Sitting proudly on the corner of Broad Lane, Mannions Prince Arthur is in many ways an old-school north London Irish pub. It is equidistant from Tottenham Hale and Seven Sisters Tube stations, a stone’s throw from the Walthamstow Marshes. The interior is everything you’d hope for: a pool table, a long bar and a life-sized mural of Samuel Beckett, brooding over the room from behind various sports screens.
The real centrepiece, however — the pub’s pride and joy — is a portrait of the landlord and landlady riding a horse through the countryside; an image as grand as it is unexpected.
