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(Pub, External, Key). Published on 12-08-2018

Anerley Arms, Anerley

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Opens Tue at 3:00pm
Operator: Samuel Smith
2 Ridsdale Road, Anerley, SE20 8AG (View on Google Map)
(020) 8659 5552
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Samuel Smith pub next to Anerley station, sadly one of those that does not sell their cask beer. On the plus side, a good period-style interior with lots of wood panelling, etched glass, old local photos, red leather banquettes.

Historic Interest

Originally opened in 1841 as the Anerley Hotel, this served as tea rooms for the adjacent Anerley Gardens, once a popular attraction until it closed in 1868 and which contained a section of the redundant Croydon Canal. Anerley station opened in 1839 with the coming of the railway that replaced the canal - the name being taken from Anerly Lodge, the home of Scottish silk manufacturer William Sanderson ("anerly" meaning solitary or lonely). The hotel was originally built as a Swiss-style chalet and rebuilt sometime in the 1870s as a large imposing winged structure with its current name. The course of the old canal would have run at the back of the public house garden, all traces now gone following the housing development of the area in the 1860s.

Following a gas explosion in 1978, the badly damaged pub was sold by Charrington's to Samuel Smith's in 1979. Restoration work was then undertaken using traditional materials to restore the interior back to its Victorian appearance.

The pub also features in a Sherlock Holmes short story "The Adventure of the Norwood Builder".

Information for this venue is provided by the Bromley Branch of CAMRA
Previous Names
Local Authority
Bromley
Last updated
30/12/2023
Last surveyed
01/10/2014
Pub ID
BRO/12587
Asset of Community Value
Monday
Closed
Tuesday
3:00pm - 11:00pm
Wednesday
3:00pm - 11:00pm
Thursday
3:00pm - 11:00pm
Friday
Noon - 11:00pm
Saturday
Noon - 11:00pm
Sunday
Noon - 10:30pm

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Facilities
Lunchtime Meals Lunchtime Meals
Garden Garden
Games Games
Smoking Smoking
Features
Transport
Close to bus routes (5m)
157 (alight at Anerley station), 249 (alight at Anerley station), 354 (alight at Anerley station), 358 (alight at Anerley station), 432 (alight at Anerley station)
Nearby Station (50m)
Anerley
Close to London Underground/Overground/DLR (50m)
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