The equipment includes an intimate stage, tables, a bar with equipment, a fake fireplace with backlight, large wall mirrors, knight's armor, leather sofas, paintings. A raw basement is also available.We have also avaible second floor with 5 rooms and two bathrooms.
The Macbeth has been a music and arts pub for over 100 years. This pub has survived two World wars, Typhoid and an unrelenting bombardment of some of the best intimate live performances and parties known in the western hemisphere.
The equipment visible in the photos includes an intimate stage, tables, a bar with equipment, a fake fireplace with backlight, large wall mirrors, knight's armor, leather sofas, and paintings. A raw basement is also available.We have also avaible second floor with 5 rooms and two bathrooms.
The front of The Macbeth is a good example of well-mannered nineteenth century neo-classical architecture. The pilasters and fenestration on the ground floor were remodelled in the late 1940s (probably to repair bomb-damage) and have lost their original proportions along with their fluted pilasters – complete with Corinthian capitals – and a proper entablature framed by a cornice above and decorative brackets at each end. Despite this post-war disaster, however, many of the original external features remain. A true ‘piano nobile’ is still suggested by the elegant first floor windows dressed with triangular pediments and a string course to separate them from the less-ornate second floor above. The whole façade is edged with expressive quoins and surmounted by a triangular pediment in the centre of a parapet with posts and decorative vases. If you care to look up, there – in the centre of the front elevation – you can still see the letters ‘HOXTON DISTILLERY.’ moulded into the stucco.
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The choice of the new name in 1978 was almost certainly inspired by the strange mural along the side wall of the saloon bar. Hand painted on glazed ceramic tiles this depicts the banquet scene from Shakespeare’s tragedy, Macbeth, [Act III, Scene 4]. This is the sequence in the play where Macbeth is haunted by the ghost of his former comrade-in-arms, Banquo, whom he has just had murdered. The dramatic impact is enhanced by the fact that only Macbeth can see the ghost (“Thou canst not say I did it. Never shake Thy gory locks at me…”) and everyone else gathered around the table suspects that their new king has finally gone off his rocker.
