Queen Vic Model Converted Into Flats

Spring 1999

LONDON The pub that inspired the Queen Vic the College Park Tavern is being converted into apartments. The bar is really in West London, not the East End or fictional Walford.

Fifteen years ago, TV set designer Keith Harris spotted the real-life pub on his way home from work at BBC headquarters and decided it was a perfect model for the TV prop Queen Vic, whose exterior is a facade; interior scenes are shot in an interior set. The real pub is being transformed into 10 one-bedroom flats for the homeless.