Lord Clyde

Two separate rooms remain, as does the original bar counter and bar-back.

The delightful Lord Clyde pub was rebuilt in 1913 and has a marvellous exterior with lots of ceramic work. Pride of place goes to a majestic eagle, the emblem of East End brewers, Truman, Hanbury and Buxton, while the fascia over the corner entrance bears the name ‘E J Bayling’ who was the new landlord at the time of the rebuilding.

Inside, there are two rooms; the main room at the front, and a separate room at the back on the right. There are three doors to the main bar (the room at the back doesn't appear to have ever had its own external door) which give clues to the original layout. The door on the corner is labelled the 'Public Bar', the door at the centre of the Clennam Street frontage is labelled the 'Saloon Bar'; the now unused door to the left of the Clennam Street door is not labelled but possibly led into a snug or private bar. The main bar has a tapering, match-boarded counter with doors in the front for servicing beer engines in times past, half-height panelled walls and the bar-back has some plain bevelled and etched panes and dentil decoration beneath the pub's name in gold lettering on both sides. A framed Truman’s price list tells us the public bar prices of beer in 1961. Note the fine mirror advertising ‘Mild Ales and Double Stout’. The back bar has a hatch to the servery (but no longer in use) and more wall panelling.

The fittings and detailing have a restraint and simplicity which forms a marked contrast to the ornateness of pubs from a decade or so before and gives a hint of what would come after the First World War.