It's a Sign!

When we took on our premises on Old Street we struggled for a name. After a long hard Jaipur-fuelled evening's brainstorming we settled with "Old Street Tavern" ('cause that that's what it is), and we are proud to trade under that moniker.

What we didn't know at the time was that the tattoo parlour and florist that we were attempting, with a lot of head-scratching the occasional profanity, to knock together into something resembling a boozer, had in fact been a pub for most of its history.

In its earliest known incarnation the pub was named for Prince Rupert of the Rhine, a royalist in the civil war and a larger than life figure who spent time in Ludlow.

So, when it came to hanging our shingle, there was only one face that could adorn it, and only one man who could realise our somewhat off-beat vision: our friend and eminent painter, Peter Edwards.

This video explains some of the "thinking" behind the project.

And if you want to call our pub "The Rupert", that's just fine with us.