Star & Garter pub

[EarthBoy]

The Star & Garter had some loyal regular customers, but there were only a few of them, so although it's very sad to see it go, it's no surprise, really. I always wondered why it didn't get more custom from students, being the closest pub to the university, but maybe students prefer their own bars in the students' union, or the bars in town, instead.

[crookedspire]

The Star & Garter had some loyal regular customers, but there were only a few of them, so although it's very sad to see it go, it's no surprise, really. I always wondered why it didn't get more custom from students, being the closest pub to the university, but maybe students prefer their own bars in the students' union, or the bars in town, instead.

 

Depends on bar prices students seem to be targeted with offers. Perhaps the Star and Garter was not aimed at them for some reason .

[Robin-H]

Depends on bar prices students seem to be targeted with offers. Perhaps the Star and Garter was not aimed at them for some reason .

 

I only went to the Star and Garter once when I was a student, and I was based in the Art's Tower.

 

It was not aimed at students at all, seemed very dated.

[Guest makapaka]

I only went to the Star and Garter once when I was a student, and I was based in the Art's Tower.

 

It was not aimed at students at all, seemed very dated.

 

I always thought it was bizarre that a pub opposite the arts tower and down the road from the nursing campus had zero students in it....

 

I am very sympathetic to pubs closing but it's no surprise that one has.

[Bilge]

No-one went in it because it wasn't a good pub. I remember it in the old Tetley days when it was much better and university people went in along with locals and visitors.

 

If pubs don't adapt to changes in the market then they'll fail. The S&G seemed to only welcome 'locals' from the houses nearby. Karaoke and Carling. Increasingly those people don't spend their money in pubs (it's too expensive, other things to do etc etc). So the pub fails.

 

But it could be a thriving pub again with the right management. If it went 'gastro' and 'craft' while retaining its history for example, it could do well. But the owners can't be bothered as it's worth more to simply flatten and replace with a hideous block of flats.

 

We need to think how to retain old buildings such as this. Maybe they could build a block of flats while retaining the pub. The town planning students across the road could use it as a case study.

[taxman]

Permission given to build another block of student flats

[John_S6]

Shame to see another old pub go, but I haven't been in there since I was a child (my dad's cousin used to run it with her husband, probably about 30 years ago now).

[hackey lad]

Permission given to build another block of student flats

 

with no parking spaces

[stpetre]

Permission given to build another block of student flats

 

Wouldn't it be ironic if somewhere they demolished a small block of flats and built a pub ?

[hackey lad]

with all the empty office space in town that would be more viable