The Nags Head, Walthamstow

If you are young, black, a woman, middle class or are not "local" don't bother trying to get a drink in this pub. They let you buy a drink at over-inflated prices and then they ban you and escort you from the premises before you have had time to drink it. Of the instances I kow of here are a couple; my son's friends were banned because the landlord thought they were not speaking English (!?) which I was unaware of as being a crime! My son was banned for not being local and "we don't need your type here" - the comment was aimed at my son's black friends who the landlord said looked similar to "someone" who smashed a glass a year previously. Another friend's 16 year old son was banned from standing on the public footpath in front of the pub (even though he father had bought him a coke from the pub) - when his father intervened he too was banned with all his family. They too were accused of not being local! Echoes of Royston Vasey here I think? As if it actually mattered all of those mentioned are in fact are local apart from one and that one is the landlord!!! When the pub re-opened we supported it's renewal but look at it now! Avoid this one at all costs unless you enjoy being abused.

24 Jun 2005 12:26