Goldsmiths Tavern
Pub in Lewisham, London, England From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Goldsmiths Tavern was a pub and venue for both live music and comedy located at 316 New Cross Road, in the New Cross area of the London Borough of Lewisham in south-east London.
It was the original venue of Vic Reeves Big Night Out, a live comedy night he started there in 1986 before moving it to the Albany Empire in 1988, and also where Reeves met future comedy partner Bob Mortimer.[1][2] Whilst generally attracting a mixed clientele, it held gay nights in the 1980s and was considered an LGBTQ friendly space.[3][4] Paul O'Grady would also perform there.[5]
The building is still a pub, though now named The New Cross House as it had been previously.[6][7] Nathan Dews' book The History of Deptford from 1884 refers to a pub of that name "at the top of Clifton Hill", and so presumably in roughly the same spot. [8] An issue of the Berkshire Chronicle from 16 July 1825 also refers to an establishment of that name in Deptford.[9] In the 1960s Goldsmiths University students ran a folk club there.[10]
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