The Fox, Palmers Green

The first mention of The Fox is in 1682. The Society of Tradesmen and Labourers (1794-1825) met there. Before the advent of the motor car, the Fox was the terminus of the horse-drawn bus service into London, run by the Davey family of publicans. The building formerly had stables at the back. The present building was constructed in 1904. In 2002, a dispute between rival Albanian drugs gangs at The Fox spilled out on to the streets of Palmers Green and two men were critically injured and a third man, Edmund Gullhaj (22), was pronounced dead at the scene. The Fox featured in the film of J. K. Rowling's novel Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004). In 2015, the pub became the London…