| County | Brewery | Location | Premises | Description | Contributors | Photo? Gone? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
London SE 1 |
Truman Hanbury Buxton & Co Ltd - London & Burton-upon-Trent | Bermondsey, 40 Tower Bridge Road | George | 1930s corner pub in faience and brick, by A E Sewell. On the gable on each elevation is 'TRUMAN'S' in gold tiled lettering, and a large gold eagle above. The windows have leaded and etched glass with a central panel including: (1) 'BURTON TRUMAN LONDON' (2) 'TRUMAN'S BURTON BREWED BITTER' (3) EAGLE STOUT. And (4) 'COURAGE BEER' (sic). | DK 2003; WRB photo 2006 | Picture |
London SE 1 |
Courage Ltd - London, Bristol, etc | Bermondsey, 13 The Grange | Red Cow | A gold Courage cockerel atop the ironwork on the hanging sign. Also a modern projecting sign - red with a gold cockerel. | WRB photo 2006 | Picture |
London SE 1 |
Courage & Co Ltd - Anchor Brewery, Southwark | Borough, Park Street / Redcross Way | A (residential?) building | On the end wall, a large painted sign, white letters on blue: 'TAKE COURAGE'. | WRB photo 2007 | Picture |
London SE 1 |
Courage Ltd - London, Bristol, etc | Borough, 254 Tabard Street | Black Horse | Pole sign with a Courage gold cockerel atop the ironwork. Also modern Courage board signs on this postwar pub. | WRB photo 2006 | Picture |
London SE 1 |
Courage & Co Ltd - Anchor Brewery, Southwark | Borough, 2 Guy Street | Guys Arms (former) | On the corner splay is an excellent green-tiled panel with white lettering: 'COURAGES (at an angle) ... FINE ALES & STOUT'. This pub closed in the 1990s and is now in residential use. | SRH photo 2007 | Picture |
London SE 1 |
Truman Hanbury Buxton & Co Ltd - London & Burton-upon-Trent | Borough, 27 Clennam Street | Lord Clyde | A 1922 corner pub with an excellent Truman's exterior. The ground floor has green faience with a cream-tiled fascia: 'TRUMANS BURTON ALES ... THE LORD CLYDE ... TRUMANS LONDON STOUT ... E J BAYLING ... TRUMAN HANBURY BUXTON & CO LTD'. Above the second-floor windows is another fascia in similar style: 'TRUMAN HANBURY BUXTON & CO LTD ... ALES ... STOUT & PORTER'. On the corner splay is a tiled panel with a large Eagle illustration, plus: 'THE LORD CLYDE ... TRADE MARK ... TRUMANS BOTTLED BEERS'. Inside is a mirror with 'Unrivalled Mild Ales and Double Stout', and a framed Truman's price list in shillings and pence. | DK 2003; WRB photo 2006 | Picture |
London SE 1 |
Whitbread - Chiswell Street, London EC1 | Borough, 96 Snowsfields | Miller of Mansfield | An oval plaque with the Whitbread trademark surrounded by 'WHITBREAD & COMPANY - 1742'. | WRB photo 2007 | Picture |
London SE 1 |
Truman Hanbury Buxton & Co Ltd - London & Burton-upon-Trent | Borough, 50 Great Dover Street | Roebuck | Painted fascia: 'TRUMAN'S BEERS'. On the back wall, an old wooden board sign with 'THE ROEBUCK - TRUMANS'. | SP 2004; WRB photo 2006 | Picture |
London SE 1 |
Courage & Co Ltd - Anchor Brewery, Southwark | Borough, 121 Borough High Street | Sir Christopher Inn (formerly Grapes Tavern) | The pub has rather plain windows along the side elevation with 'COURAGE' and 'FINE ALES'. | SRH photo 2007 | Picture |
London SE 1 |
Truman Hanbury Buxton & Co Ltd - London & Burton-upon-Trent | Lambeth, 133 Westminster Bridge Road | Crown & Cushion | By A E Sewell for Trumans, 1930s. Over each of the two entrance doors is a fine plaster representation of a crown resting on a cushion and below in a roundel an eagle on a rock - the Truman trademark. | BL 2002; SRH photo 2007 | Picture |
London SE 1 |
Truman Hanbury Buxton & Co Ltd - London & Burton-upon-Trent | Lambeth, 23 Baylis Road | Duke of Sussex | A corner pub, by A E Sewell in 1924, with original fascia - white on green - 'TRUMAN'S NOTED BURTON BREWED ALES ... TRUMAN HANBURY BUXTON & Co LTD'. | BL 2002; GB 2002; SRH photo 2006; WRB 2006 | Picture |
London SE 1 |
Wm Younger & Co Ltd - Holyrood Brewery, Edinburgh | Lambeth, 122 Westminster Bridge Road | Horse & Groom (later 'Horse') | Tiled lettering on the fascia: 'Wm YOUNGER & Co Ltd'. | SRH photo 2007 | Picture |
London SE 1 |
Truman Hanbury Buxton & Co Ltd - London & Burton-upon-Trent | Southwark, 279 Old Kent Road | Dun Cow (former) | A large pub by A E Sewell for Trumans, 1930s. High on the front elevation is a Truman eagle in a roundel. Converted to a surgery. | KR photo 2006 | Picture |
London SE 1 |
Taylor Walker & Co Ltd - Barley Mow Brewery, Limehouse | Southwark, 25 Roupell Street | Kings Arms | The hanging sign incorporates the 'cannon' trademark from the Allied period. | WRB photo 2006 | Picture |
London SE 1 |
Allied Breweries - the national brewery conglemerate | Southwark, 25 Roupell Street | Kings Arms | The etched windows don't have a brewery name, but are a good example of Allied Breweries' corporate lettering of the 1970s, a style which at one time extended widely over Britain. | WRB photo 2006 | Picture |
London SE 1 |
Meux's Brewery Co Ltd - Horseshoe Breweries: London WC1 and SW8 | Southwark, 22 Southwark Street | Southwark Tavern | Fine tiled frontage with cream raised lettering on a brown ceramic fascia: 'MEUX'S PERFECT ALES' and 'MEUX'S FAMOUS STOUT'. Etched window with a horseshoe. | GB 2003; PM 2003; RF 2003; WRB photo 2006 | Picture |
London SE 1 |
Truman Hanbury Buxton & Co Ltd - London & Burton-upon-Trent | Southwark, 68 Pages Walk | Victoria | Victorian corner pub with fine original Truman lettering. At high level, dark green lettering on cream tiles: 'TRUMAN HANBURY BUXTON & Co Ltd'. On the curved splay above the corner door: 'BURTON BREWED BITTER ... TRUMAN'S (on diagonal) ... LONDON STOUT'. On the ochre tiled fascia, dark green lettering: 'TRUMANS BURTON THE . VICTORIA . BREWED BITTER'. | KR photo 2006 | Picture |
London SE 1 |
Watney Combe Reid & Co Ltd - Stag Brewery, Pimlico; and Mortlake Brewery | Southwark, 145 Old Kent Road | World Turned Upside Down | Exterior refurbishment of this pub has revealed some original fascia signage on the ground floor frontage above the doorways: 'WATNEY'S ALES' and 'REID'S STOUT'. This 1930s pub was designed by A W Blomfield. | SRH photo 2008 | Picture |
London SE 5 |
Charrington & Co Ltd - Anchor Brewery, Mile End, London | Camberwell, Camberwell Road - Wyndham Road | A former pub | Tiled wall panel incorporating: 'Flying Tankard' emblem; '1757'; 'CHARRINGTON'; Toby jug emblem with 'TOBY ALE'; 'THE HOUSE OF TOBY'. | KR photo 2006 | Picture |
London SE 5 |
Charrington & Co Ltd - Anchor Brewery, Mile End, London | Camberwell, 181 Camberwell Road | Duke of Clarence (later 'Corrib Bar') | A 1930s pub with a large tiled panel at first to second floor level: 'THE DUKE OF CLARENCE' and a 'Toby' illustration. The 'CLARENCE' lettering is, very stylishly, on a diagonal. | SRH photo 2007 | Picture |
London SE 5 |
Truman Hanbury Buxton & Co Ltd - London & Burton-upon-Trent | Camberwell, 283 Camberwell New Road | King William IV | By A E Sewell for Trumans, 1932; brick and faience exterior. Tiled fascia with lettering: 'LONDON STOUT ... OFF LICENCE ... BURTON ALES ... LONDON STOUT ... BURTON ALES'. At first floor level, two stone panels with the Truman 'eagle' trademark in a roundel and 'TRUMANS ... ESTd. 1666'. | SRH photo 2007 | Picture |
London SE 5 |
Truman Hanbury Buxton & Co Ltd - London & Burton-upon-Trent | Camberwell, 242 Camberwell Road | Nags Head | A 19c pub with attractive olive-tiled faience frontage. The fascia is cream with lettering: 'TRUMAN'S ... NAGS HEAD ... BEERS' in three separate panels. Also two Truman lanterns. | DK 2003; SRH photo 2007 | Picture |
London SE 7 |
Charrington & Co Ltd - Anchor Brewery, Mile End, London | Charlton, 428 Woolwich Road | Antigallican | One etched window: 'CHARRINGTON'S ALES'. | SP photo 2005 | Picture |
London SE 7 |
Watney Combe Reid & Co Ltd - Stag Brewery, Pimlico; and Mortlake Brewery | Charlton, 32 Hardens Manor Way | Thames Barrier Arms (former) | Used as a veterinary surgery since 1997. Relatively modern board signs on the corner splay feature 'WATNEY COMBE REID & CO ... ESTD. 1898'. | SRH photo 2008 | Picture |
London SE 7 |
Truman Hanbury Buxton & Co Ltd - London & Burton-upon-Trent | Charlton, 757 Woolwich Road | Victoria - under threat of re-development | On the fascia above the first floor windows, 'TRUMAN HANBURY BUXTON & CO. LTD..'. On the fascia between ground and first floors, 'ALES & STOUT - 757 - TRUMAN'S BURTON BEERS'. In a panel on the side elevation, 'TRUMAN'S - TRADE MARK - EAGLE BRAND BEERS' and a large illustration of an eagle in the pre-1925 pattern. On the corner splay above the entrance, the pub name and a second very elaborate eagle. | CP 2003; SP photo 2005; KR 2006 | Picture |
London SE 8 |
Truman Hanbury Buxton & Co Ltd - London & Burton-upon-Trent | Deptford, 195 Evelyn Street | Black Horse | Fine ground-floor corner frontage of cream glazed tiles: the tiled fascia has lettering: (1) 'LONDON STOUT ... TRUMANS ... & MILD ALES' (2) 'TRUMANS BURTON ... THE BLACK HORSE ... BREWED BITTER'. Also a Truman's lantern and painted Truman board sign. | WRB photo 2007 | Picture |
London SE 8 |
Truman Hanbury Buxton & Co Ltd - London & Burton-upon-Trent | Deptford, 193 Creek Road | Hoy | Tiled fascia: the brewery lettering survives but is obscured: 'TRUMAN BURTON BREWED BITTER'. At the top of the corner splay is a letter sign, formerly neon-illuminated: 'TRUMANS'. | WRB photo 2007 | Picture |
London SE 8 |
Wenlock Brewery Co Ltd - Wenlock Road, Shoreditch N1 | Deptford, High Street | Red Lion & Wheatsheaf (former) | Former pub, now a fishmonger's shop. Two tiled panels, maroon lettering on cream. On the parapet: 'WENLOCK BREWERY Co Ltd'. Between the first and second floors, a similar panel with the former pub name. | KR photo 2006 | Picture |
London SE 9 |
Truman Hanbury Buxton & Co Ltd - London & Burton-upon-Trent | Eltham, 45 Passey Place | Park Tavern | Truman's tiling with dark green lettering on cream. Fascias: 'TRUMANS LONDON STOUT ... BURTON BREWED ALES'. A large square panel above the fascia: 'TRUMANS ALES AND STOUT'. | SRH photo 2008 | Picture |
London SE10 |
Whitbread - Chiswell Street, London EC1 | Greenwich, 89 Royal Hill | Barley Mow (later The Hill) | A pretty mosaic sign at first-floor level on the corner splay, with an illustration reflecting the pub's name. Lettering in 'art nouveau' style: 'Whitbread & Co.' and the original pub name. | WRB photo 2007 | Picture |
London SE10 |
Watney Combe Reid & Co Ltd - Stag Brewery, Pimlico; and Mortlake Brewery | Greenwich, 300 Creek Road | Lord Hood | An oval metal plaque: 'WATNEYS LONDON BITTER HERE'. | WRB photo 2007 | Picture |
London SE10 |
Courage & Co Ltd - Anchor Brewery, Southwark | Greenwich, 72 Royal Hill | Prince Albert | A Courage gold cockerel atop the ironwork of the inn sign. | WRB 2007 | . |
London SE11 |
Charrington & Co Ltd - Anchor Brewery, Mile End, London | Kennington, 1 Bowling Green Street | Carpenters Arms (closed) | Tiled wall panel incorporating: 'Flying Tankard' emblem; '1757'; 'CHARRINGTON'; Toby jug emblem with 'TOBY ALE'; 'THE HOUSE OF TOBY'. | KR photo 2006 | Picture |
London SE11 |
Courage Ltd - London, Bristol, etc | Kennington, 146 Newington Butts | Cricketers | A good example of a large T-shaped (formerly illuminated) box sign: 'TAKE COURAGE'. | SRH photo 2007 | Picture |
London SE11 |
Bass Worthington - Burton-upon-Trent | Kennington, 355 Kennington Lane | Royal Oak | An attractive set of Bass Worthington windows, including 'BASS (red triangle) ON DRAUGHT' and 'Worthington E'. Also a Bass blue triangle with 'TRADE MARK' and a green Worthington shield with a sword image. Also a Wenlock Brewery window. | SRH photo 2007 | Picture |
London SE11 |
Wenlock Brewery Co Ltd - Wenlock Road, Shoreditch N1 | Kennington, 355 Kennington Lane | Royal Oak | A window with blue lettering: 'A WENLOCK HOUSE'. Also Bass Worthington windows. | SRH photo 2007 | Picture |
London SE11 |
Charrington & Co Ltd - Anchor Brewery, Mile End, London | Kennington, 111 Kennington Road | Tankard (renamed Bar Room Bar) | A Charrington 'Toby' on the side wall with lettering 'TOBY ALE'. | SRH photo 2007 | Picture |
London SE12 |
Whitbread - Chiswell Street, London EC1 | Lee, 394 Lee High Road | Duke of Edinburgh | The metal plate above the hanging sign features a fading transfer image of the Whitbread trademark. | WRB photo 2007 | Picture |
London SE13 |
Charrington & Co Ltd - Anchor Brewery, Mile End, London | Lewisham, 80 Ladywell Road | Ladywell Tavern | An unusual round lantern featuring 'CHARRINGTON ... EST 1757' around a 'Toby' illustration. | WRB photo 2008 | Picture |
London SE13 |
Courage & Co Ltd - Anchor Brewery, Southwark | Lewisham, 181 Lee High Road | Woodman | A Courage gold cockerel atop the ironwork of the inn sign. | WRB photo 2007 | Picture |
London SE14 |
Courage Ltd - London, Bristol, etc | New Cross, 388 New Cross Road | Amersham Arms | A working illuminated letter sign: 'TAKE COURAGE'. | LBa photo 2008 | Picture |
London SE14 |
Truman Hanbury Buxton & Co Ltd - London & Burton-upon-Trent | New Cross, 69 Dennetts Road | Rising Sun (former) | The end wall has an unusually shaped 'Dutch' gable with a large tiled sign: 'THE RISING SUN ... TRUMAN'S ... BURTON . BREWED . BITTER'. Converted to flats. | DK 2003; KR photo 2006 | Picture |
London SE15 |
Truman Hanbury Buxton & Co Ltd - London & Burton-upon-Trent | Peckham, 720 Old Kent Road | Drovers Arms | Little obvious Truman "identity" but a small moulded eagle remains on the left-hand side above a ground floor window. | KR 2008 | . |
London SE15 |
Truman Hanbury Buxton & Co Ltd - London & Burton-upon-Trent | Peckham, 57 Nunhead Lane | Edinburgh Castle | A large pub by A E Sewell for Trumans, 1930s. On the fascia are three roundels featuring the Truman eagle, and there is a larger one at first-floor level on the corner splay. | KR photo 2006 | Picture |
London SE15 |
Truman Hanbury Buxton & Co Ltd - London & Burton-upon-Trent | Peckham, 2 Nunhead Green | Man of Kent | A brick corner pub by A E Sewell for Trumans, 1930s. Above a ground-floor window is a Truman eagle in a roundel. | KR photo 2007 | Picture |
London SE15 |
Truman Hanbury Buxton & Co Ltd - London & Burton-upon-Trent | Peckham, 40 Stuart Road | Stuart Arms | By A E Sewell for Trumans, 1930s. Two roundels on the frontage with Truman eagles. | KR 2007 | . |
London SE16 |
Wenlock Brewery Co Ltd - Wenlock Road, Shoreditch N1 | Rotherhithe, 47 Swan Road | Adam & Eve | Corner pub with stone parapet and fascia at roof level with 'THE WENLOCK BREWERY CO.' on each elevation. The date 1913 additionally appears on the Brunel Road side. | PM 2003; SRH photo 2006 | Picture |
London SE16 |
Courage & Co Ltd - Anchor Brewery, Southwark | Rotherhithe, 20 Albion Street | Albion | This pub - built 1928 - retains a large illuminated COURAGE sign at first floor level, formerly lit with neon tubing. It also has several uses of the word Courage on the ground floor fascia, a red cockerel sign and a gold cockerel on the hanging pub sign. | SRH photo 2006 | Picture |
London SE16 |
Courage & Co Ltd - Anchor Brewery, Southwark | Rotherhithe, 251 Southwark Park Road | Blue Anchor | There are five surviving 'COURAGE' windows. | SRH photo 2007 | Picture |
London SE16 |
Courage & Co Ltd - Anchor Brewery, Southwark | Rotherhithe, 234 Jamaica Road | Boatman (formerly Royal George) | At the top of the corner splay, a letter sign with 'TAKE COURAGE'. | WRB photo 2007 | Picture |
London SE16 |
Mann, Crossman & Paulin - London & Burton-upon-Trent | Rotherhithe, 56 Albion Street | Little Crown | A good large tiled panel on the ground floor frontage. The outside is dark green with some decoration and the pub name in gold. In the centre is an oval in dark red tiles - rather like a bottle label - with lettering: 'MANN CROSMANN & PAULIN Ld ... BROWN ALE ... CELEBRATED' plus a trademark illustration. In November 2006, the pub was closed and derelict. | SRH photo 2006 | Picture |
London SE16 |
Watney Combe Reid & Co Ltd - Stag Brewery, Pimlico; and Mortlake Brewery | Rotherhithe, 68 Canon Beck Road | Lord Nelson | The fascia retains Watney's signage including: 'WATNEYS ALES ... COMBE'S BROWN ALE ... REID'S STOUT'. | SRH photo 2007 | Picture |
London SE16 |
Truman Hanbury Buxton & Co Ltd - London & Burton-upon-Trent | Rotherhithe, 68 Southwark Park Road | Rose & Crown (former) | This pub is closed and in residential use. It retains a Truman's 'eagle' in a roundel. | SRH photo 2007 | Picture |
London SE17 |
Watney Combe Reid & Co Ltd - Stag Brewery, Pimlico; and Mortlake Brewery | Walworth, 204 Walworth Road | Kings Head (former) | This pub is now closed and in retail use. It retains brown glazed bricks around the ground floor exterior and two tiled plaques with 'REID'S STOUT' and 'WATNEY'S ALES'. | SRH photo 2007 | Picture |
London SE17 |
Truman Hanbury Buxton & Co Ltd - London & Burton-upon-Trent | Walworth, 407 Walworth Road | Red Lion | Large pub by A E Sewell for Trumans, 1930s. Two vertical stone panels including 'TRUMAN'S ESTd 1666' and the trademark 'eagle'. Stone fascia around two elevations with lettering: 'LONDON AND ... TRUMAN'S ... BURTON BEERS ... BURTON BREWED BITTER ... TRUMANS ... LONDON MILD ALES'. Truman lanterns. | GB 2003; DK 2003; SRH photo 2007 | Picture |
London SE22 |
Truman Hanbury Buxton & Co Ltd - London & Burton-upon-Trent | East Dulwich, 108 Forest Hill Road | Forest Hill Tavern | A tiled panel with the Truman eagle in a roundel, plus 'TRUMAN HANBURY BUXTON & Co ltd ... ESTd. 1666'. A black glass plaque with 'TRUMAN'S' diagonal lettering; a coloured illustration of the eagle to the left, and 'Estd 1666' to the right. One surviving frosted window with 'TRUMANS' in gold lettering. All of these features are thought to date from a 1930s remodelling. | KR photo 2007 | Picture |