Black Horse & Harrow, Catford, SE6

David Walton left this review about Black Horse & Harrow

Visited 07/07/26. Visited previously as Duke of Catford on 05/06/24.

Cask here is generally available but on my visit on a very warm evening the London Pride and the TT Boltmaker both had their clips reversed. Keg was Fosters, Carlsberg, Amstel, K1664, Guinness, Inch's, Caffrey's Premium Ale and Black Stout, Murphy's Irish Stout, Cruz, Madri, John Smiths, original and dark fruits SB.

Large lump of a pub that has closed and reopened a couple of times over recent years. Long frontage and L shaped with the bar counter on the rear wall opposite the frontage. Some tall stool seating at the ends of the bar counter which has a tile skirt, but the front section generally bare boarded with a carpeted section in the rear right-hand corner. There is a fabric banquette under the front windows between the doors either side of the frontage, but the right-hand entrance was closed on my visit. Mixture of regular and tall tables in this front part of the venue, with a row of fruit machines along the left-hand wall and quite a few TVs turned into sport channels. High ceilings and nice lighting generally attractively decorated albeit a bit swamped by WC paraphernalia on my visit. The extended left-hand side is a mixture of tiled and parquet at the rear and has a few more tall tables with tall, backed stools behind the rear of the bar counter. There is a pool table around the tall tables. In the rear on the parquet flooring are a couple of dartboards with another TV on the rear wall, drinking ledge in front with some tall stools. Cobbled rear beer garden with picnic style benches and some external screens showing the Arg v Egypt WC game on my visit. Venue was busy with football watchers and non-football watchers. Believe this is now in community ownership so really hoping this incarnation survives a long time.

On 23^rd September 2026 - rating: 5
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