Loughborough Hotel - is it a goner?

[Brixton Hatter]

Here's a pic of the Russell Hotel today. Ground floor still unoccupied but flats above and in the side extension have been occupied for at least two or three years.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Here's a pic of the Russell Hotel today. Ground floor still unoccupied but flats above and in the side extension have been occupied for at least two or three years.

Took them ages to do that extension as well from what I can remember. Fair play for having similar windows, but you think they'd have matched the colour of the brickwork of the Russell

 

[se5]

How do you know Tesco are moving in? I haven't seen any planning applications or notices up.

It was reported in the South London Press (and at http://www.stockwellnews.com/2011/01/is-tesco-eating-stockwell.html) and there has been a petition in the local area. I think the site already has planning permission for a food shop so Tesco wouldnt need to apply just add their signs and move in

 

[Brixton Hatter]

Cheers se5, I didn't spot that.

 

[editor]

*Bumping this thread as I'm going to do a wee feature on the Loughborough Hotel soon.

It's all gone now though, with the pub sign gone and 'to let' and 'for sale' signs on the building.

Anyone got any memories of seeing bands there?

 

[boohoo]

Went to a salsa night. The hotel was in that film born romantic about salsa.

I'm not sure I enjoyed the salsa night because as soon as you looked at the dance floor, a guy would come over and ask you to dance. Some of the fellas were trying their luck. I saw a lady dancing with a fella, she pushed him back to arm lengths as he was trying to grind away at her leg! There was also a group of singleton ladies who were not really getting much attention from the men who were all over the younger, skinnier, women.

I didn't go back.

 

[Boudicca]

I quite enjoyed the grinding - I think that maybe that's why I went there....

 

[O'Callaghan]

I lived in the Loughborough in the 1970's with my inlaws, i was really sad to see the pub had closed down and that flats had taken over. When i lived there it was a lively place with music every weekend mostly irish show bands. If anyone remembers us O'Callaghans please get in touch.

 

[Brixton Hatter]

The downstairs former bar area is now some sort of office

 

[editor]

A little update about this lost pub:

http://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2013/04/lost-pubs-and-venues-of-brixton-the-loughborough-hotel/

 

[Casaubon]

A flyer from one of the Latin nights at the Loughborough. Not sure when this is from - late 80s?

 

[cuppa tee]

A flyer from one of the Latin nights at the Loughborough

Enjoyed some of those Latin nights, but one less pleasant memory is of a haughty braying chap behind us in the queue complaining loudly to the whole street that waiting to gain entry along with the hoi polloi was not something someone of rank in the foreign office should be doing (yes he really did tell us what his job was). This was mid nineties.

 

[fortyplus]

Two revitalised threads in a week about places I used to go out dancing. It was the Mambo Inn at the Loughborough, some great nights when it started upstairs before it got more exclusively salsa and expanded downstairs.

 

[Jacqueline1802]

I lived in the Loughborough in the 1970's with my inlaws, i was really sad to see the pub had closed down and that flats had taken over. When i lived there it was a lively place with music every weekend mostly irish show bands. If anyone remembers us O'Callaghans please get in touch.

Hi I remember your family I worked there 1975 behind the bar my mum also worked there I used to work downstairs bar on sat eve when dave used to sing and upstairs on a fri night we had all the bikers in I have so many great memories of the pub back then and the Irish family that ran it was such lovely people I often wondered what happened to them I knew them through my Irish friend Margaret I was quite shocked to hear the pub has been closed although I have not been back there in years but I always remember how lively it was and how friendly all the customers was real Irish hospitality me and my mum often talk about those days with such fond memories .

I don't know if you remember us Irish Margaret my mum was called Maureen I am jacquie my mum mainly worked in the downstairs bar with Margaret and was the owner Eileen ,I also remember dave the singer had a hit record back then in the charts happy days