The Wellington, Aldwych, now a fairly ordinary Nicholson’s chain pub, but Ian Nairn loved it: ‘…comfortable and quietly elegant and what every pub or street should be and isn’t.’
The Globe, Covent Garden. Union Flags, fish’n’chips… they probably sell plastic red buses and police helmets from behind the bar.
The Coach & Horses, Covent Garden. Twin sister to the Globe, with a window full of burly blokes who glared at us while we took this photo.
The Exmouth Arms, Exmouth Market. One of the most beautiful pub frontages in London — green tiles over three storeys, and yellow text advertising Courage’s Fine Ales & Stout.
The Harlequin, Islington. It was closed when we passed. It would probably look better with original signage; gorgeous tiles.
The Alma, Chapel Street, Islington. Apparently an old-fashioned market traders’ pub in an otherwise extremely gentrified area. Busy on a Friday afternoon, too.
Some pictures we took while walking from one meeting to another in London a couple of weeks ago. We’d forgotten quite how densely ‘pubbed’ London is, and how characterful and varied those pubs can be.
(There’s more of this kind of stuff on our Facebook page, by the way.)
