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    "into a 27,000 square foot bar serving food and drink to up to 591 customers"
    https://www.standard.co.uk/news/lond...-a4334671.html

    https://www.timeout.com/london/news/...rspoons-011520
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    Quote Originally Posted by hondo View Post
    "into a 27,000 square foot bar serving food and drink to up to 591 customers"

    591 seems remarkably precise. If you turn up as #592 will you be turned away and have the good fortune to have to use the Edgar Wallace instead?

    Joking aside, it's very close to the Knight's Templar - I thought JDW were busy closing branches deemed too close to each other. I wonder which two branches (airports excepted) are currently in closest proximity,

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    Quote Originally Posted by NickDavies View Post
    591 seems remarkably precise. If you turn up as #592 will you be turned away and have the good fortune to have to use the Edgar Wallace instead?

    Joking aside, it's very close to the Knight's Templar - I thought JDW were busy closing branches deemed too close to each other. I wonder which two branches (airports excepted) are currently in closest proximity,
    My guess would be the two in Romford, which are separated only by a branch of Slug & Lettuce.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NickDavies View Post
    591 seems remarkably precise. If you turn up as #592 will you be turned away and have the good fortune to have to use the Edgar Wallace instead?

    Joking aside, it's very close to the Knight's Templar - I thought JDW were busy closing branches deemed too close to each other. I wonder which two branches (airports excepted) are currently in closest proximity,
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    Quote Originally Posted by NickDavies View Post
    591 seems remarkably precise. If you turn up as #592 will you be turned away and have the good fortune to have to use the Edgar Wallace instead?

    Joking aside, it's very close to the Knight's Templar - I thought JDW were busy closing branches deemed too close to each other. I wonder which two branches (airports excepted) are currently in closest proximity,
    My guess would be Derby

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    Quote Originally Posted by NickDavies View Post
    Joking aside, it's very close to the Knight's Templar - I thought JDW were busy closing branches deemed too close to each other. I wonder which two branches (airports excepted) are currently in closest proximity,
    It's mainly been in smaller towns with a Lloyds and a standard one near each other. The one that goes has tended to be the Lloyds but it depends on profitability and whether it's Leasehold. There are still a few towns with two, Bury, Fareham Romford, Loughborough, Windsor, Basingstoke, Aylesbury and Banstable to name a few.
    Old Boots is right, the two in Derby are literally next door. The Romford pair are a few doors apart. I should have had that one in my quiz!
    I think the prediction for later in the year may be optimistic but I won't complain if I'm wrong.

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    Quote Originally Posted by oldboots View Post
    Are they really separate pubs or two shop fronts of the same operation - one set of staff etc?

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    Quote Originally Posted by NickDavies View Post
    Are they really separate pubs or two shop fronts of the same operation - one set of staff etc?
    Nope, definitely separate entities and very different to each other, although the Babington Arms just down the road is better than either of them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by hondo View Post
    "into a 27,000 square foot bar serving food and drink to up to 591 customers"
    https://www.standard.co.uk/news/lond...-a4334671.html

    https://www.timeout.com/london/news/...rspoons-011520
    Indeed. And The ES is bringing up old news: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/lond...-a3848756.html

    Expect it to be called the Palsgrave Head, the pub which was demolished in 1883 to make way for a restaurant which was later converted into the bank - you heard it here first (pre-emptively ducks for cover should prediction prove wrong).

    And how will it fair with https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/23506/ which is essentially in the same street, just another name over the WC2/EC4 border?
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