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It is very important for the whole world of rock music, to save  this pub!

I think that everyone is able to recognice my and others opinion!

Please do so and let the pub as it is!

God save the KINKS and their first stage!!!

Best regards,

Volker Thrun
Austria

The Queen Alexandra pub opposite was the pub that Ray and Dave used, as their Dad, Fred, used the Clissold.  They have album covers and musicians' photos on the wall, so the landlord there might be interested in taking the memorabilia.

Mike Kraus, the American fan who set The Kinks wall up in the Clissold Arms, passed away a few years ago, and I think it is important that his heritage is not destroyed.

If the items are auctioned, who will get the money?  The new landlady?

I organise Kinks fans get togethers, the night before the Kinks fanclub gig, and when we were at the Clissold Arms, the Manager, John Dick, was delighted to have us there playing and singing Kinks songs (a free gig!).  When the CAMRA event was planned, he asked me to get some Kinks fans together to make some music.

We now have to try and find local pubs to have a gathering in, ones which don't have the heritage, and don't quite understand what we're about.! 

I also run an Unofficial Kinks Tour, and take fans around the Kinks London haunts, which always involved a meal at The Clissold Arms.  We certainly won't feel welcome in future.

It is a shame that certain people think that The Kinks and good eating don't go together! I also suppose that the back of the pub will be modernised now.  I loved the old fashioned cosiness it had. Such is progress :-(

Olga Ruocco
UK

The Kinks connection with the Clissold Arms must be maintained and the memorabilia collection kept intact at the pub. So many pubs in the UK are faceless and characterless these days, simply seen as a means of cramming as many teenagers as possible into as small a space as possible and sell them as much booze as possible before they fall down in the street.

The character of pubs like the Clissold Arms should be preserved, and any establishment lucky enough to have a link with one of the world’s greatest and most influential rock bands should preserve and celebrate that link. Intelligent people will always seek out such establishments for their historical significance.

Michael

Dear Madam/Sir,

I deeply want to express my sad feelings, ever since I heard the `Clissold Arms pub` will be giving a total new destination, without the preservation of the prove what has happened there, the significant importance of the startingpoint of the Kinks. Which eventually led to a CBE award for the leader, singer and writer Ray Davies in 2004. One of the highest awards of The British Empire.

The Clissold Arms is so important to so many people all over the world, who know about the place and visit it on a regular basis. This has got to do with culture of the purest form.

I sincerely hope there is a chance the new owners will honor and respect the past and give the pub the possibility to endure that extra atmosphere that’s been there for more over 4 decades.

No need to say I´m a regular visitor also, even though I live in Holland

Please, reconsider and use this small, but oh so important place in the `Kinkdom` with respect for the days of old. Give it a corner or a wall. That´s all it needs.

Btw, it will bring you profit and prosperity.

Thank you.

Henny S. Stahli

Diemen-Holland