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.

CAMRA website link: Newman Arms

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