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Date of photo: 1970s	Picture source: Jill Lane
The Town House was situated at 36 High Street. This pub was previously known as The Tavern In The Town and is now used as a bar called Mojama.
I worked behind the bar in 1968/69. Chef & Brewer house, It had not long opened. First three months it was mostly closed on a monday for repairs, Croydon was rough! I started after that. Dickens theme, six bars three restos. Cellar bar and Fagin's which was mine, downstairs, Pickwick at street level, Micawber upstairs, Copperfield, can't remember other names. Beer was 17.5p, tots 12.5p, 22.5p a double. I took £120 on a friday night. Wages £18, for 11 out of 14 sessions. Work 10 til 3, then 5 til 11.30. 67 hours or so. Cellar bar was a square in the centre of the room, if trouble kicked off we pulled the shutters down and rang for the floor managers. Usually the 'trouble' got chucked down the back stairs to Surrey St. There was a free juke box, but no matter what you selected it played all the discs in order, and we had swapped some out for our favourites, no one noticed that Pinball wizard came out as Jim Reeves. I got the sack in Sept 69. My stock went awry, couldn't explain it so out I went. Then later found out that a floor manager, who was also changing barrels, booked them out to all the bars except the one where his girlfriend worked, then they had done a flit.
Jonathan Fletcher (February 2021)
I grew up in Croydon - and I still have the original Gents Toilet sign from this pub! When I was at school I was walking down South End in Croydon with a friend of mine, and we saw this sign lying on the pavement. I said to my mate "Do you want it?" . He said "No, but do you want it?" So I took it home. A couple of years later I was old enough to drink (ahem) and went to the Tavern In The Town. When I went to the loo I noticed that the gents sign was missing, and the ladies sign was there, with identical design! The sign is still attached proudly to my loo door.
Hans Wurst (December 2021)
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Name Dates Comments John Cannon 1970s Joe Sheehan work in The Cellar Bar I don't know if he ever made it as a manager had potential
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Picture source: Ewan M
Original Gents sign	Picture source: Hans Wurst