The Foundry, Old Street

pub details:

print this

tell your friends:

location:

Old Street

address:

84-86 Great Eastern Street, EC2A 3JL

phone:

0871 258 6401*
* calls cost 10p/minute, click here for more about 0871 numbers.

nearest stations:

Old Street railway station London Underground station
(370m) - zone 1

Shoreditch High Street (opens 2010) London Overground station
(470m) - zone 2

Hoxton London Overground station
(800m)

Liverpool Street railway station London Underground station
(890m) - zone 1

Moorgate railway station London Underground station
(910m) - zone 1

how to find it:

Old Street: leave by an Old Street East exit and head down towards Great Eastern Street. Liverpool Street, leave the station by the Bishopsgate exit, turn left and head up to the large junction with Great Eastern Street, turn left and head up the street.

click for directions to The Foundry from wherever you are

click here for a larger map

nearby attraction(s):

Bunhill Fields (490m)

Geffrye Museum (780m)

Spitalfields Market (810m)

As Hoxton slowly becomes a cosy suburb of the Square Mile, the Foundry has now closed to make way for a hotel which looks like a giant flip-top bin. Hackney Council are promising to relocate the bar, but we're guessing it'll lose its spark in the process. Also interesting to note the council have insisted a Banksy mural on the site be preserved. This from a council who spent years painting over his work. In the meantime it has been sqauatted, but we imagine eviction isn't too far away.

last updated:
16/07/2010

second opinion:

Have your say! - no comments yet on this pub - why not add your own?

Fancyapint? in London - second edition - buy your copy today