Comments on: The Still & Star Is Saved!

By: John Birch-Coad

John Birch-Coad — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 20:27:27 +0000

My nan and grandad (Noonan) ran the Still and Star from the early 60’s until some time in the 90’s. I never met my grandad as he passed before I was born and my nan ran the pub single handedly with exception to employing bartenders. I have great memories from when I was very young spending Xmas there with my brother and 2 cousins and parents, playing in the bar area and listening to music from the jukebox. Then spending time upstairs above the pub watching tv on school hols while my mum worked behind the bar. A quirky little pub that had a single room on the top floor which was a toilet and also had an uneven floor. Those were the good old days .

By: Kenneth Stewart

Kenneth Stewart — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 15:43:01 +0000

So glad a pub has been saved. Buildings in that area are being shut down or demolished in that area of east London and city. Won’t be know history left soon with all the new ultra modern offices going up.

By: Fern

Fern — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 06:47:01 +0000

Planning permission granted for new development. Long but worth reading. See https://democracy.cityoflondon.gov.uk/mgAi.aspx?ID=108642

By: Mark Taliana

Mark Taliana — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 17:53:46 +0000

Time to save it again!

By: Mark Taliana

Mark Taliana — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 17:43:40 +0000

The application will be considered by the Planning and Transportation Committee on 15 December 2020

By: Mark Taliana

Mark Taliana — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 17:41:57 +0000

I have just received notificated from The City of London have received plans for Demolition of existing structures, Location: 15 Minories, 57-60 & 62 Aldgate High Street And 1 Little Somerset Street London EC3
Proposal: Demolition of existing structures, and erection of a mixed use office building Class B1(a),
including ground floor Class A1, Class A3 and Class A4 uses. (30,901sq.m gea.)

5th December 2020

By: Neil Wager

Neil Wager — Sat, 28 Nov 2020 15:10:38 +0000

Any news on the still and star and what will happen to it?
I’d be very interested to talk to who owns it

By: Paula Sage

Paula Sage — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 16:47:48 +0000

Paula Sage
January 20, 2020

Not sure what is happening with the Still and Star, but unfortunately the website shows “Permanently Closed”.
Mary Anne’s grandparents were my 4xgreat grandparents and I have an ancestry chart showing names and dates.
When Sharon Howells visits London in May, I should be happy to meet up, so perhaps we could find a way to make contact.

By: Sharon Howells

Sharon Howells — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 08:03:01 +0000

I would like to find out if the Still and Star is still operating as a ‘pub’, as my husband and I will be in London during May 2020 and would very much like to visit the Still and Star and hopefully find it still operating. Is there any contact for the people who now may still own it.
A little bit of history below regarding my great, great grandfather who owned this property in the late 1800’s, and if there is someone who reads this and knows some more history, I would very much like to hear from them.

William Edward Atherden birth place Dover, 02 March 1838, died 12 May 1934 in Perth, West Australia. Left home approx 1852/53, joined ship’s crew and travelled to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, jumped ship and walked to Ballarat to join the gold rush. Gold first discovered August 1851. Eureka Stockade 03 December 1854, William was arrested and taken prisoner aged 16. He stayed in Australia a short time before returning to England, but he had amassed considerable amount of money and upon return to England he bought a chain of taverns, one of which was the Still and Star, St Botolph Anglican Church is opposite. He married Mary Ann Martin, both 18 years of age on 08 November 1856 at St Andrew by the Wardrobe, situated in Queen Victoria Street near St Paul’s Cathedral. William and Mary lived in the Still and Star, where their children were born and christened at St Botolph Church. He and Mary had 16 children, one of which was my great grandmother, Clara Louise Atherden, who married Henry Howell. He later returned to Australia, settling in Perth, Western Australia where he died, 1934.
When he passed away, he was the very last survivor of the Eureka Stockade.

Any further information which someone may have regarding the early days of the Still and Star, or current information, present owner and how to contact,would be much appreciated.
thank you Sharon Howells, Perth Western Australia

By: Kathy bradly

Kathy bradly — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 17:32:14 +0000

What is happening with the still and star I managed to go to this pub as my grandma and grandad ran it 1953 name of Beacham shame as my mums pub also been made into flats x?