The Golden Heart pub at 110 Commercial Street, Spitalfields, a Grade II listed Truman's house dating from 1936.

. The Golden Heart public house at 110 Commercial Street, Spitalfields, east London, a Grade II listed pub built in 1936 for Truman, Hanbury, Buxton & Co. Designed by brewery architect A. E. Sewell, the building is an important surviving example of the 'improved pub' movement of the inter-war period, when brewers replaced cramped Victorian premises with larger, more orderly and architecturally considered houses. Its restrained neo-Georgian design, curved corner frontage and surviving interior fittings helped secure statutory listing in 2015. The pub stands only a short distance from the former Truman's Black Eagle Brewery on Brick Lane, once one of the world's great brewing complexes and a dominant employer in this part of the East End. Historic England notes that the Golden Heart retains much of Truman's characteristic 1930s interior treatment, including panelling, fireplaces, fixed seating and brewery detailing. The site itself has an older licensed history: an earlier house was recorded as the Golden Harp in the early nineteenth century and had become the Golden Heart by the 1830s. In the late twentieth century the pub acquired another layer of cultural significance through its association with the artists and personalities of the emerging Spitalfields and Britart scene. Artists including Tracey Emin, Sarah Lucas and Gilbert & George have been connected with the pub, helping turn it into a recognised social landmark beyond its architectural importance. The photograph shows the Golden Heart in its busy Commercial Street context, with patrons outside and the historic Truman name still visible high on the façade. That combination of active pub use and largely intact inter-war fabric is central to the building's heritage value: it remains a working local rather than a preserved museum interior. The image therefore records brewing history, pub architecture, East End cultural change and contemporary street life at a single corner site.