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Olde White Bear

Picture source: T C

 

Ye Olde White Bear was situated at 1 Well Street, closing in 2009, to be converted into a restaurant.
This pub is now used as a restaurant.
T C (December 2011)
Now used as a school form room.
Andrew Holmes (May 2019)
There is promising news about the Old White Bear in Hampstead (NW3 1LJ). According to reports in two local papers, the Ham & High and the Camden New Journal (both 1 September), the pub, which has been closed since 2014 will be open again before Christmas. Sam Moss, who already operates the nearby Haverstock Tavern, has taken a lease on the ground floor and basement from owners, the Max Barney Pub Company and renovation work was in progress in early September. Mr Moss, who also owns the Leeds Brewery, told the Ham & High, “We want to reopen it as a pub at the heart of the community, a proper boozer. We’ll do some food as well but it’s going to be very, very much a pub.” This is a well-deserved triumph for the local community, in particular the Save the Old White Bear campaign, who have defended the pub against development plans and other odd events for seven years. This includes obtaining and recently renewing its Asset of Community Value listing. They never gave up hope of getting their pub back and it is looking as if it was worth the effort
London Drinker Magazine, October/November 2021 edition
Reopened in December 2021.
T C (December 2021)
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