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Campaign for Real Ale

Campaign for Real Ale

Londesborough

36 Barbauld Road
Stoke Newington
N16 0SS
Emailmoc.hguorobsednoleht@tae Telephone(020) 7254 5865
Real AleFamily FriendlyGardenLunchtime MealsEvening MealsDog FriendlyWiFiLive Music
Opening times: Mon–Fri 17:00-23:00; Sat 10:00-23:00; Sun 12:00-22:30

See more about this pub on WhatPub, CAMRA's national pub guide.

Refurbished in minimalist style with exposed brickwork, and large retro style chairs and benches. A late licence has been applied for Friday and Saturday to midnight.

From the pub's website

A Victorian meeting place

Public houses in Stoke Newington were used for many social activities. Four houses including the Londesborough, had billiard licences in 1879. Almost all the friendly societies met at taverns because there were no other secular meeting places, apart from coffee houses in the mid-18th century and assembly rooms in the 19th century,

The Pride of Stoke Newington met at the Londesborough Tavern from 1860 to 1864. By c.1870 there were some 25 Taverns and Beer shops in Stoke Newington and the detached portions of South Hornsey, many at the corners of new roads in spite of opposition, mainly from nonconformist Sunday schools and abstinence associations.

In the 1960's, the Londesborough was one of the pubs that the notorious Kray Twins took a drink in.