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Antic are planning top re-open the Royal Bell: http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/12977176.Pub_chain_Antic_to_open_new_venues_in_Penge_and_Bromley/
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ahh the bell..the memories lol
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I can remember just how busy The Bell used to get. It was crazy. You could go there on a Monday night and the place would be busy enough for the upstairs bars to open. Apart from Lloyds Bromley is now very quiet on a Monday night.
The Bell was busier on it's last days than many weekend evenings in the Sky Bar and Bromley's. The Sky Bar was an awful predecessor and Bromley's was a desperate quick modification back to a pub like environment.
As poor as the last two bars were it is a shame to see such a grand premises boarded up in metal sheeting. It is now one less place in town. The pub being boarded up makes that part of town look really run down.
Hopefully a restaurant or decent brewery will buy it. It would be great if it was restored to The Bell Hotel in all it's (apparent) former glory.
I wonder if the place is cursed! it will only be a success if it has Bell in the title :o)
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Nine months after my initial comments and it appears my prediction was an accurate one.
Hey-ho!
HTM69 - 18 Mar 2009 15:43 |
Surprised it lasted as long as it did! What a big failure compared to the Bell, which consistently took over �20k a week. Not at all sad to see it closed.
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Cant say it comes as much of a surprise. Lasted all of a year - if that. Hopefully the original building, formerly (The Bell) will be sympathetically restored to its former glory one day - It really deserves better than this.
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CLOSED 24-Jan and furniture appears to have been removed - seems to have bitten the dust
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For those unaware, Bromley�s is the successor to the failure that was Sky Bar. The bar, that in fact, only a short while ago, had replaced the buildings original inhabitant, The Bell.
I give it a year, tops.
HTM69 - 22 Jun 2008 19:32 |
