Although this pub is neither a listed building nor on any CAMRA Inventory, it is a former beer house that is now Truman’s central London eyrie. There is a plain, modern bar on the ground floor and additional seating in the cellar. It was known to Julian Maclaren-Ross as the Beerhouse as it did not have a spirits licence. The fine tiled façade features jonquils and it appears to have been a Charrington house. Newman Passage to its left was known by Julian Maclaren-Ross as “Jekyll and Hyde Alley because it was the sort of place through which Mr Hyde flourishing his stick rushes low-angle on the screen”. It later featured in the opening scene of the notorious film Peeping Tom, made by Michael Powell in 1960.

The Newman Arms featured on the Auntie's Boozers Revisited: Evening Pub Tour of Fitzrovia in April 2022.

WhatPub link: Newman Arms