Jeffrey Johnson’s London Pubs
One day Jeffrey Johnson walked into the Bishopsgate Institute, deposited a stack of his splendid photographs with Archivist Stefan Dickers and left without another word. We can only conclude that these fond pictures from the seventies and eighties record the enigmatic Jeffrey’s favourite pubs. Some are familiar, but for the locations of the others – some of which are long gone – I call upon the superior experience of my readers.
Hoop & Grapes, Aldgate (Dentures Repaired)
Sir Walter Scott, Broadway Market
Knave of Clubs, Bethnal Green Rd
Dericote St, Broadway Market
Crown & Woolpack, St John St, Clerkenwell
Horn Tavern, Knightrider St, City of London (now known as The Centrepage)
Brunswick Arms, Upper Holloway
The Queen’s Head, City of London
The Queen’s Head, City of London
Unknown pub
The Crooked Billet, Walthamstow
Old Bell Tavern, St Pancras
Magpie & Stump, Old Bailey
The Mackworth Arms, Commercial Rd
Red Lion in Whitechapel Rd
Green Man
Green Man
Marquis of Anglesey, Ashmill St
The Crooked Billet
The Bull’s Head (Landlords fight to save City pub), Bishopsgate
The White Horse, Little Britain
The Olde Wine Shades, City of London
The Crispin, Finsbury Avenue
The Blue Posts, West India Dock Rd, Limehouse (Plasterer’s Required – Call at Back Door)
The Ticket Porter, Arthur St, City of London
Weavers Arms
Photographs copyright © Jeffrey Johnson
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These are incredible, some pubs I know most I don’t, the Hoop and Grapes is still there of course. I have been painting and documenting some of the more recent dead pubs, mainly in the East End over the last couple of years, they can be viewed on my Instagram page @madden.london, I would like to get some decent copies of the original photos if it’s all possible. Thanks for a great post.
These photos have a very similar feel to Doreen’s paintings!
Superb. Remember many of these from the late 70s and 80s – particularly nostalgia-inducing to see the Queen’s head on Black Friars Lane (sic) as it ran into Ludgate Broadway, and the Green Man on that keenly missed city street, Bucklersbury. Thanks for a glimpse back to the days of the Double Diamond.
Greetings from Boston,
GA, Jeffery Johnson was a man of few words, but he obviously mourned the passing of these institutions from the streets of London. So sad …
What a wonderful record, but very sad to see that even back in the 1970s and 80s there seemed to be mass demolition. I wonder if the landlords managed to save The Bull’s Head – it looked a very old pub.
Great pictures
I lived in Dericote Street and can remember the building derelict like this for years . It was then converted into flats and just before completion a big fire destroyed it. Work began again and is now residential.
The building was never a pub from the beginning
It was used in a tv show or film starring David Mcallum when it was changed to look like a tube station.
How very sad that most of these appear derelict and closed. For what reason have all these pubs been unable to carry on as thriving businesses? I am in Montreal so I do not know what the background is to this trend; where do people now go to spend a few hours with their buddies?
You can see the German Gymnasium beyond the Old Bell Tavern, St Pancras. Amazing change in such a short time.
Marvellous.
Many a sad sight captured here with all those boarded up pubs, but what an AMAZING collection of photographs. Sorry I can’t help identify some of the unknown ones.