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Category Archives: Pubs
South London Bluegrass Sessions, Oval Tavern, Thu May 22
Posted in Addiscombe West, Music, Pubs, The Oval Tavern
Tagged Blues at The Oval, Oval Tavern, The Blackjacks, The Oval Tavern
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The Blackjacks, live at The Oval Tavern, free entry, Sun May 18
Posted in Addiscombe West, Music, Pubs, The Oval Tavern
Tagged Blues at The Oval, Oval Tavern, The Blackjacks, The Oval Tavern
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Free beer! Market Tavern to celebrate 10 years of Craft Union
A pub company is celebrating its 10th anniversary tomorrow where the drinks will be on them – for a limited period, terms and conditions apply, etc and so forth… On Wednesday, May 14, Craft Union is giving away 10,000 free … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Pubs, Surrey Street
Tagged Bromley, Craft Union, Market Tavern, Surrey Street, Sutton, Wallington
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Changing times, and quieter nights, for Croydon’s oldest pub
Our dogged culture correspondent KEN TOWL spent the night, and nearly six quid a pint, checking out the refurbed Dog and Bull, with its ‘banging’ tunes, new high security and its not-so-new beer garden. Photos: SHIRLEY BIGGIN-HILL When a dog … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Ken Towl, Pubs, Surrey Street
Tagged CAMRA, Dog and Bull, Laine, Surrey Street, Surrey Street Market, The Dog and Bull
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The Eddie Angel Blues Band, free entry, Oval Tavern, May 11
Posted in Music, Pubs
Tagged Blues at The Oval, The Eddie Angel Blues Band, The Oval Tavern
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No one told us about 3am openings say Surrey Street residents
New owners of The Dog and Bull market pub have yet to submit a licensing application to stay open into the early hours every night. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Residents living in flats near Croydon’s oldest pub, The Dog and … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Laine pubco, Pubs, Surrey Street
Tagged Butcher's Row, CAMRA, Croydon and Sutton CAMRA, Dog and Bull, Laine, Punch Pubs, Surrey Street, Surrey Street Market, The Dog and Bull
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Happy Valley runners are now out and about every Friday
If you were inspired by last week’s London Marathon (and with 1.1million people registering in hope of running the 2026 race, there’s a good chance that you were), then a new group called Run Talk Run Coulsdon might be just … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Athletics, Coulsdon, Pubs
Tagged Coulsdon, Coulsdon Common, Farthing Downs, Happy Valley, Run Talk Run Coulsdon, The Fox, The Fox Coulsdon
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Coombe Wood House is providing what Croydon’s long missed
Our arts correspondent, BELLA BARTOCK, can never resist if invited out for a slap-up meal, so when offered the chance of revisiting one of the old haunts of her youth… It would take a person with a very strong constitution … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Coombe Wood House Restaurant, Lloyd Park, Pubs, Restaurants
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Dog and Bull pub’s new owners accused of ‘cultural vandalism’
There’s a growing row down Surrey Street, where the centuries-old market pub, a Grade II-listed building, has yet to submit a licensing application for planned raves in the beer garden until 3 in the morning. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES The … Continue reading
What a load of old Bull! Chain to rename Croydon’s oldest pub
EXCLUSIVE: The new owners of The Dog and Bull on Surrey Street are installing new sound systems for DJ sessions in the beer garden of the Grade II-listed building, as £125,000 refurb works over-run Surrey Street Market shoppers and pub … Continue reading
Oval Tavern’s Sutton to take on little pub under the Flyover
Esther Sutton, one of Croydon’s most respected business-owners, will next week be taking the keys to The Royal Standard pub, one of Croydon’s hidden gems and which boasts the “most Croydon of beer gardens”. “The Standard will still be The … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Esther Sutton, Fairfield, Pubs
Tagged Addiscombe, Admiral Taverns, Croydon, Croydon Flyover, Esther Sutton, Fairfield, Fuller's, The Oval Tavern, The Royal Standard
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Rollo Markee and The Tailshakers, The Oval Tavern, Apr 20
Posted in Addiscombe West, Music, Pubs
Tagged Addiscombe, Blues at The Oval, Rollo Markee and The Tailshakers, The Oval Tavern
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Antic demise claims another high street pub in South Norwood
Another Croydon pub has closed, with no obvious signs at this stage that another hospitality company or brewery will step in to re-open the Shelverdine Goathouse on South Norwood High Street. The Shelverdine was one of almost 50 pubs and … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Pubs, South Norwood
Tagged Antic Pubs, Croydon, Croydon and Sutton CAMRA, London, Shelverdine Goathouse, South Norwood
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Martin McNeil and Franca Shaw, Blues at The Oval, Mar 30
Posted in Addiscombe West, Music, Pubs
Tagged Addiscombe, Blues at The Oval, Martin McNeil and Franca Shaw, The Oval Tavern
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Long-closed Earl of Eldon pub is replaced by Portuguese deli
A long-boarded-up site on Brighton Road in South Croydon has opened for business this week – as Sabores da Terra, a “traditional Portuguese coffee shop and deli”. The Earl of Eldon pub, once a Greene King boozer, closed in 2018, … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Property, Pubs, South Croydon
Tagged Brighton Road, Earl of Eldon, Sabores da Terra, South Croydon
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Pub under the Flyover gets a shock as manager opts to move
Locals at the back-street, town centre pub, the Royal Standard, have been sent reeling, and not by an especially strong barrel of Harvey’s, but by the news that the landlord and her team are leaving the pub under the Croydon … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Fairfield, Property, Pubs, South Croydon
Tagged Admiral Taverns, Croydon Flyover, Fuller's, Fullers Brewery, London, South Croydon, The Royal Standard
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King Size Slim, free concert, The Oval Tavern, Feb 23
Posted in Music, Pubs
Tagged Addiscombe, Blues at The Oval, East Croydon, King Size Slim, The Oval Tavern
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Sutton’s £2.3m heritage buildings sale to owner of derelict pub
INSIDE SUTTON: Confidential documents show that the council has done a property deal for two of the borough’s historic buildings with an offshore company linked to the developer responsible for the long-neglected Fox and Hounds pub on Carshalton High Street. … Continue reading
Posted in Carshalton and Wallington, Community associations, Elliot Colburn, History, Planning, Property, Pubs, Sutton Council
Tagged AJH Property Developments Ltd, Andrew Hussey, Carshalton, Carshalton and Wallington, Carshalton Old Rectory, Carshalton Old Rectory Association, Cryer Theatre, Nelson Insurance Company Ltd, Rodger Molyneux, Russettings, Sutton, Sutton Council, The Carshalton Society, The Fox and Hounds
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Brewery’s record revenues can’t stop Two Brewers’ closure
One much-loved Croydon boozer has closed its doors, while the borough’s oldest pub is promising cheaper prices The Two Brewers pub on Gloucester Road closed on Sunday for the final time, its owners, brewers Shepherd Neame, reportedly having sold the … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Property, Pubs, Selhurst
Tagged Bishop's Finger, Dog and Bull, Gloucester Road, Selhurst, Selhurst Park, Shepherd Neame, Spitfire, Surrey Street, Two Brewers
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Florence Joelle, Blues at The Oval, Addiscombe, Feb 2
Posted in Addiscombe West, Music, Pubs
Tagged Blues at The Oval, Florence Joelle, The Oval, The Oval Tavern
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Plans announced for ‘community centre’ in former Norbury pub
New owners of The Norbury, the big old boozer on London Road that closed its doors nearly five years ago, have put forward a set of proposals for public consultation to refurbish the building as a community centre, to be … Continue reading
Jimmy Regal and The Royals, The Oval Tavern, Jan 19
Posted in Music, Pubs
Tagged Addiscombe, Blues at The Oval, Jimmy Regal and The Royals, The Oval Tavern
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Addiscombe’s Grade II-listed Victorian pub ‘at immediate risk’
New Year, new “at risk” status for the Leslie Arms, the Grade II-listed Victorian pub building on Lower Addiscombe Road, but with no prospect of a satisfactory resolution in sight. As we enter 2025, it will be more than two … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Art, Business, History, Leslie Arms, Planning, Property, Pubs
Tagged Addiscombe, Anwar Ansari, Historic England, Leslie Arms, The Victorian Society
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Chad Strentz and the Chad-illacs, The Oval Tavern, Dec 29
Posted in Music, Pubs
Tagged Addiscombe, Blues at The Oval, East Croydon, The Oval Tavern
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Cancer charity receives £3,500 from pub’s raffle and quiz
The Crown and Sceptre pub in South Croydon raised an impressive £3,585 for the South East Cancer Help Centre by hosting a hugely successful charity quiz night. The evening saw locals come together in a fantastic display of generosity and … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Pubs, South East Cancer Help Centre
Tagged Crown and Sceptre, Purley, South Croydon, South East Cancer Help Centre
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