Memories
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- about last time you visited The Clissold Arms, memories from the Muswell Hill, walks in Fortis Green and pictures taken of each other outside the Front Room in Denmark Terrase 6.
Tuesday, 13 March 2007
Tell-
your
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story
- about last time you visited The Clissold Arms, memories from the Muswell Hill, walks in Fortis Green and pictures taken of each other outside the Front Room in Denmark Terrase 6.
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Muswell Hill, take care of your history.
I've read about the plans of the new tenants of the Clissold Arms, in Fortis Green, Muswell Hill, to turn this pub into a fashionable gastropub.
First of all the news shocked and saddened me as a Kinks fan for more than 40 years. In these years I've visited the Clissold Arms many times. In this historic pub (always good food and drinks), one of British places of birth of rock 'n' roll history, I can find my way with my eyes closed.
I understand that 'the world keeps going around' (Kinks 1965) and 'things are gonna change' (Ray Davies 2005), just as I will believe that the new tenants cannot earn a living from only the visits of Kinks fans.
But hopefully they spare The Kinks corner (the "museum") with it's unique collection of Kinks memorabilia in this pub, as a mark of honour to one of the greatest leading British bands from the sixties, that started it's career in and around the Clissold Arms in Fortis Green, Muswell Hill.
Parts of this collection are two framed photos (Ray and Dave), I took during a gig they did in 1993 in The Beurs of Berlage in Amsterdam (Netherlands). Two photos I've lend out of my personal collection to the earlier tenants of the Clissold Arms.
In case the new tenants persist in selling out the collection (please, think twice and don't do it !) I want them to send back my framed pictures. I cannot allow that these photos, my photos, will be sold in an auction or any other way of selling out.
I hope the new tenants of the Clissold Arms make the right decisions and don't do things they'll regret.
Ruud Kerstiens
Kinks fan since 1964
Waalstraat 13
3433 BA Nieuwegein
The Netherlands
ruud_kerstiens@casema.nl
March 16, 2007.
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