The Queen Street bar's company passed a winding-up resolution on 27 July. A liquidator is appointed and the site now trades again as the Hand & Flowers.

The Borough Maidenhead Limited, the company that shares its name with the Queen Street wine and cocktail bar and is registered on Companies House as a public house and bar business, is being wound up. At a general meeting on 27 July 2026 its shareholders resolved to put the company into voluntary liquidation and appointed Darren Edwards of Exigen Group Limited, trading as Liquidation Centre, as liquidator; a meeting of creditors confirmed the appointment the same day. The notice was published in The Gazette on 4 August. (The Gazette, notice 5184808)

The notice gives both the company’s registered office and its principal trading address as 2 Church Place, 1 Minniecroft Road, Burnham, an address over the county boundary in Buckinghamshire, and does not name the bar itself. The link to Queen Street is in the record, though: the company was incorporated on 1 March 2023, three months before the bar opened, its business classification is public houses and bars, and its accounts, last made up to 31 March 2024, are marked overdue on the register. Its current directors are Jakub Pawel Bartlomiejczyk, appointed at incorporation, and David John Brunner, appointed in July 2024. (Companies House, company 14697003)

Key dates for The Borough Maidenhead Limited, from incorporation on 1 March 2023 and the bar's June 2023 opening to the winding-up resolution of 27 July 2026

A short life for the Queen Street wine bar

The Borough opened in June 2023 at 15 Queen Street, in a three-storey building steps from the High Street that began life in the 1850s as a wine and spirit merchant. It traded as a neighbourhood wine and cocktail bar with a sixteen-seat first-floor restaurant. CAMRA’s national pub listing now records that the site has reverted to its former name, the Hand & Flowers, and is open; the liquidation reported here is of the limited company, not of whoever runs the premises today. (CAMRA pub listing)

A creditors’ voluntary liquidation means the company’s own shareholders have accepted it cannot pay its debts and have closed it without waiting for a court to do so. The liquidator’s job now is to identify what the company owns, turn it into money and distribute it to creditors in the legal order of priority.

What it means for you

If the company owes you money, whether as a supplier, a former member of staff or a customer with an unused deposit or voucher from The Borough, your claim goes to the liquidator. The notice names Darren Edwards and Charley-May Cahill at Exigen Group, Warehouse W, 3 Western Gateway, Royal Victoria Docks, London, E16 1BD, on 020 7538 2222. (The Gazette, notice 5184808)

If you worked for the company and are owed wages, holiday pay or redundancy, you can apply to the government’s Redundancy Payments Service using the case reference the liquidator provides; the official guidance is at gov.uk.

If you drink on Queen Street, nothing in the public record suggests the premises are closed: CAMRA’s listing shows the site open under the Hand & Flowers name. The winding up settles the affairs of the company behind the bar’s two-year run as The Borough. (CAMRA pub listing)

The liquidator’s statement of affairs, setting out what the company owes and to whom, should appear on the Companies House file in the coming weeks; Windsor Today will report what it shows.