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Ye Old Swiss Cottage successful northbound London has closed
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Ye Olde Swiss Cottage served its past orders connected Saturday aft its owners Samuel Smith’s Brewery decided to adjacent the pub retired of the blue.
Pubgoers told the Ham and High paper they were “all shedding a tear” arsenic Ye Olde Swiss Cottage closed its doors.
Tony Kay, who has lived adjacent for 50 years, described however the pub utilized to beryllium a stop-off for shot fans connected their mode to Wembley but had precocious “been precise bare and a shadiness of its erstwhile self”.
He said: “Ye Old Swiss Cottage is 1 of those unusual places wherever you locomotion successful and each the euphony stops and everyone turns astir and looks astatine you.
"It was successful a bully spot and what other is going to spell there? What I don't privation is for it to beryllium knocked down and turned into flats."
The pub gathering is not listed oregon an plus of assemblage worth which could beryllium barriers for immoderate attempts to prevention it.
The pub was archetypal built successful 1830 and stood adjacent to a toll gross wherever travellers would halt astatine the tavern portion waiting to wage their fees, a statement connected the Camra website says.
The Swiss chalet look was fashionable successful the archetypal fractional of the nineteenth period and from 1840 the country grew up astir the pub.
The underground presumption was built successful 1868 and named aft the pub.
More pubs closed successful London successful the archetypal six months of this twelvemonth than anyplace other successful England, a survey has found.
The superior mislaid 46 watering holes up to the extremity of June, according to information from existent property analysts Altus Group.
Across the UK arsenic a whole, 383 pubs closed successful the aforesaid period.
Samuel Smith’s Brewery has been contacted for comment.
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