Downham Tavern has licence suspended for six months

12:11pm Friday 22nd March 2013 in News By Mark Chandler

The Downham Tavern The Downham Tavern

THE Downham Estate's only pub will be closed for six months following a licensing review.

At a meeting last night at Catford Town Hall, which was closed to the press and public, it was agreed to suspend the pub's licence for three months.

Enterprise Inns, which runs the boozer, offered a further three month suspension on top of that, it is understood. The pub's landlord has also been removed from his post.

The decision comes following a large-scale police raid on the pub last month which resulted in 20 arrests for offences including drug and firearm possession.

Downham Tavern was opened in 1930, the only pub on an estate with a population of around 29,000.

- Will you miss the Downham Tavern? Leave your comments below or email mchandler@london.newsquest.co.uk

Comments(11)

goldenbroomboy says...
12:15pm Fri 22 Mar 13

Bring back The Garden Gate!

Erm, on second thoughts, perhaps not.

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banjo8 says...
12:28pm Fri 22 Mar 13

Miss the Downham Tavern - ha, ha, ha, ha, ha and ha again.
Re-arrange the following words:Head, the, like, hole, in, a.

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kentlad says...
1:58pm Fri 22 Mar 13

S@#T Hole close it down or turn it into flats!!!

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Gypo.Joe says...
3:19pm Fri 22 Mar 13

I always did prefer the Northover me self. A much better class of clientelee.

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banjo8 says...
4:14pm Fri 22 Mar 13

Only 20 arrests - some of the regulars must have been up to no good elsewhere then. It could be turned around through, made into a decent pub.

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BettyBoop1947 says...
5:43pm Fri 22 Mar 13

Only used the pub once....that was one too many.

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piglet2011 says...
7:24pm Fri 22 Mar 13

Would prefer to see the whole of Downham closed for six months it is full of crack head chavs who are interbred.

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jaded1 says...
10:25pm Sat 23 Mar 13

But I have a load of stolen stuff to sell,where will I take it now?

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goldenbroomboy says...
1:32pm Sun 24 Mar 13

Gypo.Joe wrote:
I always did prefer the Northover me self. A much better class of clientelee.
Absolutely, the fist that hit you in the face always wore a gold ring.

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Harold_Monk says...
3:04pm Sun 24 Mar 13

Flatten it and build a mosque

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Tmcd says...
10:10am Mon 25 Mar 13

piglet2011 wrote:
Would prefer to see the whole of Downham closed for six months it is full of crack head chavs who are interbred.
Are you going to back up your statement with evidence/sources that Downham is full of "crack head chaves who are interbred". Reason I am asking is that I live there myself and I am neither a crack head chav nor interbred. equally, neither is my partner or our children.

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