{"id":29733,"date":"2021-04-16T18:04:49","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T17:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=29733"},"modified":"2023-11-14T16:53:20","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T16:53:20","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-international-doorstep-historic-london-pub-to-reopen-six-years-after-being-bulldozed-by-israeli-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=29733","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the (international) doorstep\u2019: Historic London pub to reopen six years after being bulldozed by Israeli company"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carlton Tavern is to re-open; the only building on its block to survive Nazi blitz, which was ordered rebuilt \u2018brick-by-brick\u2019 after it was illegally knocked down by an Israeli development company, The Times of Israel<\/em> reports.<\/h3>\n

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\u2026 heritage site will reopen \u2026. six years after the city council ordered it rebuilt \u2018brick-by-brick\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n

\u2026 fully booked for the next two weeks\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n

The Times of Israel<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n

A historic London pub that was illegally knocked down by an Israeli development company two days before it was set to be declared a heritage site will reopen Monday, six years after the city council ordered it rebuilt \u201cbrick-by-brick.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Carlton Tavern in Maida Vale, West London, was the only building on its block to survive the Nazi blitz in World War II, and will be one of the thousands of pubs across Britain that will open their doors Monday as the country lifts some coronavirus restrictions.<\/p>\n

The Carlton Tavern was demolished without permission in 2015 by an Israeli-owned development firm CTLX LTD, which intended to build an apartment block on the site.<\/p>\n

The demolition of the historic pub \u2014 first built in the 1860\u2019s, destroyed in World War I by a German Zeppelin bomb, and then rebuilt in the 1920\u2019s \u2014 sparked an outcry and a petition to the local council.<\/p>\n

The demolition happened just two days before Historic England was due to recommend the pub be granted Grade-II listed status.<\/p>\n

The Westminster City Council told CTLX to rebuild the pub \u201cbrick by brick.\u201d The company refused and appealed, but local authorities upheld the order.<\/p>\n

CLTX is a relatively unknown company with only one listed director, Tel Aviv lawyer Ori Calif, according to the Ha\u2019aretz daily.<\/p>\n

The reopening was delayed by several successive coronavirus lockdowns. The new owners had initially planned to reopen in May, but when the British government announced that pubs could open on April 12, they rushed to get ready.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince it\u2019s been announced, it\u2019s gone absolutely crazy. We are fully booked for the next two weeks and our website isn\u2019t even up yet,\u201d Tom Rees told the\u00a0Daily Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to have to sacrifice a few things like some furniture inside that we were hoping to have ready for the opening which will hopefully be completed when we can get customers indoors,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Parts of the new bar, fireplace and bannister have been reclaimed from the rubble of the pub, which gives it \u201ccharacter and charm,\u201d he told the paper.<\/p>\n

Rees added: \u2018It\u2019s a really good commercial opportunity. We love this romantic idea of bringing this pub back….<\/p>\n

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Carlton Tavern is to re-open; the only building on its block to survive Nazi blitz, which was ordered rebuilt \u2018brick-by-brick\u2019 after it was illegally knocked down by an Israeli development company, The Times of Israel reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29733"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38188,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29733\/revisions\/38188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}