Harvester

[Sue]

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> Perhaps it should be an abattoir in tandem with

> curries. From hoof to plate should be a USP.

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They could keep the animals on the roof, like The Patch with their vegetables :))

[Louisa]

I reckon if Youngs took the site on and had the team behind Dulwich Wood House going in to sort it out as some sort of 'sister' pub/dining experience, they could promote walks through the woods connecting the two establishments I can't think of anything better than a nice summers day walk between the two places for a beer or even in winter a nice open log fire in both. Foresight is needed with this one. Come on Dulwich Estate put those thinking caps on please.

Louisa.

[dullwitch]

Louisa Wrote:

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> I reckon if Youngs took the site on and had the

> team behind Dulwich Wood House going in to sort it

> out as some sort of 'sister' pub/dining

> experience, they could promote walks through the

> woods connecting the two establishments I can't

> think of anything better than a nice summers day

> walk between the two places for a beer or even in

> winter a nice open log fire in both. Foresight is

> needed with this one. Come on Dulwich Estate put

> those thinking caps on please.

>

> Louisa.

I actually emailed Youngs a year ago after being so impressed by a stay in one of their hotels in Claygate.

I suggested the Harverster as a location, but didn't hear anything back from them.

I think a hotel in the area would be great. There are so many wedding venues around here that it would make sense to have somewhere nearby for guests to stay.

[steveo]

I remember the garden had aviaries

And so did the park

[Applespider]

Louisa - that would be lovely! I often walk between the two areas but having the opportunity for a beer at both ends would be lovely!

[Jah Lush]

Louisa Wrote:

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> I reckon if Youngs took the site on and had the

> team behind Dulwich Wood House going in to sort it

> out as some sort of 'sister' pub/dining

> experience, they could promote walks through the

> woods connecting the two establishments I can't

> think of anything better than a nice summers day

> walk between the two places for a beer or even in

> winter a nice open log fire in both. >

> Louisa.

Used to do that many moons ago.

[stevie23b]

be brill you could spend 4 hours there with a pint of obscure real and the guardian utter bliss

[stevie23b]

only the one pint !

[Jah Lush]

Pah! Fecking lightweight.

[DulwichFox]

Youngs are no longer what they used to be.

Look what they have done to the Clock House. and the Dulwich Wood House.

Ale has become secondary to overpriced mediocre food.

No better than the old Harvester but twice the price.

DulwichFox.

[Earl Aelfheah]

Sounds like a great idea.

Louisa Wrote:

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> I reckon if Youngs took the site on and had the

> team behind Dulwich Wood House going in to sort it

> out as some sort of 'sister' pub/dining

> experience, they could promote walks through the

> woods connecting the two establishments I can't

> think of anything better than a nice summers day

> walk between the two places for a beer or even in

> winter a nice open log fire in both. Foresight is

> needed with this one. Come on Dulwich Estate put

> those thinking caps on please.

>

> Louisa.

[Jeremy]

With a secret woodland pitstop in the middle, serving hot buttered rum and barbecued squirrel.

[Jah Lush]

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> Youngs are no longer what they used to be.

>

> Look what they have done to the Clock House. and

> the Dulwich Wood House.

>

> Ale has become secondary to overpriced mediocre

> food.

> No better than the old Harvester but twice the

> price.

>

> DulwichFox.

Spot on. What were once two great pubs have been completely ruined so much so they no longer resemble pubs. The Clock House has had the most horrific makeover that makes it look like some awful ersatz pizza chain restaurant whilst The Dulwich Woodhouse resembles a Berni Inn from the 70s.

[Jeremy]

The Clock House reminds me of a bar in a Jurys Inn (or wherever it was that Alan Partridge lived).

[*Bob*]

Dulwich Wood House epitomised the very essence of the 'crap, expensive roast' - unless it's changed last time I ate there.

Like so many other places it could be a goldmine - out of the bog-standard hands of a lacklustre chain.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

It seems there is a fatal flaw in my cunning plan for the Harvester:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2547492/Flatulent-cows-cause-methane-explosion-German-dairy-farm-nearly-takes-entire-barn-roof.html

[Whittler]

As someone who owns a property on Dulwich Estate land, which means having to deal with them on a fairly regular basis, all i can say is that this: "Foresight is needed with this one. Come on Dulwich Estate put those thinking caps on please" is a wildly optimistic request.

Glacial is the word i would use with regard to the pace at which things happen with them.

Glacial.

And stifling.

[intexasatthe moment]

Spot on Whittler .

But then I guess that's why the Pathe News clip here http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,1260573 looks so up to date and recognisable today .

[Sue]

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> It seems there is a fatal flaw in my cunning plan

> for the Harvester:

>

> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2547492/Fl

> atulent-cows-cause-methane-explosion-German-dairy-

> farm-nearly-takes-entire-barn-roof.html

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:))

ETA: But if the cows were on the roof, as I suggested, at least they couldn't blow the roof off :))

[Sue]

Last time I went to the Wood House I nearly lost the will to live. Shame, given it's so near the woods and would be a nice place to go after a walk.

Quite like the new Clock House decor, and it seems to me a vast improvement on how it was before, especially at the back, but I would not eat there again unless I was desperate.

And I don't think I could ever be that desperate .....

[chatterb0x]

Toby Carvery is a great shout...

Last thing we need is another supermarket, hope they do something good with it though, it's sooo close to where I live!

[wavyline girl]

I presume it has listed status?

Am I right in thinking that Robert Browning went to school here? obviously not when it was a pub!

Would love to see it come back to life as a pub/ restaurant again. Have many happy memories of it as the Grove.

Then it got ruined, much as the Woodhouse did.

[Jah Lush]

Not Robert Browning, Wavyline Girl, Lord Byron went to school on the site there. Hence you have Byron House on the nearby estate.

[the-e-dealer]

Why would the council persuade someone to allow a tesco?

[unlurked]

Lib(con)dems are pushing for yet another school and you can bet this site hasn't gone unnoticed. .