Grand Union

• YOU report (Overhaul for pub opposite station, July 27) that the corner pub opposite Camden Road station, currently known as The Grand Union, is to change hands with a new name.

What a pity the new owner is to name the pub The Draught House when, for the best part of 150 years it was known as The Eagle. Not any old eagle, either, for the pub was centre stage in the famous Camden Town Murder of 1907.

Now the Royal College Street side of the premises is a disgrace, a veritable local eyesore.

A number of bins for business waste and recycling, outside the pub, are in poor condition, with lids missing, and there’s nearly always a fair amount of rubbish on the ground, around and underneath the bins.

Advertising displays on the pub’s external wall, mostly not used, have glass or perspex doors that don’t stay closed.

LESTER MAY
Reachview Close, NW1