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OhthisbloodyPC Flag 14 Nov 16 9.31pm

Originally posted by Temps


Sounds about right. By God now that was a spit n sawdust gaff

Or so my dad tells me


That would be a great retro name for a pub now: The Spit and Sawdust.

It could serve craft beer for £10 a pint and artisan pickled eggs for £25, with Heston BloomingCheek's Pork Scratchings with Wood Glue presented on a bed of slate and retailing at £5 each

Edited by OhthisbloodyPC (14 Nov 2016 9.32pm)

 

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View Mapletree's Profile Mapletree Flag Croydon 14 Nov 16 10.15pm Send a Private Message to Mapletree Add Mapletree as a friend

Told my kids about how the carpet at the cartoon would stick to your feet and lift an inch with each step. They were both revolted and fascinated.

 

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bubble wrap Flag Carparks in South East London 15 Nov 16 8.53am

Originally posted by Mapletree

The Railway Tavern?

Remember watching strippers in there. I was only 16 at the time and was a weekly visit until i got a girlfriend.

 

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View paperhat's Profile paperhat Flag croydon 15 Nov 16 9.16am Send a Private Message to paperhat Add paperhat as a friend

Originally posted by Sportyteacher

Apparently Croydon Police weren't even consulted about Box Park alcohol sales development given answer received from local coppers following arrest of two violent drunks who were intimidating x 3 females on East Croydon Rail concourse last Friday night.

how are they anything to do with Boxpark? Plus, either the individual units or Boxpark as a collective would need an alcohol licence which would have been done through the council so thats horsedung.

 


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View Sportyteacher's Profile Sportyteacher Flag London 15 Nov 16 11.21am Send a Private Message to Sportyteacher Add Sportyteacher as a friend

Originally posted by paperhat

how are they anything to do with Boxpark? Plus, either the individual units or Boxpark as a collective would need an alcohol licence which would have been done through the council so thats horsedung.

Who has to deal with the miscreants who can't take their booze and then resort to intimidating others?

 

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Originally posted by Sportyteacher

Who has to deal with the miscreants who can't take their booze and then resort to intimidating others?

my point was twofold;

1) How is the drunken state of people on the East Croydon Platforms anything to do with Boxpark, any more so than Wetherspoons or any other pubs in the local area?

2) To enable the premises to get an alcohol licence, they'd have had to go through fairly stringent checks with the local council licencing team, in that, the requirement for policing would have been checked. If the police haven't been informed (highly unlikely) then that's the councils issue , not Boxpark.

 


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View orpingtoneagle's Profile orpingtoneagle Flag Orpington 15 Nov 16 12.24pm Send a Private Message to orpingtoneagle Add orpingtoneagle as a friend

Originally posted by Mapletree

Told my kids about how the carpet at the cartoon would stick to your feet and lift an inch with each step. They were both revolted and fascinated.

Now that carpet was an eco system all of its own. I once asked Stuart Wilder who owned the gaff why he bothered with carpet and he confirmed its sole purpose was to absorb spilt beer. The cartoon on a good night was an awesome place. Sunday nights watching the Drivers. Happy days!

 

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OhthisbloodyPC Flag 15 Nov 16 4.59pm

Originally posted by Kermit8

Don't diss The Kings'. First place to have a video jukebox in South London!

Park Street it was. Maybe thinking of Shireffs which was in George Street and around the same time?

(the Kings was awful)

Edited by Kermit8 (13 Nov 2016 7.22pm)

You're right it was Shireffs I was thinking of


I used to think the King's Cellars was highly sophisticated. (Who'd have thought that ancient monarchs would have a cellar in a 70s style office block?)

The King's Cellars was also haunted, according to legend (i.e. the Croydon Advertiser) so maybe it did have a link with the original Crogdene (as it was known in Anglo Saxon times)

 

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View kingdowieonthewall's Profile kingdowieonthewall Flag Sussex, ex-Cronx. 15 Nov 16 5.42pm Send a Private Message to kingdowieonthewall Add kingdowieonthewall as a friend

Originally posted by Temps


Sounds about right. By God now that was a spit n sawdust gaff

Or so my dad tells me

my nan used to take me in there as a 13 year old.(1970's)
very brightly lit, shack of a pub!
(possibly explains my somewhat heavy drinking now)

 


Kids,tired of being bothered by your pesky parents?
Then leave home, get a job & pay your own bills, while you still know everything.

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