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A 1935 Truman's pub left standing alone in a park, because everything around it was bombed and then cleared.
Historic interior
The Palm Tree was built in 1935 by Eedle and Meyers for Truman's, in a restrained neo-Georgian, in the middle of a dense industrial district. The Blitz took most of that district and the postwar clearances took the rest, and the pub was simply left where it was. It now stands by itself in Mile End Park, which is why the first sight of it is so strange.
It was protected in 2015 for being almost unaltered outside and for an interior scheme that is largely complete, including the small differences between the bars that told you which class of drinker each was meant for.
Two handpumps, usually a real cider, live music at the weekend, no machines and no television. Cash only, on an old till. The same family have had it for over forty years.
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