217 Greenwich High Road

Greenwich

Above photo, circa 2011.

Housed in (Thomas) Moore's Auction Rooms after they closed on his retirement from full-time business there since the early/mid 1980s. Previously the premises had been a large shop, Pieter van der Merwe says the "Auctioneer" opened around 1998-2000.

Changed name to the "Lost Hour" date of name change, probably at the same time as the Stonegate Pub company bought the premises. This company was formed in 2010 by private equity firm TDR Capital, after it purchased 235 pubs from Mitchells & Butlers. Originally trading from rented offices near Birmingham airport it then moved its operations office to Capability Green in Luton in June 2011 when Stonegate brought Town & City Pub Company, creating the largest privately held managed pub operator in the UK and acquiring the Yates's and Slug and Lettuce brands in the process.

In April 2013, the company announced a debt issuance via Morgan Stanley, allowing the equity investors to refinance existing debt and release cash from the company for their own purposes.

In November 2015, Stonegate acquired 53 pubs from Tattershall Castle Group (TCG) including the Henry's Café Bar and Tattershall Castle brands. In January 2016 the company began a programme to update the former TCG estate pubs and re-brand many of the venues to Slug and Lettuce to further develop the brand. In June 2015 it was reported that Stonegate Pub Company had bought 15 pubs owned by MacLay Inns (A former brewing company based in Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland) from administration.

Brands.

The company operates the Scream, Slug and Lettuce, Yates's, Common Room, Henry's Café Bar, Missoula and Social Squirrel brands as well as numerous unbranded pubs. They are also rolling out the Popworld Brand across the UK replacing some of the old Flares and Reflex Estate.

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