Pubs at LU Stations

[Greaseball3220]

Anyone remember a station on the Southern end of the Circle / District line that had a pub on the westbound platform? Ran by Truman I think. Just something I remember as a kid.

Also something a bit surreal, anyone recall graffiti just outside West Ruislip that said '' Latau Farm - Benny Ball Frog'', whatever that meant :-?

 

[Dstock7080]

Sloane Square.

 

[Greaseball3220]

Was there one at Temple or Monument over that way as well?

 

[W-on-Sea]

Sloane Square was the last functioning platform bar on the tube - I think it lasted until the very late 1980s. Liverpool Street, I think, was the second-last to close, a little earlier.

 

[Busaholic]

Sloane Square.

Remember it well, hick...

 

[rmt4ever]

Sloane Square was the last functioning platform bar on the tube - I think it lasted until the very late 1980s. Liverpool Street, I think, was the second-last to close, a little earlier.

What about Kew Gardens up platform still operating. Although I accept management of the station only transferred from Silverlink/LOROL to LUL a few years ago!

 

[Bringback309s]

http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2014/12/25/a-history-of-pubs-on-the-london-underground/

 

[Mutant Lemming]

There were staff bars upstairs at Camden Town, Wood Green and White City as well as the main two social clubs at Wembley Park and the Acton Pavilion though the latter two weren't actually on a station.

 

[simple simon]

For many years there was a pub on the eastbound Central Line platform at Stratford. The other side of this island platform was used by local 'all stations' trains from Liverpool Street to Gidea Park plus trains to Southend Victoria.

As I was a child I was not supposed to enter it but when I poked my nose through the door I saw people enjoying pints and fags, playing on one arm bandits, etc. The placed reeked of beer and cigarette smoke.

More recently this was re-purposed into a Lemon Tree refreshment outlet which sold tea, coffee, cakes etc.

Alas it was closed and demolished as part of the preparations for the 2012 Olympics.

Simon

 

[davetheguard]

Was there ever a small bar on the Circle Line (ie Praed Street) station concourse at Paddington?

I'd completely forgotten it, but this thread has stirred up some very distant, and not completely clear, memories; or have it got it completely wrong and muddled with somewhere else?

 

[Busaholic]

Was there ever a small bar on the Circle Line (ie Praed Street) station concourse at Paddington?

I'd completely forgotten it, but this thread has stirred up some very distant, and not completely clear, memories; or have it got it completely wrong and muddled with somewhere else?

There was certainly a refreshment room operated by the firm Spiers and Pond, the Lyons Corner House of the Underground. They had entered into an agreement with the Metropolitan Railway and provided such rooms at many central London locations , basically on the Circle Line as we know it today. Some of these were bars, and I believe the Praed Street one was. Those that survived were taken over by the London brewer Trumans around 1960 (?) so I assume these were all bars, and certainly included Sloane Square. My perambulations around London at the time rarely encompassed the Underground, being a SE Londoner, and in any case I was a bit under-age, so I have no personal memories of the Praed Street pub - just hope it was better than the ones on Praed Street itself, which I did (later) experience!

 

[transmanche]

I certainly remember a pub at Baker Street station. Not on the platform, but inside the gates in the Met ticket office area.

 

[Mutant Lemming]

I certainly remember a pub at Baker Street station. Not on the platform, but inside the gates in the Met ticket office area.

That was Moriarty's - which later became a Treets shop.

 

[simple simon]

Now that oyster times our journeys refreshment outlets at stations which work on the basis of spending 15-20 minutes there would not be such a good idea.

Simon

 

[MikeWh]

Now that oyster times our journeys refreshment outlets at stations which work on the basis of spending 15-20 minutes there would not be such a good idea.

Simon

There are very few straightforward journeys that come anywhere close to exceeding the maximum journey time.

 

[reb0118]

Now that oyster times our journeys refreshment outlets at stations which work on the basis of spending 15-20 minutes there would not be such a good idea.

This could be simply solved by having oyster readers at the entrance/exit to the refreshment establishment to create a hiatus with regard to journey time, as an additional feature any cards issued to under 18s would not open the door.

 

[harz99]

There were staff bars upstairs at Camden Town, Wood Green and White City as well as the main two social clubs at Wembley Park and the Acton Pavilion though the latter two weren't actually on a station.

Add Morden to that list.

 

[Mutant Lemming]

Add Morden to that list.

Pretty much every line had it's staff bar apart from the Bakerloo


...though you could say that the Salusbury was virtually a staff bar in it's early days.