Franklins is being sold

[Spartacus]

On 01/03/2026 at 10:28, Sue said:

So when will we find out? Is it going to be a big reveal on some specified day?

Well it won't be brewdog

BBC News - Bars close and hundreds lose jobs as US firm buys Brewdog in £33m deal

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c05v0p1d0peo

[Festy]

Jamie Younger is the new owner of Franklins. Great to see him back on Lordship lane. 
Two fingers up to the idiots that forced him out of the Palmerston.

 

[Sue]

15 hours ago, Festy said:

Jamie Younger is the new owner of Franklins. Great to see him back on Lordship lane. 
Two fingers up to the idiots that forced him out of the Palmerston.

Excellent news!

I googled and came up with a thread from this forum about Jamie being forced out.

I had posted the link, but when I read the thread I didn't think it was appropriate to post because  It was started by Dulwich Fox, who sadly died last year (R.I.P.), and contained comments by and to him which were not relevant to the actual closure.

Edited Wednesday at 13:52 by Sue
Adding info

[bob]

Sad to hear about Mike Dulwich Fox he was a local lad born and brought up in the area.

 R.I.P

Bob S

 

[BrandNewGuy]

18 hours ago, Festy said:

Jamie Younger is the new owner of Franklins. Great to see him back on Lordship lane. 
Two fingers up to the idiots that forced him out of the Palmerston.

 

Very good news! The Palmerston flourished under Jamie, so Franklins will be in safe hands, I'm sure

[CPR Dave]

So pleased for him to be back on Lordship Lane. He has some other venues that are all excellent, but a bit of a walk from here.

 

[Loutwo]

8 hours ago, bob said:

Sad to hear about Mike Dulwich Fox he was a local lad born and brought up in the area.

 R.I.P

Bob S

 

I have to say, I too am upset about the passing of DulwichFox. He was a real local character, who unlike me, managed to stick with ED despite all of the nauseous yuppification of the last three decades.

R.I.P to foxy 

 

Louisa. 

[Sephiroth]

As I sat collecting my thoughts in the Bishop at close to midnight after the birth of my first daughter back in 2011, it was DulwichFox who approached me and asked if I was SeanMacGabhann - spoke to him many times over the years (more than once at random on the tiny alfresco bit that used to be outside Tandoori Nights) RIP Mike

 

[BrandNewGuy]

On 04/03/2026 at 23:03, Loutwo said:

.....despite all of the nauseous yuppification of the last three decades.

Nice one! That's going straight in the Louisa quotes album...

[Sephiroth]

35 minutes ago, BrandNewGuy said:

Nice one! That's going straight in the Louisa quotes album...

 

a bit too similar to her last effort 4 years ago

 

 

lazy

 

[diable rouge]

1 hour ago, Sephiroth said:

As I sat collecting my thoughts in the Bishop at close to midnight after the birth of my first daughter back in 2011, it was DulwichFox who approached me and asked if I was SeanMacGabhann - spoke to him many times over the years (more than once at random on the tiny alfresco bit that used to be outside Tandoori Nights) RIP Mike

 

That's really sad to hear, I don't think he'd been well for quite some time.

I met him once, quiet and unassuming, very different to his curmudgeonly EDF persona.

One of the Forum's  great characters.

RIP Foxy 

[bob]

DR

Yes he had not been very well for about the last 2 or 3 years but was making some progress, we use to see him down LL getting his shopping and stop and catch up on all matters Ed.

I Pm'd just before Christmas and received no reply which was not like him so I did have concerns about his health but I had no other means of contacting him.

R.i.P

Foxy

Bob S 

[Sue]

10 hours ago, Sephiroth said:

As I sat collecting my thoughts in the Bishop at close to midnight after the birth of my first daughter back in 2011, it was DulwichFox who approached me and asked if I was SeanMacGabhann - spoke to him many times over the years (more than once at random on the tiny alfresco bit that used to be outside Tandoori Nights) RIP Mike

 

He lived in my road, so I bumped into him quite often, but I knew him as Mick, not Mike.

We originally met at the opening of The Actress. Crikey, how long ago that seems now.

He had a fox in his window 🤣 Not a real one, obviously.

I only found out that he had died because I hadn't seen him around for a while,  so I mentioned it  on our road WhatsApp group, and someone on there told me.

He had been ill for some time, but he was just in the middle of what must have been extremely expensive private  dental treatment (a lot of implants) so I assume his death was sadly unexpected.

Edited 20 hours ago by Sue

[bob]

Thanks for that Sue.

Bob S