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[[File:Joiners Arms, Shoreditch, E2 (7371431390).jpg|thumb|The Joiners Arms]]The '''Joiners Arms''' is a gay pub in Hackney Road, [[Shoreditch]], in the [[East End]] of London. It was taken over in 1997 by [[David Pollard]],<ref>[https://thejoinersliveson.wordpress.com/the-history-of-the-joiners-arms/ "The History of the Joiners"], ''The Joiners Lives on'' ([https://web.archive.org/web/20190108133952/https://thejoinersliveson.wordpress.com/the-history-of-the-joiners-arms/ Archived version] as at January 2019).</ref> who described it at that time as "the first new gay pub under a Labour Government".<ref>http://www.thejoinershoreditch.com/#!history/c1fj6. Accessed: 2014-12-06. [Dead link]</ref>

In 2014 it was announced that the pub would have to close at the end of its lease in January 2015. At the end of 2014 the [[Friends of the Joiners Arms]] was founded, with the aim of saving the pub. In 2017,  [[Tower Hamlets]] council granted permission to develop the site on condition that the development should include a pub, to be run as an LGBTQI+ venue with a lease of 25 years, and with opening hours mirroring those of the original Joiners Arms.<ref>[https://thejoinersliveson.wordpress.com/about-us/ "About us"], ''The Joiners Lives on'' ([https://thejoinersliveson.wordpress.com/about-us/ Archived version] as at January 2019).</ref>

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[[Category:Pubs and bars]]
[[Category:East End]]
[[Category:Tower Hamlets]]