Central Station: PLEASE NOTE THAT THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN AND CAN BE FOUND AT COMPAINIES HOUSE, D WALD INSOLVENCY SERVICES WEMBLEY, HER MAJESTY'S COURT SERVICES (GEE STREET, CLERKENWELL) & NORTHAMPTONSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL LICENSING DEPARTMENT
Martin Mason and Duncan Irvine may not personally be financially bankrupt, but the same cannot be said of their companies. On the basis of the following, you can decide for yourself whether you think they are morally bankrupt.
Also to dispell any other rumours about their licence for the venue. Here is what really happened so the bit in Boyz about an "Admin error" was total fantacy. The truth is they lost the licence as the limited company went bust...see below.
The Companies House WebCHeck service shows as a matter of public record:
Company no. 03374906 - Central Station (Kings Cross) Ltd - In Liquidation
Company no. 03227408 - Central Station (UK) Ltd - In Liquidation
Company no. 06610206 - Bartie and Hector Ltd
The directors of all 3 are or were Martin Mason and Duncan Irvine
Access WebCHeck from http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/
Company no. 03374906 - Central Station (Kings Cross) Ltd
16/07/2008 - Resolution passed my members agreeing to wind up the company voluntarily and appointing a Liquidator. Company wound up by reason of its liabilities amounting to over £325,000 due to over 20 creditors including Inland Revenue, Customs, NI contributions agency, HSBC, EDF energy, Boyz, QX & MA1 and numerous other suppliers.
21/07/2008 - Judgement given in the Clerkenwell and Shoreditch County Court against the company ordering the company to pay a creditor (MA1 Group) £4,933.00. The claim was not defended (Info. not from Companies House)
21/07/2009 - Liquidator's statement of Receipts and Payments shows total receipts of £22,144.73 realised from sale of company assets
07/08/2009 - Return of Final Meeting in a Creditors' Voluntary Winding Up
It would be interesting to know what the liquidator's confidential report to Companies House said about the actions of Martin and Duncan as directors.
Company no. 03227408 - Central Station (UK) Ltd
17/12/2008 - In the High Court of Justice, Chanceries Division, the Companies Court ordered that the company be wound up under the provisions of The Insolvency Act 1986 as a result of a petition by The East Public House Ltd. and appointed an Official Receiver. The petition was not contested.
19/01/2009 - Notice of appointment of a Liquidator in Winding Up by the Court
27/05/2009 - HSBC Bank plc gave notice of appointment of Receivers of the property of the company under the powers contained in a legal charge dated 19th February 1997 secured by a fixed charge over the freehold property known as the Central Station Public House, 80 Brunner Road, Walthamstow, E17 7NW
Company no. 06610206 - Bartie and Hector Ltd
03/06/2008 - Martin Mason and Duncan Irvine set up a new operating company - named after Martin's dogs - and continue to pretend that everything is rosy. While avoiding paying any of their creditors apart from a few thousand to HSBC in relation to Kings Cross and paying the Liquidators costs, they find money to open a 'restaurant' and a B&B. (Martin Mason is now a partner in another venue in Northamptonshire, this is in the public domain. But to protect the indentity of his business partner who may or may not of the known about the case, the name of the venue is been witheld as a gesture of goodwill). I hasten to add Martin Mason threatened MA1 with court action as we supposed of damaged his new pub business (a bit rich coming from him after the bankruptcy that almost ruined several other companies including MA1) which my solicitor laughed at as everything is in the public domain in anycase and anyone can ask for the information.
26/08/2009 - The annual return is overdue with Companies House. Accounts are not due to be filed until 03/03/2010.
For information on this case please refer to D. Wald Insolvency Agents who dealt with the case. This includes other creditors. Please do NOT contact MA1 as we were only a creditor and had nothing to do with the running of the venue or limited companies. Due to continuing questions over Central Station please refer all your questions to their venue in Kings Cross. We have nothing to do with them or will have anything to do with them in the future.