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Pub gardeners’ question time: Builders has others in the shade
Just where is the best beer garden to go in post-lockdown Croydon for a socially distanced, covid-safe drink with old mates? KEN TOWL, pictured right in his best new normal going-out gear, needed no second invitation to try a few … Continue reading
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Posted in Addiscombe West, East Croydon, Ken Towl, Pubs
Tagged coronavirus, Covid-19, Ken Towl, pubs
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A covid pub crawl round Croydon: Mine’s a pint of sanitiser
While Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, does his Jimmy Pursey impersonation with a chorus of ‘We’re Going Dahn The Pub’, our roaming correspondent, KEN TOWL, right, took a more cautious approach to the reopenings Young people are, of course, immortal. So … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Business, Ken Towl, Pubs
Tagged Addiscombe West, Croydon, Ken Towl, Ruskin House, Sarah Jones MP, The Claret and Ale, The Oval Tavern
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Brewers go online to welcome customers back next week
As the pubs reopen, so the new brewery Taproom off the Purley Way is preparing to welcome back punters keen to get out of the house for a pint. And the lengths that brewers Anspach and Hobday have had to … Continue reading
Posted in Anspach and Hobday, Business, Pubs, Purley Way
Tagged Anspach and Hobday, Brewery Taproom, coronavirus, Covid-19, Therapia Lane
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Sandrock owners reveal monster plans to tower over Shirley
Twice in the past two years, residents in Shirley have seen off attempts by rapacious developers to erect an ugly monster among the modest dwellings that surround the Sandrock, a locally listed Victorian pub. On one previous application, even the … Continue reading
Oval Tavern appeal success sees pub helping other venues
A popular central Croydon pub and music venue has been so successful with an online fund-raising appeal that it is now sharing some donations with other independent venues around the country that have been hard-hit by lockdown closures because of … Continue reading
Local businesses get on their trikes to help Mayday workers
As the pandemic crisis heads into its second month in London, even under the toughest economic conditions for generations small businesses rooted in their communities are going out of their way to help, with special offers for NHS staff. Jose … Continue reading
Council promises to pay business virus grants in seven days
Stung into action following Inside Croydon’s report on its detail-lite, vacuous announcement intended to “help” the borough’s businesses, the council last night issued a new press statement about the business aid available in the coronavirus emergency. And this time they … Continue reading
Pay Your Staff: Disgusted locals send Spoons a message
No one would be foolish enough to suggest that Wetherspoons’ climbdown yesterday over paying their workers was prompted by it, but some people in Crystal Palace made what they think of the odious Tim Martin plain on Tuesday night as … Continue reading
Purley Way brewery’s taproom offers a taste of things to come
Croydon’s newest brewery will be opening its on-site taproom next month. Craft brewers Anspach and Hobday have just started brewing in their new site in the Valley Point Industrial Estate, off the Purley Way, and from Saturday March 7, the … Continue reading
Posted in Anspach and Hobday, Business, Pubs, Purley Way
Tagged Anspach and Hobday, Purley Way
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Sausage and mash comes with ‘jus’ in this Triangle of pubs
Crystal Palace Triangle is thriving with pubs, but it has only two types of pub, as KEN TOWL explains. Photographs: SIMON BENTLEY “You should write a piece on the pubs in the north of the borough,” said the senior local … Continue reading
Jazz At The Bell, The Railway Bell, Gipsy Hill, Jan 12
Posted in Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Music, Pubs
Tagged Gipsy Hill, The Railway Bell
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World War Three, Brexit, Boris… but there is always The Hope
There was a whole load of wassailing going on in Carshalton at the weekend. KEN TOWL went along to find out what the fuss was all about. Photos: SIMON BENTLEY I find myself speaking to a man who appears to … Continue reading
Posted in Ken Towl, Pubs
Tagged Carshalton, George Orwell, Ken Towl, Rodger Molyneux, The Hope
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Croydon’s night-time music scene could be entering new Phase
New Year’s Eve should be the biggest night of the year for the local club scene. RORY KELLY paid a visit to Phase, a new venue hoping to transform Croydon’s night-time feel Clubbing in Croydon has a problem. Despite being … Continue reading
Brewers’ ‘smart’ pigeon brand homes in on Therapia Lane
There’s a new brewer in town, and KEN TOWL couldn’t wait to visit When Walter White realised that the cotidian lifestyle was not for him, he ended up breaking bad. When Messrs Anspach and Hobday decided to strike out on … Continue reading
Posted in Anspach and Hobday, Broad Green, Business, Ken Towl, Pubs
Tagged Anspach and Hobday, Ken Towl, Therapia Lane
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Wintry Thames towpath walk that’s like entering another world
WANDLE WANDERER: Croydon’s own river, the Wandle, eventually reaches the Thames itself, which provides a multitude of possible walks. Here, KEN TOWL sets off for Richmond to see what the towpath has to offer With friends visiting from Hackney and … Continue reading
Posted in Ken Towl, Pubs, Walks, Wandle Wanderer, Zac Goldsmith MP
Tagged Ken Towl, Kingston, Richmond, River Thames
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Craft brewers in £500,000 expansion to Croydon’s Valley Park
Croydon is about to get a new brewery. Craft ale brewers Anspach and Hobday, currently based under a Bermondsey railway arch and with a bar in Camberwell, have a £500,000 expansion plan and they are looking to set up a … Continue reading
Posted in Anspach and Hobday, Broad Green, Business, Pubs, Purley Way
Tagged Anspach and Hobday, Purley Way, Valley Park
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Charity Pub Quiz, The Fox, Old Coulsdon, Nov 17
Posted in Coulsdon, Old Coulsdon, Pubs
Tagged Coulsdon, Friends of Grange Park, Old Coulsdon, The Fox
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Fanfare for the Common man, and here’s a toast to two ‘saints’
WANDLE WANDERER: Our non-resident rambler KEN TOWL is off on his travels again, but he hasn’t had to venture very far afield to discover some overlooked treasures St Reatham is not, of course, a church named after a saint, but … Continue reading
Landmark Addiscombe pub on Victorian Society’s ‘at risk’ list
The Victorian Society has called for the long-closed Leslie Arms on Lower Addiscombe Road to be found a new owner to save the building and re-open it as a pub. The Grade II-listed Leslie Arms has been closed for more … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, History, Leslie Arms, Planning, Property, Pubs
Tagged Addiscombe West, Anwar Ansari, Croydon Council, Leslie Arms, The Victorian Society
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