Railway Pub to be knocked down in New Year

10:00am Wednesday 10th October 2012 in Echo News By Luke Lambert

The Railway Pub and Hotel will be knocked down next year The Railway Pub and Hotel will be knocked down next year

Pitsea market bosses have confirmed that the Railway Pub will be demolished in the New Year.

The 80-year-old pub and hotel will be knocked down along with the stalls behind the pub and the former Co-Op building, boarded up since 2006, to make way for a new Aldi. For several months traders will continue trading on the lower level and in mid 2013 these traders will be moved onto the new market areas, after the new Aldi store is built.

The only major change will see removal of the lockup units that are currently in place meaning the stalls will be put up and down on the same day.

Frank Nash, director of market operator Charfleets, said despite these changes, everything will be done to cause as little disruption as possible to the market – citing modernising the market as a priority.

Mr Nash said: “We are excited and committed to the modernisation this will bring to Pitsea and making a very popular market that has been in Pitsea since the 1950s grow even more. A priority of both Charfleets and London and Cambridge Properties who own the site is to ensure both the traders and the public of the continuity of the market. This will be done as we will have real road frontage.”

The second phase will see construction work on the new Morrison’s store start later next year.

This follows the announcement that Pitsea Swimming Pool will close in the coming weeks with Basildon Council saying the pool on Northlands Pavement will shut by Sunday, December 2, at the latest.

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GentleGiant says...
10:02am Wed 10 Oct 12

all good news :)

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PJR-121 says...
10:16am Wed 10 Oct 12

"The only major change will see removal of the lockup units that are currently in place"

And a big new Aldi of course...

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Olivia2847 says...
11:04am Wed 10 Oct 12

A shame - why not a Wetherspoon Hotel ? I thought it was a listed building - awaiting stupid and inane replies ........

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Eric Whim says...
12:11pm Wed 10 Oct 12

Olivia2847 wrote:
A shame - why not a Wetherspoon Hotel ? I thought it was a listed building - awaiting stupid and inane replies ........
It's a common misconception that The Ralway is listed.

Wetherspoons would have to spend an absolute fortune in order to bring the old building up to scratch given the extreme delapidation of it- it would not be economically viable for them, apparently.

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Olivia2847 says...
1:25pm Wed 10 Oct 12

Eric Whim wrote:
Olivia2847 wrote:
A shame - why not a Wetherspoon Hotel ? I thought it was a listed building - awaiting stupid and inane replies ........
It's a common misconception that The Ralway is listed.

Wetherspoons would have to spend an absolute fortune in order to bring the old building up to scratch given the extreme delapidation of it- it would not be economically viable for them, apparently.
Better call Mick Norcross in !

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nicknows says...
1:44pm Wed 10 Oct 12

I am so pleased that Aldi are staying. The quality of the products stocked by this store has gone from strength to stength over the last few years. I just hope that people boycott Morrison's as they have said they will. A Marks and Spencer food store would have been better and would have given people not only in Pitsea but surrounding areas a more high class place to food shop.

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AndyBSG says...
2:14pm Wed 10 Oct 12

"A Marks and Spencer food store would have been better and would have given people not only in Pitsea but surrounding areas a more high class place to food shop."

The words "Pitsea" and "High Class" hardly go together.

Worst year of my life spent living in that hole and that's saying something when i've also lived in such delightful places as Canning Town and Glasgow!

An M&S in Pitsea would go out of business quicker than a West Ham FC shop in Tottenham due to lack of customers.

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Eric Whim says...
2:31pm Wed 10 Oct 12

AndyBSG wrote:
"A Marks and Spencer food store would have been better and would have given people not only in Pitsea but surrounding areas a more high class place to food shop." The words "Pitsea" and "High Class" hardly go together. Worst year of my life spent living in that hole and that's saying something when i've also lived in such delightful places as Canning Town and Glasgow! An M&S in Pitsea would go out of business quicker than a West Ham FC shop in Tottenham due to lack of customers.
there's a new M&S food shop opening in the Mayflower retail park soon.

I'm also very happy to see Aldi will still have a store in Pitsea

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naffeville says...
5:25pm Wed 10 Oct 12

They should have reopened the pub, you could have a dirty pint, get harrased by a nutter, sit on piddle, get beaten up, buy crack and stroke the duck all in your lunch hour

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Eric Whim says...
6:00pm Wed 10 Oct 12

where is the money laundering operation posing as a car wash going to go?

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SpaffSpiff84 says...
6:47pm Wed 10 Oct 12

It's 80 years old but is an exact replica of the building that had stood there since 1859, a major piece of the town's history destroyed to make way for a supermarket, typical. i went down church road in basildon yesterday and i couldn't believe how many new homes have been built there it's terrible, both the disabled schools, cranes court, fields behind etc all built over

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Basildon.lad.21 says...
10:37pm Wed 10 Oct 12

nicknows wrote:
I am so pleased that Aldi are staying. The quality of the products stocked by this store has gone from strength to stength over the last few years. I just hope that people boycott Morrison's as they have said they will. A Marks and Spencer food store would have been better and would have given people not only in Pitsea but surrounding areas a more high class place to food shop.
Do you think people in Pitsea could afford M&S food? Aldi will suit them fine, when they are stoned out their faces, they can walk in and stock up on food with their benefit money when they have the munchies.

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sunshine07 says...
11:23pm Wed 10 Oct 12

If Pitsea and its residents were as bad as some people make out then i wouldnt have thought all this investment would be put into it. Alot of people in Pitsea are hard working and pay their own way and own their own homes. Yes we do also have waste of space people too but so does every other town .

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Audioman says...
2:15pm Thu 11 Oct 12

Why o why
A great pub nice beer good company and nice food

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Trainman says...
2:55pm Thu 11 Oct 12

My Fiancee' and I saw how Laindon has been ripped apart for endless new houses, and very few shops, so why Pitsea gets the shops who knows?

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kevinthegerbil says...
4:18pm Thu 11 Oct 12

About time to, would it not be worth taking the rest of pitsea down with it?

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TseTse says...
5:43pm Thu 11 Oct 12

Bye-Bye, Flying Bottle

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andy:) says...
6:38pm Thu 11 Oct 12

As featured on Britains Roughest Pubs :)

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Shoot Ferals says...
9:36am Fri 12 Oct 12

I remember drinking in the Bottle when I was 15 (1977) a pint of Skol was 26p, 5x stout was 30p and a punch in the mouth was free. Alex and Jeannie Cogger run the pub and kept it really well. About time the pub went its an eyesore nowadays, just serves as a car park. Thats the last bar gone in the high road, there used to be three places to get a beer, The Bottle, above the chippy, and inside the cinema well after it was a cinema. An alternative shopping outlet would be good.

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