Comments on: Happy Days At The Queen’s Head

By: Sean Miller

Sean Miller — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 09:18:31 +0000

I notice that the Youngs pub sign had a picture of the Queen Mother on it.

Does anybody know what the pub sign looked like prior to her visit in 1987? Was it already of the Queen Mother or was the sign changed to celebrate her visit after the event?

If the former I’m not surprised she chose it as a place to visit — if I knew there was a pub with me on their sign it would be careless not to visit it at least once 😉

By: Matthew O'Leary

Matthew O'Leary — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 09:03:07 +0000

Happily, the pub is soon to reopen under new management, and following a full refit. If you ever ventured to the Greenwich Pensioner in Poplar in recent times, it’s the same management so will be a belter, but with added handpull pumps! Thanks to the team leading this exciting project and bringing the old dear back to life again for the next generation.

By: Rob Elias

Rob Elias — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 21:29:31 +0000

Fantastic to see all these pictures of the Queen’s Head from yesteryear. The spirit of the place remains and lives on in a new generation of Eastenders. Here’s hoping the pub will be around for hundreds more years.

By: Phil Maxwell

Phil Maxwell — Fri, 20 May 2016 17:20:09 +0000

What an amazing history. Long live the Queens head!

By: Matthew O'Leary

Matthew O'Leary — Mon, 16 May 2016 07:52:58 +0000

Thanks again to the Gentle Author and sidekick the Returning Native for such a great article on our beloved Queens Head and of course to Tony for sharing his fantastic collection of photographs. We feel we have a real golden opportunity to protect the pub for future generations by putting it into the hands of a community group. Too many pubs have been developed into housing, supermarkets, and fried chicken shops. For the Queens Head, we are the last line of defence. Please lend your support now.

By: John Rowe

John Rowe — Sun, 15 May 2016 19:12:08 +0000

Used to drink there in the 80s when we lived in the ‘compound’, two streets of prefabs, half owned by an artist’s housing association, the rest lived in by a bunch of bikers. It was known as the Young’s pub. Definitely worth saving.

By: Valerie-Jael

Valerie-Jael — Sun, 15 May 2016 14:02:29 +0000

Hope they manage to save the pub, shame that so many have disappeared. Valerie

By: Brian Weaver

Brian Weaver — Sun, 15 May 2016 08:47:01 +0000

Fantastic photographs, I can almost hear them laughing, it looks so familiar to the pictures I have seen of my father on his pub outings. Those faces are probably gone now from the east end but I won’t forget them.

By: Greg Tingey

Greg Tingey — Sun, 15 May 2016 06:23:43 +0000

In 2013, under former mayor Lutfur Rahman, Tower Hamlets council sold the pub’s 125-year lease to a charity called Unity Welfare Foundation.
There’s your answer.
The deal was obviously corrupt & “Ultra Vires”.
Apply to the courts to get it overturned.

Oh & “charity” should be in quotation marks, too, or labelled “so-called-charity” – work it out for your self.

By: Robert Green

Robert Green — Sun, 15 May 2016 00:08:20 +0000

I find it curious that Tower Hamlets Council somehow managed to find themselves in ownership of the lease for this pub in the first place but that aside, I have been doing some initial research into the Unity Welfare Association, I make no further comment on my findings hear but I recommend that anyone interested should spend some time doing their own resurch in order to gain a greater insite into the circumstances that have resulted in this pub finding itself in its current perilous situation.