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The Cheshire Cheese

When first landed in the Smoke, I worked in the grey 1970’s building that you can see behind the sign of Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese in the featured…

The pink thinker

Out the back of The Grapes pub in Limehouse, if you swivel your head to the left you see this fellow.

The Gun at Coldharbour

I found this pub after walking from Limehouse and across Canary Wharf. Heading south on a busy faceless road past Poplar Dock and then the West Indian Millwall…

London Pubs by Alan Reeve-Jones

I came across this book in a second hand bookshop. Alan Reeve-Jones visits and reviews the best London pubs of his day. Its very much of its time….

London’s pub heritage: The Grapes at Limehouse

It sits on Narrow Street as part of a row of old houses and warehouses that now look shabby chic among the modern houses that surround them. The…

London’s pub heritage: The Prospect of Whitby

The Prospect of Whitby is in Wapping. If you want to find it, start at Tower Bridge, head east along the north side of the Thames and keep…

The view along Fleet Street

The classic picture looking east along Fleet Street has St Paul’s Cathedral sitting at the end, fat and majestic. These days if you stand slightly to the south…

The Best Jukebox in London

I have many memories of nights spent in Bradley’s bar tucked away off the dominating thoroughfare of Oxford Street – in little Hamwell Street. A fight, a meeting…