The Gentle Author’s Spitalfields Pub Crawl
October 24, 2013
In Spitalfields, I can undertake a pub crawl whenever I please without even leaving the parish.
The Golden Heart, Commercial St
The Pride of Spitalfields, Heneage St
Ten Bells, Commercial St
Commercial Tavern, Commercial St
Woodin’s Shades, Bishopsgate
Dirty Dick’s, Bishopsgate
Water Poet, Folgate St
The Magpie, New St
The Bell, Middlesex St
Duke of Wellington, Toynbee St
King’s Stores, Widegate St
The Gun, Brushfield St
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anyone fancy a pint?
will have to find my way to the magpie. it looks sweet!
IIRC the “Ten Bells” is a listed building.
Oh & “The Magpie” used to be called the “Magpie & Stump”
Glad so many of the pubs have survived! Valerie
Loved this – I lived in the Kings Stores with my parents who ran the pub in the late 50s and ealy 60s. I actually had lunch there last wek -a real trip down memory Lane .
Just Magnificent..
Great, traditional pubs. Good to know so many have survived unscathed.
I’m smack/bang in the middle of most of these http://www.thebellpub.co.uk/ is my fave haunt at the mo’…
Oh how I love these photos……Now I want to go back to England and when I do….I want to for sure visit Spitafields which is where my ancestors came from!!!!
forgot to say the original name of the Kings Stores was “The Hog and Donkey ” as far as I know . When I lived there, there was a real cellar and the beer was all draught except the bottled stuff and it was a source of great piride when my dad loked after the bitter
Didn’t the 10 Bells used to be called “The Jack the Ripper”?
The last time we visited the Lane on a Sunday (2002) someone tried to steal my wife’s purse out of her backpack. Fortunately, she felt them and turned around quickly, but couldn’t figure out who the thief was.
You must look up Barry Holloway in the “Young Prince” Roman Road, E3
He owns the pub, A freehouse, Good selection of drinks
Gary
My favourite is The Pride Of Spitalfields,top quality beer,buzzing atmosphere ,city gents,builders , young and old all having a good time in a timeless pub,and then a curry in Brick Lane ,heaven !
I worked in Bell Lane E1 for many years and I’m pleased to say that I’ve been in every one of these pubs. Sorry to learn that The Gun closed last week and that the Duke of Welly is under threat. I work in Tokyo now and miss this great pub culture. There’s only so much Kirin you can take.
I would love 2 weeks in london , but hotels cost so much
Dear GA,
In the first of your pics of the Ten Bells (with the chap on the stall at the bar) is that Sven Goran Eriksen I see seated at the table looking at a paper? We should be told! 🙂
i lived in the kings Stores from 1959 to 1962 or thereabouts s my dad was the Licensee. , It isstill open as far as I kow but the clientele used to include the people lving in the salvation army hostel whihc has now gone. Iremebr getting curry on Sunday nightd from reidents of artillery Passage. I haver since discovrered that my ancestors lived in Gun Street in the 1850s
Great selection. The interior photos are particularly brilliant.
I was by the Water Poet on Folgate on August 4, 2019, and found it boarded up. Is it gone?