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Osborne Tavern - Stroud a Green Road

Hi members, can anybody help me?

i am looking for a picture of The Osborne Tavern, Stroud Green Road that my grandparents ( Mary and Harvey Wilkie) ran in the mid 60s. 

I can find the 2 current online pictures that show it now as a Nando’s and in its Victorian days when it was 3 stories high ( it lost its upper floor during the war) but was hoping for something more circa when they ran in. I know the pub was open up to the mid 90s I had a drink there with mum so if anybody can help with any pictures from 60s- 90s I would really appreciate it.thanks for reading and many more thanks if you have a picture!

Tony

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Permalink Reply by Arkady on March 20, 2020 at 8:47

Hi - so was it run out of the current post-war building that was later converted to a Nandos?

Permalink Reply by Tony on March 28, 2020 at 17:13

Yes, it was two floors. Still had a dumb waiter which my mum used to put my uncle in ( he was just a baby) to get him upstairs!

Permalink Reply by Madeline on March 23, 2020 at 1:20

I used to drink there, late 70's onward. You're not going to like this but I did have some photos, mostly inside, that were destroyed when my upstairs neighbour flooded me out. Sorry about that.

Permalink Reply by Tony on March 28, 2020 at 17:16

Gutted! Never mind. I’ve had the same experience of a flood, lost everything 12 years ago to one. Day before I got married as well. 

By the late 70s my grandparents had moved to Wembley (via another lost pub in Harlesden) and ran a small newsagents until they retired. I have pictures of 2 of their pubs and the shop but just missing this one. 

Thanks though, stay safe 

Permalink Reply by Madeline on March 28, 2020 at 18:01

That dumb waiter was also used to send the till drawers upstairs after closing time. When they went up there one night they found someone had broken into the kitchen (remember it had outside stairs leading up there as well as the inside ones) and had waited for the money to come to them.

Permalink Reply by Tony on March 28, 2020 at 18:03

Very enterprising!

Permalink Reply by Madeline on March 28, 2020 at 18:05

If you can find it, a piano marathon was held there in the summer of 1978. I remember it because it was on TV, probably London TV (whichever network it was then) just before I moved here and he was still in the pub when I did move.

Permalink Reply by Madeline on March 28, 2020 at 18:08

I too have fond memories of the pub. Sitting outside in the summer trying not to swallow the wasp that was also trying to sip your drink. And Pat 'the fish'. Do you remember him?

Permalink Reply by Hugh on March 30, 2020 at 21:58

It's probably not exactly what you want, but it's s start. The photo below comes courtesy of Alan Bratley:

Permalink Reply by Tony on March 30, 2020 at 22:08

That’s great though, thanks. 

Permalink Reply by Hugh on March 30, 2020 at 22:00

And from Owen Pace:

No photos but I do know a guy played the piano there and got into Guinness Book of Records. Rubbish trivia I know

And from Val Baker:

Roger Laverne who was in the tornados who were famous for Telstar was the piano man. I was working in there then.
Permalink Reply by Madeline on March 30, 2020 at 22:12

That's the guy. I mentioned him above but I didn't know his name.

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