A few more facts about the Coach...

They've put the prices up again. Beer is now £2.90 a pint, making it London's most expensive boozer by a long way.

Norman Balom, the notoriously nuts barman, has had a portrait painted of himself and hung above the loo.

The staff of Private Eye meet there once a week to get drunk in the room above the main bar.

The graffiti in the pub toilets is the best in London.

The matchboxes used to bear the engimatic text:

NORMAN

London's rudest landlord

Still living with the Italian virago