Ivy House up for sale

[Sue]

Hopefully it will still remain a pub - apparently it's listed so turning it into a residential property could be problematic.

:-S

[shoshntosh]

sorry to admit ignorance, but what is ivy house?

[SeanMacGabhann]

SnT

It's a pub on the Nunhead/forest Hill side of Peckham Rye - it has been quite busy with promoting music and comedy nights of late so I'm slightly surprised to hear it's for sale

[val]

Did this used to be the Newlands Pub?

[SuperBerry]

I used to go to the Ivy House for Easycome on Wednesday nights run by Andy Hankdog. These acoustic nights with some very talented performers were really special. Easycome now has a home in the Old Nuns' Head but I would love it if a new owner managed to lure him back. The fantastically opulent gold drapes on the stage just gave it the edge.

[woodie]

absolutely! one of the best gold curtains still surviving. rolling stones used to play there amongst others. Easy come Hank dog nights were fun for years. Its steeped in decades of music history and would be a crying shame to see it chopperoonies/

[philiphenslowe]

I saw The Libertines there in 2003 - ace night!

[bob]

Saw Ian Dury 80's I think.

Bob S

[snoozequeen1]

Apparently it's the lease that has been put up for sale by the owners, not the freehold.

I don't know anything about the economics of running a pub, but would that mean that if you revived a pub, it would then become more profitable, so the owners would then want more money for the next lease?

I wonder if anyone ever did pay ?100 a week to rent any of the rooms over the pub? If you needed to let them all (10 rooms?) to make the place pay it could be tough, although, wouldn't living there be bloke paradise? They might even have a dumb waiter that could haul them upstairs when the bar closes.

[eccentric]

I've seen Dr Feelgood play the Newlands as a 15 year old, how on earth did I get in? Also the Blockheads and Elvis Costello played, sadly did not see. Can anyone confirm Dire Straights did a gig there in their early days?

Slightly off topic about the same time I saw The Sensational Alex Harvey Band supported by The Troggs at the Empire Ballroom, broke the heel off my platform boot!

[stereforth]

In reply to Eccentric, Ian Dury did play there as did Pete Townsend, but I believe it was in their earlier bands: Kilburn and the Highroads and the High Numbers. Similarly the great Joe Strummer played there in the 101ers. So I believe.

[bob]

SF your right about Ian Dury when I saw them it was with Kilbern and the high roads and he fell off the stage

Bob S

[snoozequeen1]

It would be a great place for someone to organise a clothes swap.

All that lovely space going to waste, how dull is Nunhead to let that happen?

I hope we don't end up with something seedy filling the void but it would serve us right, no doubt.