A dark day - The CPT (Lounged)

[Worker]

Maybe they're just relocating the bar and it's safely stored out the back ready to be reassembled? I hope so.

[Otta]

Lovely thought Worker, but I suspect not.

[*Bob*]

Don't worry everyone.. the original features, all eight regulars and the ?8 float have been carefully numbered ready to be re-assembled - exactly as they were.

[DulwichFox]

Maybe they will reinstate the Dartboard they ripped out during the last refurb..

One Hundred and Eighty....

:)-D

Foxy

[red devil]

Otta Wrote:

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> Lovely thought Worker, but I suspect not.

I had a nose earlier...the lobbied entrance is still intact. The original bar has gone and the new bar will be against the back wall, adjacent the men's WC.

I don't know if they have salvaged the old bar counter, but they have started setting up an old looking wooden bar counter.

In the 'snug' area a wallpaper trellis has been set up, with rolls of embossed 'period' looking wallpaper.

The ceiling has been untouched so far.

Oh, and loads of tubes of Gripfill (builder's superglue) lying around, so don't lean too much on anything :)

Here's a quick sketch, not to scale...

[ibilly99]

TURNING and turning in the widening gyre

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity.

[red devil]

Keats and Yeats are on your side,

but you lose

'cause weird lover Wilde is on mine.

[ibilly99]

Off to Reading Gaol with you for your catamite ways...

[maxxi]

ibilly99 Wrote:

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> Off to Reading Gaol with you for your catamite

> ways...

Quite right - 's disgusting http://vimg.myvido1.com/AZwsmeWRkUN1kMRFjTYlVP.jpg

[Sue]

Blimey! I haven't read that word since Earthly Powers.

?It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.?

Somebody nominated it as the best first sentence in fiction.

Anyway, back to the CPT, I sincerely hope the Ladies is going to be improved from the one tiny cubicle they had before. If there was somebody standing at the basin, you couldn't get into the bog, either :))

[DulwichFox]

Hi Sue..

Sneak Preview of ladies loo.

http://img.weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/toilet-4.png

Enjoy..:))

Foxy

[Sue]

Excellent!

:))

[thomas thomas]

I spoke to a couple of the workmen the other day. They told me that there will be more ladies loos and that some of the more comfortable seats in what used to be the lounge bar will be put back, after they have been re-upholstered. There are now notices in the windows to recruit all sorts of fancy staff!!! We will have to wait and see!

[KidKruger]

had a peek in this morning, it's actually a lovely open area, the light from the glazed front penetrates right through.

there's the making of a bar counter at the 'back' (as you look in from the side) though can't tell if that'll eventually be moved to somewhere else. It look as though they may be re-using some of the features removed from the original partition and bar counters.

[DulwichFox]

I had a look in this morning...

Just a Characterless Void.

Another big open space.

No internal walls to absorb sound / noise.

Not impressed so far.

Exactly what I expected...

Prepared to be pleasantly suprised.

Not holding my breath.

Fox :(

[Beej]

And please, tell me that hideous racing green paint is an under-coat....

[El Pibe]

"a wallpaper trellis has been set up, with rolls of embossed 'period' looking wallpaper."

Oh dear, I reluctantly refer to my comment.

"whereby a pub can be revitalised without going down the canoes on the ceiling (20 years ago), pine/chrome (15 years ago), flock wallpaper (10 years ago)"

Seriously, can't they try for a dash of originality? Flock fecking wallpaper!!!!

[red devil]

It's actually a type of anaglypta wallpaper EP...posh woodchip! :)

http://www.inspiremyhome.co.uk/Images/Products/Previews/RD750_2.jpg

[Hackblade]

Come on, the CPT was a right heap! It's my local and I occasionally went but it wasn't very good. Good luck to whoever is investing money into doing it up.

[El Pibe]

LOL, oh that's fine then, why didn't you mention it was anaglyptic? ;-P

[DulwichFox]

Anaglypta was fine when People could smoke in pubs..

Gave the place real character once it had turned brown.. Took about 20-30 years.

never needed painting...

Foxy Fox :))

[Sue]

Don't think anaglypta is the same as woodchip, is it? It's just embossed wallpaper.

Very popular in the seventies :))

A pain to paint.

[red devil]

Sue Wrote:

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> Don't think anaglypta is the same as woodchip, is

> it? It's just embossed wallpaper.

>

> Very popular in the seventies :))

>

> A pain to paint.

I said it was embossed in my earlier post Sue, then EP referred to it as flock, which it isn't, so I clarified by saying it was infact anaglypta. I didn't say anaglypta was the same as woodchip, I called it 'posh woodchip' because both were commonly used to cover up walls in poor condition in the 70's...

[DulwichFox]

Anagypta is actually designed to be painted...

Which helped the soot and cigarette smoke to stick.

Fox

[katie1997]

Reopens on 15 March apparently. Advertising for chefs, bar staff and ... baristas.

Are those (gigantic) hanging outdoor lamps new or were they always there? :-S