The Forester, West Ealing
This distinctive pub, designed by T H Nowell Parr and dating from 1909, is graded ‘three star’ on CAMRA’s Pub Heritage system. It was acquired by Fuller’s in 2012, subject to a lease to the then operators MC Bars. That lease has now expired and the pub closed on 18 June. It has now reopened as a Fuller’s managed house and had reinstated the 10% CAMRA discount off real ales. The full address is 2 Leighton Road W13 9EP.
The Forester (photo courtesy of Fuller’s)
Endangered Buildings
On 20 June the Victorian Society announced their Top Ten Endangered Buildings for 2023. There was one pub and one club on the list. The pub was the Coach and Horses Hotel in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear. It was built in 1907 for W B Reed & Co in the Jacobean style and is Grade II listed.
The club is the former Constitutional Club in Silver Street, Lincoln. It closed as a club in 1996 and has since been a night club and a restaurant but, since 2020, this imposing red brick building has been vacant and is in need of restoration. It was built in 1895 by William Watkins and is Grade II listed.
The full list of the ten buildings in question is available at https://bit.ly/3qX8oX5. Readers may be interested to know that the list also includes Liverpool Street Station and the former Great Eastern Hotel because of the redevelopment currently proposed. The station is Grade II listed and the hotel is Grade II*.