Wetherspoons could open pub in former London dungeon

A caller Wetherspoons pub could soon unfastened wrong the railway arches which were erstwhile location to the London Dungeon attraction.

The Sun Wharf pub has been projected for the railway arches connected Tooley Street, which runs alongside London Bridge station, from 6.30am to 12.30am daily.

The sanction is thought to notation 1 of the wharves successful eastbound London wherever imports from Australia arrived.

If the pub does open, it volition beryllium the archetypal clip the arch connected Tooley Street has been utilized since 2013, erstwhile the London Dungeon attraction moved to South Bank.

Network Rail oversees the letting of the railway arches, and said successful 2017: ‘The residual premises supply a precise mediocre prime environment. The erstwhile idiosyncratic (London Dungeon) was somewhat antithetic successful truthful acold arsenic the mediocre prime situation was its main attraction.

‘NR Commercial Property has been incapable to place different imaginable D2 users consenting to lease the residual abstraction successful its existent state.’

But the railway arch could soon beryllium location to a marque caller Wetherspoons branch, successful adjacent walking region to 1 of London’s busiest bid stations – London Bridge.

London Bridge serves astir 130,000 commuters per day, and is busiest connected weekends.

In August, The Lion and the Unicorn, successful The Sidings opened successful Waterloo station, giving commuters the enactment to drawback a Wetherspoons pint connected their commute.

Its sanction is inspired by the Festival of Britain which was held astatine the adjacent South Bank successful 1951 and showcased British achievements successful the arts, architecture, subject and technology.

Similarly, ‘Spoons bosses accidental ‘the cognition to light, colour and innovation astatine the festival (the implicit other to pre-1951 Britain) person each been adopted successful the design,’ and the interiors adjacent incorporated sketches shared by household members of the archetypal architects and graphic designers.

Known arsenic the ‘social side’ of Waterloo, The Sidings features a fig of different businesses specified arsenic Nando’s, Brewdog, Blank Street coffee, and a Lucky Voice karaoke bar.

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