For quite some time after the pandemic, and as I worked my way down the list of RetroReviews to write, I thought this one would be off the list - I had stopped writing up places which were closed down entirely; saving them for later.
And the Turks Head was very closed down, stripped out internally and with little signs of life even as nearly everywhere else in the city returned to a normal level of activity.
However, the pub reopened with a little fanfare in March 2024, after extensive renovations and a four year closure, end to end. Thus ensuring it gets a writeup on this series of posts.
I was here a few times, mainly on the ground floor but occasionally going to the basement club bits; but not within the last ten or maybe even fifteen years at time of writing, so the actual review section of this is going to stay short
This is, or should be anyway, the last RetroReview - I have written up every pub that I visited prior to 2016, which was still open (pandemic pause nonwithstanding) at the time I got to its writeup; and excepting any ones I forgot to put on the list. Those may get caught and written up in the future; but for now, we're done.
However, there is still a handful of places I visited but were already closed by the time I got to write about them - so there'll be some NecroReviews coming soon. A tiny few of those premises may actually reopen but most are dead forever. I'll leave these til the New Year before re-starting; as I will have a significantly reduced number of posts over Christmas anyway.
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