The Archway Tavern, April 1976
London used to be chock-full of Watney's pubs selling nothing but filtered and pasteurised beer dispensed from pressurised kegs. Their demise was triggered by the publication of the 1974 edition of the CAMRA Good Beer Guide in which readers were advised to "...avoid like the plague", I lived in the Highgate/Archway area for a while in 1971/72 and visited this pub only once. I can't remember much about it but I do know that it was not to my liking. The front sleeve picture of the Kinks' 1971 album Muswell Hillbillies was taken in The Archway Tavern, even though it is situated more than two miles away from Muswell Hill. In recent years the pub has operated as a music venue under the names Dusk Till Dawn and Intrepid Fox. Reopened after a four-year closure in October 2019 with its original name but, just as it was when owned by Watney's, it doesn't sell real ale.
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The Archway Tavern, April 1976
London used to be chock-full of Watney's pubs selling nothing but filtered and pasteurised beer dispensed from pressurised kegs. Their demise was triggered by the publication of the 1974 edition of the CAMRA Good Beer Guide in which readers were advised to "...avoid like the plague", I lived in the Highgate/Archway area for a while in 1971/72 and visited this pub only once. I can't remember much about it but I do know that it was not to my liking. The front sleeve picture of the Kinks' 1971 album Muswell Hillbillies was taken in The Archway Tavern, even though it is situated more than two miles away from Muswell Hill. In recent years the pub has operated as a music venue under the names Dusk Till Dawn and Intrepid Fox. Reopened after a four-year closure in October 2019 with its original name but, just as it was when owned by Watney's, it doesn't sell real ale.
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