Queen's Head, Brixton

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Queen's Head, Brixton
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The Queen's Head, Brixton, London SW9
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Queen's Head
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Queen's Head
Queen's Head (Greater London)
General information
Location144 Stockwell Road, Brixton, London, England
Coordinates 51°28′02″N0°07′05″W / 51.467282°N 0.118137°W / 51.467282; -0.118137
Openedc. 1786
ClosedJanuary 2024
Design and construction
Designations
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameQueen's Head Public House
Designated27 March 1981
Reference no. 1064933

The Queen's Head was a pub at 144 Stockwell Road, Brixton, London SW9.

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It is a Grade II listed building, "of Regency appearance with alterations". [1]

History

The pub was originally named The New Queen's Head, and A History of Brixton asserts that it is in its original building from 1786. [2] Brixton Heritage Trails states its construction replaced an older pub with a similar name. [3] The "New" in the name was presumably to differentiate itself from The Old Queen's Head that was also in the same area, then known as Stockwell Green. [4]

In 1894 an accepted tender for "additions and alterations" was reported in the construction trade periodical The Builder. [5]

In the 1990s it was run under the name The Far Side, [2] but by 2001 it was called The Z-Bud. [3]

For some time in the 2010s and early 2020s it was a music venue, and is known as where Fat White Family rehearsed, performed, and put on their own night, Slide-In. [6] [7] [8] The band Shame also started to rehearse there shortly after. [9]

In November 2014 photos emerged of the then landlord dressed in blackface at a party there, with another guest wearing a Ku Klux Klan costume and performing a Nazi salute, causing public outrage that was reported in the national press. [10]

In September 2015 that landlord gave up the lease and it closed. Soon after it reopened under different management as a gastropub focusing on local ales and food, though still with live music and club nights. [11]

As of January 2024 it closed its doors to the public and is currently boarded up. [12]

References

  1. ↑ Historic England. "The New Queen's Head Public House (1064933)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 20 November 2016.
  2. 1 2 Piper, Alan (1996). A History of Brixton. p. 16. ISBN   978-1-873052-07-5.
  3. 1 2 Brixton Heritage Trails. The Brixton Society. 2001. ISBN   1-873052-11-1.
  4. ↑ "The Old Queen's Head, Stockwell Green". London Museum .
  5. ↑ "Tenders - London". The Builder . Vol. 67. 29 September 1894. p. 291.
  6. ↑ Pattison, Louis (9 December 2013). "Fat White Family: 'We want to make your skin crawl'". The Guardian . Retrieved 19 August 2024.
  7. ↑ Bassil, Ryan (14 January 2014). "Finally, a Night of Live Music in London That Doesn't Suck". Noisey . Retrieved 19 August 2024.
  8. ↑ Wilkinson, Matt (14 January 2014). "Fat White Family – 'Touch The Leather'". NME . Retrieved 19 August 2024.
  9. ↑ Wilkinson, Matt (1 July 2016). "Shame Interviewed: 'Our Instruments Would Go Missing And Come Back Blood-Splattered'". NME . Retrieved 19 August 2024.
  10. ↑ Morgan, Ben; Freeman, Simon; Moore-Bridger, Benedict (5 November 2014). "Outrage as Brixton pub landlord blacks up to host Ku Klux Klan themed party". Evening Standard . Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  11. ↑ "The Queen's Head". Time Out . 29 July 2016. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  12. ↑ Urban, Mike (14 May 2024). "The Queen's Head pub in Brixton/Stockwell is now closed and boarded up". Brixton Buzz. Retrieved 19 August 2024.


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