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The Duke Of Greenwich was situated at 91 Colomb Street. Formerly The Duke of Edinburgh and the Vanbrugh / Vanbrugh Tavern, this pub closed in 2025.

Source: Ian Chapman

Local news website, the Greenwich Wire, has reported that the Duke of Greenwich in east Greenwich (SE10 9EZ) has closed. The pub was previously called the Duke of Edinburgh and later the Vanbrugh Tavern. It is reported that the operators, Hucknall Pubs Ltd, have not been able to agree terms with the freeholders. The pub was sold by Punch Taverns in 2013 to property developers Hamna Wakaf. Regular readers may recognise that name. It closed in March 2022 when the long-standing licensee retired and was reopened by Hucknall Pubs in July 2023. The company also operate the Jolly Gardeners in Kennington (SE11 6AB). There had been a dispute in 2020 over a planning application to build on land behind the pub, which the freeholder won, but the permission was never used. Presumably, now that the pub is empty, something more ambitious may be on the cards. The Isle of Man-based Hamna Wakaf, incidentally, has links to the property developer Asif Aziz. The on-line news site, The Londoner, (www.the-londoner.co.uk) published a very informative article on his activities on 16 August. Readers may find it worth a look.

London Drinker magazine, October/November 2025

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