ago it shut, no?

**christonabike** · 06-12-2005 12:57

Coach and Horses

**Brixton Hatter** · 06-12-2005 12:57

my question answered already (see above)!

**lang rabbie** · 06-12-2005 13:08

Originally Posted by Minnie_the_Minx

were you thinking of the Waggon and Horses?

Has that gone too!

I was thinking there was another building that had been converted years ago. I'm trying to remember the order of them down the hill. ls the Waggon & Horses on the Acre Lane side and the Red Lion on the Brixton Hill side.

About ten years ago, a group of us once managed to pub-crawl all the way down New Park Road and Lyham Road. I remember one place where the landlord was the spitting image of Al Murray, right down to his attitude to a female member of our party drinking pints!

**magneze** · 06-12-2005 13:11

Originally Posted by christonabike

Coach and Horses

On Acre Lane? That's still open.

**Dubversion** · 06-12-2005 13:11

The Albert was closed when i went past this morning. But then it was still early

**dogmatique** · 06-12-2005 13:12

Harriers - Herne Hill Rd - Demolished.

**aurora green** · 06-12-2005 13:13

Originally Posted by lang rabbie

Lord Stanley, 31 Hinton Road (demolished???)

Yep and then there's the Harriers (?), also demolished a few years ago, left with a gigantic hole in the ground to this day.
The Wickwood tavern, Flaxman rd., 'luxury' flats,
The White Heart, Loughborough Rd, also now flats.

**Minnie_the_Minx** · 06-12-2005 13:14

Originally Posted by lang rabbie

Has that gone too!

I was thinking there was another building that had been converted years ago. I'm trying to remember the order of them down the hill. ls the Waggon & Horses on the Acre Lane side and the Red Lion on the Brixton Hill side.

About ten years ago, a group of us once managed to pub-crawl all the way down New Park Road and Lyham Road. I remember one place where the landlord was the spitting image of Al Murray, right down to his attitude to a female member of our party drinking pints!

Red Lion (screws pub!) is Brixton Hill side. Waggon and Horses is further up on the other side. No, I don't think it is shut as I found a website that mentioned it, but it was shut for a long while. There was another one near it that might be shut but I can't for the life of me remember what it was called

**lang rabbie** · 06-12-2005 16:05

Originally Posted by Minnie_the_Minx on the wrong thread

It doesn't look like the Waggon and Horses IS closed. I know it was for absolutely ages but I've just found it here

http://www.viewlondon.co.uk/info_pubbar_5600.html

I'm not sure how accurate that site is - a lot of stuff seems out of date, and as for this...

Originally Posted by viewlondon venue information

Description: The Waggon & Horses is a lovely old pub in the heart of Streatham Hill.

I thought the estate agents described that bit of Lyham Road as Clapham Park

**ianw** · 06-12-2005 16:11

the springfield on solon road

and there was a pub on the road opposite, south of acre lane...been converted into flats, but it's obviously still a pub building.

**Donna Ferentes** · 06-12-2005 16:15

There's a book somebody self-published many years ago in Oxford which listed every single pub he could trace that had ever existed in the city. Yes, seventeenth century taverns and all. That would be a model worth trying to emulate...

**memespring** · 06-12-2005 16:23

Originally Posted by Donna Ferentes

There's a book somebody self-published many years ago in Oxford which listed every single pub he could trace that had ever existed in the city. Yes, seventeenth century taverns and all. That would be a model worth trying to emulate...

You could map them too, simular to this: http://www.yourhistoryhere.com/

**IntoStella** · 06-12-2005 16:43

Originally Posted by ianw

the springfield on solon road

and there was a pub on the road opposite, south of acre lane...been converted into flats, but it's obviously still a pub building.

Duke of Wellington?

That is actually on Acre Lane so probably not what you meant.

**editor** · 06-12-2005 16:45

**IntoStella** · 06-12-2005 16:45

Coast Bar up the LJ bit of CHL has gone, hasn't it?

And that pub in Herne Hill Road - the Harriers?

**ianw** · 06-12-2005 17:12

Originally Posted by IntoStella

Duke of Wellington?

That is actually on Acre Lane so probably not what you meant.

hang on, let me look at a map.

i think it was on the corner of branksome and hayter road. you'll know it when you see it, editor, as it's the building that looks like a converted pub.

the springy was on the corner of solon road and kepler road.

there's a couple on lyham road too. the one that's been converted into a restaurant with a white frontage. the other that's opposite crescent lane that's being turned into flats. there's also the pub towards the new park road end of lyham road around the corner from sonik's old flat that says it's opening with a gallery upstairs. hasn't been open for months to my knowledge.

no idea of the names of these, sorry.

sadly, you might be able to add the queen to your list quite soon.

**Dubversion** · 06-12-2005 17:17

Originally Posted by ianw

sadly, you might be able to add the queen to your list quite soon.

is it doing that badly?

**lang rabbie** · 06-12-2005 17:22

By a process of elimination, it seems that The Red Lion (formerly "the screw's pub" at 191 Lyham Road) has been turned into a Caribbean restaurant "The 1" while I wasn't looking!

http://www.mylambeth.co.uk/brixton/r...eview-the1.htm

**Tricky Mickey** · 06-12-2005 17:34

Originally Posted by editor

Hamilton Arms

I now live six thousand miles away from that boozer, and it still guts me that it's closed. Such a fucking shame. Have they thrown some shite flats up yet? And where do the regulars, like LKJ and that bloke who drank a vase of snakebite-and-black drink now?

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