The Churchill Arms, W8

The first thing you notice when entering this pub is the sheer number of bric-a-brac hanging from the ceiling. I've never seen so many pots and pans, jugs and vessels adorned in one space. The pub is a Fullers house and there were four Fullers Ales on the bar. The pub has a friendly and jolly atmosphere and has a good traditional pub vibe to it. There is a Thai restaurant, which is part of the pub at the rear, which was busy on our visit.

What a great little locals boozer.Friendly landlord and a good selection of 5 Fullers beers.Doubt this pub has changed much since I last visited 20 years ago.

Grand looking corner pub decked with plants and stuff. A U shaped bar room wrapped around a single bar with a Thai restaurant to the rear. Lots of artefacts hung from the ceiling, rather like a shop that sells reclaimed stuff, and a bust of Winston Churchill sat at one end of the bar. Fuller’s pub selling Fuller’s beers(!) – a good place, bit of a novelty but probably the most interesting pub on my day out.

Historic Fullers pub serving up a decent range of their ales in good condition Once you’ve admired the vast array of colourful hanging outside, you enter to a dark, cosy boozer with a glow of orange reddishness for various lamps. It sounds odd but it works. The plant life inside and out is almost as appealing as the history element – one wall holding portraits of every British PM since Sir Robert Walpole, alongside all sorts of assorted bric-a-brac. Some original snob screens are in evidence by the bar and the interior is in the CAMRA Regional Inventory. Worth a special look is the rear room where the Thai food operation takes place, which is literally covered in plants, like eating in a Kew Gardens glasshouse – quite staggering, really. And as almost a side note is the beer – the Fullers range plus a seasonal which is always on good form, making this pub a Good Beer Guide regular. Beware that it does get very busy and it can get a bit intimate at peak times with the other punters. All in all, a cracking place I’d heartily recommend to anyone visiting the capital.