Beavertown & Spurs to re-open the Corner Pin on Tottenham High Rd
Update 3
The Corner Pin opened on 8th September 2021 and I stopped by on Thursday for a beer and also an unplanned chat with Beavertown owner Logan Plant. I’ll post some more on this in due course.
In the meantime its a good addition to pubs on Tottenham High Rd both space wise (large outdoor area) and beer wise. You can walk from Seven Sisters tube (it takes a while) or buses 149, 259 and 279 stop outside (10 mins from Seven Sisters). Alternatively you can take the overground to White Hart Lane and walk back (5 mins or so). Or if you’re local like me you can just walk
Update 2
It is now reported that the Corner Pin will re-open on Wednesday 1st September. Its positive news for Tottenham, although a lot has happened since Beavertown moved to Tottenham in 2014
Update:
Beavertown are now saying the Corner Pin will open in summer 2021 in time for the 2021/22 season. This starts on 14th August although fixtures won’t be known until mid-June
https://beavertownbrewery.co.uk/pages/corner-pin
Even for lifelong Spurs fans (and local residents) such as myself the recent business activities of the club have proved controversial. Whether it was plan to re-name White Hart Lane station or proposals to take over areas adjacent to the ground the local community were not, it appeared, part of the picture.
The application to re-open the Corner Pin ex-pub (owned by Spurs) which is adjacent to the site of the old stadium on Tottenham High Rd is more welcome.
It was considered by Haringey Council’s planning committee just before Christmas and permission to proceed with the change back to a pub agreed. The Officer noted that the change would enhance the site in a Conservation Area:
http://www.planningservices.haringey.gov.uk/portal/servlets/AttachmentShowServlet?ImageName=1467678
Its part of developments in recent years that have seen closed pubs re-open in the area and entirely new ones appear.
The partnership with Beavertown brewery (another substantial local business part owned by Heineken- who do not appear to be involved here)is also broadly welcome. There is already a Beavertown brewery and bar in the new stadium and a pub will mean (in due course) availability of their beers on a 7 day basis.
The Tottenham Hale brewery has been replaced (although still operating I think) by a massive new Beaverworld brewery at Ponders End and one wonders if the pub will eventually spell the end for the current Tottenham tap facilities.
The CornerPin pub hasn’t operated as a pub for 10 years. It was a ticket office and then a works office for Spurs. According to the report below not a great deal of work is required to revert it to a pub.
It was originally opened as the Park Tavern in 1871 and owned in the twentieth century by Mann,Crossman,Paulin (Mile End) who were taken over by Watneys in 1958. When the name was changed I havent yet been able to discover.
I did occasionally wander into the pub in the 1970s. Its not a huge area (and the application mentions using the upper floors which weren’t previously part of the pub). Given the Watneys ownership there was no drinkable beer, and on a short visit. I suspect I would have had Guinness.
I don’t expect either that Spurs players will be seen in there after a game which certainly did happen in the 1960s (different times all around)
Picture of the Corner Pin
http://tottenham-summerhillroad.com/old_pubs_of_tottenham.htm
Haringey Council Licensing details
The Corner Pin
732 High Road, Tottenham, London, N17 0AG
Ward – Northumberland Park
Regulated Entertainment: Films
Monday to Sunday 8am to 11pm
Recorded Music
Sunday to Thursday 8am to 12 midnight
Friday to Saturday 8am to 2am
Any recorded music entertainment in the beer garden to the premises will finish at 23:00 latest and shall be at such a level to avoid undue disturbance to local residence.
Anything of similar description of Live Music, Recorded Music and Performance Dance
Monday to Sunday 11am to 11pm
Late Night Refreshment
Sunday to Thursday 11pm to 11.30pm
Friday to Saturday 11pm to 1.30am
Supply of Alcohol
Sunday to Thursday 8am to 11.30pm
Friday to Saturday 8am to 1.30am
Supply of alcohol on and off the premises.
Hours open to the public
Sunday to Thursday 8am to 12 midnight
Friday to Saturday 8am to 2am
Type of Premises – Public House
Planning Application HGY/2020/2710
I remember having an Xmas afternoon drink in the Corner Pin with the crew at the old Tibbett & Britten depot just up the High Road a little. We had a few as they say.
There was a function on later at the Haringey Irish Centre which I’d promised to attend.
I did actually make the event – but being a 730pm start & me being in an 11pm condition – I was kindly asked to leave!
I think I got one in to top me up though!
Happy memories – if slightly vague as to what I was drinking at the time.