Wapping Tavern Review: A Local in Old Sailortown
Wapping Tavern Review: A Local in Old Sailortown | Just back from the river in Wapping, a neighbourhood tavern in the heart of what was once London’s roughest, saltiest sailors’ quarter
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Captain Kidd Review: A Pub Named for a Hanged Pirate
Captain Kidd Review: A Pub Named for a Hanged Pirate | A converted coffee warehouse beside Execution Dock, named for the privateer-turned-pirate hanged nearby in 1701 – twice, as the rope broke the first time
The Dickens Inn Review: A Georgian Warehouse Rolled to a New Life
The Dickens Inn Review: A Georgian Warehouse Rolled to a New Life | Beside the yachts of St Katharine Docks, a flower-drenched timber warehouse hauled bodily to its site and reopened by a great-grandson of Charles Dickens
Prospect of Whitby Review: London’s Oldest Riverside Pub
Prospect of Whitby Review: London’s Oldest Riverside Pub | Once the Devil’s Tavern, haunt of smugglers and the Hanging Judge, this Wapping survivor dates to around 1520 and still flies a noose over the foreshore
Prospect of Whitby Review: London’s Oldest Riverside Tavern
Prospect of Whitby Review: London’s Oldest Riverside Tavern | London’s oldest riverside tavern, dating to 1520 – the Devil’s Tavern of Wapping, with a 400-year flagstone floor, a hanging judge and a noose over the water
The Dickens Inn Review: A Warehouse That Moved and Became a Pub
The Dickens Inn Review: A Warehouse That Moved and Became a Pub | A striking timber-framed inn at St Katharine Docks – an old warehouse moved bodily across the dock, opened by Dickens’s great-grandson in 1976
Wapping Tavern Review: A Plain Name for an Ancient Maritime Village
Wapping Tavern Review: A Plain Name for an Ancient Maritime Village | A tavern flying the plain, proud name of Wapping itself – the ancient riverside sailors’ village on the north bank of the Thames
Captain Kidd Review: A Pint by the Pirate’s Gallows in Wapping
Captain Kidd Review: A Pint by the Pirate’s Gallows in Wapping | A Wapping riverside pub named for the pirate hanged at nearby Execution Dock – twice, when the first rope broke – and gibbeted for three years after