The old-fashioned pub that's home to a new fashion set

..and our guide to the boozers loved by the most stylish Londoners

- ELFIE REIGATE

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.

It is also my local. When our boiler packed up one freezing Sunday last December, Mannions took us in. It has housed us through sickness and through health. With a pint in hand and a packet of Taytos, it's our home away from home.