The Anglers, Teddington

The Anglers is one of a couple of pubs next to Teddington Lock. I visited the Tide End Cottage back in 2019 as part of a crawl of Teddington pubs, but rejected this one. However, this Fuller's pub now appears in the 2025 Good Beer Guide. So, I returned on a Sunday morning to give it a try. There is a tight car park at the front with the pub seat back from the road to the rear of the car park. The main part of the pub has two or three rooms, including a conservatory dining room to the rear. The main bar area has a long bar with a space off to the left having plenty of books on shelves. There are wooden floors. A fireplace contained some pot plants. To the extremes, a number of other rooms are available for hire. There are 4 handpulls. Fuller's London Pride & Dark Star Hophead are the regular beers. A guest beer was Fuller's/Five Points Cobbled Lane, with the 4th handpull unclipped. Keg beers included Brixton Reliance, Beavertown Neck Oil & Gamma Ray, Jubel Beer Cut With Peach, Big Drop Paradiso Citra, Siren Lumina & The Park Gallows. The cider was Cornish Orchards. My Lumina set me back £3.85 for a half. London prices never cease to amaze me! The bar also had a fridge full of wines. Most people on a Sunday morning were in for coffees and breakfast, probably breaking up a walk along the Thames. Cakes, muffins and pains au chocolate were being sold from tubs on the bar. There were plenty of kids, with papers and pens available for them to draw with. A canine menu would suggest that dogs are also welcome. Human menus could be found on each table, along with condiments. As a pub, this place didn't do it for me. There are plenty of other Fuller's outlets I would choose over this one, if I wanted to drink their beer. It is more of use as a pitstop for walkers along the Thames Path and I would imagine it gets most of its business in the warmer summer months.

It's a pub, Jim, but not as we know it. Much extended riverside venue which is one step above a family dining pub, although mainly catering for same. A modern glass conservatory and other outbuildings have been added, while the table-filled garden disappears off towards the river, which presumably is still there somewhere. The interior is also heavily tabled, with a bar somewhere in the middle dispensing London Pride, Red Fox, Gales HSB and Dark Star Revelation, this being an Asahi - sorry, Fullers pub. Probably better at quieter times but heaving on a Sunday afternoon.

I drank and worked at The Anglers in 1970-71. In those days, it was more of the "olde English pub" where dogs and their owners parked for a few pints before struggling home. The publicans of the time (Sam & Midge - surname?) told us that there was an ale house on the site going back to Saxon times. Never checked that out. In my time there, the facade of the building was painted yellow and carparking was haphazard. In 1981, I visited the pub once again and it appeared much as it does today. What surprised me at the time was the almost total indifference of the staff to paying customers. Hopefully, that attitude has changed. The pub had taken on a yuppie appearance and lacked atmosphere, however, the beer garden would be sufficient reason to pay a visit on a warm day.