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The New Fountain was situated at 860 Garratt Lane. This pub was previously known as The Gin Palace. It closed c2002 and was subsequently demolished, with an accountants office and flats built on the site.

Source: Chris Narozny

In the early 1990s I used to dj at the Tooting Gin Palace. We had a 60s and 70s night on a Tuesday. To try and boost the crowd numbers the owners would sometimes book Capital Gold dj's to work with me. I was amazed when Paul Burnett turned up one night and brought no records with him ! I played all the tunes while he swanned around with a radio Mic schmoozing the customers. And he got paid about ten times more than me! Nice guy though so 30 years on I'm not bitter.

Paul Partridge, then known as Paul Smash (June 2020)

I remember when it was the Fountain Hotel (prior to gin Palace) there were monthly ballroom and Latin dance competitions upstairs, promoted by Pam Maycock, there were regular competitors (Pete and Jenny, Ken and Angie come to mind) and good times were had but it did get very hot in the summer. In particular we had to go downstairs to the main pub for liquid refreshments and as it was Sunday it was full of bikers, it took some guts to go down there in our competition dress but was always good humoured and we got the impression that if anybody stepped out of line they would have been rapidly put in line by the others in the bar. We stopped going when we started our family. Shame its gone.

Martin Denny (November 2022)

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