Large, open plan pub with TV sports and attractive all day menu to refresh arrivals at and departures from the Victoria Coach Station opposite. Not surprisingly given its location, the clientele seems largely transient. Note that the licence permits sale of alcohol only from 9am.

The Bricklayers Arms, licensed in 1823, was the first pub here, rebuilt in 1938/39 as the Imperial Hotel, receiving its present name in the 1970s but parading from 1996 until 2002 as the Rat & Parrot.