Comments on: Anthony Cairn’s Lost East End Pubs

By: Marilyn

Marilyn — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 18:40:10 +0000

I do remember the Flying Scud from what seems to be a past life. i used to pass it when riding the bus on my way to work in the West End on a journey that started out in Hackney Wick.. I used to look to the sign outside with the sail boat. i never went into the pub, just liked the look of it. i now live many, many miles away in Ohio but love to look at the pictures on this website. It is so sad to see the demise of these pubs that probably once had such fun times. But, like the rest of us, times marches on and we must adapt to change.

By: Jan Toms

Jan Toms — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 11:14:06 +0000

There is something so evocative about these old meeting places, all the sounds, smells and silent witnesses to what was going on in the neighbourhood. Oh for time travel.

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 13:49:01 +0000

Another wonderful set of images and I love the fact that there is hope in the last image with the Marquis of Landsdowne being restored.
Having lived in Bow in the 1970s and now a keen amateur photographer I love the East End photographs you publish GA. I only wish I had photographed the East End back then, but as a student living in London I had other things on my mind!

By: James Thorp

James Thorp — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 10:22:51 +0000

The picture of The Victoria, Woolwich Road is particularly fine as Paul has already intimated. Just how many pubs has London lost since the second world war, and still they continue to disappear.

By: Jill Wilson

Jill Wilson — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 07:27:56 +0000

Very atmospheric! And I recognised The Albion straight away as seen in Doreen’s painting.

By: Paul Loften

Paul Loften — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 02:17:25 +0000

Yes indeed one does feel a terrible sadness when confronted with the abandoned and derelict state of these once thriving establishments. The sounds and smells of a century of clinking glasses , chatter and laughter lie embeded in their walls and the memories will be there even after they are long demolished. However I haveto say the Victoria in Charlton does, to my mind, now have a passing similarity to the Bates Motel. Although I am sure good times were had by all its past customers without a thought of what went through the macarbe mind of Alfred Hitchcock.