North London

Campaign for Real Ale

Campaign for Real Ale

Bread & Roses at The Chapel

308-312 Gray’s Inn Road
London
WC1X 8DP
Telephone(020) 7843 3747
This pub is permanently closed.

See more about this pub on WhatPub, CAMRA's national pub guide.

It's now open as a community cafe. We think this is the place:

https://www.foodchain.org.uk/2022/06/30/the-food-chains-new-community-cafe/

although it has an address of 72 Acton Street which is the other corner.

Had been opened in Jan 2019 offering one cask beer plus keg beer from Hackney. In the basement there was a space which was host to touring and in-house theatre shows, music and a regular comedy club.

It was partnership between the National Union of Journalists and the Workers Beer Company, one of the main operators of festival bars in the UK and Ireland and which is owned by Battersea and Wandsworth TUC.

The pubs are named in recognition of the struggle of workers from around the world for a better quality of life. In 1912 during a strike of women textile workers in Massachusetts, USA, banners were made calling for bread and roses. This came from a poem written by James Oppenheim and has become a trademark song for women trade unionists around the world.

No planning application approval for change of use from pub to restaurant