one of ... Britain's Real Heritage Pubs
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This pubs is taken from the National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors, CAMRA’s pioneering effort to identify and help protect the most important historic pub interiors in the country | ||||||
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GREATER LONDON (WEST) - London W6, Hammersmith, Hope & Anchor National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors Part One 20 Macbeth Street, London, W6 9JJ Tel: 020 8748 1873 Public Transport: Underground: Ravenscourt Park Listed Status: Not listed This drinkers’ local is a very good example of a largely unaltered, modest Truman’s pub of about 1930. Planned as part of a housing development, it retains its separate public bar and saloon. The former is the larger but in terms of fittings there is little to differentiate them. Both have wall panelling and fixed seats and the counters are the same plain, panelled design while both bar-backs each have an Art Deco clock. Many pubs had spittoon troughs in front of bar counters and that in the saloon bar here is an excellent example. This trough has timber edging and is lined with brown and white chequered tiles. There’s even a small opening at the counter corner to sweep the bits and pieces together. Other original features are the brick fireplaces and, in the saloon, typical Truman’s lettering on the panelling advertising their wares. There is original tiling in the saloon bar. The one big change is the loss of the off-sales compartment – traceable in the closed doorway on the (puzzlingly named) Riverside Gardens side and the stopped-off spittoon trough. There is a pleasant garden area beyond a loggia outside the saloon. |
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