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The Brewery Tap was situated at 500 Commercial Road. This pub closed c2013 and has now been converted to residential use.

The pub is mentioned in the 1997 novel 'London Blues' by Anthony Frewein. It is visited by the narrator whilst on the way to meet a mysterious contact whom he later discovers murdered: ‘At the top of the road on the left there’s a quaint little pub that must be as old as Caroline Street itself. It’s a Victorian local called the Brewery Tap. It doesn’t look much bigger than my room.’

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