The Bell, Walthamstow - pub details
Address: 617, Forest Rd, Walthamstow, London, E17 4NE [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 5464) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
Walthamstow Central (0.5 miles)
Walthamstow Central (0.6 miles), Wood Street (0.6 miles), Walthamstow Queens Road (0.8 miles)
Pub suggested by missiley belch on 19 Nov 2003
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Walthamstow Trades Hall Club, Walthamstow (0.2 miles), Rose and Crown, Walthamstow (0.3 miles), Victoria, Walthamstow (0.3 miles), College Arms, Walthamstow (0.3 miles), Lord Brooke, Walthamstow (0.4 miles) - see more nearby pubs
user reviews of the Bell, Walthamstow
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| The pub is a beautiful building with great character, and would be a great venue for music and the like, shame about who is left to run it. It has had several managers in as many months, and the most recent is taking it back to it's dark days which gained the venue its bad reputation. He has been conning entertainers into doing gigs there, getting them to do his dirty work (making up his posters, doing all the advertisement where he does none etc) and then refusing to pay them at the end of the night. A pub to avoid until the brewery get the message and put someone respectable and honest in place. It will continue falling into ruin until it is turned into flats and lost forever unless it cleans up it's act. Warning to all Dj's and musicians, either don't work there or make sure you get paid upfront first, he WILL try to get out of paying nic811241 - 19 Nov 2011 15:03 |
| I visited this place for the first time last week and thought it was quite decent. I only went there because a couple of bands who are friends of mine were playing over the weekend. The venue has a new manager and the pub certainly didn't seem like the same place mentioned in many of the earlier reviews here. Nice looking girls behind the bar and I always got served quickly, although to be fair it wasn't busy. Real ale for under £3 a pint was a bonus - particularly for somewhere with live music. The new manager has plans to turn the pub into a more serious live music venue - particularly with the forthcoming closure of the legendary Royal Standard later this year. There was a wide mixture of clientelle on the couple of nights I visited, but I didn't notice anyone particularly dodgy so hopefully this place is putting it's dubious past behind it. The gents toilet was a bit small and cramped for a pub of this size, but apart from that no complaints and will be happy to go there again. DarkLordOfBarnet - 1 Oct 2011 14:46 |
| Let's not give up on the place just yet! New manager has introduced St Austell Tribute - well kept and reasonably priced - plans guest ciders during the summer, and has started putting on gigs. Its best hope for the future would be to become a full-on music pub - the Plough has closed and the Standard is set to follow suit in December, so there's a definite gap in the market there and the building is ideally suited to it. E17Bee - 17 Jul 2011 17:03 |
| I just wish a housing developer would put the beautiful building out of if misery and refurb it into some flats! godson - 29 Jun 2011 21:36 |
| Reopened again, reportedly under a temporary manager while Enterprise Inns look for a new tenant. E17Bee - 18 Apr 2011 11:43 |
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