Comments on: The Alphabet Of Lost Pubs M-P https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/11/17/the-alphabet-of-lost-pubs-m-p/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Thu, 15 Jul 2021 15:07:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Jill https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/11/17/the-alphabet-of-lost-pubs-m-p/#comment-1385673 Thu, 15 Jul 2021 15:07:12 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=151614#comment-1385673 My Grandparents managed the Comfort Arms , Solebay St , Stepney after WW2

Does anyone have memories to share about Mr Bob & Mrs Doris Scott and if there are any photographs of the outside of the pub

My Mother is currently unwell and I would love to show her a photo of her parents pub … especially as its where she first met my father

Please help if possible

]]> By: Torsten Busch https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/11/17/the-alphabet-of-lost-pubs-m-p/#comment-1210712 Tue, 29 May 2018 13:05:18 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=151614#comment-1210712 The Old Rose (128 The Highway (formerly Ratcliff Highway), London E1, closed 2011 but building still there) appears to be missing.

]]> By: Lesley https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/11/17/the-alphabet-of-lost-pubs-m-p/#comment-1117491 Wed, 23 Nov 2016 08:42:16 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=151614#comment-1117491 So lovely to see my old boozer the Marksman from when I lived on Hackney Road 10 years ago! I remember sitting at the bar and chain smoking to celebrate the end of smoking indoors! Seems a bit nicer now! So many lovely pubs, what a shame some are long gone now.

]]> By: David Gredley https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/11/17/the-alphabet-of-lost-pubs-m-p/#comment-1116714 Fri, 18 Nov 2016 10:57:45 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=151614#comment-1116714 Good to see so many Charrington pubs looking so noble and without advertising hoardings on every expanse of brickwork.
The name on the Prince Alfred 7 Poplar High Street is ‘Richard Beer’ who some may remember was Charrington’s Property Director in the early 1970s. I wonder how his name appears on the Pub?

]]> By: Mo06 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/11/17/the-alphabet-of-lost-pubs-m-p/#comment-1116706 Fri, 18 Nov 2016 09:39:58 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=151614#comment-1116706 Nice photos, it’s such a shame so many have gone.

I have a supped a pint or two in a few of them.

Regarding the Punch on Fleet Street, that was a regular haunt when I worked in the area, and then they split the pub in two, and now there are two pubs (the other being the Crown and Sugarloaf I believe) on the site.

Not sure the Punch is now a restaurant though…

]]> By: eddie johnson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/11/17/the-alphabet-of-lost-pubs-m-p/#comment-1116702 Fri, 18 Nov 2016 09:06:49 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=151614#comment-1116702 focus of my families life during the war, the Mitford. Desperately sad that its gone,

]]> By: Peter Holford https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/11/17/the-alphabet-of-lost-pubs-m-p/#comment-1116625 Thu, 17 Nov 2016 19:00:01 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=151614#comment-1116625 Wow! I got a surprise to see the Palmerston on Well Street. It was my grandparents pub and my dad was born in it (upstairs, I think!). He used to tell me it was a Taylor Walker pub – perhaps Charrington acquired it or perhaps he got mixed up with the other pubs he lived in.

Thank you for that image – I knew the building but had never seen a photo of it in its prime.

]]> By: Richard Vaughan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/11/17/the-alphabet-of-lost-pubs-m-p/#comment-1116585 Thu, 17 Nov 2016 11:49:18 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=151614#comment-1116585 Love this. It’s fantastic.

Have one slight amendment though…I think the Palmerston on Well St is, fittingly for Hackney, now a craft beer shop (Mother Kelly’s) and a pizzeria.

]]> By: Chris https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/11/17/the-alphabet-of-lost-pubs-m-p/#comment-1116570 Thu, 17 Nov 2016 08:43:31 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=151614#comment-1116570 Great research as ever illuminating
I am trying to find historic photos of the queens head pub corner of fashion and commercial street any guidance appreciated as we wish to restore it to its former self

]]> By: Caroline Bottomley https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/11/17/the-alphabet-of-lost-pubs-m-p/#comment-1116556 Thu, 17 Nov 2016 07:06:22 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=151614#comment-1116556 Well done GA re Marquis of Lansdowne

Many lovely buildings

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