Like the Atlas, this is one of London’s Real Heritage Pubs and the description is as follows: “There’s nothing else quite like the Colton Arms. It’s a local drinkers’ pub in a modest, rendered Victorian building but its interior is a cross between a museum and a museum piece in its own right. The drinking area wraps round the servery on three sides and is a time-warp of 1950s/1960s fitting-up. The style of much of what you see has sometimes been called ‘publican’s rustic’, a deliberate attempt at rustic nostalgia with chunky woodwork, false ceiling beams and rough stonework. Facing you on arrival is the bar counter and its slices of tree trunks on the upright face. There is lots of false half-timbering but the most surprising thing is the reused carved woodwork from old pieces of furniture. It seems that when such heavy, overblown carving was deeply out of fashion it could be bought up cheaply and so pieces found their way here, were dismantled and used to adorn the pub.

History on the spot: It is thought that the Colton in the pub name was one George Colton who made a living as a clay pipe maker before turning to pub-keeping in the mid-19th century. Numerous fragments of pipes have been found here.”

The Colton Arms features on the The Twelve Days of Christmas: Evening Crawl of Hammersmith, West Kensington and West Brompton, and featured on the Choosy Cat and the True Sea Dog: Evening Crawl of Fulham and Hammersmith in August 2010.