Comments on: The Alphabet Of Lost Pubs U-Z

By: Roger Whiter

Roger Whiter — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 11:36:35 +0000

My ancestors ran pubs in East London.
William Whiter is listed in the Post Office Directory as running The Victory Ben Johnson’s Fields Stepney and also in the 1857 directory.

Prior to this he is listed in the London Commercial as being a beer retailer at 105 Brick Lane Spitalfields

The family (Starting with George Whiter) also ran the Prince Regent 105A Globe Rd. Stepney from 1860s-1920s

By: Ian Silverton

Ian Silverton — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 19:59:03 +0000

The Van Tromp pub in Bethnal Green Road, had a small barber shop,ajoined called Barney Bens you can just make it out in the picture of the pub to the left. Boyhood haircuts from an eary age where done here,on a plank of wood across a chair.

By: Andrew Plume

Andrew Plume — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 12:05:24 +0000

some more depressing news:-

http://www.thewhitebearojs.co.uk/site/WB/SAVE_OUR_PUB.html

By: Ian Silverton

Ian Silverton — Sat, 24 Dec 2016 19:54:58 +0000

GA, Thanks for putting up THE WESTMINSTER ARMS,where I was born in 1944,my Grand Fathers name is outside S E Silverton,he lived here in the 1930s,but died soon after buying the pub,when it was taken over by my Grandmother,A M Silverton,where she had too look after,her 6 children,all of school age as well as running a pub. My father then took on the running of the pub when he returned from the war,serving in the RAF,bomber command. He and my mother ran the pub until the middle of the 1960s,when he bought the Victory Pub in Hoxton,also now flats. Merry Christmas.

By: Baden

Baden — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 23:59:50 +0000

For the benefit of those not resident in the UK: having seen it named in so many photos, is Charrington’s still a going concern?

By: Michael Ayres

Michael Ayres — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 20:25:16 +0000

Some great looking pubs have been seen in this series , a fantastic tribute to former glories, unfortunatley not all were equal to the wrecking ball, mores the shame.

By: John Soane

John Soane — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 18:52:44 +0000

In my youth, I worked as potman at the Upton Manor Tavern (ie I collected the glasses and returned them to the bar).

By: Phil maxwell

Phil maxwell — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 12:50:57 +0000

I consider myself very lucky to have drunk in a number of these establishments. It now going to take me quite a while to sober up. Brilliant series and down with money men who are destroying our heritage.

By: Valerie-Jael

Valerie-Jael — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 11:31:49 +0000

Such a shame that so many have gone. Alan Sugar’s project looks ghastly. What an eye sore again! Valerie

By: Stephen Barker

Stephen Barker — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 10:51:15 +0000

I liked the Velocipede as the name for a pub, I have a poster for a property sale in East Anglia to be held at a pub called the ‘Safety-valve Inn’.

The facade of the Woverley Arms with its attached Ionic columns was very elegant.