Beloved 200-year-old London pub announces sudden closure as locals mourn 'real loss'

The Ye Olde Swiss Cottage pub has been an iconic determination successful London having occupied the aforesaid determination for much astir 200 years arsenic good arsenic giving its sanction to the section conduit station

A beloved 200-year-old London pub has abruptly closed its doors - leaving locals mourning a "real nonaccomplishment for the section community."

The iconic Ye Olde Swiss Cottage occupied a unsocial abstraction successful northbound westbound London, bringing a one-of-a-kind burst of continental charm to engaged Finchley Road. But connected Saturday the pub decided to adjacent its doors for the past time, bringing heavy disappointment to loyal customers.

The determination was made by the pub's operators Samuel Smith's Brewery but the aboriginal of the show remains unclear. Fans enjoyed their past pints astatine the pub successful the moments earlier past orders were called. "You take a pub with a antithetic ambiance - a batch of them are becoming similar clones now," 1 lawsuit told BBC News. She continued: "It's truthful awful.

"I tally a monthly radical for radical with concerns astir the world astatine Swiss Cottage Community Centre which is simply a anticipation skip and leap from the Ye Olde Swiss Cottage. We are each shedding a tear."

Resident Tony Kay said: "When I moved into the country the pub utilized to beryllium precise full. It was a halt disconnected for radical going to Wembley to ticker the football. Since past it's been precise bare and a shadiness of its erstwhile self. We anticipation it volition beryllium taken implicit arsenic a pub again."

The lone pub near connected the roadworthy amid a fig of akin closures is the adjacent North Star. Joanne Scott, from the Campaign For Real Ale (CAMRA) said the closure was a "real nonaccomplishment for the section assemblage and for London."

She told The Sun: "There has been a pub connected tract for 200 years and determination isn't galore pubs successful this area, truthful it is important to support it arsenic a pub." The landmark dates backmost to the 1830s and inspired the Swiss Cottage conduit presumption name.

A CAMRA spokesperson added: "There had been a gabled gathering connected the tract called Lausanne Cottage said to person been utilized by Charles II arsenic a hunting lodge and determination whitethorn person been an earlier pub called the Swiss Tavern."

One subordinate of staff, who did not privation to beryllium named, told the local Ham&High outlet: "As acold arsenic I cognize it's closeing and unit who enactment present volition spell to different site. The brewery made the decision, it is what it is." The Mirror has contacted Samuel Smith's Brewery for comment.