Earl Ferrers, Streatham

This welcoming Victorian single room backstreet corner pub is a bit hard to find but has until recently been worth the effort.

The airy, drinking and eating area is along the bar to the left as you enter.

To the right is a smaller area that contains an impressive painting of the fourth Earl Ferrers who who was hanged at Tyburn on 5 May 1760.

The pub is the home bar for the fans - and sometimes players - of the Streatham Ice Hockey Club, the Red Hawks, who play their home games at the nearby Streatham Ice and Leisure Centre.

Outside tables and enclosed back patio are suitable for smokers.

All day food at weekends.

A popular destination with local families for Sunday lunches.

Regular live music and a monthly disco;

Terrestrial TV for big rugby matches.

Note that the pub closes annually from Christmas Day to New Year's Day.

There had usually been one cask beer available, but Stonegate's insistence that it be Sharp's Doom Bar, whereas this pub had in 2008 been the first outside Wandsworth to sell Sambrook's Wandle, has in effect doomed the pub, and it is now shown on Google as temporarily closed.