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Campaign for Real Ale

Ealing Park Tavern

222 South Ealing Road,
Ealing,
W5 4RL

Although this pub is not a listed building, it is one of London's Real Heritage Pubs (ie on CAMRA's London Regional Inventory of Pub Interiors of Special Historic Interest) and the description is as follows: "A truly epic piece of Edwardian pub architecture that forms a real landmark on the west side of South Ealing Road. In recent times it has taken on a gastro-pub orientation as might be guessed from the swathes of non-traditional dull blue external colouration and the vast plain windows. However, drinkers are still welcome and they are rewarded by various real ales and considerable remains from the original building. A tour starts outside with a highly impressive recessed porch framed by a timber arch with bulgy columns and the monogram of the founders, the Royal Brewery (Brentford) Ltd which ceased production in 1923. This porch has lovely green tiling and Art Nouveau-style lettering which advertises the saloon (also named on the brass door plate). The main drinking bar fronts Carlyle Road and has a long bar counter with a raked front. The lettering on the bar-back fitting tells us this was once a Courage house (in the days when brewers still owned pubs!). Behind comes a room with two-thirds-height panelling. On the right of the main entrance is a lovely room with more wall panelling and an interestingly shaped bar counter. Further to the right is a spacious room now used as a restaurant-cum-kitchen which must have functioned as a billiard room or a further saloon."

The Ealing Park Tavern featured on the Daytime Crawl of Middlesex in February 2007, the Way Out West: Daytime Crawl of Ealing and Brentford in February 2012, and the Down the Uxbridge Road: Daytime Crawl of West Middlesex in June 2014.