Wapping Tavern Tokens
I would dearly loved to have accompanied you on a pub crawl along the river and through the alehouses and stews of seventeenth century Wapping, but instead we must content ourselves with these few humble tavern tokens as the imaginative means to evoke an entire long-lost world.
King’s Head Taverne
… At The Hermitage
The Ship Taverne
… Wapping Wall, 1650, John Saunders
Bunch of Grapes, John Goddin, King’s …
… Streete At Wapping
Queen’s Head, New Crane Wharf ….
Coffee, chocolat, tea, sherbet .… Can anyone decipher the rest?
At The White Bear
… At Wapping Wall
Edward Fish At …
… The Sunn In Wapin…
Roger Price At The…
… Black Boy In Wapin
At The Man In The …
.. Moun In Waping, 1652
The Cock In Wapping ..
.. Andrew Coleman At, His Halfpenny
Images courtesy Bishopsgate Institute
You may also like to take a look at
The Gentle Author’s Wapping Pub Crawl
and these other tokens
The tokens are really interesting, great that so many survived over the centuries. Valerie
The website below has a photo of a less weathered, but I think identical, Coffeehouse penny token. The website says that it “is of the early 1660s and advertises the various commodities on offer to its patrons. As stated in the central field of the token these included “Coffee, Chocolat, Tea, Sherbett & Tobac sould in Exchange Alley”.”
https://pepyssmallchange.wordpress.com/category/tokens-from-west-of-the-city-walls/
I love these old tokens 🙂 Hilary
Fascinating, and it makes one wonder how many of these tokens our London ancestors may have had in their pockets. I love this sort of thing which brings to life the world that they must have lived in. Thank you.
Some interesting folk art. Have some of them been found in the Thames mud? They look a bit corroded.
Its great to see these tokens all together.
Fore more details behind a couple of them (Roger Price & Edward Fish) see the following web pages;
https://pepyssmallchange.wordpress.com/2013/05/26/roger-price-at-the-black-boy-in-wapping/
https://pepyssmallchange.wordpress.com/2013/12/25/edward-fish-at-the-sign-of-the-sun-in-wapping/