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Picture source: Colin Palmer

The Leslie Arms was situated on Lower Addiscombe Road, Croydon. A grade-II listed building in Arts & Crafts style. It was briefly known as Sgt. Peppers in the 1980s.

My wife and I lived on Edward Road from 1992 to 1996 and always used to like the look of the pub as the building was so ornate and interesting. We ventured in for a pint on Sunday afternoon, not long after we moved to the area and within 10 minutes I was challenged to a fight! Needless to say we moved on and didn’t come back. Not surprised it closed; nice pub, shame about the customers!

Adrian Lamberti (August 2012)

The Leslie Arms was re-named ‘Shocks’ sometime in 1984 and held ‘Disco Nights’ on Fridays & Saturdays (with competitions, prizes and ‘fun for all’). Wednesday night featured the ‘Out of Date’ Disco Show and there were ‘Party Nights’ on Thursdays with free ‘bubbly’ for hen/birthday parties. They even put on a ‘Country & Western Night’, with a live band, on Monday, 6th August 1984, which I (and a few others) attended.

Dave Harwood (August 2023)

Listed building details:

Public house. Circa 1900. Arts and Crafts style.Built of red brick with terracotta dressings and tiled roof with brick chimneystacks. Asymmetrical building mainly of two storeys and attics with irregular fenestration, mainly mullioned or mullioned and transomed windows with leaded lights. Exterior: Right corner has a three storey circular tower with four arrowslit windows, ovolo-moulded cornice and metal dome with cylindrical wooden cupola and finial. An elaborate attached wooden braket with three ornamental iron ties holds the inn sign. The next two bays to the left on the front elevation have a five-light dormer with leaded light mullions, fluted Ionic pilasters to sides and ogival copper head. The first floor windows have mullioned and transomed windows with terracotta mouldings and panels above. To the left of this are two Dutch gables with central decorative cast iron drainpipe with rainwater head in shape of a castle, end quoins, triple mullioned window with central pediment to first floor and four-light mullioned and transomed casement to first floor. The bay to the extreme left is of one storey and attics only, with three-light wooden dormer with central pediment. The ground floor has the original continuous bar front with thirteen Ionic pilasters, six-mullioned and transomed multi-pane windows, six round-headed arched openings and panelled risers. Doorcases at either end have curved pediments with female masks, foliage and fluted pilasters. The right side elevation has a curved gable and brick chimneystack with ribs descending part way down the gable.

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Name	Dates	Comments
Dave Smith	1981-1983	I was the landlord of this pub in the dates given, I am from the north east and now reside back there and am no longer in the pub trade.

Other Photos
Picture source: Brian Mortimer
Pub renamed by locals during publican's holiday, 2014	Picture source: Carl Rich