26/02/2024
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Too many pubs are disappearing
🚨URGENT SUPPORT AND HELP NEEDED 🚨We are heartbroken to announce that Simpsons Tavern, London’s oldest Chophouse, has been forced to close through the cynical actions of our landlord and their agents:
Tavor Holdings Ltd (Landlord Incorporated in Bermuda)
Hartnell Taylor Cook Ltd (Agent)
Memery Crystal (Solicitors)
We remain shocked and dumbfounded by the callus and unnecessary actions they have chosen. Rent has been paid for this quarter to December 2022, bookings taken, and crackers delivered
Their actions are displacing a professional workforce who have been dedicated to the values and traditions of a historic icon at the Heart of the City of London for decades and removed without care or forethought a standard in City life that has stood for Centuries.
We have sat on this site since 1757. We have survived Fires, World Wars, an industrial revolution, a plague (or pandemic as you may call it) and a mini budget for 265 years
I find it hard to express eloquently the pain this is causing and the significance of the damage they are doing.
Whilst these actions are unconscionable, they are not yet irreversible. We would need the help and good will of many but truly believe it to be possible. Firstly, we would ask for help getting the word out to anyone and indeed everyone who maybe able to influence this circumstance. Be it from local paper to local politicians.
We are also campaigning via Facebook and social media to gain support for our S.O.S
If you are aware of anyone who might be able to help, please can you spread the word. We would be grateful, be it old regular or local City Alderman
Lastly, and most critically, we are raising funds for the venue via Crowdfunder:
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-our-simpsons-tavern
We understand it is a difficult time to ask, but it would be a tragedy to see this historic institution lost, so despite the indignity we are asking for any little or a lot that you may spare in the fight to keep this institution alive.
