Jeffrey Johnson’s Favourite Pubs
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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)
Unknown pub
The Queen’s Head, City of London
The Queen’s Head, City of London
Unknown pub
Unknown pub
Old Bell Tavern, St Pancras
Magpie & Stump, Old Bailey
The Mackworth Arms, Commercial Rd
Green Man
Green Man
Marquis of Anglesey, Ashmill St
The Crooked Billet
The Bull’s Head (Landlords fight to save City pub)
The White Horse
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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The Taverns of Long Forgotten London
Alex Pink’s East End Pubs Then & Now
The Gentle Author’s Next Pub Crawl
The Gentle Author’s Spitalfields Pub Crawl
The Gentle Author’s Dead Pubs Crawl
The Gentle Author’s Next Dead Pubs Crawl
Photo of unkown pub (photo 11) goes with photo 19 – it was the Crooked Billet in Walthamstow, demoloshed to create a roundabout (total confusion!) off the North Circular. Very sad. A lot has been written about the pub. See https://www.mylondon.news/news/nostalgia/popular-east-london-pub-knocked-24164869
When I worked in the City there was an executive in my department who used to wander off to a different pub every lunchtime, he used to say he knew all of the pubs in the City like the back of his hand. His favourites were the ones all the builders drank in. When his wife went into labour 2 of us had to go round the pubs looking for him, we eventually found him in the New Moon on Gracechurch Street :))
I’ve never really been a ‘pub goer’ but have seen some wonderful buildings over the decades that were or still are Pubs. Sad to see so many go to the wall though, and worse, stand there derelict and unloved. Not sure what the answer is… Once a community has gone, it rarely comes back.