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
Tag: Execution Dock
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
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
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
Captain Kidd Review: They Hanged Him Twice and He Was Probably Innocent
Captain Kidd Review: They Hanged Him Twice and He Was Probably Innocent | A privateer with a royal commission, abandoned by the men who funded him, and the rope broke the first time
Prospect of Whitby Review: There Is a Noose Outside and It Is Not a Joke
Prospect of Whitby Review: There Is a Noose Outside and It Is Not a Joke | The oldest riverside pub in London, and Execution Dock is a few hundred yards away, and pirates were left to drown