Pubs with gardens in Brixton (or nearby)

[lang rabbie]

Come again? I don't recall seeing anything about any poster's aversion to spliffs. And I'm pretty grungy.

Are you absolutely sure you don't need to reset your irony awareness levels?

[This dumbing down on bulletin boards now that people have smilies for added emphasis is really shocking.]

 

[Blagsta]

I've always found the Duke to be very very "nice" and not grungy in any way at all. Unless me and my mates are there.

 

[IntoStella]

Are you absolutely sure you don't need to reset your irony awareness levels?

Sorry, they're all out of whack after a certain thread.

[This dumbing down on bulletin boards now that people have smilies for added emphasis is really shocking.]

Now what did hatboy tell you about using smilies properly, eh? You'll get detention at this rate.

Dumb? I hope not. Telepathic? Definitely not.

 

[Mrs Redboots]

Someone's already mentioned the Hope & Anchor on Acre Lane, and there's also a pub the other side of the road - mind's gone blank and I can't think whether it's still on Acre Lane or if it's just Clapham Park Road, nor can I remember the name! - that has seats outside. Yes it's Clapham Park Road, now I come to think of it, as it has a little twitten beside it down to the housing estate - short-cut to Sainsbury's. I think it's called something twee like "The Acre Tavern"; I seem to remember it used to be the "Coach & Horses".

 

[Orang Utan]

Trinity is my local - it makes my street feel like Albert Square - unfortunately it's a bit rubbish - the tiny garden is OK but they have to close it at 9.30pm cos it backs on to housing. Duke Of Edinbourgh is deffo the best in summer.

 

[Ms T]

Trinity is my local - it makes my street feel like Albert Square - unfortunately it's a bit rubbish - the tiny garden is OK but they have to close it at 9.30pm cos it backs on to housing. Duke Of Edinbourgh is deffo the best in summer.

Is that a recent thing the? It never used to be like that. Tries to remember last time she went to the Trinity Arms after nine o'clock.

 

[Orang Utan]

I dunno - went there for the first time last year - maybe the gentrified NIMBY types cooked up a fuss

 

[Boom_Sounds]

Summer is here !

OK - everyone's said it but:

The Duke rules in Summer;
The Effra;
Hope and Anchor (for kids);
Albert in Stockwell behind South Lambeth Road;
Tin Bobbin in Clapham - taken over by the guys who run the Banana Caberet in Balham but still the best pub in Clapham and a top BBQ in summer;
Landor - Clapham North;
Sun and Doves- Camberwell.

 

[Ol Nick]

I seem to remember it used to be the "Coach & Horses".

The Coach and Horses is still there on the narrow bit of Clapham Park Road. It looks rather gastro-pod to me (from the outside).

And I see what you mean (somewhere else) - Goya is now Tomlins! What does that mean? Goya is all over the web as a great gay cafe (whatever that is). Has it gone all straight-shame?

 

[Ol Nick]

I dunno - went there for the first time last year - maybe the gentrified NIMBY types cooked up a fuss

I don't think Trinity Gardens ever needed gentrification. (Although in 1898 it was less posh than Electric Avenue.)

And you can sit out the front of the TA shouting till closing. It's just the back that shuts early, because of the neighbours' -- not entirely unreasonable -- objections when it was refurbished a few years ago. I think the alms houses complained more than the Gardens residents who get the benefit of the front garden anyway.

 

[Anna Key]

They're a frisky bunch in those Alms Houses. I believe they stopped the Duke from playing "Chum! Chum! Chum!" DJ music until 4am, much to the relief of at least one regular poster on these boards who also lives nearby.

 

[IntoStella]

Trinity is my local - it makes my street feel like Albert Square - unfortunately it's a bit rubbish - the tiny garden is OK but they have to close it at 9.30pm cos it backs on to housing. Duke Of Edinbourgh is deffo the best in summer.

You live in one of Brixton's poshest squares (if not the poshest) and you think it's like Albert Square? My, you must be tremendously posh if you think the highly genteel TA is anything like the Queen Vic.

As Ol Nick said, Trinity Gardens has always been too genteel for gentrification. gentrification happens in run down areas, not posh ones. Perhaps it's just a little downmarket for your tastes.

 

[lang rabbie]

I can think of a couple of former prop-forwards built like brick-shithouses who are regulars in the Trinity - they might be a tad concerned to hear the place described as "genteel".

 

[Ol Nick]

I can think of a couple of former prop-forwards built like brick-shithouses who are regulars in the Trinity - they might be a tad concerned to hear the place described as "genteel".

I quite like the Trinity for being down to earth. I don't like it when too many prop forwards are in. It's also noticeable that there is rarely a black face in there and that they have a tableau of gollywog statuettes above the bar.

 

[Anna Key]

When I first moved to Brixton the Trinity had the reputation of being the place where:

(a) Lambeth Councillors received brown envelopes from property developers; and

(b) you took other people's partners.

Have the rugger-buggers really taken over?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Lambeth Councillors received brown envelopes from property developers

So don't they do that anymore?

 

[IntoStella]

I can think of a couple of former prop-forwards built like brick-shithouses who are regulars in the Trinity - they might be a tad concerned to hear the place described as "genteel".

You know perfectly well what I mean. It's a pub with an extremely well-behaved clientele. And genteel doesn't mean ''effeminate'', does it? I do hope your rugger bugger friends aren't spoiling the relaxed, civilised atmosphere.

 

[Mr Retro]

Ah pubs! A better topic than some going on at the moment.

They're a frisky bunch in those Alms Houses. I believe they stopped the Duke from playing "Chum! Chum! Chum!" DJ music until 4am, much to the relief of at least one regular poster on these boards who also lives nearby.

AK - the Duke is being extremely well behaved at the moment. Their application for a licence extension is yet to be heard in court having had the date pushed back twice.

I have the feeling they will get the extension. I reckon it will be bad for the area. When there are early big matches shown on the big screen it tends to get very messy later in the evening.

Things like fights, pissing against peoples walls, broken glass (the pub owners don't bother to clear up), vomit and best of all people snorting coke off residents pillars.

At the moment it's tolerable as it doesn't happen regularly but if the licence was extented every friday and saturday it would be intolerable.

 

[corporate whore]

I went to the Duke last weekend - hadn't been there since a thoroughly enjoyable birthday in their garden almost a year ago.

Maybe I enjoyed myself too much that day - too cold for the garden last week, which lead me to the conclusion it's one of the shittest pubs I've ever been in.

The crappest choice of beer. ('I'll have a....er....hmmm')
The loudest music (and I like loud music - times like these I'm tempted to agree with AK. It was all chumchumchum, I tells ya)
That horribly distracting video screen - endless VH1 blather.

Shocking experience, really.

Mind you, I was out with a mate who lived in Brixton c. 1997 - he wanted to go to The Queens, cos he used to 'score tobacco' there - it was empty.

Edited to add: Sun & Doves gets my garden vote!

 

[Orang Utan]

You live in one of Brixton's poshest squares (if not the poshest) and you think it's like Albert Square? My, you must be tremendously posh if you think the highly genteel TA is anything like the Queen Vic.

As Ol Nick said, Trinity Gardens has always been too genteel for gentrification. gentrification happens in run down areas, not posh ones. Perhaps it's just a little downmarket for your tastes.

It's a square with a pub on the corner - that's why it's like Albert Square - the similarities end there but it still it reminds me of Eastenders every time I leave my non-posh ex-council granny flat (I don't live in those posh Georgian terraces. Apologies for doing a poor old lady out of a flat )

Was only joking about gentrification - those flats at the back do look like they've always been posh.

 

[Orang Utan]

I went to the Duke last weekend - hadn't been there since a thoroughly enjoyable birthday in their garden almost a year ago.

Maybe I enjoyed myself too much that day - too cold for the garden last week, which lead me to the conclusion it's one of the shittest pubs I've ever been in.

The crappest choice of beer. ('I'll have a....er....hmmm')
The loudest music (and I like loud music - times like these I'm tempted to agree with AK. It was all chumchumchum, I tells ya)
That horribly distracting video screen - endless VH1 blather.

Shocking experience, really.

I agree with you but it's a whole different pub in the summer - nice barbeque and great garden for getting smashed with a large group of friends.

 

[corporate whore]

Yeah agreed - that's how I remeber it and how I'll experience it again!

 

[Anna Key]

AK - the Duke is being extremely well behaved at the moment. Their application for a licence extension is yet to be heard in court having had the date pushed back twice.

Which suggests to me the Frisky Oldies in the Alms Houses - plus other locals - won at Licensing Committee. But the pub's appealing the decision to the Magistrates' Court. Is this true?

I hope locals are well organised, turn up in court and argue their corner. Why the hell should they have to put up with 4am "Chum! Chum! Chum!"

If they've got kids they should take them to court with them and accuse the pub of child abuse. It is child abuse to wake children with loud amplified music at 4am so a pub can increase their already bloated profits.

But that's enough Lambeth Licensing Bore. Or I'll face a deadly alliance of enraged Chum! Chum! Chum! DJs and the "Keep Things Fun and Light Hearted" brigade.

 

[Mr Retro]

Which suggests to me the Frisky Oldies in the Alms Houses - plus other locals - won at Licensing Committee. But the pub's appealing the decision to the Magistrates' Court. Is this true?

Oh. I had it the other way around. Thats good news.

I think that the most influential peeps are the ones with most to lose which are the owners whose houses back on to the beer garden. One of those places went for £325,000 in january (!).

However everybody in the area has pulled together really well. The whole sphere lives around there - Skint owners, rich owners, council flats and houses, skint renters and wealthy renters and everything in between. It's a good place to live.

 

[Jackdaw]

Railway - Tulse Hill.

Large garden.

 

[Ms T]

The whole sphere lives around there - Skint owners, rich owners, council flats and houses, skint renters and wealthy renters and everything in between. It's a good place to live.

Sounds like the rest of Brixton then!

 

[lang rabbie]

The "genteel" Trinity Arms

You know perfectly well what I mean. It's a pub with an extremely well-behaved clientele.

Both my examplars are nature's gentlemen rather than high birth or breeding, and they would be more likely to object to the suggestion that they are "free from vulgarity, or lowness of taste or behaviour".

And genteel doesn't mean ''effeminate'', does it? I do hope your rugger bugger friends aren't spoiling the relaxed, civilised atmosphere.

I said "former" prop-forwards. One of whom (as it happens) is black and has drunk there for a decade with one particular circle of mates.

Interestingly, the Saturday night clientele still appears to contains what would once have been core "rugger bugger" territory - medical students/junior doctors - who tend to meet up there before going out for an evening. They're incredibly well behaved now that there is a higher proportion of women training.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Sounds like quite a few people at PROD on Saturday never realised the Windmill had a garden - if you can call it that!