Comments on: Jeffrey Johnson’s Favourite Pubs

By: Sylvia Hebron

Sylvia Hebron — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 22:30:51 +0000

I was the Landlady of The Crispin after it had been refurbished in the sixties. It had a Shakespeare theme as I think it was near the site of the first theatre Shakespeare performed and wrote a play. Hearsay.
My father was an apprentice printer in Sun Street when the Crispin was a Beer House.he used to fetch Beer for the Printers.
Terrible that these old pubs have been pulled down for Develpment.

By: Terry Mcvey

Terry Mcvey — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 23:51:55 +0000

Like Paul Robinson I also fondly remember the Weavers Arms in Sun Street.Clarksons Holidays was also my place of employ 1970-1973. Many a lunchtime and after work beverage and microwave meal was to be had with co workers. I luckily escaped to Australia a few months before Clarksons went belly up.

By: Anthony Teague

Anthony Teague — Sun, 18 Nov 2018 12:59:52 +0000

The photograph identified by another reader as the Crooked Billet in Walthamstow will make for poignant viewing for the comedian Freddie Davies, as it was here, as the age of ten, that he was placed on a barstool by his grandfather, the revue comic Jack Herbert, and went through his grandad’s act. Afterwards they passed the hat round so you could say technically that was his professional debut. I have seen photos of the pub from earlier in its life but never one like this. I am the cowriter of Freddie’s book Funny Bones, and an article about his connection to the Crooked Billet can be found here: https://funnybonesthebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/it-all-started-in-slough-no-make-that.html

By: kenneth peers

kenneth peers — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 15:31:18 +0000

I too remember well The Weavers Arms in Sun Street as I worked for Ring and Brymer throughout the 70’s, it also brings to mind all the little fascinating alleys and cut throughs all over that area, Happy days.

By: steve

steve — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 08:29:38 +0000

Forgive my ignorance but who is Jeffrey Johnson?

By: Paul Robinson

Paul Robinson — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 16:47:59 +0000

I knew the Weavers Arms in Sun Street EC2 very well as I worked opposite the pub for Clarksons Holidays in the early 1970’s and all the staff used to meet in the pub for a Lunch time drink etc. What a shame all these pubs have now gone and Sun Street is now almost unrecognisable from the 1970s.

By: Vinny

Vinny — Tue, 31 May 2016 12:39:21 +0000

The Old Bell, St Pancras. We’ve been sold a pup there, it was part of a set built on Cheney Rd N1, for the 1992 film Chaplin. Cheney Rd no longer exists, but the building at the far end of the street, The German Gymnasium, is still there.

By: Vinny

Vinny — Tue, 31 May 2016 10:26:57 +0000

The Weavers Arms was at 36 Sun Street, EC2 and was demolished in the mid to late 1980s during the building of Broadgate.

By: Aileen Reid, Survey of London

Aileen Reid, Survey of London — Tue, 03 May 2016 12:45:12 +0000

Hello, someone on the East End Memories group on Facebook alerted me to this and I can identify one of these pubs – the seventh picture, I think. It is the Brunswick Arms in Upper Holloway. I posted a load of map and photo evidence about it on Facebook but I don’t think I can here. But you can see an archive photo of it – http://archive.historicengland.org.uk/SingleResult/Default.aspx?id=1822765&t=advanced&io=true&pe=stiles&r=Photographer&l=all&page=29

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 08:57:18 +0000

This is the Lord Clyde in Deptford:
http://www.closedpubs.co.uk/london/se8_deptford_lordclyde.html
Not the same pub.