please empty your brain below
the one on Mitcham Road is now a car dealer, not a car park.

Simon | 19.02.25 - 8:40 a.m. | #

Where I live, out of the 7 pubs that were in staggering distance of each other, 4 still survive, two of the three were demolished and are now flats, the other became a restaurant but is now a consultancy of some sort.

Looking at old maps there used to be 9, one went during the office boom of the 60's and the other to make way for the supermarket in the 80's.

Still Anon | 19.02.25 - 9:08 a.m. | #

Whether a car park or car dealership the Queen Victoria in Mitcham Road will not be missed. I think it was only called that for a few years before it closed in a cynical attempt to make it potentially attractive to Soap Opera addicts. I seem to remember it being called something else (the Exhibition?) in the late seventies when a friend of mine insisted on meeting there. Even then it was what I think one would call "dodgy". Whilst I generally lament the loss of pubs this is certainly not one of them.

Keith the Kraut | 19.02.25 - 9:22 a.m. | #

"this corner looks a lot better as rubble behind blank hoardings"

No disagreement here. It's been rubble for ten years now and it's still better that way. North Cheam still the greatest "What If?" of the original Northern Line plans. As a nod, the bus stop is still "Queen Victoria".

Chz | 19.02.25 - 11:02 a.m. | #

A sad commentary on the state of pubs in this country. Thankfully our local is not just surviving, it's thriving. Like many things here in the northern Dales it is community owned (and proudly a shareholder).

So a shout out for the Farmer's Arms, Muker!

Putters | 19.02.25 - 11:34 a.m. | #

I was hooked on EastEnders from day 1 but a spell living abroad cured me of my Soap addiction and I haven't watched it for 30 of its 40 years now!
The glimpses I do catch suggests it hasn't changed much!

Cornish Cockney | 19.02.25 - 11:38 a.m. | #

Did you manage to buy a Becks in the queen Vic?

Martin | 19.02.25 - 11:54 a.m. | #

The one on Gillender Street is a right eyesore, it would have been better if it had been compulsorily purchased and the site used for the school.

Mikey C | 19.02.25 - 12:23 p.m. | #

Funny, just the other day I was pouring over Google Streetmap trying to work out where a pub was in Tooting that I once visited and thought was quite nice. Yes, the Little House, formerly Queen Vic.

Small world sometimes.

Andrew Bowden | Homepage | 19.02.25 - 1:56 p.m. | #

I've always understood that Albert Square in Eastenders was based on the real life Fasset Square E3.

dg writes: E8. See 2015 link at foot of post.

Johnny Topaz | 19.02.25 - 2:56 p.m. | #

As a resident of Albert Square E15... thanks for that Camra link showing the photo of Albert House. I don't think I've ever seen that before.

Basle House is not an improvement...

Playing around on the NLS historic maps site shows that Albert Square was always Albert Square (as far as I can see...) Albert Road is the next street along... which is now called Ash Road.

But the lack of Square in Albert Square remains a mystery...

Steve Q | Homepage | 19.02.25 - 3:23 p.m. | #

Thanks Steve.

I've re-worded the Albert Square paragraph and linked to an even older map with fewer houses, which hints at how it might originally have been decreed a Square.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 19.02.25 - 5:35 p.m. | #

The 26th dull list.

Frank F | 19.02.25 - 5:41 p.m. | #

Another lost QV was at 184 Devons Road, E3, but I can't find a picture better than a sliver of wall edge. It would approximate to the south west edge of Prospect Park.

Adjacent: I was interested to find that the Victoria Hotel once at 171 Burdett Road was used for the pub scenes in '10 Rillington Place' just prior to demolition in 1970.

jpmac | 19.02.25 - 5:46 p.m. | #

My personal Queen Vic in my youth was in Ealing Broadway. Twas THE place to go in the mid to late 80's.

Anyoldname | 19.02.25 - 7:07 p.m. | #

The Queen Vic in Bermondsey is my local and is indeed a good boozer. Pints for less than a fiver which is (sadly) a good price these days.

Adam | 20.02.25 - 11:04 a.m. | #











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