Comments on: The Gentle Author’s Wapping Pub Crawl

By: Alan Adams

Alan Adams — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 13:24:16 +0000

I was interested in your article on Wapping pubs. I found out recently that an ancestor of mine mentioned inoldbaileyonline.org apprehended a young thief in Wapping Wall stealing from a shop. Punishment was a whipping.
Jonathan Adams at the time aged 14 was employed at the Wheatsheaf victuallers at King James stairs. I can find no info on the Wheatsheaf perhaps one of your readers can oblige.
Many thanks, Alan

By: Tricia Wyeth Bing

Tricia Wyeth Bing — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 13:16:45 +0000

Great photos. I lived in the Highway opposite “The Old Rose” in a flat over St Georges Church Hall from 1946 to 1963 ish when I moved to another flat in “The Old Rectory” Cannon Street Rd.
Haven’t been in the all but some of them. Surprisingly my parents didn’t drink!!!

By: Pauline Taylor

Pauline Taylor — Sat, 03 May 2014 22:26:55 +0000

This is a wonderful site. I am a country girl but all my father’s family came from London, Wapping, Limehouse, Bethnal Green, Hoxton, Hackney and south of the river too, and this all brings it to life for me. Some kept pubs so does anyone know what became of The Old Dundee Arms, 51 High Street, Wapping? Edward Yates Denton was there from 1839 to about 1853 but I have never found a picture of it of any kind.

By: Jon Dennis (@JonDennis)

Jon Dennis (@JonDennis) — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:35:28 +0000

Here’s a picture of the Beatles in Wapping: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/10/06/article-1318280-0B633228000005DC-615_634x517.jpg

By: Caroline Bottomley

Caroline Bottomley — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 06:18:58 +0000

Great story Shirley!

By: Stephen Barker

Stephen Barker — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 00:25:16 +0000

That cat looks very scary!

By: Helena

Helena — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 23:17:12 +0000

I used to live a few doors from The Grapes when it was run by the fabulous ex original bunny girl, Barbara. She had some stories as did the pub itself. Tiny but great fish restaurant upstairs too. Happy days.

By: Shirley Lile

Shirley Lile — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 20:18:11 +0000

We lived in Wapping before we moved to France ….Pier Head…in the 70s my daughters Grandfather Phil Marks use to deliver fresh fish to a couple or so Pubs on a Friday evening in Wapping and the Isle-of-dogs …his van was out of action for awhile so he asked me if I could drive him so as not to let down his customers …I had a Mini at the time and old Phil was a barrel of a man when he finally maneuvered his way into the seat the minis wheels on my driving side was of the ground…of we would go with the box of fish on the back seat..Every one loved him so landlords and customers would ply him with his pints and maybe a chaser ….this took up most of the evening….of course he always ended up very merry, he sang in the car all the way home……and the rest of the week my car stank of fish…..but he was a great character

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 19:06:45 +0000

I was lucky enough to have a pint in The Old Rose on the ( Ratcliffe ) Highway shortly before it shut for ever, Incredible given the area’s history that there’s no PH’s down there at all now !
My great grandfather ( a German immigrant like many of the licenced victuallers round that way at the time) used to run The Crooked Billet just down the road from there.
The Highway was called St Georges St from sometime in the later 1800s until post WW2 I believe, they were trying to lose the ‘bad rep’ of the old Ratcliffe Highway by changing it’s name !
So sad to see the Old Rose all boarded up 🙁

By: David Whittaker

David Whittaker — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:35:55 +0000

WONDERFUL JUST WONDERFUL..