Still and Star
Still and Star pub, Aldgate (1968)

The pub was a rare remaining working-class pub in the City - a private house had been converted into a hostelry

Credit: The National Brewery Centre
The Still & Star was on Little Somerset Street near to Aldgate High Street.

The Still & Star pub was believed to be unique in the City of London as a pub converted from a private house.

The pub was opened in 1820. It originally had its own still - housed in the hayloft above - while ‘star’ referred to the Star of David, witnessing the Jewish population of Aldgate in the nineteenth century.

A planning application approved in 2020 condemned the exactly two hundred year old pub as the site was zoned to become part of a new office development.

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