6/15/2023 0 Comments Tavern keeper sleeping beauty a.n.This is still a traditional community pub where all are welcome. The kitchen has been renovated and food is now available again, including burgers, pizzas, early breakfasts and Sunday roasts. They are starting with three hand pumped beers to revive custom which had dropped away almost completely. ![]() The Cricketers was taken over in July 2017 by new leaseholders, who have done a great job in revamping the pub, deep cleaning everything, putting in new flooring and some new furniture and installing six new handpumps. Claret & Ale (020) 8656 7452 5 Bingham Corner, Lower Addiscombe Road.It is rumoured that the pub survived demolition in the 1970s as part of the building of the Beaconsfield Road Council Estate next door because the then Leader of the Council was a regular there. It still retains its original garden and some of the trees." It survived the rebuilding in the area, was renovated and added to although the original house can still be seen. The pub passed to the Law Guarantee Trust and in 1909 to Charringtons. The area around that part of Acton Lane was built up rapidly during that period. The pub is however first recorded in 1871 when the publican was James Brown who owned the house when it passed to the Phoenix Brewery, Latimer Road. Acton Lane is an ancient way and there was a cluster of cottages here in early days. On the corner of this last turn stands the Swan. "At the Acton Green end of Acton Lane, the lane takes a sharp right turn and then a left turn round an old field boundary. The pub exterior regularly appeared in a 1980s sitcom, and familiar faces from current TV can often now be seen. The ever-present Timothy Taylors Landlord is joined by St Austell Tribute. ![]() ![]() Street corner pub dating from 1871, which retains a local drinking character despite the addition of a well-regarded gastropub area into part of the original garden – still one of the best pub gardens in West London.
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