The Flora
Pub in Kensal Green, London
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The Flora, also known as The Flora Hotel, is a pub at 525 Harrow Road, Kensal Green, London W10. It backs onto the Grand Union Canal. It is a Taylor Walker pub.
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As of December 2017, the pub is closed and boarded up.[1] Planning consent has been given to convert the upper floors into residential use, a roof extension, and a five-storey building where the beer garden was, and with the ground floor to continue as a pub.[2]
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History
The pub was known as The Flora Arms in at least 1881 and 1896.[4] In the nineteenth century, as The Flora Hotel, the building was the location for a number of inquests into deaths in the Kensal Green area. Thomas Robinson Dipple was the publican for many years, from at least 1904 to 1921.[4] Sometimes described as an "Irish" pub due to the large Irish community in the area, in the twentieth century the pub has been a favourite watering hole for supporters of the local football team Queen's Park Rangers.
