Posted on 01/27/2021 10:56:22 AM PST by mylife
A historic pub in the centre of Oxford that has served students, scholars and literary greats for over 450 years is to close.
The Lamb and Flag, once frequented by the likes of Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien and his friend C.S. Lewis, who wrote The Chronicles of Narnia, has suffered a disastrous loss of revenues since the start of the pandemic.
It first opened in 1566 and moved to its present location on St Giles, a broad thoroughfare in the city centre, in 1613. It is owned by St John’s College, one of 45 colleges and private halls that make up the University of Oxford.
“The Lamb and Flag, like many other businesses in the hospitality industry, has been hard hit by the pandemic,” said Steve Elston, deputy bursar of St John’s, in a statement announcing the pub would close on Jan. 31.
“The trading figures of the last 12 months have meant that the pub is not currently financially viable.”
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Try opening the doors you silly Limeys.
My current VFW is 100 years old and has been shuttered since early march.
It may never recover and is historic.
The Chinese flu will enable the CCP to buy up the entire world for pennies on the dollar.
It’s almost as if it was a biological weapon and we lost the first biological war.
I agree.
Hope “The Trip To Jerusalem” is still open.
I thought that the Eagle & Child (aka “Bird & Baby”) was the Tolkien/Lewis watering hole?
I thought it was The Prancing Pony?
Almost?
dunno, I never lifted a pint with either of them.
So it survived the plague of 1625, and the Great Plague of 1665, but couldn’t survive Covid19?
My local VFW is an old Quonset Hut. It’s been open since August. We live in Florida.
Owned by St. John’s College. I wonder what kind of endowment they have. I guess it’s nothing like Harvard’s, but I wonder why they won’t use any of it to keep a historic building and business going till this clears up. Are they as stingy as Harvard?
My post in Tx was originally an army barracks, the sacred meeting room is in the original structure, it too remains closed :(
Apparently.
I have never seen such wide spread panic.
It couldn't survive a political narrative. Covid was only the vehicle.
Yeah I wondered about the college connection, but if you have no students, you have no customers.
It’s seriously effed up.
“So it survived the plague of 1625, and the Great Plague of 1665, but couldn’t survive Covid19?”
The UK was not cursed with the Democrat Party back then. If it had, it’d be long gone.
Good point. I think that was before democrats were invented.
“in the darkest depths of Mordor I met a PUB so fair. But Gollum and the evil one Crept up and slipped away with her”
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