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Labour calls time on the closed Crocker’s Pub

Labour Councillors are calling on the owners of Crocker’s Pub in Aberdeen Place, St John’s Wood to re-furbish and re-open this Grade II Listed building, possibly as a boutique hotel.

Located just minutes from Lord’s Cricket Ground, this well-known pub which was also known as The Crown, was closed in 2002 to the dismay of local residents. According to the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA):

“The public bar is vast, the billiard room grand, but the jewel-at-the-Crown is the entrance hall saloon. A late Victorian feast of marble, using fifty different kinds, covering not only the counter, but almost the entire bar. The chimney-piece is marble and has marble columns. Even the walls are lined in marble. All this, beneath a rich plaster relief ceiling.”

Church Street Labour Councillor Barbara Grahame said:

“Crocker’s has been empty and derelict for over seven years and it is gradually falling into disrepair. We are calling on the owners to refurbish and re-open this fine historic building so that local residents can enjoy it. Our consultations with residents suggest they want to see this building restored to its former glory and brought back into public use, perhaps as a small boutique hotel.”

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