Award-winning 1996 refurbishment of the closed Bowyer Arms, funded by the local trades union council. Comfortable, open-plan bar with three cask beers mainly from microbreweries, changing fortnightly, and interesting draught and bottled foreign beers. Front patio, family room overlooking sheltered garden at rear; function room upstairs. Live music at weekends, Wednesday quiz, annual beer festival. The name comes from a song written during a strike of women textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA in 1912.
Historic Interest
Grade II listed:- Early-mid C19 by Thomas Cubitt. Symmetrical composition of 2 houses flanking public house. Nos 66 and 70 each 3 storeys, 2 windows, stucco with entablature at second floor level and top cornice and blocking course. (No 66 has lost entablature and has top cornice reduced to band). Sash windows with glazing bars in moulded architraves, tripartite on first floor. No 68, The Bowyer Arms, is taller, of 3 storeys, 5 windows. Stock brick with stucco frieze, cornice and blocking course. Upper windows sashes with delicate glazing bars in moulded architraves. Ground floor of later C19 stucco with central door and carriageway at right.
This Pub serves 3 changing beers and 0 regular beers.
Bread & Roses, Clapham
Changing beers typically include: Fuller's - London Pride , Sambrook's - Wandle
Source: Regional