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Wonder if the Wurlitzer is still in place? This pub is not a listed building but its interior is of local importance. This pub still retains several interesting heritage features, dating from various times over the previous 100 years or so. The wrought iron signage above the doors is Victorian, as is the curved tiled panel on the corner of the pub bearing the pub's name. Arguably the most arresting feature is the pair of copper panels at the back of the room on the right entitled "call to arms" and "at the revels" - these are undoubtedly Victorian as well. There are still two separate rooms accessed by their own doors to the street, or via a small corridor behind the bar. According to staff the screen separating the two rooms was introduced in the 1960s to replace one that had been removed some twenty years earlier. Much of the central stillion also dates from the 60s. The ceiling still has the Lincrusta (or Lincrusta style) decoration, and the large room at the back on the right was once the billiards room, but the skylight in there is now no longer in use.
Historic Interest
Local listing:- 1850.C1880 PUB FRONT Simple three storey stock brick and stucco building on road junction. Pub front with decorated tile ornament between windows. Decorated tile ornament between windows.
One star - A pub interior of special national historic interest
Listed status: Not listed
An 1860s three-storey pub containing interesting copper panels, a patterned ceiling and an eye-catching stillion.
The interior features of note here include two rare copper panels in relief on a rear wall, both depicting 14th century figures. The left hand one is entitled “Prince Edward A Call to Arms’ and the right one “Prince Edward at the Revels”. (Similar panels exist at the Black Lion, Kilburn.) Also of note is the patterned Victorian ceiling above both rooms. Inside the central servery is a modest free-standing stilion featuring some elegantly delicate woodwork and some fine etched glass containing images of birds. At the top of it is some illuminated Watney’s signage, added in the 1960s.
Also installed in the 1960s is some remarkably extensive banquette seating. There are eight large semi-circular bays all upholstered with red brushed-velvet material – the sight is a treat for anyone nostalgic for such features. A partition separating the two rooms was installed in the 1970s.
Two exterior entrances (a third is no longer in use) have impressive ironwork above them containing the pub’s name, as does an attractive tiled corner panel.
Three-storey pub of London brick built around 1860s and refurbished around 1900 it has some polished stone on the ground floor with a curved tiled panel on the corner having the wording ‘The Prince Edward’ on a shield with some floral decoration. Situated close to Holloway women's prison.
The right hand main bar has a fine entrance doorway of three sections with the two middle doors having ‘Saloon’ and ‘Lounge’ in gold on frosted glass; also impressive ironwork ‘Prince Edward’ above the doorway. Another set of doors on the front may indicate an off-sales in the past. The bar counter has a two-sided Victorian curved panelled front (pot shelf is modern). The bar was extended to the rear in the 1960s and the colourful stained glass screenwork at the end of the servery is modern.
The two bay island bar back fitting is Victorian with deep cut glass panels. A section added on top in c.1960 has illuminated ‘Watney's’ and ‘Prince Edward’ panels and two of a Watney's Red Barrel. The seating bays around the room date from the 1960s. Up to the 1940s there was a partition creating a separate room at the rear which has a blocked-up skylight with a frieze around it – was there a billiard table here in the past?. On the rear wall are two rare copper panels in relief – the left hand one titled “Prince Edward A Call to Arms’ and the right one “Prince Edward at the Revels” – similar panels exist at the Black Lion, Kilburn.
A rare part glazed screen which has been imported from another pub to replace a screen removed in the 1960s separates the two bars – on the left Williamson Street side with its own entrance is a smaller bar with ‘Bar’ in gold on frosted glass on the door and ‘Prince Edward’ in ironwork above. The room has old dado and some full height panelling, another Victorian panelled bar counter, and the island bar back fitting described above.
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