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Picture source: National Brewery Heritage Trust

The Invitation was situated at 39 Auckland Road. This pub is now used as flats.

Source: Adam Reed

A friend of mine, Howard 'Nutsy' Gray, managed this pub for a couple of years in the late 1980's. He was, I believe, one of the first on the scene of the Clapham Junction rail disaster in 1989. The railway line ran just behind the pub. I frequented this place now and again in the 1970's. In truth it has to be said that it was really not a nice pub at all. The main entertainment in there was the Saturday evening brawl that would inevitably break out after all the local hard men and market traders had been drinking all day. A typical south London spit and sawdust pub. One good point, they used to serve draught Colt 45 malt. Not many places around that did that. On a scale of one to ten I would give it 4. There were very many much nicer pubs in the area.

Bob Robson (April 2020)

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