Bromley pensioners excluded from Crown & Anchor pub over personal hygiene issue

9:56am Tuesday 9th October 2012 in News By Robert Fisk

Albert Warren and Edward Basting have been turned away from the Crown & Anchor pub Albert Warren and Edward Basting have been turned away from the Crown & Anchor pub

PINT-supping pensioners have had time called on their trips to a pub – until they have a wash.

Crown and Anchor used to be the regular Monday night watering hole for Albert Warren and Edward Basting and they had been drinking there for about a year.

But this all came to an end after the manager of the establishment in Palace Road, Bromley, said he had received several complaints about the personal hygiene of one of the men.

And they were told they would not be allowed back in until they sorted the issue out.

Mr Warren, of Pope Road, Bromley Common, said: “He practically said we stank.

“It’s a bit of a cheek and a bit of an insult.”

The 67-year-old added: “Nobody had ever complained before and we had never had any problems with that pub before.”

And his 69-year-old friend Mr Basting, of Chatterton Road, Bromley Common, said: “It is not really good enough because I cannot see how he can accept us the previous Monday but then the following Monday he says that to us.

“I find it an insult and defamation of character.

“I was shocked when this happened, it is not a nice thing to have happen.”

The pub owner Tom Smith says Mr Warren and Mr Basting are both good customers and his staff tried to deal with the issue as sensitively as they could.

Mr Smith said: “The manager spoke to the two guys outside and did not embarrass them in front of customers.

“We do not wish to exclude people from the premises and all that was said is you must try and do something about your personal hygiene.

“We are not barring them but they need to do something about their personal hygiene and then they will be welcome back in the pub.

“We like the customers we have got to be happy in the setting that we provide.”

The two pensioners have since started drinking in another pub on Monday nights and visit other pubs in the area, including the Chatterton Arms in Chatterton Road, Bromley Common.

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Carparkattendant says...
10:06am Tue 9 Oct 12

It is the pub owners pub and he makes the rules. If someone is putting off other customers from going there it affects his business and he has a right to do someting about it. There are far too many pubs that smell like urinals as it is without the customers contributing to the stink.

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Carparkattendant says...
10:19am Tue 9 Oct 12

They look like Mr & Mrs to me and I certainly won't be going to the Chatterton Arms if it is going to smell in there!

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Polly Staight says...
10:24am Tue 9 Oct 12

Yeah...

Smoking in pubs used to mask the scent of some of the customers...

It's amazing what fascists can achieve when they set out on one of their little campaigns.

Now we can unmask smelly pub customers and deprive them of their tipple.

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rarecockneyguvnor says...
10:45am Tue 9 Oct 12

The pair of you stink, go have a good vash and change your draws.

Seig Heil ............tHaNk yOu

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MFC Lion says...
10:59am Tue 9 Oct 12

If they're so embarrassed about it, why didn't they go home, have a wash, come back, and finish their pints? Instead they were so mortified with embarrassment, they rung the NS agreed to have their photos taken outside the pub and put up in a newspaper and all over the website.

Something smells a little fishy to me..

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Carparkattendant says...
11:00am Tue 9 Oct 12

MFC Lion wrote:
If they're so embarrassed about it, why didn't they go home, have a wash, come back, and finish their pints? Instead they were so mortified with embarrassment, they rung the NS agreed to have their photos taken outside the pub and put up in a newspaper and all over the website.

Something smells a little fishy to me..
Not fishy probably p*ss*y

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toffeeapple says...
11:04am Tue 9 Oct 12

Why should everyone else have to have their pint spoiled by smelly people?

And defamation is only applicable if it's not true...

I'm fed up of smelly people being over sensitive.

Go and have a shower and you won't be 'insulted'.

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Guess who ;) AGAIN ! says...
11:12am Tue 9 Oct 12

Well they look like a couple of old paraffin lamps. P1ssy pants and a couple of old f@rters.

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blogger85 says...
1:53pm Tue 9 Oct 12

I have seen these two in the weatherspoons in Bromley, proped up against the bar usual one of them is sliding a 2p hitting the till (annoying in itself when your waiting to be served) but I agree there is a persoanl hygine issue there and I think if it was affecting the customers then the manager had every right to turn them away.

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ksc says...
2:07pm Tue 9 Oct 12

"And they were told they would not be allowed back in until they sorted the issue out" great news for the Crown regulars,so sorry for the Chatterton (soon to be ex) regulars.

Mr Warren, of Pope Road, Bromley Common, said: “He practically said we stank.
“It’s a bit of a cheek and a bit of an insult.”

1. You do stink.
2. It's not a bit of a cheek it's your whole body and...
3.It's meant to be an insult Einstein, you didn't seem get the meaning of "Will you two f**k off "

And his 69-year-old friend Mr Basting, of Chatterton Road, Bromley Common, said: “It is not really good enough because I cannot see how he can accept us the previous Monday but then the following Monday he says that to us.

Simple, the manager spent the previous Monday searching for a dead and decaying animal that had crawled into the pup, then realised the following Monday that it was you!

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MFC Lion says...
3:17pm Tue 9 Oct 12

ksc wrote:
"And they were told they would not be allowed back in until they sorted the issue out" great news for the Crown regulars,so sorry for the Chatterton (soon to be ex) regulars. Mr Warren, of Pope Road, Bromley Common, said: “He practically said we stank. “It’s a bit of a cheek and a bit of an insult.” 1. You do stink. 2. It's not a bit of a cheek it's your whole body and... 3.It's meant to be an insult Einstein, you didn't seem get the meaning of "Will you two f**k off " And his 69-year-old friend Mr Basting, of Chatterton Road, Bromley Common, said: “It is not really good enough because I cannot see how he can accept us the previous Monday but then the following Monday he says that to us. Simple, the manager spent the previous Monday searching for a dead and decaying animal that had crawled into the pup, then realised the following Monday that it was you!
Rage much? =)

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Oldchap says...
3:58pm Tue 9 Oct 12

"drinking there for about a year. "

So where had they being going before?


"The two pensioners have since started drinking in another pub on Monday nights and visit other pubs in the area, including the Chatterton Arms "

Have they got lower standards?

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Eagles_Man says...
5:12pm Tue 9 Oct 12

"The two pensioners have since started ... visit(ing) other pubs in the area, including the Chatterton Arms in Chatterton Road, Bromley Common."

That saying about 'no such thing as bad publicity'? Ask the landlord of the Chatterton Arms now.

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bizzymum says...
7:41pm Tue 9 Oct 12

Thank you NS - I think that pic is the best I've seen this year. Made my day!

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goldenbroomboy says...
9:18pm Tue 9 Oct 12

Let's look at it another way. Is it not impossible that the posh customers of the Crown & Anchor did not want a couple of old drinkers spoiling their cliquey little pub?

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jaded1 says...
10:13pm Tue 9 Oct 12

So that's what happened to the old gits from Harry Enfield!

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Guess who ;) AGAIN ! says...
12:11pm Wed 10 Oct 12

Look out for these two in Primark buying new underwear.

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Rodders10 says...
1:26pm Wed 10 Oct 12

Soap dodging dirty bast*rds

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Oldchap says...
3:20pm Wed 10 Oct 12

goldenbroomboy wrote:
Let's look at it another way. Is it not impossible that the posh customers of the Crown & Anchor did not want a couple of old drinkers spoiling their cliquey little pub?
Posh customers?

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Invicta58 says...
10:46pm Wed 10 Oct 12

I'm loving the compulsory arm's folded pose. Someone tell them that plastic anoracks can pong a bit.

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Eagles_Man says...
2:02pm Thu 11 Oct 12

Bit of a shame all this.

They just look like a couple of very good friends who like discussing musical theatre over a pint.

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papaleigh says...
9:34am Fri 12 Oct 12

one on the left reminds us of that blogger.... lol

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Gypo.Joe says...
11:37am Fri 12 Oct 12

They would both fit right in dahn the Brickies with the other 'tards' in there.

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Virtual-Monster says...
12:15pm Fri 12 Oct 12

Send em over to Villas Road on the Glyndon estate where they can have a nice free shower following some metal thefts.

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Bestbaz says...
12:20pm Fri 12 Oct 12

No excuse for being smelly. Good on the landlord, other landlors need to follow suit. I now pity their new pub and its regulars. It peevs me big time when I have to endure the stank of anyone who smells.

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josh browser says...
9:49am Sat 13 Oct 12

wonder where erastus piggott had got to!

LOL

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Guess who ;) AGAIN ! says...
11:19am Sat 13 Oct 12

Still banging on about Erastus ...ROFL.

Old Erastus really wound you up didn't he Daley.

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hansmum says...
6:34am Sun 14 Oct 12

If I'd been accused of smelling & thrown out of a pub, I certainly wouldn't want my photo in the local paper!!

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The Navigator says...
9:03pm Sun 14 Oct 12

What happened to Erastus?

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commenting scoffer says...
9:57am Mon 15 Oct 12

...'erastus in the pic" rofl!! poor old erastus - owl smelly knickers!! her christmas brain teaser was laff a minute!! and one of me bestest laffs from defunct blog were her thinking she saw 'les dennis' as a stand-up comic on black-and-white t.v. i rolled on floor laffing big time at that 'cos 'les dennis' would have had to have been around ten year old lad at that time!! all together now... rofl!!

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generalsn says...
4:28pm Wed 31 Oct 12

Since smoking no longer takes place, to help alleviate the affect of lost business, many pubs probably no longer use their ventilation or exhaust fans to save energy costs.

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