Corporate& Random life11 Sep 2006 09:54 am
Intrepid Fox becomes “luxury apartments”
The stickiest-floored pub in Soho is closing after 222 years.
I’m not personally inconvenienced, as it’s a vile old pit and I never set foot in it if I have a choice in the matter. But I feel duty-bound to make a fuss, because (a) turning old central London buildings into premium housing is an epidemic, (b) goths are an endangered species and destroying more of their natural habitat can only speed their extinction, and (c) the tenuous link of its foxy name.
Despite (a) above, if The Man decides to turn 10 Downing Street into a fun-o-matic edutainment theme park in due course, I shan’t object.
September 11th, 2006 at 10:55 am
I feel sad when bits of our history are taken away, especially when it is for something as mundane as housing.
Where I live every spare piece of land is being turned into housing, and shoddy housing at that, most resembling University campus halls of residence.
September 11th, 2006 at 6:21 pm
Indeed, this is a shame.
Soho is meant to be about sleazy bars, that’s surely the whole point of the place, not ‘luxury apartments’
Grrr…
September 11th, 2006 at 8:02 pm
There’s already plenty of very expensive housing stock in Soho too, on higher floors over the shops & edit suites. Pah.
(No “Nine Eleven” posts for ME, heh)
September 11th, 2006 at 9:37 pm
downing street is a wacky warehouse waiting to happen.
ST
September 12th, 2006 at 7:31 pm
‘luxury apartments’, my arse. overpriced, undersized fucking tosh, they are.