Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
The Queens Head closes temporarily [UPDATED]
At the Friends of Ducketts Common meeting last week, we were told by a local resident that The Queens Head has had it alcohol licence removed. Yesterday the windows were being boarded up and furniture was being removed. Rumour has it, that no alcohol licence will be issued to this premises in the future and it could be turned in to flats. In previous postings Hugh chronicled that there has been a pub on this site since 1794 here and here
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Permalink Reply by james walsh on
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Those Klutzes that were running it tried to make it a sports bar. We don't want sports bars we want a pub.There's plenty of room for smokers so they can't use that excuse. me and that place go back a long way when i was drummer in the house band. The queens used to be absolutely crammed full every night.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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Plenty of off street parking out the front for those flats.
I thought you had to be doing something pretty serious to lose your alcohol license.
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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That location bang opposite the tube will mean that the twenty luxury flats they cram in will be worth even more then.
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20? They can fit 10 bedsits into a standard ladder house...
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Is there anyone on here who can tell us more about the closure of this historic public house? Especially with regard to the alcohol license.
I suspect that for a long time we're going to have an empty building in a prominent spot...
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Is it worth seeing if the pub can be listed to at least protect the exterior....and maybe the old cinema behind it too? There'd be a good chance that any developer who bought the pub would seek to buy up the cinema too.
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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"Rumour has it . . . . " "twenty luxury flats" . . . "We're going to have an empty building" . .
These are the facts I've got from one brief phonecall.
1. Nobody did anything which resulted in them losing their licence. The licence was not lost.
2. There are new owners
3. The licence has been transferred and is "active".
I always recommend "going through the front door". Why not find out who the new owners are, contact them and ask them? They may not respond. In which case nothing is lost.
Or they could respond positively; and be pleased there's a lively, interested local community, keen to see good local facilities and with money to spend.
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I went through the front door with the previous owner (see here).
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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Being a Community Volunteer can have its uses you know, one of which is that you can get answers to questions quickly!
The understanding that the licensing team have is that the top of the pub may become residential (hence the flats rumour perhaps) but that it is to remain a public house. The new owners have protected the licence by transferring it to their company name (which I don't know).
They may leave it closed for a while, in order to encourage regular drinkers to find alternative arrangements apparently.
Anyway, they will let me know if there are any changes in the future.
Thasallfolks
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All's well that ends well.
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