The Gentle Author’s Dead Pubs Crawl

As the darkness closes in, it delights me to go on a dead pubs crawl around Spitalfields to pay my respects at former hostelries and listen for the clinking glasses of the phantom regulars. Although I still mourn the loss of The Gun, I take consolation The Well & Bucket and The Crown & Shuttle have returned to vibrant life in recent years, which permits me to believe there may still be the possibility of life after death for other lost pubs in the neighbourhood.

The Ship & Blue Ball, Boundary Passage, where they planned the Great Train Robbery (1851-1994)

The Frying Pan, Brick Lane (1805-1991)

The Crown, Bethnal Green Rd (1869-1922)

The Britannia, Chilton St (1861-2000)

The Laurel Tree, Brick Lane (1813-1983)

The Well & Bucket, Bethnal Green Rd (1861-1989 & now resurrected)

The Dolphin, Redchurch St (1835-2002)

The Jolly Butchers, Brick Lane (1839- 1987)

Seven Stars, Brick Lane (1711-2002)

The Crown & Shuttle, Shoreditch High St (1861-2001 & now resurrected)

Sir Robert Peel, Bishopsgate Without (1871-1957)

The Queen Victoria, Barnet Grove (1856-1993)

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