Comments on: At The George https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/02/18/at-the-george/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Mon, 01 Dec 2025 02:39:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Bill https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/02/18/at-the-george/#comment-1866590 Mon, 01 Dec 2025 02:39:58 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=81554#comment-1866590 Beautiful!

]]> By: Janice Drew https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/02/18/at-the-george/#comment-487013 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 20:46:14 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=81554#comment-487013 My Grandad lived in the cottages in Aylward Street till mid 1950’s. He spent much of his time in The George.

]]> By: Bex Lyons https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/02/18/at-the-george/#comment-89430 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:19:53 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=81554#comment-89430 Loved this post!

Having lived near this pub for most of my life, but having only been in once (I thought it was closed the rest of the time!) I’m so thrilled to know more about this building, and am excited about the medieval heritage of this spot!

Thanks for a great post, and for a great pub. Will definitely go in again when I’m back in London.

]]> By: Andy Willoughby https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/02/18/at-the-george/#comment-89363 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:12:42 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=81554#comment-89363 A great story and great photos. What a wonderful place! And such an admirable landlady! What a wonderful job she has done, and is still doing, preserving such an historic place. Well worth patronising. Thank you Gentle Author for this story and photos.

]]> By: Jonathan Nichols https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/02/18/at-the-george/#comment-89354 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:33:36 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=81554#comment-89354 The’gentle author’ has a good eye for a photograph.
Very nice work. The pictures of Pauline are particularly nice. The cat, well as he or she may have been told by Pauline, there are a number of them. The place is very nice to simply ‘be’ in, whether downstairs or upstairs (and there is a lot of upstairs). Thankyou Pauline.

]]> By: Elaine Napier https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/02/18/at-the-george/#comment-89328 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 13:49:37 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=81554#comment-89328 What an amazing place. My congratulations to Pauline for bringing it back to life like this. May I ask everyone to encourage the Geffrye Museum to abandon their plan to demolish the Marquis of Lansdowne pub on Cremer Street. Not quite as old as the George/Halfway House, but still a proper 1830s East End pub. Too good to lose to the developers. And WHAT is a museum doing knocking down history?

And thank you to the Gentle Author for continuing to show us such special places.

]]> By: Jessica Murray https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/02/18/at-the-george/#comment-89327 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 13:45:44 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=81554#comment-89327 Despite the appearance of being a closed down pub, The George is well and truly open! Get in touch with Jess (georgetavernbookings@gmail.com) if you are interested in hosting a party at the George or putting on a night. We are open very day from 4 – 12am, and we are open until 3am on Friday and Saturday nights! Visit http://www.thegeorgetavern.co.uk/events.html for current events listings.

]]> By: annie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/02/18/at-the-george/#comment-89326 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 13:45:04 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=81554#comment-89326 I have been in the disco dance floor room once (which is brilliant!) but I never imagined how interesting the actual rooms of the pub were – loads of character, I love places like that, thanks for the insight.

]]> By: Jill https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/02/18/at-the-george/#comment-89294 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 10:02:02 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=81554#comment-89294 I shall visit the pub one day, my ancestors had the grocers in the terrace next to it in Victorian times and 3x great grandfather went to freemasons meetings at The George. Thankyou Pauline for allowing us to see your unique home.

]]> By: joan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/02/18/at-the-george/#comment-89288 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 09:05:13 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=81554#comment-89288 Some lovely things. Having gone to school across the road from the George in the 60s and 70s and known some of it’s customers (including my own family) I was just wondering who uses it as their local now. Given that it is surrounded by the sort of local authority housing that I grew up in, it is clearly not an area likely to gentrify and presumably much of the council housing is now occupied by people for whom the local pub is not where they socialise. I do remember seeing that the Orchestra for the Age of Enlightenment was doing a concert there but presumably that is only an occasional thing.

My other association with the George is a more tragic one. One of my slightly younger school friends was run over outside it on the crossing on Commercial Road and badly brain damaged. I’m not romantic at all about community and the East End but it was one of those occasions on which locals really pulled together to fund raise to get the young boy specialist treatment in the US.

Really hope the George prospers.

Best wishes,

Joan

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