| County | Brewery | Location | Premises | Description | Contributors | Photo? Gone? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
London WC1 |
Charrington & Co Ltd Mile End, E1 | Bloomsbury, 1 Pakenham Street | Pakenham Arms (former) | Two small painted windows, one featuring the Charrington 'Toby', the other with a 'Toff' character holding a glass of wine (see also White Horse, Chelmsford). Windows removed by 2015. | KH photo 2007; SP photo 2011; TrC 2015 | Picture GONE |
London WC1 |
Taylor Walker & Co Ltd Limehouse, E14 | Bloomsbury, 105 Kings Cross Road | Carpenters (formerly Carpenters Arms) | 'TAYLOR WALKER' lettering on the hanging sign, with the brewery's 'cannon' device above; two lanterns with 'TAYLOR WALKER' and 'cannon' motifs. | TrC 2014 | . |
London WC1 |
Charrington & Co Ltd Mile End, E1 | Bloomsbury, 116 Cromer Street | Boot | An attractive interwar Charrington's frontage. Three spherical Bass Charrington lanterns below the fascia. At left and right displaying a Bass 'red triangle' motif and the centre one with lettering 'CHARRINGTON'. To right of the entrance, a small oval Charrington's 'Toby' plaque. | SP 2014; TrC 2014 | . |
London WC1 |
Charrington & Co Ltd Mile End, E1 | Bloomsbury, 11a Northington Street | Kings Arms | Attractive painted windows in the brewery's colours of orange and green: 'CHARRINGTON' and 'KINGS ARMS'. The upper panels feature small 'Toby' illustrations in green on white. The pub had been renamed 'Lady Ottoline' by 2014 but the Charrington windows survive. | WRB photo 2007; SP photo 2014 | Picture |
London WC1 |
Truman Hanbury Buxton & Co Ltd - London & Burton-upon-Trent | Bloomsbury, 133 Grays Inn Road | Blue Lion | Built in the 1930s by A E Sewell for Trumans. Inside, there is a degraded terracotta 'eagle' motif to the top of a fireplace surround. | TrC photo 2016 | Picture |
London WC1 |
Watney Combe Reid & Co Ltd - Stag Brewery, Pimlico; and Mortlake Brewery | Bloomsbury, 141 Kings Cross Road | Northumberland Arms | Two scroll devices on the fascia with '1898 ... WATNEY COMBE REID'; one on the Kings Cross Road frontage and one on the Wicklow Street frontage. | TrC 2014 | . |
London WC1 |
Truman Hanbury Buxton & Co Ltd - London & Burton-upon-Trent | Bloomsbury, 2 Acton Street | Prince Albert (former) | By A E Sewell for Trumans, 1922. Corner tiles - gold on grey - on the corner splay above the entrance: '1922 ... TRUMAN HANBURY BUXTON & Co. Ltd.' and 'THE PRINCE ALBERT'. Also fascia tiles with the former pub name. Converted to a restaurant. | MAP 2003; WRB photo 2007 | Picture |
London WC1 |
Taylor Walker & Co Ltd Limehouse, E14 | Bloomsbury, 27 Museum Street | Plough | Etched windows with gold lettering 'Taylor Walker'; door glass features similar lettering and the company's 'cannon' trademark. Brass plaque - 'Taylor Walker' with trademark and 'Estd LONDON 1730'. Brass plates on the windowsills. Some of the windows look modern. Inside, there is an old etched and painted Taylor Walker panel incorporated into the bar-back in the front room. | BL 2001; WRB photo 2007; SP photo 2014 | Picture |
London WC1 |
Watney Combe Reid & Co Ltd - Stag Brewery, Pimlico; and Mortlake Brewery | Bloomsbury, 28 Harrison Street | Harrison (formerly Harrison Arms) | Several painted windows with 'WATNEYS' and 'WATNEY'S ALES'. | WRB photo 2006 | Picture |
London WC1 |
Watney Combe Reid & Co Ltd - Stag Brewery, Pimlico; and Mortlake Brewery | Bloomsbury, 47 Tonbridge Street | Dolphin | Either side of the door facing Bidborough Street, a pictorial tiled sign. On the left, 'REIDS STOUT' and an image of a griffin. On the right, 'WATNEYS ALES' and a stag image. Brackets for hanging baskets have been added to the top of each panel. The hanging sign is topped with a modern roundel 'WATNEY COMBE REID ... 1898' around a stag illustration. | JJ 2003; SP 2005; WRB photo 2006 and 2009 | Picture |
London WC1 |
Watney Combe Reid & Co Ltd - Stag Brewery, Pimlico; and Mortlake Brewery | Bloomsbury, 49 Great Russell Street | Museum Tavern | Interior. The bar-back incoporates several old fixed mirrors, including one with 'WATNEY & Co's IMPERIAL STOUT'. | SP photo 2014 | Picture |
London WC1 |
Charrington & Co Ltd Mile End, E1 | Bloomsbury, 61 Swinton Street | Kings Head (renamed Kings Cross Arms) | Two tiled Charrington panels. (1) Flying Tankard logo including '1757 ... CHARRINGTON', and lettering 'THE HOUSE OF TOBY'. (2) A 'Toby' in relief with 'TOBY ALE'. | SRH photo 2007; SP photo 2014; TrC 2014 | Picture |
London WC1 |
Charrington & Co Ltd Mile End, E1 | Bloomsbury, 66 Acton Street | Queens Head | 'CHARRINGTON' lettering on the hanging sign. There are two spherical lanterns on the frontage which feature metal bands with 'CHARRINGTON'. Formerly a Hoare's pub. | TrC photo 2018 | Picture |
London WC1 |
Friary Meux - Allied Breweries subsidiary | Bloomsbury, 7 Roger Street | Duke of York | A Meux 'horseshoe' lantern. Etched windows with red painted lettering: 'IND COOPE' and 'DOUBLE DIAMOND'. Also a doormat with 'MEUX'S BEERS'! All these features survive in 2014. A CAMRA National Inventory pub. | WRB photo 2007; SP 2014 | Picture |
London WC1 |
Whitbread & Co Ltd London, EC1 | Bloomsbury, 9 Mabledon Place | Mabels Tavern (originally the Kentish Arms) | High on an exterior wall is a round plaque with a tankard and 'W' initial. | WRB photo 2006 | Picture |
London WC1 |
Whitbread & Co Ltd London, EC1 | Bloomsbury, Britannia Street - Wicklow Street | Whitbread Brewery offices (former) | In the stone tympanum above the corner door, the Whitbread trademark and raised lettering 'ERECTED A.D. 1900 ... OFFICES'. | WRB 2008; SP photo 2011 | Picture |
London WC1 |
Watney Combe Reid & Co Ltd - Stag Brewery, Pimlico; and Mortlake Brewery | Finsbury West, 22 Easton Street | Easton (formerly Queens Head) | Above the hanging sign on each elevation is a relatively modern 'Watney Combe Reid' roundel. Brewery signs removed by 2023. | SP 2014; TrC 2014 and 2023 | . |
London WC2 |
Hoare & Co Ltd London, E1 | Covent Garden, 14 New Row | White Swan | Interior. It was converted to an 'Irish' bar - O'Neill's - but inside it retained its original 'Hoare & Co's Celebrated Imperial Stout & Sparkling Ales' mirror. | DK 2003 | . |
London WC2 |
Watney Combe Reid & Co Ltd - Stag Brewery, Pimlico; and Mortlake Brewery | Covent Garden, 22 Neal Street | Crown & Anchor | Tiled faience incorporating five green tiled shields: 'WATNEYS PIMLICO ALES' (x2); 'REID'S STOUT' (x2); 'REID'S STOUT IN BOTTLE' (x1). | BL 2002; SRH photo 2007 | Picture |
London WC2 |
Watney Combe Reid & Co Ltd - Stag Brewery, Pimlico; and Mortlake Brewery | Covent Garden, 42 Wellington Street | Coach & Horses | A 'WATNEY COMBE REID - 1898' roundel with stag motif tops the hanging sign. In etched glass to the main central window, lettering: 'WATNEY COMBE REID'. | TrC 2016 | . |
London WC2 |
Meux's Brewery Co Ltd - Horseshoe Breweries: London WC1 and SW8 | Covent Garden, 90 St Martins Lane | Salisbury | This famous 'gin palace' style pub has a large clock outside which features 'MEUX'S' and the Meux Brewery horseshoe logo on all three faces, although two are fading. Also one inside? | PM 2003; SRH photo 2006; WRB photo 2007 | Picture |
London WC2 |
Wm Younger & Co Ltd Edinburgh | Holborn, 12 Gate Street | Ship Tavern | Leaded glass panels inside the windows: 'WM YOUNGER' and 'WM YOUNGER'S SCOTCH ALES'. This pub was rebuilt by Youngers in 1923. | SP 2004; WRB photo 2006 | Picture |
London WC2 |
Hoare & Co Ltd London, E1 | Holborn, 28 Portugal Street | George IV | A corner pub rebuilt in 1899 by Hoare & Co. Two panels on the corner splay; (1) Upper panel - 'THE GEORGE THE FOURTH' around a guinea medallion with the king's head; (2) Lower panel - 'HOARE & Cos CELEBRATED THREE GUINEA STOUT'. | RF on info BHS Journal 98; BL 2003; WRB photo 2006; SP photo 2013 | Picture |
London WC2 |
Whitbread & Co Ltd London, EC1 | Leicester Square, 17-21 Leicester Square | Samuel Whitbread (former) | Built by Whitbreads in 1958. Later it became a 'Burger King'. At high level facing Leicester Square are the remains of a former letter sign 'WHITBREAD'. This incorporated a weather display at one time. The Whitbread lettering had been painted over by October 2017. | JSe photo 2014; TrC 2015 and 2021; Google 2017 | Picture GONE |
London WC2 |
Watney Combe Reid & Co Ltd - Stag Brewery, Pimlico; and Mortlake Brewery | St Giles, 31 Endell Street | Cross Keys | Interior. The top-piece of the bar-back has back-lit lettering 'WATNEYS ALES ... CROSS KEYS' twice. | SP 2014 | . |
London WC2 |
Wm Younger & Co Ltd Edinburgh | Strand, 2 Savoy Street | New Savoy Tavern (renamed Savoy Tap) | By J Quilter for Youngers in 1926. Above the first-floor windows is a large metal plate with 'Wm YOUNGER & Co LTD'. | KR photo 2006 | Picture |