Heber Arms

[Jah Lush]

Thanks Andy. Nice first post. Welcome aboard. I remember the pub as I had a flat around the corner from it back in the day. They had strippers in there for a while too. Couldn't see that happening in any of the pubs in East Dulwich now though.

[david_carnell]

Mmm good work Andy. Many thanks - seems quite poignant in its current state.

And of course you are allowed to resurrect old threads - in fact, it is positively encouraged compared to starting a new one on subjects that have been covered in the past.

Keep up the good work.

David.

[Wardy]

I sat outside the Heber arms many times as child in the 50's while mum and dad got p---ed on a Satuday night. They would buy me a lemonade and a bag of Smith Crisps and I would listen to the piano being played. Good old Days

[EDOldie]

Trust Lush to remember the strippers. I think it was every Sunday.

[Jah Lush]

Oi! Oldie. How very dare you. Sunday was it?

[EDOldie]

Didn't they do roast potatoes as well on a Sunday? Or am I making that up?

[Mick Mac]

I moved to ED, Heber Road, in 2001 and the pub although closed was still the same as it looks in the photo from all_star above.

I think it was converted to flats shortly after that, maybe 2002. Great shame as it would be nice to have a pub on the same road as you live on. My then neighbour "Pete" said he used to run the pool team there before it shut, but he was a man of poor personal hygiene, so hope he was not typical of their clientele.

[EDOldie]

Well I have always been particularly fastidious on the matter of personal hygiene and I can't remember anyone being smelly in that pub, so no, he must have been a one off (so to speak).

[Jah Lush]

Let's just hope that other back street pubs like the CPT and The Castle also don't go the same way as The Heber. Support your local pub.

[Sue]

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> Let's just hope that other back street pubs like

> the CPT and The Castle also don't go the same way

> as The Heber. Support your local pub.

xxxx

I might support the CPT more if they brought back the Broadside ....

[Locana]

My dad worked in the Heber Arms in the 80's. I used to help him clean on a Sunday! I remember the landlord, the dobermans, the gardens, think I practically lived there. We lived on Heber Road too.

[DulwichFox]

EDOldie Wrote:

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> Trust Lush to remember the strippers. I think it

> was every Sunday.

Yes that's right.. I went there once on a Sunday (1982) with my then wife.. only to find there were strippers..

And if that was not Odd enough, the Garden was open and there were Kids going back and forth throughout the pub.

For Fox Sake

[jimbo1964]

I remember having a few pints in there (early on in my drinking career).

[Townleygreen]

I used to go in there after parents' evening with my mates when we were teaching locally - in the 70s. Remember an old guy playing the piano. It was a pleasant place.

[SilverSurfer65]

My Uncle & Aunt, Sonny & Nell Vincent lived next door to the Heber Arms, at No. 7,

from before WWII until they died, Sonny in 1972 and Nell in 1974.

My Father used to take our Family to visit his brother when we lived in Herne Hill,

and we walked through Townley Road to get the No. 37 bus home -

how I hated that walk in the dark.

[littlemisssmith]

This was my familys local growing up! I was often given 50p and a bottle of coke to go and play while dad had his pint! Always handy that i went to the primary school next door so dad never wasted beer time! Kill 2 birds with 1 stone! Pick me up and have a pint! Haha! The good old days!!!

[littlemisssmith]

Do you remember Jimmy Smith???

[cariad]

anyone remember duncan the barman? he could remember a round of 20 drinks -very helpful!

[Locana]

Duncan? What year are we talking? I used to go to the school next door too! I was there in the 80's...

[cariad]

duncan was there in the mid-eighties- the era of the lock-in!

[Locana]

You sure it wasn't Douglas?? We can't remember Duncan..

[speedbird]

all_star Wrote:

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> ffs stop for breath woman!

Ha ha...There are some entertaining things on the forum...Love this!

Hooray for all_star

[Take Note]

MadWorld74 Wrote:

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> I went to look at a flat there when we first moved

> into the area a few years back. It was one of the

> flats at the front and in the bedroom was the

> cellar door in the floor, leading down to where

> the beer was kept. The cellar door was in the

> wardrobe. It freaked me out a little. All old

> places especially pubs have their ghosts. I didn't

> fancy laying awake of a night hearing things

> moving about in the cellar! And it had alot of the

> old pub furniture still down there with God knows

> what else lurking in the cornor. Interesting. It

> was a bit of a turn off that the girl showing the

> property refused to take us down to the cellar.

> She insisted on waiting upstairs....

My friend bought that flat - we did venture down the basement (with a little Dutch courage) and it was very basement like. I agree - a bit creepy. But we faced our fears!

[Locana]

Yeah, I used I go in there as a kid with my dad. He was a barman. Used to tell me all kinds of ghostly stories! Never went down there in my own though..! No way!

[Degger]

I remember you and Pat very well. Christmas eve and new years eve were legendary back in the 80's. Good times.