Pubs in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets

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The Blind Beggar

The Blind Beggar

The Blind Beggar is a pub on Whitechapel Road in Whitechapel, East London, England. It is notable as the former brewery tap of the Manns Albion brewery, where the first modern Brown Ale was brewed. The pub was built in 1894 on the site of an inn which had been established before 1654, and takes its name from the legend of Henry de Montfort.

The pub is known for Ronnie Kray's murder of George Cornell in front of witnesses, and as the location of William Booth's first sermon, which led to the creation of The Salvation Army.

The pub was built in 1894 on the site of an inn which had been established before 1654, and named after the legend of Henry de Montfort, a son of Simon de Montfort.

In 1865, William Booth preached his first open-air sermon outside the Blind Beggar, which led to the establishment of the East London Christian Mission, later to become the Salvation Army. William Booth is commemorated by a nearby statue.

The Blind Beggar is notorious for its connection to East End gangsters the Kray twins. On 9 March 1966, Ronnie Kray shot and murdered George Cornell, an associate of a rival gang, the Richardsons, as he was sitting at the bar. The murder took place in the then saloon bar.

The pub is also a popular starting point for the Monopoly Pub Crawl, despite being located on the board's third space.

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Captain Kidd (pub)

The Captain Kidd is a pub in Wapping, East London that is named after the seventeenth century pirate William Kidd, who was executed at the nearby Execution Dock.

The pub was built in the 1980s a former coffee warehouse, and was named after the seventeenth century pirate William Kidd, who was executed at the nearby Execution Dock in 1701. The pub has a nautical theme and retells the story of Captain Kidd and his execution; the layout of the pub is designed to be similar to a ship's hulk. It is a Sam Smith's pub, and is situated on Wapping High Street. The entrance has a large archway, and the pub has three floors, and has a terrace overlooking the River Thames. The pub is situated next door to the Marine Police Force headquarters.

Coordinates: 51°30′12″N 0°03′30″W / 51.5033°N 0.0583°W / 51.5033; -0.0583

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George Tavern

The George Tavern

Coordinates: 51°30′51″N 0°03′11″W / 51.5143°N 0.0530°W / 51.5143; -0.0530

The George Tavern is a Grade II listed public house and music venue located on Commercial Road, London. It is owned and operated by artist Pauline Forster.

Formerly known as the Halfway House, the building contains original brickwork some 700 years old, and is mentioned in texts by Geoffrey Chaucer, Samuel Pepys and Charles Dickens. In 2002, artist Pauline Forster bought the derelict building at auction and has reopened it as a music, performance and arts venue, and pub. It is also a popular location for photo, film, and video shoots.

The George Tavern was built approximately on the site of the Halfway House, believed to be of mid-17th century origin. Map evidence shows that the Halfway House was rebuilt in the 18th century, some time after 1745, approximately 50 meters to the north east of the earlier inn. Neither building appears on Horwood's map of 1819.

The present building was probably built between 1820 and 1825 and first appears on Greenwood's map of 1827. The pub therefore forms part of the development of Commercial Road, which was created following the Commercial Road Act of 1802 to link the newly built East India Docks and West India Docks to the boundary of the City of London. The pub was remodeled in 1862 by James Harrison and the ground-floor pub interior was further remodeled in 1891 by R. A. Lewcock.

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Golden Heart, Spitalfields

The Golden Heart is a Grade II listed public house in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, at 110 Commercial Street, London E1 6LZ.

It was built in 1936 for Truman's Brewery, and designed by their in-house architect A. E. Sewell.

It was Grade II listed in 2015 by Historic England.

Coordinates: 51°31′13″N 0°04′27″W / 51.520146°N 0.074215°W / 51.520146; -0.074215

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The Grapes, Limehouse

The Grapes, Limehouse

The Grapes is a Grade II listed public house situated directly on the north bank of the Thames in London's Limehouse area, with a veranda overlooking the water. To its landward side, the pub is found at number 76 in Narrow Street, flanked by former warehouses now converted to residential and other uses.

The Grapes is owned in partnership by the actor Sir Ian McKellen, the theatre and film director Sean Mathias, and Evgeny Lebedev, publisher of the Evening Standard newspaper.

The current building dates from the 1720s and is on the site of a pub built in 1583. It was formerly a working-class tavern serving the dockers of the Limehouse Basin. In the 1930s it sold beer from the adjacent brewery owned by Taylor Walker. It survived the intense bombing of the area in World War II, and is just outside the Docklands commercial zone built in the 1980s.

Limehouse was settled early as a dry bank suitable for growing, easy building upon and import, export, chandlery and fishing — most of many times wider Poplar to the east was the low-lying fields of the Isle of Dogs used for the keeping of marsh sheep with the national markets in the City just west. To the west before the City were the similar small wharf and early built-up 'Tower Division of Middlesex hamlets' of Ratcliff, Shadwell, Wapping and St Katherine by the Tower each with their own urban settlements; together with Limehouse covering no more than a square mile in total. By Queen Elizabeth I’s time, Limehouse joined with its neighbours as a doorway to world trade in the City and to ships embarking across the British Empire; a contemporary Limehouse-based world explorer was Sir Humphrey Gilbert. From directly below The Grapes, Sir Walter Raleigh set sail on his third voyage to the New World.

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The Palm Tree, Mile End

The Palm Tree is a Grade II listed public house at 127 Grove Road, Mile End, London, E3 5RP.

It was built in 1935 for Truman's Brewery, and designed by Eedle and Meyers.

It was Grade II listed in 2015 by Historic England.

Coordinates: 51°31′45″N 0°02′27″W / 51.529160°N 0.040718°W / 51.529160; -0.040718

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The Pride of Spitalfields

The Pride of Spitalfields (formerly The Romford Arms) is a public house at 3 Heneage Street in Spitalfields in the East End of London, just off Brick Lane. It was associated with a Jack the Ripper suspect.

The pub has existed since at least the middle of the 19th century, if not always under that name. Heneage Street itself appears to have been created between 1802 and 1822 according to available maps.

In the 1889 Post Office Trade Directory, 3 Heneage Street, on the north side of the road, was listed as a Beer Retailer, with proprietor James Stewart. The adjacent site to the east, 5 Heneage Street, now a house and artist's studio, was the site of the Best & Co. brewery, which closed in 1902.

One of the suspects named by researchers, James Hardiman, a 'cats meat vendor', lived at 13 Heneage Street, and drank at the Romford Arms.

Another, more notable, witness and Ripper suspect, George Hutchinson, made statements that some researchers have suggested he had been drinking at The Romford Arms on the night of 9 November 1888 prior to meeting one of the victims.

The pub's name changed from The Romford Arms sometime between 1983 and 1986 according to contemporary publications.

In 1999, artist and musician Piers Wardle launched 'Nine Planets in Alignment' (by Wardle, Michael Daykin, and Micalef, for the Attaché Gallery) at the pub.

In 2003, the pub was damaged in a petrol bomb attack.

In 2013, it was awarded "East London Pub of the Year" by CAMRA - the Campaign for Real Ale - an award shared with the Eleanor Arms, Bow.

Coordinates: 51°31′8.49″N 0°4′14.32″E / 51.5190250°N 0.0706444°E / 51.5190250; 0.0706444

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Prospect of Whitby

The Prospect of Whitby is a historic public house on the banks of the Thames at Wapping in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It lays claim to being the site of the oldest riverside tavern, dating from around 1520.

The tavern was formerly known as The Pelican and later as the Devil’s Tavern, on account of its dubious reputation. It is situated next to the former Wapping Execution Dock. All that remains from the building’s earliest period is the 400-year-old stone floor, and the pub features eighteenth century panelling and a nineteenth century facade. The pub has a pewter-top bar, and is decorated with many nautical objects. In former times it was a meeting place for sailors, smugglers, cut-throats and footpads. Sir Hugh Willoughby sailed from here in 1553 in a disastrous attempt to discover the North-East Passage to China.

In the 17th century, it became the hostelry of choice of "Hanging" Judge Jeffreys, scourge of the Monmouth Rebellion. He lived nearby and a replica gallows and noose hangs by the Thameside window, commemorating his custom. He was chased by anti-Royalists into the nearby Town of Ramsgate, captured and taken to the Tower for his own safety. According to legend, criminals would be tied up to the posts at low tide and left there to drown when the tide came in. Execution Dock was actually by Wapping Old Stairs and generally used for pirates. In the eighteenth century, the first fuchsia plant in the United Kingdom was sold at the pub.

Views from the pub were sketched by both Turner and Whistler. The writers Charles Dickens and Samuel Pepys are known to have paused to sup here.

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The Royal Oak, Bethnal Green

The Royal Oak is a Grade II listed public house at 73 Columbia Road, Bethnal Green, London, E2.

It was built in 1923 for Truman's Brewery, and probably designed by their in-house architect A. E. Sewell.

It was Grade II listed in 2015 by Historic England.

Coordinates: 51°31′46″N 0°04′10″W / 51.529581°N 0.0693760°W / 51.529581; -0.0693760

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