29 Market Street, Tamworth, B79 7LR
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11-13 April 2025
23 Haltwhistle Road, South Woodham Ferrers, CM3 5ZA
Unit 11, Valley Point Industrial Estate, Beddington Farm Road, Beddington, CR0 4WP
Argyle Place, Love Road, Lowestoft, NR32 2NZ
116, Foregate Street, Chester, Chester, CH1 2HH
Small boozer with a fire and pew style seating, a long thin bar which leads to a small garden at the rear. The ale selection is constantly changing and comes from small independent breweries across the UK.
In Sept 2024 the number of cask beers on handpump was 7, they are usually helpfully ordered palest on the left, darkest on the right. And the number of real ciders, from producers such as Luke's and Turners is now 6. 8 lines have been fitted for keg beers.
The pub won the Greater London Cider Pub of the Year Award 2010 after earlier winning the Branch Award. After being the Branch Pub of the Year in 2011 it then went on to be crowned the 2011 London Regional Pub of the Year. In 2024 it once again was voted Branch Pub of the Year. For 2017 and again in 2019, 2022 and 2023 it was the North London Cider Pub of the Year.
On the food front no gastro, just good bar snacks, pork pies, sausage rolls, scotch eggs, roast pork in baps plus veggie options. The music is played on vinyl which is great, there is also live piano music on Sundays and Tuesdays and Wednesdays. No tea, no coffee but a bloody mary kit is behind the bar. Pub stays open to midnight most days. Pub quiz Monday. Nearest transport options - Kentish Town or Gospel Oak.
One star - A pub interior of special national historic interest
Listed status: Not listed
A beloved Kentish Town gem with a great deal to relish within.
This two storey pub of London brick, built in the 1830s, was formerly owned by Camden Brewery and (from 1923) Courage. It is a small pub reminiscent of an old ale house, although opened up to become a single space. There are two doors to the street but that on the right is no longer in use. The left-hand door leads to an inner door which is designated ‘Saloon’ in the stained glass, and there’s attractive mosaic tiling in the porch. Inside the inner door is attached the number ‘1’, which reflects the requirement from licensing magistrates to number each section of a pub, a system which was in use until the 1950s.
Markings on the floor suggest a diagonally placed partition has been removed to create a single space, losing what would have once been a small public bar at the front right. On the left was the larger saloon extending to a door to the garden at the back.The servery is on the right with an old panelled counter on a moulded plinth. The bar-back is rudimentary in the extreme, with a single shelf on decorative brackets, backed by white tiling with a frame of brown tiles; much of the shelving beneath survives. At the far end of the servery is a full height partition (painted cream) with glazing at the top, which conceals stairs to the cellar and to private quarters.
To the right in what would have been the public bar the dado has tongue and groove panelling. The fireplace on the left hand side has a hefty metal surround and decorative tiling to its interior. At the rear on the left, floor tiling indicates that there was once a fireplace here. There are attractive old pub mirrors, including one for the deceased Yarmouth brewery Lacons. Finally, the Gents can be found outside - rare these days for a London pub.
Three-storey building of London brick built 1938 that has been owned by Camden Brewery & Courage in the past. This is a small pub reminiscent of an old ale house, although opened up to become a one-room pub. There are two doors to the street and the left-hand door is in use, leading to an inner door which is marked ‘saloon’ in stained glass. There is attractive mosaic tiling in the porch. Inside the door is attached the number ‘1’, which reflects the requirement from licensing magistrates to number each section of a pub, a system which was in use until the 1950s.
Markings on the floor suggest a diagonally placed partition has been removed to create the single space, losing what would have been a small public bar on the front right and more generous saloon from the left hand door going back to the rear. There are attractive old pub mirrors, including one for Lacons ales, and pew-style seating. The long thin bar leads to a small garden at the rear.
The pub has old dado railing on walls to about one-third height. In the salon area on the left beneath the dado is stained or lacquered textured wallcovering. To the right in what would have been the public bar there is old tongue and groove wood panelling below the dado. The large centre window between the two doors has plain old wood panelling beneath. The fireplace on the left side has a hefty metal surround and glazed decorative tiling on its interior as well as on the fireplace hood. The flooring around the hearth is plain tiling. The fireplace is in Victorian style but may be a reproduction dating from an inter-war refurbishment.
The bar itself is solid wood and the counter appears intact possibly from the inter-war years. The bar back consists of intact lower shelving and is backed by white tiling with a frame of brown tiles, which are typical of inter-war interior refreshments, but no upper structure. There is a floor to ceiling screen at the rear also of wood, which creates a space for access to the ladies’ toilets and to private space. The gents’ is outside and still features porcelain urinal.
This Pub serves 7 changing beers and 0 regular beers.
Southampton Arms, London
Source: National
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