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A 1930s Truman's interior kept whole, stage and spittoons and all, in a pub the neighbourhood owns.
Historic interior
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What the regulars bought in 2013, when they became the first pub in the country to be saved under the Localism Act's community right to buy, was a large 1930s Truman's improved public house that nobody had got round to modernising.
Almost all of it is still there. The front bar has a curved counter with a black and white tiled spittoon running along the foot of it. A partition with double doors leads through to a big back room with its own counter, its own spittoon, a huge fireplace and an ornamented stage behind curtains - which is why it worked as the Newlands Tavern, a pub-rock room, in the 1970s. Truman's gold lettering runs round the walls at picture-rail height. The old public bar spent years as a flat and is in storage, waiting to go back in.
An improved public house was the between-the-wars idea that a pub should be roomy, respectable and full of things to do. Very few survive with the fittings that made the argument, and this is one.
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