A photographic record of former Truman pubs in London.
Truman, Hanbury, Buxton & Company Limited was a London brewer with records stretching back as far as 1666.
The brewery finally closed in 1988, but there remain a wealth of proud and ornately decorated public houses in the London area.
The Metropolitan
60 Southwark Street
London
SE1 1UN
Southwark Street was built in the early 1860s by The Metropolitan Board of Works. Presumably this is where the name for the public house came from.
I can’t help thinking the original incarnation might have been a little bit easier on the eye.
Now called The Southwark Rooms, this venue is the type of place commonly hired out by city workers for drinks and nibbles. Plush inside, brutal on the outside.
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